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“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?”
“Yes.”
“Without them knowing what you are?”
“Yes.”
“And if they display the traits of a full Elemental, what will you do?”
She licked her lips. “Kill them.”
His hands went still. “Wrong answer.”
She flung herself back in her chair and rolled her eyes. “Report back to you.”
“Good girl.” He snapped the magazine into the gun and slid it across the table to her. “Now get dressed. We have work to do.”
CHAPTER 2
The gun clicked empty, and Hunter swore.
A laugh in the darkness, somewhere ahead of him. “You thought I’d take a chance with it loaded?”
Then his bedroom door slammed and footsteps were pounding up the steps to the main level.
His mother was upstairs. His grandparents.
Kerosene. Match. Whoosh.
