Mind Storm by K.M. Ruiz

Author:K.M. Ruiz
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2012-07-16T06:02:11+00:00

[SIXTEEN]

AUGUST 2379

BUFFALO, USA

“Can you be,” Kerr asked, struggling for politeness, “a little more careful with him?”

Lucas didn’t open his eyes from where he lay on the other bed. “You actually sound like you care.”

“He’s my partner.”

“Shut up and lie down, or you’re going to hit the floor with your face when I break open your mind.”

Kerr stared at the other man for a few more seconds before carefully lying down on the bed that had been assigned to him. Stretching out, he put an arm over his eyes to block out the room, even if he couldn’t block out the relentless presence of Lucas in his mind.

I’m touched you think so highly of me, Lucas said. Drop your shields.

Kerr went against everything inside him that was saying no and did as he was ordered. Lucas’s power filtered down through the layers of Kerr’s mind, his own shields wrapping around the both of them on the mental grid with such strength that they burned like beacons in Kerr’s thoughts.

Just like you Strykers to make a mess of things.

I’ve survived.

I’m still not sure how.

That was the last thing Kerr remembered. The mental grid dipped under the sudden disappearance of Kerr’s presence, Lucas holding the other man’s mind in his power.

Sometimes I wonder about what you ask of me, Aisling, Lucas thought to himself as he decided where to begin.

The first thing Lucas needed to do was permanently destroy Kerr’s shields. The Class II telepath had gone twenty-five years without acknowledging the empathy he carried in his mind. All of Kerr’s deeply ingrained thought processes weren’t going to be reversed in a single night, but they had to be factored in for this psi surgery.

There was no point in trying to keep up a shield geared solely toward telepathy when empathy kept undermining the process. There had to be acknowledgment of that secondary power, and Kerr had to weave both into the framework of his shielding. There was no getting around that, unless he wanted his shields to continue falling apart.

What had been clear-cut and obvious to Lucas upon a single dip into that mind had apparently been unintelligible to the Stryker psi surgeons. Even a lower-Classed psion had ways to diagnose problems in the minds of those ranked higher. This whole mess could possibly have been avoided, except this was what Aisling wanted. Collusion between previous Stryker OICs and Serca CEOs had only helped along the inevitable.

Digging his telepathy deep into the crevices and canyons of Kerr’s mind, Lucas let himself be lost in the problem, allowing his power to bleed carefully into Kerr’s. Lucas hadn’t been lying, back in London. Scientists could reverse engineer pretty much any technological equipment on the planet with government permission. Lucas could reverse engineer the processes of the human mind only because he’d had his own torn to pieces over and over since his birth by Nathan.

Lucas didn’t want anyone else to have that skill. Not that he wouldn’t wish that pain on anyone—because there were

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