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Ignoring him, Jon focused back on Wreg.

“I’ll grab the one down here, then head in.”

“Be careful,ilyo,”Wreg cautioned. “From what Adhipan says, this Dulgar wants little telekinetic seers of his own. If he thinks he can’t do this through your sister, he really might go after Maygar. So protect the obnoxious fuck. And tell him if he doesn’t behave, I’ll kick his ass myself when you get back here.”

Jon sighed. “Got it.” Signing off, he exhaled, fighting the part of him that wanted to worry about Wreg.

“We have to go,” he told Maygar.

“What?” Maygar’s eyes narrowed. “All of us?”

“No. You and me.” Jon looked at Yumi. “Balidor wants you and Jorag to take over for the remaining Listers upstairs.” Remembering the one still in the bar, Jon looked at Maygar. “There’s one more down here. You and I can grab them on our way out.”

Yumi nodded, motioning with her head for Damon to follow her to the elevators.

Maygar frowned, watching the other two leave.

Jon didn’t wait. Turning, he aimed his feet for the twin torches guarding the eight-foot-high, garishly ornate, black and gold doors to the Kolkata Lounge.

After letting out an annoyed-sounding sigh, Maygar adjusted the automatic rifle strap around his shoulder and followed.

Chapter9

Bad Intel

“Yeah, we’ve got him.” I turned my head, frowning at where Revik held Dulgar firmly against the wall by the throat.

“…Not like it’s done us much good,” I added, irritated.

I glanced at the clock embedded in the wall.

These days, it felt like everything we did revolved around that damned clock.

I couldn’t feel Shadow anywhere near us, but then, I never could, not until he was there. It was like radio silence?then, bam. Out of nowhere, he’d be after Revik’s light. We’d have to turn every infiltrator we had towards protective detail, and it still wasn’t always enough.

The last time he got through, Revik was down for days.

Moreover, it wasn’t only Revik’s light we had to worry about.

Shadow went after us in the physical, too, using Revik’s light to pinpoint our location. He’d sent boats after us, planes, missiles. He even hit us once with one of those satellite laser cannons. Luckily we’d been ashore that time, not on the carrier, and Vikram picked up the cannon powering up in time for us to find shelter.

With this one, we couldn’t play with the clock at all.

We were too close to Hong Kong to have any kind of window.

“Alyson?” The Adhipan leader was still on the other end of the line. “What does that mean? Did you get anything at all from that fuck?”

I glanced around the stone tunnel, grimacing a bit at the smell, which more than hinted at sewage, even though the water itself looked clear.

I did a double-take when I saw a Legion of Fire guard slinking carefully around an outcropping to my left. He balanced on a ledge that rimmed the canal on our side, obviously trying to sneak up on Revik, who had his back to him.

I refocused my light, briefly forgetting Balidor asked me a question.

I sent a hard bolt ofaleimi, knocking the guard unconscious.

He toppled unceremoniously, falling the only direction he could?into the water.

Revik turned at the splash. Frowning, he stared at the canal, then at the body floating by in the rapid stream of water. I saw him quirk an eyebrow, right before he glanced at me.