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As she wiped her blades clean, Talon heard someone shouting his name. He impatiently scanned the crowd of people, then frowned when he saw a woman hurrying toward him.
It took him a moment to recognize Scarlett Nikandros since it had been years since he’d last seen her. A powerful precog, Scarlett had been held captive by the Alliance as surely as Secret had been held on Tartarus. The only difference was the Alliance had claimed it had been for her own good.
She had been used as a weapon by high-ranking, powerful elites, and their desire to keep her under their control had come at the cost of her identity and freedom. Talon knew he would have suffered a similar fate if the Alliance had ever discovered what his true ability was, which was why he’d helped her escape her old life back on Earth.
No time for pleasantries, Scarlett spoke in a rush. “Spartan, your target is doubling back. You need to head up to Level Six. He has a shuttle hidden in one of the cargo bays. If he takes off from there, it will destroy the station’s shield. Then, everyone here will be fucked. You need to stop him before he leaves. Trust me.”
“I do,” he said honestly. “Thanks for the warning.”
As he turned, he almost ran right into Secret. Grabbing his keeper’s hand, he pulled her with him as he hurried toward the glides. They were on the clock, but at least they knew exactly where to go now.
“Did you catch all that?”
“I did. In your memories, that female used to have a scroll mark on her face.”
“She’s in hiding.”Still holding her hand, he found himself asking,“You’re really not jealous of any of my female friends?”
“You sound disappointed.”
“Not disappointed, just curious.”That was true since he could barely stand it when she spoke to the other males on his team without him, and he trusted them implicitly.
“I know your true intentions, as you know mine. If there ever was an occasion when you truly made me jealous, I would just kill the female…then make you pay dearly for the rest of eternity.”
He was a sick man since hearing that thrilled him.
Talon reached out to the rest of the team, filling them in as he and Secret raced toward Level Six. “Cedric, how many cargo bays are on that level?”
“Four, one in each section. I’m trying to patch the security system, but the main circuits are still down. I’m afraid if I force it, it might fuck with some other system on this heap of metal.”
“Yumi, Fadi, and I are heading up to meet you now. We can help search,”Winston said.“Teale is transporting Laken back to our ship for treatment.”
“How is she?”Talon asked.
“She was critical,”Teale responded, his voice rough with emotion.“Luckily, I was able to stop the bleeding on scene. I just got her back to our med-bay, and now she’d healing in the med-pod. Without the upgrades the Dragon Warriors gave us, we would have lost her. I’m heading back to join you now.”
“Don’t,” Talon ordered. “Stay there and get our ship in the air. If Kadir manages to get past us, I need you to make sure you destroy him before he can leave.”
“Copy. Heading to the command deck now.”
“We’ve just reached Level Six,” Talon announced as he and Secret raced past a bunch of shops toward a long corridor that would take them to a more private section of the station.
“We need to figure out what the fuck to do if the station’s shield fails,”Winston reminded.“Should we start evacuation procedures just in case?”
“That would cause mass panic,”Yumi pointed out.“We’d also lose the rest of the slavers and their collaborators.”
“We might have to risk it if—fuck!” Talon snarled as Kadir Siv appeared at the other end of the hallway with another Tarin male. “There they are!”
Secret took off running, desperate to reach her quarry before he could get away. The males sprinted toward a large metal door that had to be the cargo bay where their shuttle was hidden. The other male attacked her with a whip while Kadir used his palm to unlock the door. She spun out of the way, then reached down for the handles of her curved blades. Before she could pull them free, Talon shot the male with his blaster, sending him crashing to the ground.
He shrugged. “It was faster.”
Kadir disappeared inside the room, and the door slid shut again before they could reach him. She slammed her fist against the thick metal in frustration.
“We can’t let him get away!”
“Cedric, open the door of Cargo Bay 4,” Talon ordered.
“I’ve tried, boss. It’s not connected to the main system. I’d have to do it in person.”
