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And now DART.
He charged through the lobby and nearly bit it when his boot slipped in a puddle of blood.
“Logan!” Blade jogged toward him, Mace on his heels. “You just missed him. No fatalities, but he fucked some people up.”
“How did he get in?” Logan took in the carnage, and hard as he tried, he couldn’t tell how many people had been injured. “The demon detector was upgraded. It should have set off alarms.”
Kynan approached, escorting a team of medics from Underworld General. Most of the victims were probably human, but DART had decided long ago to keep shit quiet and avoid human hospitals when the agents were injured. Besides, UGH’s demon medicine was far more advanced than the humans’.
After the personnel dispersed, Kynan joined them, and for the first time in his life, Logan couldn’t stand the sight of the human. He’d always loved Ky like a second father, but finding out that he’d plotted with The Aegis to be his adoptivefirstfather wasn’t sitting well.
“I just spoke with a StryTech technician to find out what went wrong,” he said. “Apparently, they failed to mention that the detector won’t activate for Draven’s species until they’re fully transitioned.”
“Which won’t happen until every Aegi involved in Shanea’s death is dead.” Logan swore, as much out of anger with Kynan as the situation. “Why was he here?”
“We don’t know. We weren’t aware he was in the building until I got an alert that someone had accessed some sensitive files. I’ve got Cyan going through the security logs right now.”
“Sir!” Nikko Masters, a sixty-something ex-cop and one of Kynan’s first human agent hires decades ago, ran up to them, nimbly avoiding the blood puddle Logan had stepped in. “Chuck Verinn’s dead.”
Stunned, Kynan wheeled around to Nikko. “Chuck was working today?”
“No, he was late, so I sent someone to check on him.” Nikko tapped his comms, and another human agent, Stan Geardon, popped into view in front of them. “Tell them, Stan.”
Stan shook his head. “I’ll show you.” He stepped aside and angled his view device to a bed, where Chuck’s battered, naked body lay sprawled in the tangled sheets. “He looks…”
“Like he’s been fucked to death,” Mace finished. “Died with a smile on his face.”
“It was Lilith.” Logan’s mouth flooded with bile at the knowledge that his grandmother had done…that…to a colleague. “It had to be. She’s working with Draven, and she could have gotten the information he needed to break into the files.”
“I saw Draven battling to get out of here after he was discovered,” Blade said. “He wasn’t trying to kill anyone.” His broad shoulders drooped as he took in the bloody scene all around them. “He held back. It was our Draven. Itwas.”
“And yet he’s working with Lilith,” Kynan said, his emotional pain making his voice even rougher. “And now the question is…”
Logan’s chest constricted around his heart as if protecting it from the reality that he was losing his best friend. And from the devastating understanding that whatever Draven was after, it wouldn’t be a good thing for Eva.
“What information did he get?” Logan murmured. “And how is he going to use it?”
He needed to warn Eva. But of what? She knew Draven was hunting her and her colleagues. And if she got his message, she knew her luck was on a downturn. She was in the safest place she could be right now.
She’d be safer with me.
“You okay?” Kynan eyed Logan, taking in his blood-flecked clothes. “You look like you went a round with—”
“Stryke,” he said sharply. “I went a round with Stryke. And no, he didn’t share anything useful about the Aegis weapon.”
“You saw Stryke?” Kynan swore. “You shouldn’t have—”
“Shouldn’t have what?” Logan snapped, his anger bubbling up again, all fresh and hot. “You don’t get to tell me what I can’t do. You’re not my dad. Your scheme failed.”
“Scheme? What are you talking about?”
“Iknow, Kynan. I know what went down when I was conceived.” He jabbed his finger in his boss’s face. “And I know what part you played, asshole.”
Kynan’s eyes flared, and he took a surprised step back. He went very quiet, and so did everyone nearby. Mace and Blade watched, wide-eyed, and Nikko, who had been about to leave, froze mid-stride.
“We need to talk about this, Logan,” Kynan finally said, calm—but calm the way Ares was when digging deep for control. “I have to make some calls, but after that, we’re talking.” He stepped close again, his expression as serious as Logan had ever seen it. “And yes, I can tell you what to do because I’m your damn boss.” He gestured to the alcove where visitors sat. “Meet me there in half an hour. And while you’re waiting, calm your ass down.”
Kynan wheeled away from Logan and strode toward the elevators. Next to Logan, Mace whistled.
