There was no question of Alyssalee’s destination in Cole’s mind. The matter at hand was where she was now and how to stop her. There were no hits on her fingercomm and no chatter regarding her in UNUM’s surveillance network—at least among the nodes they had infiltrated. But as pissed as he was at her going dark, he was also proud that she’d practiced what they taught her, that she’d evaded both Undivine and UNUM detection this long. No matter how much she excelled, though, she couldn’t escape UNUM forever. Worse yet, Cole didn’t know if Latimer’s fleshmonger lodger would attempt to turn, possess, or kill her. None of the options were tenable.
And he knew she suffered. Hell, he hadn’t been able to sleep over losing his newest lieutenant, but this was no excuse for risking the compromise of
