Beneath (The Rebirth Series #1)

Burdon perched on her desk, watching us. Kaleo lounged in one of the chairs, his feet kicked up on the table, looking pompous and bored. There were no traces of the side of him he had revealed in the tunnels.

“Told you I wouldn’t let you down,” Kaleo bragged lazily. “The others are going to the cells, but I knew you’d want to handle these two personally.”

Burdon’s eyes flew to him before coming back to us. She hadn’t lowered her weapon in the tunnel. Tristian had tried to step in front of it.

“Move another muscle and I’ll shoot. You two are going to come to my office. If either of you makes a single wrong move, I’ll let Kaleo here get back to whatever it was he was doing before you so rudely interrupted him, Hayes, and I’ll make you watch. Are we clear?”