Page 155 of Eclipse Sector
The asshole was enjoying this far too much.
Begrudgingly, I could admit that a part of me felt the same. And I very much hated that we were both so well matched. If I liked him, I’d ask him to spar more often.
Alas…
My foot met his lower back as I shadowed around him in a quick move to try to knock him down. The kick sent him right into Kieran’s desk, toppling several items onto the floor.
If you fuck up my office, I’m going to be very annoyed,Kieran informed me flatly as Cael shoved off the wood with a growl.
I would take it outside, but I need access to Granger’s mind. Ivana is close to breaking through his final mental layers.I could almost hear his true thoughts now, see whatever it was that he?—
I shadowed to the opposite side of the room, narrowly avoiding Cael’s claws.
Because the bastard had just transformed his hand into a wolf’s paw.
“That’s an impressive talent,” I admitted with a huff.
The bastard smirked, then vanished.
I spun, attempting to anticipate his reappearance.
“I could rip you right open,” he said near my ear, his claws digging into my throat in the next blink.Because you’re barely trying,he added mentally, his chest rumbling with a growl against my back.What the fuck is going on, Cillian?
I muttered a curse.
He knew I wasn’t serious about this attack. I would never have done this with Ivana in the room. His mind said as much.
And he was right—I wasn’t trying. Not even a little bit.
Only a few minutes had passed since I’d first hit him, my momentary distraction short-lived.
But it seemed to have been long enough for Ivana to find her way into Granger’s mind.
Show me,I heard her demand as Cael’s claws dug into my throat.
Start talking,he thought at me.
But I was too busy listening to Ivana thinking about the mine fields in Granger’s mind.This is what Ashlyn meant about watching my step, to tread carefully, to not alert?—
An explosion erupted, causing me to grab my head as agony sliced through every nerve ending.
Pain erupted through my neck as my knees gave out, the ground suddenly embracing my fall. Or halting it, anyway. Harshly. Coldly.
Oh, Gods, what the fuck?I couldn’t breathe. I was choking. Drowning. Lost in a sea of perpetual darkness.
Except…
Except there were growls all around me. Reverberations.Power.
My eyes flew open as Kieran hit me with a dose of his healing gift, my world suddenly right again.
Only nothing was right about what I was seeing.
Granger had his hand locked around Ivana’s neck, her body limp against the wall from whatever the fuck he’d just done to her.
Ivana!I shouted into her mind.
Nothing.
