They needed to go see him now. If this was something that could affect so many people, they couldn’t wait. Mere minutes after they emerged from those trees, they were inside Ilana’s car, with the doors slammed and locked. When she looked through her dingy windshield though, no one appeared to hav...
He could feel the secondary construct from where he stood, although he and his team hadn’t yet left the protected confines of the park. They stood a few feet from the wall’s edge, instead, on the opposite side of the street as the Gossett Tower building, and hidden from 79th Street itself, which ...
HEY, BRIDGE!” He waved excitedly to his friend. “Over there! She’s over there...do you see her? She’s right there!” The man’s voice rose over the babble of words in the poolroom, pulling me out of my head long enough to stare stupidly at the door. We sat in one of the out-of-the-way bars in Seert...
She’d gone out to that same hall the night before, a P226 DAK she’d gotten for Christmas from her boyfriend, Anthony, clutched in both hands. The gun had a bullet chambered, the safety off, and it was loaded with a brand new magazine as she edged out to investigate the noises she’d heard in her l...
Well, I was dreaming, just not that part. Since I wove the sound into the dreams I was already having, however, the difference struck me as minimal, at best. When Revik shook me gently awake, I found myself fighting to keep my eyes closed, protesting with feeble sounds when he only gripped me tig...
I didn’t use the link to find out if the second one was Nik...even then, in some half-conscious part of my mind, I didn’t want to do anything that might distract him and get him killed. After a bare moment of hesitation, where I watched the two creatures facing off, lashing tails at one another l...
Letting his eyes flicker back to his attire, Kirev paused only a few seconds before glancing out the window of the penthouse apartment building. His eyes glanced over the San Francisco Bay, the view of Koit Tower in the distance. He could see the bare edges of the Golden Gate Bridge to his left a...
It still hung only halfway in the sky. They’d left Trazen’s compound before dawn. She hadn’t been surprised when he woke her up. They’d been talking about this for the last week. Talking and having sex and eating between his bouts of work as he prepared for the next Rings ...
He knew that had to be coming from the construct here too. I didn’t fully understand what he meant by “construct,” but I could tell it had something to do with the building where he stood, the overall flavor of what lived inside it. I don’t think you’ve yet have the pleasure of our pet... have y...
HE’D ONLY BEEN back a week. Well, we’d only been back a week technically, since we’d flown back together, but it still felt more like Nick and Angel and I brought him back, not that we traveled back as a unit. So much had changed in just that short week. I’d more or less lost track of time since ...