Stilettos, Inc. by Lexi Ryan

Author:Lexi Ryan [Ryan, Lexi]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Paranormal Romance, Sexy Romance, Speculative Fiction, Erotic Romance
Publisher: Lexi Ryan
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Like little boys called to see the principal, Darian, Fernandez, and Wiley settled into the chairs in the lieutenant’s office and waited.

Across the desk, he tapped his pen, his body tense, his jaw set. Darian resisted the urge to project calm. He’d been practicing, stretching his ability so he could project an emotion beyond just the person he was touching. Fernandez had been working on the same thing—trying to manipulate people’s actions without actually touching them. Neither of them was very skilled yet, but they were seeing some improvement.

The lieutenant rubbed the back of his neck, and pushed a piece of paper across the desk.

Darian picked it up. J.L. Scott. He raised a brow.

“That’s all our Readers could get out of your man from last night before he disappeared.”

“Disappeared?” Darian asked.

The lieutenant sighed. “Vanished. As if he’d never been there.”

Wiley scratched his head. “He had two abilities? The explosion thing and…teleporting, maybe?”

“Not according to our records,” the lieutenant said. “But if he teleported of his own freewill, that begs the question: why wait until fifteen minutes into an interrogation?”

“That doesn’t make sense,” Fernandez muttered.

“We’re looking into it. In the meantime, I’d like you to see if you can find anything on J.L. Scott. He’s a businessman here in D.C. He’s the one who gave the order to your guy last night.”

Shit. Darian hadn’t realized how much he’d been counting on getting info from the guy they’d sent into headquarters.

“A name is better than nothing,” Wiley said. “We can bring Scott in. If he gave the order, he surely knows more. We’ll figure it out.”

The lieutenant looked out his window, stress lines on his thoughtful face making him look older than his fifty years. “There’s more.” He sighed. “President Winston wants to shut down SIA.”

Darian froze. Surely he’d heard him wrong.

Fernandez clenched his fists at his sides. “Doesn’t he know there are Specials out there who would love it if he did away with us? Then they’d proceed to tear apart this government and eat him alive.”

“Maybe quite literally,” the lieutenant whispered.

Darian winced, realizing how ironically appropriate Fernandez’s word choice had been.

Radical Specials believed they were being repressed by the U.S. government. Since the government had first learned of Specials thirty years ago, they’d sanctioned all Specials to keep their abilities from the public eye. Darian had met more than a few Specials who believed they should be able to use their abilities openly and, more to the point, that they shouldn’t be governed by humans they deemed genetically inferior.

Though Darian had yet to meet a Special who was different than the men in this room in terms of their daily routine, there were always rumors of those whose practices were barbaric—who found that sex didn’t recharge their powers nearly as effectively as cannibalism. The legends varied, of course—some talking of Specials who ate human flesh, others were more like the legends of vampires, Specials who sustained their powers by drinking human blood.

But they were just legends, and

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