Page 178 of Eclipse Sector
A suicide sequence. One meant to destroy the mind.
Sylvia instantly stopped screaming, her body going eerily still as Tadhg collapsed beside her, the two of them… brain dead.
Kieran cursed, kneeling down to heal them. But even he couldn’t bring them back from death.
Whatever trigger that Omega had just flipped was one that had been programmed long ago to take both her and Tadhg out.
Cael growled, as did Kieran.
Quinn and Ivana just looked shocked.
And Granger… Granger had gone white, his thoughts chaotic. Because he just realized they’d left him as the only one alive with information we desperately needed.
But he didn’t know enough to be of any use.
I could hear it deep down that he’d already given me everything he knew about what had happened. The shadow contacts were all Tadhg’s. He’d been the one at the table, taking the calls, attendinghunts, never once allowing Granger into his inner sanctum.
He was effectively useless to us now.
And as good as dead.
“Fucking craven,” Cael muttered, stepping forward to spit on Tadhg’s corpse. “At least Grey had one win before that bastard offed himself.”
“But his sister…?” Quinn whispered, glancing up at Cael from where she hovered over Sylvia. She’d tried to heal her while Kieran had gone to Tadhg, but neither of them had been able to make a difference. Whatever mind trick Sylvia had pulled had been permanent.
“He used Tadhg’s expectations against him,” Cael told her, his voice softening a little. “Tadhg knew Grey’s been hunting for Nikiski for decades. He assumed Grey would ask about his sister, not Ashlyn. So Grey played the game, knowing full well that if he did, Tadhg would give him the opposite information.”
“Ashlyn’s location, not Nikiski’s,” I translated, understanding what had happened.
“Exactly. He made it sound like he was still holding Ashlyn, which we all know isn’t true. Granger made it look like he dropped her in Eclipse Sector, but our noses confirmed the lie. I’m betting Granger never even had her.” He turned to look at his former Elite. “Am I right?”
Granger simply clenched his jaw in response, saying nothing.
However, his mind confirmed it for me.
Thatmemoryhad been Sylvia’s doing, the powerful Omega having had far too much manipulation power of the mind. Although, I could see everything clearly now that she was gone.
Sylvia had been one of Tadhg’s acquisitions through the slave trade, an Omega of extraordinary genetics. Mostly V-Clan, but with a touch of vampire. Similar to Kyra in that way, yet so incredibly different, too.
Tadhg had acquired her when she was a child and groomed her as a weapon, just like I’d told Quinn and Ivana.
She was innocent to an extent, having been basically brainwashed by her owner.
But that didn’t make anything she’d done any less evil.
“What did Ashlyn do to foil your plans?” I asked Granger.
He glared mutinously back at me.
That was fine.
I didn’t need him to speak. I could just break his mind with a little help from my mate.
Vana,I murmured.Can you help me get around his barriers?Because those were very much him. I had no doubt that gift for being able to mask his identity was exactly why Tadhg had recruited him.
Ivana squeezed my hand and leaned into my side, then closed her eyes and went to work.
Granger fought back at first, trying to shove her from his mind. But she sidestepped him with ease, her confidence growing with each step.
