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Callan watched the confrontation, inhaling slowly, deeply, trying to figure out the emotions or the cause for her behavior

“And you’re a paranoid scientist with nothing better to do than chase shadows,” Jonas grunted “You’re irrational lately, Ely Have you had yourself tested?” He flicked her a disgusted look

“You have to do soed to her feet as Callan leaned back against his desk and watched the entire scene with a sense of disbelief

“Sit down, Ely,” he ordered her

“I will not sit here and listen to his insults,” she bit out “He’s protecting Mercury for soh of it I want that Breed confined and tested I demand it”

“You deht do you de?”

He watched the scientist closely now Her features were flushed, her eyes bright as anger coursed through her

“I’ll takeCabinet if you refuse to listen to me,” she snarled back in his face

She was defying hi him

“Will you now?” He looked around the roo with your suggestions What et the vote you need to even consider your demands?”

Her fists clenched at her side; rage was burning inside her, and that was unlike Ely Ely was cool, calested anything so vile as confining a Breed

“You’re no better than the Council then,” she yelled “At least they had the good sense to confine him and find a treatment for him You will only allow him to destroy himself and the Breed community in the process”

They were a

ll staring at her in shock

Callan gave himself a second, then another Then before he could control hi in a furious snarl as she plopped back in her chair, paling