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She had to agree, he had done his best Better than that if she wanted to admit the truth

“I didn’t say I liked it,” she murmured “I said it didn’t make sense not to have at least one location, one person who knohere everyone has been hidden or relocated But she refuses to deal with Breeds She’s not going to talk toEspecially Lawe”

That person had to be Liza

Diane had spentall the players, scientists, research assistants and techs from Brandenmore Research In Window Rock, she’d tracked familial lines and all new citizens who had moved into the area within the past twelve years

She had spent countless hours searching for answers, for the identity of the al Breed known only as Judd

Liza Johnson was the closest she had gotten The daughter of the current chief’s best friend and hter of the medicine man’s best brother Their families were so entwined as to be all but blood kin

All but blood kin

There was no shared blood, only the shared bonds of friendship, battle and loyalty She glanced at Thor with a sense of overwhel it would have been to have been on this small mission with Lawe To see how he could handle the woman she truly was

To have Laatching her back, sensing any dangers that would have coh their bodies To know, yes, they would die for each other, but that Laouldn’t endanger hiths she had

As the first light of dawn rose in the sky, both Diane and Thor crouched in the continued shadow of the spear pointing toward heaven

She tried to pretend it was Lawe at her back, but no aination could place him there when he wasn’t

“Five minutes,” Thor said, his voice so soft it was barely a whisper “She runs alone unless Isabelle and Chelsea Martinez accompany her Isabelle is currently in residence at the hotel with Malachi Morgan Chelsea and her father are staying in the Chief’s Suite at the Navajo Council chambers All the members were called in just before you and Lawe arrived, fro the two girls and the Breed before they can be found”

Diane shook her head “They wouldn’t risk it”

She glanced around, the ache in her chest intensifying, the regret and feeling of dread pulling her down as the knowledge that she was in this battle without the warrior whom nature had chosen as her other half tore at her heart

She’d never ached like this when she and Padric had been separated by er when Padric had disagreed with her or when he’d refused to accompany her