Alterant by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Epic, Fantasy, Fiction, General
ISBN: 9780748124299
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2011-09-29T08:32:57+00:00

SEVENTEEN

Thunderstorms were building outside the conference room, where a different kind of tension vibrated inside these walls.

Quinn used his kinetics to dim the lights in the boardroom and to draw the blinds tight. He wanted no distractions once he started probing Conlan’s mind.

Tzader had been stalking the room, checking the door locks and practically rattling the walls with his anger until Quinn sent him a telepathic message to chill out. He’d reminded Tzader that the entire floor had been secured. In buildings scattered across this country, as well as several others, Quinn maintained a perpetually vacant floor at specific locations, such as this one.

An area available only via keyed elevator access explicitly for Belador use.

Having withdrawn to a corner, Tzader became as still as a stone, if one could image a stone blazing with energy.

Perspiration danced across Quinn’s forehead, a rare reaction for him, to be sure. Did he want to tamper with the mind of someone he considered innocent? No, but Tzader had returned from his meeting with Brina looking kicked in the proverbial nuts. Something had gone terribly wrong. If it took a mind search to appease her demand for action, then Quinn would do this for his friend and his warrior queen.

“I’m ready,” Conlan said quietly, as though intercepting Quinn’s reluctance. He sat on a plush office chair with his eyes shut and his back to Quinn, who stood above him.

Conlan’s next breath came out hard and shuddering.

Time was wasting.

The sooner this was done, the sooner they could find Evalle before she walked into a fog and shifted. Even if she controlled her beast not to kill, someone would kill her.

Quinn spoke in a hypnotic tone. “Focus on wherever you go to find peace and this will be easier for you.” Then he laid his hands on Conlan’s head and closed his eyes. Touching wasn’t necessary to tap a mind, but touch enhanced his ability to delve into the subconscious more quickly.

And possibly with less disruption to Conlan’s brain.

When Quinn began to roam the young man’s mind, he felt his way past areas that were like doors he could open and see into—past and present.

Quinn usually avoided anything in the future because the future didn’t come fully formed the way current or past events were revealed. The future held unknown elements, and knowledge gained from those excursions could change events.

Not always for the best.

If he found something to prove Conlan’s innocence, Quinn would be spared having to find a link to Larsen O’Meary’s spirit. Perhaps the good news was that if O’Meary had truly died, there would still be a link between father and son because both were Beladors.

Unusual for two Beladors in one family to be born under the PRIN star only, and only one generation apart. Little was known about those connections.

Opening the passage to Conlan’s present, which covered anything since he’d last slept, Quinn found nothing damning or helpful. When he moved beyond that to Conlan’s past, he tapped a flood of misery that washed through Quinn.

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