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Chapter 6

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Raze put Marcus in the east room.

Not a cell, exactly. The compound didn't have those, not official ones. But there were rooms that locked from the outside and had no windows and smelled like they'd held other people before, and this was one of them. Two of Raze's men took Marcus by the arms without being asked, and Marcus went without fighting, which told me he was still calculating, still running some version of a play in his head that ended with him walking out of here.

For his sake I hoped
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  • HE WAITED 1,095 DAYS TO CLAIM ME   Chapter 56

    They came at 01:17.All of it simultaneously, east wall, north approach, Ada's door, the three-point push of a man who had stopped waiting for his intelligence to resolve and had decided that speed was its own answer. Price called the first contact, then Fen's board lit across three channels at once, and the operations room went from alert-quiet to full noise in the space of four seconds."East wall, primary vehicles, approach road." Price's voice, flat and fast. "North approach, two vehicles, moving.""Ada's door," Carver on the secondary channel. "Foot contact, three men."I was already at the map."East wall hold until second marker," I said. "North approach, Raze, you have them."Raze's voice through the channel: "Moving.""Carver, Ada's door, do not engage until I give the word. Hold your position and let them reach the outer frame."Carver: "Copy."The next forty minutes ran at the speed of decisions made in under three seconds and executed in under ten. East wall reporting in o

  • HE WAITED 1,095 DAYS TO CLAIM ME   Chapter 55

    He kissed me once and then his hands were everywhere and the night changed entirely.His mouth dropped to my throat, my collarbone, my breast, his tongue working each place with unhurried attention until I was arching into him and pulling at his shoulders, and he lifted his head and looked at me with the expression that said he had decided the pace and my impatience was interesting to him and he was not adjusting for it. Then he moved lower and I stopped caring about the expression.His mouth found me and I stopped caring about most things.He took his time between my legs, his tongue working with the focused patience of a man who had decided this was the only thing happening in the world tonight, one forearm pinning my hips flat when I ground against his face. I was loud, both hands in his hair, not managing any of it, the sounds coming from somewhere below decision entirely. He kept going, kept the same maddening patience, until I came the first time with my thighs shaking against h

  • HE WAITED 1,095 DAYS TO CLAIM ME   Chapter 54

    He was already in the room when I came back from the Renard call.Two glasses on the side table, both poured, the same measure in each. Not a question, a decision already made, the way he made most decisions, quietly and without announcing them. I came through the door and saw the glasses and understood that this was what tonight looked like before it became whatever it became after midnight. I crossed to the window and picked up my glass and he came to stand beside me and we looked at the compound's dark together without speaking.Eight hours.Maybe less.The yard below had the particular quality of a place that was awake and watchful and running on the knowledge of what was coming, men keeping to the wall lines, the rotation changes precise and unhurried, nothing wasted. The east wall's shadow posts invisible from this angle. The security light at the far corner beginning its arc, forty seconds out across the yard, forty seconds back, the compound's pulse underneath everything, stea

  • HE WAITED 1,095 DAYS TO CLAIM ME   Chapter 53

    I found Raze on the east wall running the afternoon's positioning check.He looked at my face when I came up the stairs and didn't ask anything, just fell into step beside me along the wall's interior walkway, moving away from Carver's nearest post until we had enough distance for a conversation that wasn't going to be logged by anyone. Below us the yard was doing its afternoon things. Above us the sky had the flat white quality of a day that hadn't decided what it wanted to be."Croft called," I said.His pace didn't change.I gave him the call in order, the voice, the terms, the managed transition language, the infrastructure framing, the good faith that wasn't. He listened without interrupting, which was how he always listened, with the full weight of his attention pointed at whatever was being said rather than at what he was going to say when it finished."He offered a split," I said. "Revenue and access. Compound stays under my authority in name. Network routes through shared arc

  • HE WAITED 1,095 DAYS TO CLAIM ME   Chapter 52

    The phone rang at 13:42.Not the compound's internal line. The external channel, the one that ran through the secure relay Fen had rebuilt after Cord's arrest, the one whose existence was known to eleven people and whose number was known to fewer than that. I looked at the incoming identifier on Fen's board and the identifier was clean, which meant it had been routed through something sophisticated enough to present as clean, which told me before I picked up who was on the other end.I took the handset from Fen's station."Leave the room," I said.Fen went. I waited until her footsteps had cleared the corridor door and then I sat down at her station and picked up the call and said nothing. Just listened. Gave him the silence and let him decide what to do with it."Miss Calder." The voice was soft. Not quiet, soft, the way certain expensive fabrics were soft, with a density underneath the surface that you only felt when you pressed. Unhurried. The voice of a man who had decided long ag

  • HE WAITED 1,095 DAYS TO CLAIM ME   Chapter 51

    Chapter 51 I found the cloth in the east corridor bathroom and dealt with it myself. The cut was not serious. A three-centimetre split along the inside of my left forearm where the edge of the inner corridor door had caught me during the exchange, I'd been moving fast through the access point and the door had swung back faster and the result was the kind of wound that stung more than it bled. More irritating than dangerous. The sort of thing you cleaned and covered and forgot about. I had cleaned it. I hadn't covered it yet. The compound's medical supplies were in the secondary room off the main corridor and getting there required walking through the operations room, and the operations room had Silas in it, and I was not ready to be in a room with Silas while also managing a visible injury. Managing two things at once was fine. Managing three things at once was fine. But there was a point at which the management became its own kind of exposure. I sat on the edge of the bathroom co

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