Midnight Breed 09 - Deeper Than Midnight by Lara Adrian

Author:Lara Adrian
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Paranormal
ISBN: 9780440246114
Publisher: Bill
Published: 0101-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

Midmorning at the Order’s Boston headquarters normally meant lights out, shut-eye time for Lucan and the rest of the compound’s residents.

Not today.

And although no one had said as much, as the head of this expanding household Lucan knew that the tension gripping them all was nearing the breaking point. Even Mira seemed subdued, the perceptive child seer quietly eating the last few bites of her pancakes and sausage beside Renata at the large dining table instead of chattering at her usual mile-a-minute speed.

The impromptu breakfast gathering had been Gabrielle’s idea. The fact that the Order’s female residents had been dining in the compound alongside their warrior mates instead of up in the mansion at street level had been at Lucan’s insistence. Although it felt odd having everyone crowded into Gabrielle and his quarters, nineteen people gathered around the long table Gabrielle had special-ordered months ago from a local Darkhaven craftsman, it was far more palatable than the thought of having anyone out of his sight in the daylight hours when he could do nothing to protect them.

Protect them? Shit.

What a goddamn joke that had become. Lucan scoffed to himself, well aware that the Order had never been more vulnerable. The once-certain security of the compound had been reduced to a flimsy veneer of safety now that Dragos had access to their precise location.

Not only that, but Dragos was apparently going on the offensive elsewhere too—case in point, the status call Hunter had made to headquarters a couple hours ago. The attack at the airport hangar by one of Dragos’s Gen One assassins had left the two charter pilots dead and Hunter stranded in New Orleans with the civilian female Corinne Bishop. They were currently holed up in a post-Katrina ruin awaiting sundown and Lucan’s further instructions.

Then there was the lingering matter of Sterling Chase’s absence. Lucan had declared the warrior cut loose from the fold since he’d gone AWOL, but the fact was, it bothered him to have lost Harvard. It bothered everyone, and his absence from the table—and the missions—was felt by the whole of the Order. But wanting him back wasn’t bringing him back, and since it was Chase’s decision to walk out, it was going to have to be his decision to walk back in.

The only good thing to happen around the compound recently was the safe return of Brock and Jenna from Alaska late last night. The massive Breed male from Detroit and his pretty human mate sat at the other end of the table from Lucan, Brock’s long, dark fingers woven through Jenna’s slender, paler ones as the couple conversed with Kade and Alex. The fact that Jenna wasn’t a Breedmate didn’t seem to make her bond with Brock any less intense. Then again, calling Jenna Darrow human wasn’t quite accurate anymore, considering the rice-size bit of alien DNA and biotech material the woman had been carrying in her spinal cord for the past couple of weeks.

She’d only been gone for a few days, but

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