Down with the Queen (Lilith's Shadow Book 2) by Benjamin Medrano

Author:Benjamin Medrano [Medrano, Benjamin]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 1986163164
Published: 2018-03-29T16:00:00+00:00

Ocean Shield HQ, San Francisco

“I don’t care if you think you’re right, Defender. I agreed with you in that we needed to bring her in, and if you had followed the plan we might have avoided this entire mess,” Ocean Spirit said flatly, shaking her head. “I think the backlash wouldn’t be a tenth as bad if you hadn’t nearly killed an elevator full of people! One of them is going to be hospitalized for nearly a week as it is, and that’s being conservative.”

“It was a mistake to fire as powerful of a blast as I did,” Sky Defender admitted, his voice slightly defensive and his arms crossed in front of him. “I still don’t think I was wrong to do so. They escaped through one of Shadowmind’s teleportation hubs. That tells me quite enough about her.”

“Oh really? If you were going to be, oh… dissected and killed the moment someone caught you, wouldn’t you take any available option to escape?” Galvanic Action replied sarcastically, trying to suppress his own anger. “I’m not sure about her, but I don’t think that her taking a risk like that to escape is out of line.”

“Then why didn’t they tell us anything, if they already knew?” Crimson Bull demanded, leaning forward onto the table and scowling. “Shadowmind is nasty as hell, and I can totally see her having done what Defender has suggested.”

“Possibly for the exact same reason they sent me off on a wild goose chase and didn’t tell you before starting all of this. The more people who know, the more likely someone will leak it,” Black Comet said angrily, leaning back in his chair and resting his feet on the table. “I’m not happy being played for a fool by the rest of you. I volunteer as a hero to do good, and because the government and sponsors are willing to chip in enough to make a decent living. I’ve risked my life to protect you, and you chose to lie to me about something like this? You couldn’t even have told me that there was something more dangerous going on, and that you needed to draw attention away from what you were doing?”

“I find it funny that despite everything villains have done to us over the year, all it took was two small lies to bring everyone to each other’s throats like this,” Galvanic Action said quietly, his tone cutting much of the tension throughout the room. He understood their reasons, but that didn’t help much. “I understand why Morgan and Warden made the decision they did. They’d gotten to know Lilith, and even if they weren’t influenced, do any of you honestly believe that they would have said anything to us if they thought it could get a good friend of theirs killed? Can any of you honestly say that?”

“I… I think they would have. I mean—” Crimson Bull began, but Ocean Spirit snorted.

“If you knew what my weakness was, would you tell the rest of the team if they didn’t know?” the team leader asked, her voice calmer than it had been.

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