‘You’re PMC.’
‘You don’t ask the questions.I do.’
Inexperienced.Unprofessional.Agrudge.
Lachlan can use that.
‘I wasn’t asking, dipshit.’
Younger Fenwick tases him again, doesn’t wait until it passes to ask, ‘I know you knew him.You wrote the fucking report about his death.’
Lachlan spits blood and tells lies.‘Your brother was a good man who died protecting the people you’re attacking right now.’
Younger Fenwick laughs.‘Mybrotherwas a stone-cold cunt, but he knew something was fucked with that place.The last time we talked he told me that the heir to it all, Julian Penhalyx, is a Paranatural.’
‘I was with him when he died.’
‘Mason told me if anything happened to him, he’d been killed because of what he knew.’
‘I can tell you the last thing he said.’
‘The ashes they gave us had no trace of his DNA.’
‘He was electrocuted by a malfunction caused by the storm.’
‘Paranaturals cause storms, everyone knows that.’
‘It’sbullshit.They’re not even real,’ Lachlan pants when the current leaves his body.‘It’s a fucking witch hunt.’
‘How did my brother die?’
‘The same way you’re killing me!’
‘Tell me how Mason died and it’ll stop.’
‘He died from the storm.’
‘And who caused it?’
‘It’s weather.No one causes it!’
The younger Fenwick paces in front of Lachlan.
‘It’sverysecure down there.We can’t get in yet, but we did cut off all communications as well as their water supply, and in this heat,’ he says, looking around, ‘they’ll just be begging for a drop soon, don’t you think?’
Lachlan says nothing.
He knows Jules’ side has at least enough water to survive.
The other side, less so.
‘We’ve put heaters outside of the rooms and once we find their ventilation, we’ll flood it with smoke too.Meanwhile, you have a chance to do yourself a favour.’Fenwick holds his gaze.‘Tell me how my brother really died.’
‘Your brother,’ Lachlan says, scarcely able to draw breath, but for this, he’ll find some, ‘bottomed for me like abitch.’
Lachlan allows himself a smug, dark smile before the shocks come back full force.He goes where it’s quiet.Where it’s safe.
One sunny day with the people he loves.
