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It would be hilarious if it weren’t so sad.
Sometimes he wished he could just tell his grandfather about what he was, what he could do. How his military training would put Navy SEALs to shame. How he could sense the electricity in the walls, or the humidity in the air, or the anger in his grandfather’s head.
o;An adult, right? I thought we were killing teenagers.”
“We are.” He paused. “And how does that make you feel, Kathryn?”
She looked up in surprise. “Fine. Why?”
“Honestly, when they told me you were my ‘trainee,’ I was surprised.”
“Why?” she asked.
“Because I don’t know what you’re doing here.”
It shouldn’t have hurt—but it did, like getting a pinch in the arm from a vicious child. She’d earned her spot here. “I was assigned to help you.”
“You seem eager.”
“I’ve proven myself. I’m ready to do something.” She needed to succeed here. If she couldn’t, it meant her mother’s death was for nothing.
His hands stilled on the firearm, and he looked over. “You must have done something already, to be assigned with me.”
“Why, you think you’re such a badass?”
“I don’t need to think that, Kathryn.”
“Stop calling me that. Only my mother called me Kathryn.”
He looked back at the gun, checking the sight this time. “I heard a rumor about your mother.”
“She was very good at what she did.” Kate kept any thread of emotion out of her voice. “I’m better.”
“I should hope so. Obviously your mother wasn’t good enough.”
Kate wanted to punch him, but it probably wouldn’t end well. “I took care of it.”
“I heard a rumor about that, too.”
“What did you hear?”
“That your mother was assigned to destroy a Water Elemental but failed.” He paused. “That you went after the Water Elemental yourself and succeeded.”
“My mother made a mistake.”
“A mistake the size of the Gulf of Mexico, I heard. Stupid, to go after one of them in the middle of the water.”
Silver was baiting her. Kate knew it.
It was almost working.
“My mother knew what she was doing. She used to say, no matter how good you are, there’s always someone better.”
“And clearly she learned that lesson the hard way.”
“I think it’s time to stop talking about my mother.”
He smiled. “Can you get close to these Merrick boys?”
