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reached out and touched it, only to find that it was
as hard as rock and cold. He had to give it to the
Snakes, they were good at building their
underground homes. There was no way these
babies were going to cave in. Not without the help
of a lot of explosives. It was a good thing Zaid and
the Wolves happened to have thought to bring a
lot of those with them.
After they had walked in a distance and the
light grew weak, Kline took off his sunglasses and
tucked them into one of his pockets. Zaid couldn t
resist taking a peek at the man s eyes. Even with
the shitty lighting, Zaid could tell that Kline didn t
have just blue eyes. No, they had little flecks of
darker blue hues throughout them, making Kline
all the more unique.
But then again, everything about Kline was
special and it wasn t just because of his special gift
either. Kline had a special way of being innocent
yet snarky at the same time, a balance that not
many others could manage. In fact, Zaid had yet
to meet another who had that quality about them.
 This place is creepy, Kline whispered.
 Yeah, it s not exactly home, Zaid agreed.
 I can smell them. Which means him, which
means he can smell us, doesn t it?
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Zaid decided that he owed it to Kline to tell him
the truth.  Yeah, he knows we re here.
There were several curses from the men behind
him, who had obviously overheard the
conversation. Kline, for his part, remained calm,
he just thoughtfully cocked his head to the side
and said,  Then whey hasn t he attacked us yet. If
he s as powerful as you say he is, you would think
he would strike down anybody that got near his
stomping ground.
Zaid felt his stomach clench in dread.  Because
he wants to play with us first. Like a cat toys with
its prey.
Zaid didn t know what reaction he expected
from Kline, perhaps some fear, or maybe some
tears or even a little bit of trembling. What he got
was the exact opposite. Kline pursed his lips
together in a thoughtful manner.  That would
make sense given what you ve said about him. He
seems like somebody who would love to play
sadistic games like that. It probably turns him on.
Zaid was amazed at how quickly Kline was
able to peg Obsidian. Usually, people didn t figure
out how the Snake s mind worked until it was too
late and their throat was already slit. They would
then be on their way to Obsidian s dinner table, if
one could even call it that. Ugh!
Zaid did know one thing for sure, there was a
lot more to the Omega than he first thought. It was
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going to be interesting to find out what else Kline
had in store.
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kay, it was official, Kline was freaked out. He
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was doing his best to hide it, and so far he
thought he was doing a bang up job, but this
whole mission had him ready to jump out of his
skin. If somebody had come up behind him and
said,  Boo! he probably would have wet himself
in fear.
To be fair to him, they were going after one
bad-ass Snake, and this was his first mission, but
Kline still felt like a wimp for being so scared.
Especially when Zaid seemed so cool, calm, and
collected. Hell, you probably could have set a
bomb off under the guy s ass and he wouldn t
give a reaction.
As they moved their way farther into the cave,
it grew darker. It was so soothing on Kline s eyes
that he almost let out a sigh of relief. Or rather, it
would have been relaxing had he not seen all the
carcasses littering the floor.
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It would seem that Obsidian liked to let his
food sit around a while before he ate it, and he
wasn t too particular on what his dinner was,
either. There was every kind of shifter down there,
feline, Wolf, Rat& hell, there was even a Hippo,
and those things were damn rare. There were also
dead humans and regular animals down there as
well, from the smallest dog to what looked to be a
lion that had been stolen from the nearby zoo.
Obsidian had been one busy little boy.
The smell was so rancid that Kline said a silent
prayer of thanks that Finn wasn t there with them.
No doubt his twin would be bent over and
retching by this point. The cloying scent mixed
with the scent of Snake and Earth weren t exactly
a great combo and it made Kline want to run in
the opposite direction, just so he could get away
from it and take a breath of fresh air.
But he moved on, because he had a job to do
and he was damned if he was going to let a little
stink make him fail his first mission. He wanted to
be a success, both to make Zaid proud of him and
to show Tate that he could do more than sit on the
couch and watch TV all day.
Kline swept his gaze across the ground, and
then he saw it. It was so thin that nobody but him
would have picked it up a razor wire that went
across one side of the wall to the other. Letting out
a hiss of warning, Kline reached out and put a
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hand on Zaid s chest to stop him from moving
forward.
 What is it? Zaid asked, with a frown.
 There s a wire in front of us. It s a couple of
inches off the ground and one meter ahead of us.
Tad squinted his eyes and tilted his head to the
side.  Where? I don t see it.
Desmond gave a solemn shake of his head.
 Don t doubt Kline. I ve heard about his gift and
how good it is. If he says the wire is there then it s
there.
Tad scoffed.  Come on. How good can his eyes
be? He s a damn Omega. Everybody knows all
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