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Jonas was her nemesis, but there had always been a sense of fondness between the two of them, until now He had respected her opinion even if he didn’t alant to believe what she had to say He pushed her to find other answers, and because of that she had run these tests until her head was about to explode

“You bastard!” The snarl surprised her as she juan to pace the room “Damn you, Jonas, I can’t find any other answer”

And why should she care what she found for him? This was the man who had had his own sister captured The man who had black block of Breed Law, and he would have gone through with it He would have killed Harmony if she hadn’t done as he ordered

Just as he killed others

He thought she didn’t know the things he had done The trips the Breed heli-jet made to an active volcano, one that bubbled and churned and waited with greedy anticipation for the sacrifices he fed to it

The bodies he had dropped into it Council scientists who had been wiped aithin the boiling mass of molten stone He and his pilot, the wild-eyed Jackal

Jackal Da Mercury as well, and he was furious with her And he was just as much a killer as Jonas was himself Everyone knew it Even Kane, head of Sanctuary’s security, knew it Jackal was a murderer He should have been born a Breed rather than a human

She dug her fingers into her neck, trying to rub away the pain there There had to be a way to convince the Ruling Cabinet that Mercury had to be confined and forced to undergo the testing she needed It would be easy to duplicate the drug the Council had used to control hiain, and there would be no risk of death No risk of losing those she cared about

She breathed in deeply, forcing the cal equip Cabinet respected her opinion, and she knew Callan had called the cabinet together for aShe would make certain she was prepared And she would make certain she saved Mercury As with the others, she cared for hi him would leave a vacant hole inside her She didn’t want to see him killed The feral displacement wasn’t his fault It was the fault of those bastards who created them And she would find a way to save him No matter the friends she lost in the process

Mercury put away the groceries as Lawe unpacked the over each item

Mercury liked the grocer Theto embrace the Breed cause But Mercury had seen betrayal come from all sides He was cautious, he told himself

When they finished, Lawe left again, locking the door behind him, and Mercury stared at Ria’s closed door She hadn’t come out, and Lawe had inforer was filling the house

Her anger And he knehere that anger came from That damned purr she had convinced herself she heard He shook his head andinto the bedroom

“I thought I’d fix dinner,” he told her, forcing himself to stand in the doorway as he stared at her

She was sitting in the middle of the bed, her laptop opened in front of her, a silky robe covering her, the soft, shi over one shoulder