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“Is she the only one we’ve got so far?”
Blade didn’t take his eyes off her. “Every available agent is out looking for them. Kynan’s pissed, man. I’ve never seen him like this. He’s been on the phone with the Aegis Elders, and there’s been a lot of yelling. He’s threatening to go to the World Council on Supernatural Governance if this was an assassination.”
Whoa. Taking this incident to the WCSG, a global committee that oversaw the funding and operations of DART and The Aegis, would stir up a lot of shit, and make matters even worse. Logan doubted Kynan would actually do that. But then DART had never faced anything like this before, and Kynan wasn’t the type to back down from a threat.
“Does he think this was some sort of Aegis plot?”
Blade shrugged. “Would explain why one of them had a weapon like that when they were specifically told not to have anything but their stangs.”
“This wasn’t an assassination,” Eva said from the middle of her cell. “It was a stupid accident. Whoever fired it wasn’t supposed to even have the weapon.”
Blade pounded a frustrated fist against Eva’s cell door, and she jumped backward. “An accident? Are you fucking kidding me?” He pivoted on his heel and stormed toward the elevator.
“Blade, wait.” Logan caught up with him. “Where’s Draven?”
Blade didn’t appear to hear him. “This is so fucked up, man. Draven and Shanea were supposed to get married in a few months. I just got fitted for my tux last week.”
Logan was going to be the best man. His throat swelled with grief. He’d known Draven since their third-grade year at Hellmouth Academy, a school started with funding from the Horsemen and Underworld General to educate supernatural children who lived in the human world but, for whatever reason, couldn’t attend human schools.
Draven and Logan were like brothers, and when Draven proposed to Shanea two years ago, no one had been happier for him than Logan. He had to be distraught. Destroyed. Completely out of his mind.
Logan grabbed the sleeve of Blade’s leather jacket, halting him in his tracks. “Where’s Draven,” he repeated. “I need to be with him.”
“He’s probably hunting the Aegi. No one can get ahold of him.”
“Shit.” Logan stepped inside the elevator. “If he catches one, it’s gonna get ugly.”
“That’s what we’re afraid of.” Blade followed him inside.
“No.Reallyugly.” Logan looked into the elevator camera/mic. “Lobby.” He turned to Blade. “You know he’s a vengeance demon, right?”
“Yeah. I know. But his species doesn’t go Ufelskala Five until they’ve made what? Half a dozen vengeance kills?”
“Six. Yeah. There are six Guardians involved in Shan’s death. He’s not going to stop with the shooter. And all it takes is him killing one to start the process.”
Blade went still. “Oh, shit.”
“We have to find him, and we have to find himnow.”
The elevator came to a smooth halt, and Blade swung back to the doors. “Find the other Aegi, we find Draven. Good thing we have Eva.”
“Yeah,” Logan said. “Great.”
“Hey.” Blade stopped in the middle of the hallway. “What’s wrong?”
Nothing, really. Just the female I really liked but can’t be with is sitting in a cell for killing my friends. No big deal.
Logan was going to say precisely none of that. “I just don’t think Eva’s going to make it easy. She won’t give up her people.”
“Oh, yeah, she will.” Blade’s lips curled into a rare, dark smile. “Just wait until she meets my brother.”
Chapter Sixteen
Eva wasn’t in the cell for long.
Five minutes after Logan slammed the door, a woman who didn’t offer her name escorted her to a slightly larger room with two chairs and a metal table in the middle. What made this room even more different was the symbol near the exit that Eva didn’t recognize.
The woman sat her down at the table, told her to wait, and left without answering any of her questions.
