Alterant (45 page)

Rías were much like Alterants, human-looking until they shifted into a deadly beast. Some could control their beast, but it didn’t appear that this one could.

And this Rías had a human by the arm.

She ripped the gang member from the beast’s grasp and tossed the cursing thug thirty feet away.

The Rías roared as he finished shifting.

As per Tzader’s orders that were still flowing telepathically through her mind, she lifted her hand and slapped
the beast with a kinetic blast that only aggravated him. He stumbled back a few feet.

Once the Rías came after her, she’d run toward a patch of trees a hundred yards away, where Tzader and four Beladors would be waiting to capture him . . . unless they were forced to kill the beast.

The minute Tzader finished talking, Tristan’s voice snapped at Evalle.
You want a tip on the traitor or not?

The traitor?

About time she had some good luck. She called back to Tristan,
Where—

A chain wrapped around her neck and tightened with inhuman power from behind.

The beast howled and rushed her.

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