Edge of Danger Read Free

are first and foremost a T-FLAC operative, Edge. A wizard in the psi division second. If you can’t extract the information we need from Dr. Cahill in the usual manner, then you’ll use whatever mumbo-jumbo re—”
     
      Gabriel gave a savage thrust and disarmed his opponent.
     
      “Ow! Shit! That stings like a son of a bitch!” Sebastian’s sword skittered across the stone floor as he nursed his hand.
     
      “Want MacBain to kiss it better?” Gabriel knew everything Sebastian was saying was only the truth. But hell, it didn’t make it any easier to take, did it? “Jesus. I miss Stone.”
     
      Sebastian dropped his hands to his knees, hanging his head as he tried to catch his breath. “Don’t we all.”
     
      Gabriel had tried again to probe Dr. Cahill’s mind for the vital information he needed. He’d failed. Goddamn it. He hated to fail.
     
      He’d cloaked himself, gone to her computer lab in Tempe, Arizona, three days ago. All he needed was a few seconds to retrieve the data and then get the hell out. Easy. She’d never even know he’d trespassed.
     
      She’d been alone. Perfect timing. But much to his surprise, he hadn’t been able to penetrate the hot, soft darkness of her mind. Something he could usually do with ease when he wanted to. And damn it to frigging hell. He wanted to.
     
      He’d also wanted to shake her and demand how the hell this could happen. But he knew instinctively why he couldn’t extract the secrets he needed from her mind. Somehow, God only knew how, she had him blocked. He’d tried to get her to lower her defenses—even a few seconds would have done it—but he’d found his every attempt unsuccessful.
     
      He had to get her to lower her guard. One of the quickest, easiest ways was if she had a climax. Her mind would be unprotected by her usual defenses. One quick climax and he’d be in and gone before she knew it. A few seconds with her emotional shields down, and he’d have everything he needed.
     
      Now he was going to have to go back to damned Arizona, and try again. He knew if it didn’t work this time, he was going to have to bring her back here to a more controlled environment. As much as he didn’t want her anywhere near him, or the castle, he was running out of viable options.
     
      He’d skip the preliminaries, and take her to a fast, unexpected climax. Surprise was going to be his weapon against Dr. Cahill’s strong will.
     
      Sebastian straightened to look at his friend. “She’s not safe in Tempe.” He accepted a bottle of water and a fresh white towel from Gabriel’s butler, MacBain, who gave every appearance of being a deaf-mute. The wily bastard was anything but. The man had ears like a bat, eyes like a hawk—despite his glasses—and the organizational skills of Attila the Hun.
     
      Gabriel knew without it having been said that Sebastian was giving him an inch more wiggle room on this because of their long-standing friendship. As his temporary control, Tremayne had every right to demand Gabriel extract the information from Dr. Cahill in the most expedient way possible.
     
      “I know. Do you think I’d leave her there unprotected?” Gabriel had dispatched two T-FLAC operatives to watch her 24/7. They could not, however, get into the lab. And that was a problem that deeply concerned him. Concerned him enough that he’d placed a protective spell on her.
     
      “You’d trust someone else to keep her safe?”
     
      “I’d trust myself to keep her alive.”
     
      “Really? And how do you propose doing that if you won’t even touch the woman?” Tremayne took a long pull from the bottle, then upended it over his head, sluicing water over his sweat-soaked hair and face. “The good doctor scares the shit out of you. Doesn’t she?”
     
      Towel up to his face, Gabriel stopped what he was doing to stare at his friend. “Are you insane ?”
     
      “You’ve seen her once. Yet just thinking about the