EIGHTEEN –––––––– Sikorski couldn’t possibly understand what he’d done by bringing Kadie into the room. Tuck didn’t know why she had to bear witness to this conversation, she had no choice except to comply with what Sikorski ordered her to do and Tuck couldn’t object. Although he didn’t want her to hear the gory details of the Kindred’s past dealings in this setting, he had to look on the bright side. As long as she was in the room with him, he could protect her. Sikorski gestured for her to sit on the same couch that he occupied and she tiptoed forward, closing the office door and sitting at the end, as far away from her boss as she could. Warning bells began to fade up in his hearing. Although Sikorski didn’t seem to notice that she was reluctant to be near him because the Russian was

