“Yeah.Why?”
Graydon touched his lower lip with the tip of his tongue, looking over Jin’s head at Dylan.“We tracked the surviving attackers to a base in this sector.Every person on it had a version of the tattoo you gave Jace.”
“I’m not leaving this station until those children are found,” Kira told him.
“What if I promised to get them out?”Graydon asked as carefully as possible.
“I know you’ll do your best, but they’re not your focus.”
Vengeance and making sure the perpetrators didn’t escape was.
“I could say the same for you,” Graydon said wryly.
“That’s where you’re wrong.Children come first.”
Jin nodded.“Always.”
“Besides, their parents are wanderers which makes them wanderers too.Kashori and Asanth won’t care about them,” Kira added.
Jarek and Sariah even less so.
To them, these children would be unfortunate casualties.Nothing more.
“I wouldn’t be too certain of that,” Graydon murmured.He rested his cheek on his palm, tapping his chin with one finger.“Say I look the other way and decide not to interfere with your presence here.”
“Why would you do that?”
She knew why.
Her.
And Roake.
For all that he was Torvald’s person, he was also a son of Roake.
“What would you get out of it?”she asked.
“Everything,coli.”
Kira and Graydon stared at each other.His stark admission sitting between them like an immovable fortress.
“Fine, I’ll keep you in the loop,” Kira said, giving in.
He caught her wrist when she would have risen.“More than that.You don’t make a move without me.”
Kira didn’t pull away, too addicted to his touch and the way he rubbed his thumb over her pulse.
“It’s going to be hard to convince the Houses and Sariah of your impartiality if you’re stuck to my side.”
“You leave that to me,coli.”
Kira wanted to ask what he was going to do, but some things were better left as a mystery.
Raider and Jin got up from the table and headed for the door.
Dylan followed as Finn waited for Kira.
“Find us at the Red Rabbit,” Kira told Graydon.
