[Knights of Manus Sancti 01] • The PHOENIX CODEX by Donovan Bryn

Author:Donovan, Bryn [Donovan, Bryn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780996715249
Goodreads: 36628002
Publisher: Almeris Press
Published: 2017-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Jonathan’s blood froze in his veins. The screen flickered, and a live video feed appeared. No, no, no. He knew Alvaro only slightly, but this was a disaster.

A Knight wearing a heavy jacket—Portia, he knew her—pulled a hood off a naked man who was bound with his wrists over his head. Alvaro shook as though it were freezing in the room, and his ankles were swollen. Jonathan remembered this experience in his own body. Another man kneeled over a second naked man on the ground, holding paddles from the defibrillator on the wall.

Next to Jonathan, Cassie went rigid. He took her hand as he watched, his right fist pressed against his lips. God, let him be okay. The whole Diviner lab was silent, watching. No sound accompanied the video feed, either, but the man with the paddles placed them on the Alvaro’s chest and delivered a shock. The second naked guy, having just been freed from his chains, stood side by side with the woman who’d unbound him. The first man removed the paddles and began administering CPR. A medic carrying a steel case rushed into the room, produced a large hypodermic needle, and gave the fallen Knight an injection.

A man in the lab asked, “Kat, any changes?”

On the screen, Alvaro’s chest rose and fell. The Diviner who’d spoken before also took a deep breath. “Yes. He’s improving.” She pressed a button, and the big screen changed to a series of numbers and a heart rate monitor. “I think— I think he’s going to be all right.”

“Thank God,” the man said as Jonathan sagged in relief.

“What the fuck is this? What are you doing to people?” Oh, no. Cassie was pissed, seriously pissed. Kat looked over her shoulder and punched something into her phone.

Jonathan grabbed Cassie’s hand. “Let’s take a walk.” He cursed himself for not getting her out of there right away. Maybe he could at least minimize damage, taking her off by herself before she decided she was furious at every single person around her.

“That’s torture!” she said as he pulled her into the empty hall. “What the hell is wrong with you people—”

“They’re volunteers!” He turned to grip her shoulders. “I did it, too.”

Her face crumpled. “What?”

He looked down the hall and back at the door to the lab. “I hope to God you didn’t trigger an attack.”

“I didn’t! I—I started breathing like Val taught me.” Cassie had been practicing with Val for the past week, and he wanted to believe that was long enough for her to learn some control. “I didn’t have the blood taste in the mouth, or the—” She broke off, distress filling her big brown eyes. “Why would you do this to yourself?” Even if she hadn’t spurred the spell into effect, she still might get angry about what she’d just seen.

Gabi and Tristan, a huge guy with a full dark beard and an intricate black tattoo on the side of his neck, strode down the hall toward them. Gabi called out, “Kat called for security.

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