Shadowfever (Fever #5)

by Karen Marie Moning

20 The only reason it worked was because Fade caught him off guard. Barrons can move so fast that shooting him isn’t the easiest way to kill him. But he didn’t expect Fade to shoot him, and Fade is as fast as Barrons. I don’t know what Barrons and the others are, but until someone tells me otherwise, I’m going to assume they’re all the same. They have heightened senses: smell, vision, and hearing. Barrons has the strength of ten men, and his bones are extremely resilient. I imagine they have to be, so he can transform the way he does. I’ve watched Barrons drop thirty feet and land on his feet, as light as a cat. Fade surprised them all. He managed to gun down Ryodan, too, before the others attacked him and took his gun away. Fade stumbled back against the wall, and I thought how strange it was that he’d lost his weapon but was still hanging on to the sheets. “What the fuck, Fade?” Lor snarled. “Forget your meds again?” Fade looked at me. “Your parents are next,” he purred. “I will destroy everything you love, MacKayla.” I sucked in a horrified breath. Ryodan wasn’t paranoid. He’d been right. The Sinsar Dubh had skimmed me, lifted information about them from my mind, and acted on it swiftly. It was right here—in the room with me! It had learned about Chester’s and had come to take a look around, see what it might see. I’d been out of the Silvers for three days—and this was the third day in a row it had found me! Was it really my fault that it had gone to the abbey because i...