ACRO 05 - Tempting the Fire by Sydney Croft

Author:Sydney Croft [Croft, Sydney]
Language: fra
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy
ISBN: 9780553907599
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2010-07-27T22:00:00+00:00

ANNIKA’S STOMACH ROLLED OVER AS SHE STOOD THERE, DEV’S question about Creed hanging in the air. Fuck. She’d come storming in, unsure where else to go, prepared to tell him she was pregnant so she could beg for advice on how to deal with it. But at the mention of Creed, she froze.

She and Creed had been through so much, and a big part of their problem had been Dev—Creed’s jealousy of her relationship with their boss, her dependence on him. For a long time, she relied on Dev when she should have leaned on Creed, and she’d caused her lover a lot of grief.

And here she was, reverting to old habits.

But what else could she do? Dev had saved her a long time ago, had taken her out of a life where she’d been nothing but a cold-hearted killing machine. He’d been there for her whenever she needed him, had been more of a parent to her than the people who’d raised her.

Still, she couldn’t betray Creed like this. Not after all they’d been through. If she was going to tell anyone she was pregnant, it would be Creed.

Shit. Now what? Dev was expecting her to say something.

“It’s, ah, Baker. He’s causing all kinds of trouble at the firing range.” She’d actually planned to talk to both Ender, who ran the shooting program, and Gage, the Trainee department head, instead of jumping the chain of command to Dev, but she needed a cover for coming here, and fast.

Dev buttoned up his shirt. “Shouldn’t you be talking to—”

“Ender and Drummond. I know. But Baker isn’t in shooting instruction yet, so Ender can’t really do anything about this. We’re just on basic weapons training, and we’re cycling through the M16 right now. And Drummond is on a mission.” She swallowed a wave of nausea and continued. “Baker is a hazard. Every time he fires the rifle, he melts every weapon within ten feet of him.”

“I know he doesn’t have control of his gift yet.”

No, he didn’t. His pyrokinetic gift was a little unique. He couldn’t make flame. Instead, he created some sort of subsonic frequency that created intense heat. “It’s not that. I think he’s doing it on purpose. He’s, like, some sort of Greenpeace nut.”

Dev cocked a dark eyebrow. “You suspect he’s a plant?”

She blew out a long breath. Groups like that had been known to infiltrate the very organizations they protested against in order to bring them down from the inside. “I don’t get that vibe. I think he’s just trying to do little things here and there to protest.” She shrugged. “I could be wrong.”

“Okay, we’ll keep an eye on him. I’ll send him to Samantha and see if she can get into his head and look around a little.”

A sudden wave of nausea rolled over Annika, and she threw out a hand to brace herself on Dev’s desk. Instantly, he was there, catching her—even though she was still on her feet, thank you very much.

“I’m fine,” she ground out, though the room was spinning a little.

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