Liquid Crystal by Lynne Connolly

Author:Lynne Connolly
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Tags: Detective, Weres
Publisher: Loose Id LLC
Published: 2008-09-01T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Why had he said that? She was skittish, had too much to cope with. Now he’d admitted to her and to himself that what he wanted was her, just Crys, for now and always.

The feeling had grown over the last year, and coalesced just this morning, when he’d loved her in the shower.

Now he’d probably lose her for good.

“I’ll post someone outside Crys’s flat when you go in, to act as point,” Grady was saying. Christ, he should be listening, not mooning about his own problems. “I don’t think you’ll have much trouble. You’re just going in to collect her things, aren’t you?”

“Sure.” At least Kai was listening.

“And the computers.”

Crys recovered from her reverie. “We only have one computer. He might object.”

Grady shrugged. “Pay him for it. Buy him another one. I want that hard drive.”

“No problem.” As it happened, Bryn had a fair amount of cash on him. He’d bet Kai was similarly loaded. A new computer wouldn’t be any problem. They could go down to Tottenham Court Road and get one that afternoon, if Geoff got awkward with them.

“The hard drive will contain the addresses and websites to lead us to the rest of the cell,” he told Crys.

Her reply surprised him. “If he’s guilty. If he really is part of this thing.”

“You doubt it?”

“Bryn, I’ve only seen one thing, and I’ve felt others. I lived with Geoff for two years, and I never saw anything like you describe.”

He wouldn’t let her go, gripping her hand hard, then releasing it. When she winced, Bryn cursed his own strength and lack of consideration. “You’re thinking of going back to him?”

She shook her head and relief flooded him. “No, it was over before all this happened. I was just going to do it, you know, the human way. The normal way.”

“As far as Geoff is concerned, it will be the normal way. You’re breaking up with him, and we’re going back with you to help you move out.”

“That’s the best way to play it, then we can take the cell by surprise,” Kai added. He put his cup down on the table, the last to finish his tea, and by his demeanor, the coolest person in the room, his blue eyes tranquil, and not a hair out of place from the neatly drawn back pony tail. “A dawn raid, perhaps?”

Grady shrugged, a massive movement of his great shoulders. “Probably.”

“What will happen to them?” Her voice was quiet now, almost afraid. Bryn wanted to hold her tight and keep her safe.

He hated her to sound like that, but he owed her the truth. She wasn’t a child, and she’d come so far already. “If we can, we’ll capture them alive. That’s our preference. We want to question them, see if they know any more cells, where their point of contact is.

They work in small units, cells if you like, and only one member has any connection with the parent organization.”

Grady grimaced. “It makes it hell on wheels to catch them all.

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