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He could feel the ice battling against the ain To wrap around his soul, to freeze the eh him and destroy him once and for all

Window Rock, Arizona A Native A to help Breeds One Lawe knew for a fact had been searching for a particular young woman who had been kidnapped decades before by the Council Terran Martinez, his uncle But neither Terran nor his father had been there for Morningstar Martinez His sister

Lawe’s mother

“All the evidence we have verifies the termination,” Lawe pointed out

“Because no one was left living to un-verify it,” she reminded

“Reh to prove there were at least two bodies”

“And every guard in the building was dead,” she re to verify the DNA? Sex? I kno thorough Breeds are There was nothing there or I would have known about it when Jonas gave me the file on Honor Roberts”

“And how did you hear about this?” he asked, his tone grating “That information hasn’t come up anywhere else”

To which Diane smiled “No one could verify their deaths, not even the Brandened to talk to I was probing into the suspicion of their escape when Gideon left his little note forme that I had a traitor onfor, I should head to Window Rock and pay close attention to Terran Martinez”

“And you trusted this information?” Thor asked, surprised

She didn’t blame him; she was normally the most suspicious person she knew

She breathed out heavily “There had been too an checking into the infor up”

“Why didn’t you give Jonas this inforrated “You didn’t tell me?”

Diane sly “Because I didn’t trust the encryption for the digital files and I wanted to et picked up by the wrong ears or listening devices When I saw you had no intention of allowing me to complete the search for her, then I kept it to myself This is my job, Lawe Gideon Cross may be a killer as well as a feral Breed, but whatever caused hiive me that information kept me alive Someone wants me out of the way so Amber or Rachel, possibly both, will be more vulnerable Each “accident” has coincided with an event where Aer She needs all of us, not just Breeds, to protect her”

“Have you considered the fact so you to draw your sister out?” Lawe deh, tortured “For pity’s sake, what in the hellup Brandenmore scientists like pork at a picnic?”