New Regime (Rune Alexander Book 5) by Laken Cane

Author:Laken Cane [Cane, Laken]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-10-18T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Nine

But by the time she reached the correct interrogation room, Owen had already been released to the Annex’s medical department.

And no one could tell her a damn thing.

She stood over Owen’s cot in the small, austere, all white room, watching him as he slept. He’d been hooked up to a monitor and a tube snaked into a vein in his arm, filling him with fluids and antibiotics.

Her cell buzzed, but she ignored it.

“Can I trust you?” she finally whispered.

For a second all she saw was a young, slender man with unkempt hair and skin scarred by battle. A man who was briefly unrecognizable, unfamiliar.

Who the fuck was Owen Five?

She didn’t know exactly who he had been, or what he’d lived through. What he’d done. She only knew one thing for sure. He was Shiv Crew.

He was hers.

She let her fingers drift to his hand, and gently, she caressed his skin before gripping his hand with hers.

“I’ve got you,” she said.

He squeezed her hand, gently, and her gaze flew to his face.

He was watching her, his feverish eyes half open, something in them she didn’t care to examine too closely.

For a long moment she didn’t move, or breathe, just kept her stare locked with his. But finally, she released his fingers and stepped back.

He closed his eyes.

She turned and strode from the room without another word.

Her cell buzzed again and she glanced at the display before answering. “Ellie?”

“Rune,” he almost screamed. “Levi is killing Gustav. Come quickly.”

“Where are you?” She was already running, dodging other employees, her heart racing. Levi, Levi.

She understood his level of pain. He would kill Gustav.

“Basement. Cafeteria. God, Rune. Run.”

She ran, clutching her phone with a grip nearly strong enough to break it, not really to save Gustav, but to save Levi.

To save Ellis.

“Shiv Crew, report to Monitor One. You have a run. Shiv Crew, Monitor One.” The voice booming over the loudspeaker was unfamiliar. Ellis had been replaced already, and obviously the new guy was unaware that right then, his coworker was being beaten to death by a man who might never climb out of the hole into which he’d been buried.

She flung herself into the echoing stairwell and leaped down the stairs, pretty sure she caught the dim sound of screams in the distance.

When she reached the cafeteria the doorways were full of knots of people, watching whatever was happening within. At nearly the same time she began shoving her way through the crowd, she spotted six Annex operatives coming from the opposite direction.

Unless they’d been ordered to put Levi down, they’d shoot him with a tranquilizer to neutralize him.

Then anything could happen. If they figured Levi was out of control…

And Eugene wasn’t there to run interference. Iris was.

That made Rune a little nervous.

So she swerved at the last minute, going instead for the operatives. She shot out her claws. “Stay back,” she said.

“We’re—” the man in the lead started to say.

“Stay the fuck back. He’s mine. I’ll handle the situation.”

“Then you’d better do it fast,” the op said.

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