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.They& " She trailed off and looked up atRyland."What else? Just tell me."Kadan stood behind the couch, dropping his hands to her shoulders, fingers easing thetension from her.He ached for her.Her world was turning upside down."Whitney put a tracking device in all the girls.He surgically implants it in their hips."Tansy gasped and looked up and back at Kadan, her eyes locking with his.It's okay, baby.We'll deal with it.He wanted to hold her, rock her, take her somewhereelse where all the ugliness was out of her life.Unfortunately, this was their lives andalways would be.He had no choice.He was enhanced and so was Tansy.He couldn'tchange that."Your father apparently found out about the tracking device when.you were aboutfifteen or sixteen and had it removed.He told Violet about it.According to thesecretary ""You talked to the secretary?" Tansy asked.Ryland shrugged."We had a little meeting.It seems she enjoys knowing secrets, so sheoften listens in to Violet's conversations with her guests.She claims Violet initiated thetopic of tracking children with your father.""She's taking a huge risk, spying on Violet," Kadan said."Violet would have nohesitation killing her."Ryland nodded."I did suggest that Ms.Harris get a different job immediately anddestroy any tapes she may have.Whether she listens or not is up to her.Meadows knowsViolet was one of Whitney's experiments.My guess is she confided in him to gain histrust.""And then when Whitney lost his tracking device, he sent Violet to find out why," Kadanguessed."That would be like him.She's playing both sides."Ryland nodded, avoiding looking at Tansy."And Meadows planted one of his own whenABC Amber LIT Converterhttp://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlABC Amber LIT Converterhttp://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlhe had Whitney's removed.""In me?" Tansy leapt off the couch and paced across the room, whirling around to faceRyland, her fingers closed into two tight fists."My father planted a tracking device inme? They can actually use GPS to find me?"Ryland nodded."I'm sorry, but yes, that's what he told Violet.They apparently had along conversation about how all parents should put them in at birth, and she wasinterested because the senator might want to bring this up and back the idea.Kidnappedchildren could be found easily.The conversation was all about what tracking devicescould be used for, the good they could do.It also got a little technical on how they work.Violet knew how to find you." Ryland looked at Kadan."I spent some time with Ms.Harris, and as it turns out, Violet wanted the information about the murders and Tansygiven to the reporter.Violet had her secretary leak the information."Tansy's hand was still over her mouth, her eyes wide."And the secretary just gave youthis all because of the generous good heart that she has?""I persuaded her that if she wanted to live a few minutes longer, she'd better tell me thetruth," Ryland said without flinching away from her steady gaze.Tansy glanced at Kadan's impassive face."You all play for keeps, don't you?""Yes, ma'am," Ryland answered."We've dealt with these people for a long time.Ourfriends end up dead or tortured.Sometimes both.Violet traded your location, andbasically your life, for something big that she wants.What it is I don't know, but thereporter heard a rumor that Senator Freeman was going to undergo some kind of new,experimental brain operation.If that's true, I'm guessing your life is the price someonewas asking in order for the senator to be a candidate for the surgery.""So they're going to come here and kill me." She swallowed hard."And all of you.""I would think that was the plan," Ryland agreed."But we have a few plans of our own.""Great." Tansy swept a hand through her hair and looked at Kadan."Can we get rid ofthe tracking device?""Yes, eventually.For now, the best we can do is jam it.I don't want to cut you open totake it out.We need a doc for that.""No, we don't.Not if it's in my hip where the first one was.I remember having stitches inmy hip.Dad told me I fell and hit my head and tore a laceration in my hip but " Shestopped abruptly and turned her face away from them."I'm going to make tea.Doesanyone want a cup?"Kadan filled her mind with him, wrapping himself in her.He wanted to pull her into hisABC Amber LIT Converterhttp://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlABC Amber LIT Converterhttp://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlarms, but she kept space between them.The only thing he had was his mind and he usedit, pushing inside her where she was silently weeping, where the pain of her father'sbetrayal cut like a knife.Even when he willed her to look at him, she kept her head down,her arms crossing her breasts in a protective gesture.He hated the separation.And hehated more that his reaction went from being about her and the pain her father caused, tohim and his own need to be complete with her.He watched her walk out and felt like she took all the warmth in the room with her.Hiseyes met Ryland's."I've never wanted to hurt anyone in my life the way I want to hurt herfather," he admitted."Man," Ryland set the heavy bag he'd carried in onto the couch and unzipped it, "I'msorry to have to tell her.And he bragged about it, bragged he could find her anywhere inthe world.He may not have realized he set the assassins on her trail, but he did.He ledthem right to her.""She'll handle it," Kadan said."Yeah, but she shouldn't have to," Ryland said, dragging weapons from the bag."Ibrought a few supplies.Thought they might come in handy.And I've got transportstanding by just in case we need it.""Isn't Gator's wife really good on a computer?""She can hack just about anything," Ryland confirmed."I'm going to need her to work on a few things for me.With her help, I think I can findand take down killers on the East Coast team, but not until Tansy handles the other team'sgame pieces and gives me enough to find them.I'm going to have eliminate them all fastso no one has time to disappear.""Tansy can do that? She looks a little worn."Kadan shook his head."I almost lost her with the last one.We'll have to be careful.But Ican't eliminate anyone without the others going underground.I have to know who theyare.""I can ask Lily if there are any other trackers, but I've not heard of it, not legitimate onesanyway." Ryland began pulling guns and ammunition out of the sack and spreading thecache across the couch."So she has to handle how many more objects before we can goafter them?""Four.""That burns." He added grenades and claymore mines to the mix."You better pack upwhatever evidence you have and get it ready to move fast.We secured another house, andABC Amber LIT Converterhttp://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlABC Amber LIT Converterhttp://www.processtext.com/abclit [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]