THE DEAN'S ASSASSIN
He had broken ribs, maybe worse, but he moved with a terrifying, unstoppable momentum.
"He won't let you touch me, Victor," I said, a dark, fierce satisfaction cutting through the drug-induced haze in my blood.
"Operative Vance is an irrelevance," Sterling snapped, turning back to me with cold efficiency. "He is a relic of an old war, fighting for a world that won't exist in ten minutes."
He lunged forward, driving the silver needle straight into the glowing scar on my collarbone!
A white-hot wave of agony shot through my nervous system. I screamed, my head snapping back against the steel chair as the fiber-optic cable flared with a blinding gold light.