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"For what it’s worth, I am sorry," he said sincerely "I would have preferred to tell you the truth, but I was overruled"
"By whoun back Then she’d shoot soet
"What is the truth? Was my brother really in the SEALs when he disappeared?"
"No By then he orking here, as a , he ith the Navy, right?" That’s what he’d told her, all those years Now she wondered hoell she’d known her brother
"Yes, he was, just like o There was a different teao After he, Micah, and several other Pack aze bored into her
She studied hieneral Would he be any relation to Mackenzie Grant?"
Nick nodded "Jarrod Grant is Mac’s father and ether"
"Wow, you’re all just one big happy fah we have our squabbles now and then"
She stood and paced a little, stopped and stared out theover his head The rage had subsided to a bearable level, but the slow burn of anger re of frustration "Why didn’t you know?"
"Excuseat her in question "You clai to happen to my brother and stop it?"
His expression beca difference, because the visions I receive as a PreCog are only a sent with the FBI at the time Micah and the others vanished I didn’t know the teauarantee I would’ve seen the event in time to avert it, or at all I’m not omniscient"
"So you pick up what you can, like spotty cable television reception?"
One corner of hislike that"
It was a really nicebastard was probably an anih like Dean, the buttoned-down sort wasn’t really her type Shutting off that line of thinking, she focused on herher arms over her chest "Okay, the twenty questions routine is wearing et cranky Fill in the blanks forhat the hellwhen he disappeared, and what you think happened"
Nick took a long time to answer But when he did, his voice was low and patient "Like most of the teao, when he and several of the others were part of a Navy SEAL teahanistan, they were attacked by rogue olves"
He gave her a few seconds to digest that tidbit, and she took the tiht I’m a cop, and we deal in facts I saw men turn into wolves-and one into a panther I think o with it"
Thehis head "No, you’re veryyou’ll wish you weren’t" He paused "As the survivors recovered from the attack in a military hospital, physicians discovered ano before the first ht in his hospital bed, and chaos ensued"
"I can iine" What a wild tale But still, she had seen the results with her oo eyes
"Studies were conducted on the men, and it was found that each of them not only could shift into a wolf but had various special abilities"
"Like the one you clai?"
He didn’t co doubt "Exactly But each man’s is different One is a Telepath; one’s a Firestarter" He trailed off, a look of sadness shadowing his face before he went on "It turned out they’d possessed these tendencies since childhood, but after they becaifts had increased , what is Micah’s so-called gift?" She couldn’t wait to hear this
"He was-or is-a Dreamwalker The team and the doctors here told me that your brother could literally visit people’s dreareeak and she sat down in the chair again, hard Instantly, she was transported back to when she and Micah were children Growing up, she’d had dreams in which she talked with her brother about whatever, and she distinctly recalled several occasions where they’d compared notes and discovered they’d had the same dream But a lot of people had those Didn’t they?
No, they didn’t Not the same dream at the same time What if
Her mind whirled with the iut "I haven’t dreamed about my brother in almost a year"
"That doesn’t ently
"Unlike what I was told by your colleague, General Grant," she snapped, swiping iainst ment"
"And yet you didn’t rectify his lie"
"I wanted soive Micah’s fa the relatives false hope, and he didn’t want the questions that listing theree we should’ve claimed they were dead without the bodies to prove it"
She could alht of all she’d learned Especially about the brother she loved more than her own life If he could walk in dreams, and yet hadn’t visited hers in one Despite Grant’s lie
"Fortunately, I do have so I can share with you"
Shaken out of her doard spiral, she snapped her gaze to his "I’o my team conducted a rescue op at a facility where so performed on shifters and huht Micah’s scent"