SoulBound: Book Two of the Ace Assassin Series by Kaija Rayne

Author:Kaija Rayne [Rayne, Kaija]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781990471001
Publisher: Kaija Rayne Books
Published: 2021-08-30T04:00:00+00:00

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THIRTY-TWO: LATER

Rhian

The warehouse sprawled like a brown and cream coloured, ancient dragon fallen from the sky. I’d have assumed it deserted, if I hadn’t known better.

Tattered, peeling blackout paper clung to the windows, and several of the dusty panes had cracked. It hunkered over rolling hills covered in tall grasses, as if protecting a treasure.

Large overgrowths of cattails and reeds obscured the approach from the major roads. White pine trees with their long, graceful needles provided camouflage from the 401 in back. Separating depositories in the area were the often-ubiquitous corn fields you find in much of the mid-west of North America.

This building needed a sandblasting and a paint job in the worst way. From where Rhys and I lay on our bellies’—concealed in the nannyberry bushes reclaiming the verge next to the broken parking lot—new, high-tech doors and locking mechanisms gleamed in the distance.

The guards weren’t spit and polish; they looked like unhoused people or students really down on their luck, but their alert gazes and patterns of movement gave them away as more.

‘On the down-low then,’ Rhys murmured in my head.

‘Which movie you pick that line up from?’

‘Can’t remember. There was a plane.’

‘That certainly narrows it down. This stinks worse than three day dead fish.’

‘Forget deodorant again?’

I shot a glare at my brother. ‘Shithead, pay attention to the job.’

‘Hawthorn, holly, and henbane, Rhi, you need to deal with whatever is going on with you and Kai, you are absolutely no fun to be around like this.’

‘Lynn left. That’s what’s going on.’

‘What? Why?’

‘Later.’

He proved he’d been doing his part when he nodded to the building. ‘The roof, best access point. Unless I’m mistaken, there’s a door or hatch up top.’

It was still dark enough to use them, so I peered through my night-vision equipped binoculars and he was right. ‘Skylights, maybe with an opening mechanism, I’ll shift and fly up to take a look around in a bit. Let’s circle the place first.’

‘I’ll go wolf, you go bird, halves the time.’

‘Done.’

We backed away in army crawls as carefully as we’d approached the warehouse. Back at the SUV parked on a nameless access road; I shifted into my new peregrine form.

Rhys, as his wolf, slunk away toward the building, his grey pelt blending almost seamlessly into the misty pre-dawn atmosphere.

I flexed my wings, then drove them down hard and fast to get sky-borne. Peregrine eyes are the coolest; I could see everything from up here. I took in as many details as I could while I hovered on the warm air currents, then I kited into a landing on the roof.

I preened my feathers, acting as close to a real raptor as I could to throw off anyone who might know that creatures like me existed.

They weren’t guarding the place up here, you’d think they’d be cautious enough to do that, but no. I hopped close to the skylights and twisted my head to look. As Rhys had guessed, they opened on a hinge and had external locking mechanisms.

Glancing at

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