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.At once the force grew, gathering into a huge collective pool of electrical energy.Kadanfelt the change in Nico, the sudden focus.Immediately the energy surged toward Nico'shands and the crystals he held.Light burst bright and radiant beneath his palms,saturating the wound, cauterizing the tears, and speeding the healing process.GhostWalkers already possessed a natural ability to heal faster, but Nico's healing energyvisibly repaired damage.The flow only lasted a few moments, but the light was blinding and the heat intense.When Nico dropped the crystals back into Kadan's palms, they were warm, almost to thepoint of being hot.Nico slumped forward against the bed."That's all I can do.I hope it's enough.She nicked an artery, and I'm no vascularsurgeon.If that didn't repair the damage, she'll have to go to a hospital.""If that didn't work, no surgeon is going to be able to help her.""I tried to direct the energy to her artery, but this is the first time I've worked like thiswithout Dahlia, and the power is much stronger coming through you and harder to workwith." He glanced up at Kadan."You're one scary man, my friend."Kadan shrugged."I wouldn't mind having your talent."ABC Amber LIT Converterhttp://www.processtext.com/abclit.html ABC Amber LIT Converterhttp://www.processtext.com/abclit.htmlGator stuck his head in the door."Nico, you need to be getting outside.I don't thinkwe've got much time.I hear dogs in the neighborhood acting up, and the word is we'vegot strangers drifting from house to house.""The word is?" Kadan echoed."Seriously, Gator, talking to animals is making younuttier than ever."Gator flashed his ever present grin and winked."Yeah, you remember you said thatwhen the animals take over and I rule the world.""Rule outside, where you can call your army in to help," Ryland suggested.Gator saluted and followed Nico into the living room, scooping up weapons andammunition as he went through."Do we have a vehicle ready for a quick escape?" Kadan asked as he checked the IV.Hecrouched down beside the bed, taking Tansy's hand in his."We're ready for them.The neighborhood's going to hell though." Ryland went out,turning off lights as he went, plunging the house into darkness.Kadan pressed his forehead to Tansy's."You awake, baby? I need you to wake up.""It hurts.I'm not sure I want to be awake." She'd been aware of Nico sending firethrough her body and not much else.Everything around her had taken on a dreamlikequality."I'm putting a knife under your pillow.Use it on the enemy, not on yourself." There wasa bite to his voice, suppressed hurt under the layer of coolness.She caught his sleeve and turned her head, her lashes lifting so he could look into hereyes."I wasn't leaving you, Kadan.It was an accident.Really an accident.I wouldn't dothat.I was hurt and upset and angry at my father, but I wouldn't do that to either one ofus.""We'll talk about this later." He pulled out a gun."Keep this in your hand, and don'tshoot me when I come for you.We'll have to move fast when we leave.""Take the IV out then." She tried to sit up.His arm was a bar across her chest."You're going to just lie here and rest while we takecare of you.Don't give me any problems right now.Tansy, because I'm willing to tie youto the bed to keep you out of trouble.You scared the hell out of me and I didn't much likeit."ABC Amber LIT Converterhttp://www.processtext.com/abclit.html ABC Amber LIT Converterhttp://www.processtext.com/abclit.html"It was an accident."His hand spanned her throat, tipping her head up.Cold blue eyes stared down at her."Accidents are fucking out of the question from here on out.Are we straight on that?"Tansy's eyes searched his.She swallowed against his hard, calloused palm beforenodding.Kadan leaned down to kiss her, brushing feathery kisses all over her face, throat, andneck.When he got to her earlobe, he tugged with his teeth and then pressed his lipsagainst her."Never scare me like that again.Never.""I won't."Kadan didn't much care that he was demanding the impossible.He kissed her again andpushed the gun into her hand."Don't move until one of us comes for you." He waiteduntil she nodded again before he turned away and strode out of the room.The moment he was in the living room, he went into warrior mode, gathering hisequipment and slipping out of the house through a window.He went up where he couldhave a better view of the neighborhood and the yard.He didn't want anyone to get closeenough to enter the house, or even get where they could fire into the bedroom whereTansy lay.On the outside Kadan had Nico, who could hit anything in his crosshairs, andGator, who had an army of animals and the capability to walk through enemy lines anddispose of anything coming at him with his knife.Ryland was inside, prepared toevacuate with Tansy at a moment's notice."I want a full count, Nico," Ryland's voice hissed in Kadan's ear."We're taking this oneto them.They've been coming at us, and this time we send a message back to Violet.Bring it hard."Kadan took a long, slow look around.He'd chosen a house far back from the street in aquiet cul-de-sac.The streetlights didn't reach the edge of the property and the nearesthouse was yards away.Down the street, only a half a block away, was a park, wellmanicured but with several stands of trees.Behind his house was his escape route, a Jeeptrail through an undeveloped lot that dumped into a street near a freeway."I have six.They think they're being very stealthy and they're definitely loaded for bear.""Give me positions," Kadan snapped."Six o'clock, between two houses.Coming toward the backyard," Nico responded."I've got him," Gator said into his radio."You can move, Kadan; none of the dogs aregoing to bark."ABC Amber LIT Converterhttp://www.processtext.com/abclit.html ABC Amber LIT Converterhttp://www.processtext.com/abclit.html"Second man coming over the roof, third house on the right.I've got him marked," Nicodroned.'Third running along the fence just about a block away, but coming fast.""He's mine," Kadan said, and slipped over the edge of the roof, dropping into a crouch inthe grass."Make the targets quiet, if possible," Ryland said."Nico, can you hold off on your manuntil we locate the other three? Once you take your shot, the others will know we'rehunting them."Kadan went through the front yard in a crouching run, using blurring speed.Motiondrew the eye, but with the night and their enemies a distance away, he was confident hecould make it to cover before he was spotted.He flattened against the SUV parked infront of the house, waiting again."Position," he whispered."Closing fast, about ten yards."Kadan went up the side of the SUV and gained the roof, lying flat, knife in his fist
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