19. Chapter 19
Chapter nineteen
Julian
O nce the sprinklers are off and I’ve sent in half a dozen men who haven’t passed out, I enter the lab with Dorian by my side. I grimace at the sight of Tad, face-down, and the only idiot still slumbering. I kick the asshole. “Get up, you moron. Get up now!”
Tad jerks to a sitting position, a stunned look on his face. “Holy crap. What the fuck happened?” He jumps to his feet. “Where’s Layla?”
“You tell me!” I snap. “Both her and Jensen are gone. How does that happen with my second-in-charge here? And , you idiot, she used your badge to get out of the lab.”
The doors to the lab slide open, and the lead scientist, since I stole him away from General Powell, rushes forward, his jacket neatly pressed, his glasses sliding down his nose. I’d expected the world from him when I’d recruited him, but all he’s given me is ICE in all its failing glory. Chin’s getting on my nerves and outstaying his welcome, if he isn’t careful.
“I just finished watching the camera feed for the past few hours,” Chin announces. “I do believe the woman shattered the glass and levitated items. I think she caused the men to pass out. It’s remarkable, like nothing we’ve seen before.”
I grind my teeth, barely containing the urge to snap the man’s neck. “Yet another side effect of ICE we should have known about.”
Chin presses his glasses up his nose. “Thousands of people have used ICE, and no one else has developed anything remotely similar to the skills this woman has demonstrated. Perhaps ICE reacted to her recent cancer treatments. I need the woman and her records from the German hospital to be certain.” He holds up a hand. “I make no promises, but if my theory proves correct, we could potentially combine ICE with the same cancer treatments and recreate her skills in your men. But we must locate her quickly before ICE withdrawal kills her.”
I want no part of creating such a skill in others unless that skill becomes my own. I eye Tad. “Find her, and you kill her. Bring her body to Chin to study.”
“I need her alive,” Chin argues.
“I want her dead,” I say. “ Now , before she can be used as a weapon against us, which means before Jensen manages to get her to Sunrise City and under my brother’s protection.”