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“Traitor?” Foster says the word with laughter.
“That's what someone who gives information to the enemy is called, right? You don't have a different word for it in mass society, do you?”
A head shake is all she gets from him until he frowns deeply, standing quickly as someone emerges from the trees behind me.
“Lindsay?” he says disbelievingly. I turn to see his wife, the president's daughter, standing in the shadows, flanked by two guys in black.
“Hi.” Her hand moves in a curt wave, mouth smiling without showing teeth. She looks like she's ready for a fight, eyes on her husband, who approaches her with quick steps and what appears to be a flashpoint temper.
“What the hell are you doing here?” he hisses as he pulls her away from us, the security guys moving away to give them privacy, but scanning the area closely.
“Emma's with Jane,” she says, heading him off before the obvious interrogation. “But I realized something.” She looks at Kina openly.
“What?” he snaps.
“Her. She's the key to it all.” One finger aims straight at Kina, who turns.
“Me?”
“Yes. You. I have an idea for how you can bring it all down.”
The future isn’t real.
The past isn’t real, either.
Only the present is, solid and full, flying at our faces, our bodies, our hearts and souls at breakneck speed as we work to take it all in.
As we work to protect others.
And, finally – ourselves.
We’ve started to break the bonds of Stateless, a system as rotten as the one it seeks to destroy. But systems are organisms with one brutal goal: to survive, whatever it takes.
Kina has to do the unfathomable to save a different system, one she created out of empathy and love for children we rescued from the only home they know.
She’ll use her mind, her body, her spirit — and her ultimate weapons: love, and —
Me.
The past isn’t real, either.
Only the present is, solid and full, flying at our faces, our bodies, our hearts and souls at breakneck speed as we work to take it all in.
As we work to protect others.
And, finally – ourselves.
We’ve started to break the bonds of Stateless, a system as rotten as the one it seeks to destroy. But systems are organisms with one brutal goal: to survive, whatever it takes.
Kina has to do the unfathomable to save a different system, one she created out of empathy and love for children we rescued from the only home they know.
She’ll use her mind, her body, her spirit — and her ultimate weapons: love, and —
Me.
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Author bio:
USA Today bestselling author Meli Raine writes romantic suspense with hot bikers, intense undercover DEA agents, bad boys turned good, and Special Ops heroes -- and the women who love them.
Meli rode her first motorcycle when she was five years old, but she played in the ocean long before that. She lives in New England with her family.
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