catchingsu bd4dhrrl by Sarah Alderson Read Free Book Online Page B

they’re both thinking about the Unit.
    kidnap me. But then they introduced me to Alicia and Ryder and Bill and I look at Demos and hear the anger crackling loud in his thoughts –
    it was the first time in my whole entire life I’d ever met anyone else with a images striking like lightning before vanishing almost instantly – mainly superhot mind power, never mind a whole group of them.
    he’s thinking about that woman – the woman he often thinks of: the dead
    ‘We need to find out what the Unit are planning next,’ Demos says, in-woman with the green eyes. And he’s also thinking about Jack Loveday, one terrupting my thoughts. ‘We can’t keep waiting for them to catch up with of the leaders of the Unit.
    us. We need to fight back – put an end to this – to them.’ He turns to me, Demos thinks about him and this woman a lot. But his thoughts and
    ‘And Suki, we need you for this.’
    feelings are so tangled up – so shockingly violent and devastatingly sad –
    I cross my arms over my chest. ‘I thought you just said you could do that it gives me a headache just to look at him. Sometimes I wonder why without me? Don’t you have another mind-reader you can use?’ I widen my he doesn’t do some of his mind control on himself or get Ryder to sift eyes at Alicia.
    those memories and remove them completely. I think I would. But I know
    ‘The Unit know Alicia,’ Demos answers. ‘They don’t know you. We need Demos prefers to remember, needs to remember.
    you to get close to them.’
    The Unit are after Demos like he’s an A class drug. They’re after all of us, I hear Nate snicker behind me.
    but Demos is the one they want the most.
    ‘So,
    ergo , you do need my shoes,’ I say, grinning, ‘Admit it.’
    The rest of us have powers – Nate can fly outside his body, Alicia can
    ‘OK, Suki,’ Demos sighs, ‘I need your shoes.’
    read minds, Ryder can sift memories – removing whole chunks of your past. Harvey and Bill can rob banks and make things move just by looking 4
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    OK , I yell back, I hear you. Now shhh, so I can focus.
    I scan the room. There they are. Lieutenant Jack Loveday and Lieutenant Alex Wakeman. I’ve only seen their photos so far and the pictures that 2
    are in Demos’s head, but the truth is Demos did not do them justice. In fact, Demos’s head needs a tune up or a reboot or an entirely new operating system altogether.
    Jack’s profile is turned towards me. He’s glowering at his iPhone. He’s The bar is called Belushi’s . It has a flashing neon sign outside, advertising got dark hair and the kind of face Nate would roll over and play dead for.
    Budweiser and T-bone steaks. It is not the kind of establishment that has Alex is facing me, sitting on a stool, one leg propped up on the rail. He’s valet parking and a security man on the door who’ll let me skip the line.
    wearing a white T-shirt and it’s clinging to his body so hard I’m actually There is no line. I don’t think this is the kind of place people would ever line jealous – if it’s possible to be jealous, that is, of a piece of clothing.
    up to enter. Though maybe to leave.
    Alex has blond hair and eyes so blue I can see their colour from here.
    I walk slowly towards the door, like a lamb entering a lion’s den. I might I scan his body. Forget his mind.
    be torn to shreds or end up being manhandled by the Unit back to their His jeans are in the way.
    headquarters and God only knows what would happen to me if I ended up For not the first time in my life I wish my superhot power wasn’t mind-there. We’ve never been able to get inside because of their alarm thing. But reading but X-ray vision.
    a quick scan of the bar reveals that most people inside are thinking about Suki!
    three things: who’s winning the game, who’s buying the next round and Ah. Alicia is in my head again.
    which girl they’re going to try their luck with next.
    Remember why you’re there! she yells.
    I walk inside, throwing