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    “ Natasha,” he greeted in a mild tone.
    Lips twisted with a snarl, she trained a gun on him and cocked it. “Don’t say my name like we’re friends or anything else.”
    “Christian!” Juli moved for him and Natasha turned her weapon on her.
    “ Stop!” Christian lowered his voice and concentrated on keeping it even. “Juli, stop where you are. Don’t move.” His eyes never left the UDK’s face. “How did you find us?”
    “ It wasn’t easy.”
    “ And now that you’ve found us? Are you going to kill us?”
    Hesitation flashed across Natasha’s face, and with it, indecision. It was gone almost immediately, replaced by a coldness she had always tried too hard to produce. “I won’t have to. If I found you, the others won’t be too far behind.”
    Hands up, Christian slowly stood. “What did you do to Jax and Dominic?” Keep her talking, just keep her talking.
    Natasha snorted. “I knocked them out. You guys need better training.”
    His jaw tightened. “We have no training. All we know, all we learn, we figure out on our own. We’re the garbage, remember? We don’t exactly get the same privileges as you.”
    An indecipherable gleam entered her eyes. “You don’t know what you’re talking about.”
    “Why are you here?” he demanded.
    “ Christian, you’re wasting your breath trying to talk to her. She’s toying with us, and when she’s done, she’s going to shoot us,” Juli said from behind him.
    The gun wavered.
    Christian’s eyes narrowed as he watched Natasha’s shaking arm. “Are there even bullets in it?” He took a step toward her and the gun swung to his head.
    “Stay back!”
    “ I don’t think there are. What is your motive?”
    Natasha’s throat worked as she tried to swallow and Christian could smell her fear, potent and bitter. “I said, stay back.”
    “Christian!” Panic raised Juli’s voice.
    “ Or what? You’ll shoot?” He stopped when the barrel of the gun was touching his chest. “Go on then. Shoot.” Christian stared into her eyes. “Only you watch me while you pull the trigger.”
    “ You won’t die, if I shoot you,” she whispered. “You’ll heal.”
    “ So what’s stopping you then? Give it a try.”
    “ You’ll only die if you’re shot in the brain.”
    The gun lifted to his forehead and Christian tried not to flinch. It clicked, his eyes watching hers widen in horror, and he moved. One hand grabbed the gun and twisted, the other slammed into her chest with enough force to send her into the wall a few feet away. Natasha slid to the dirty, damp ground, her head bowed as shivers swept through her small frame. She didn’t look brave or vindictive anymore; she looked like a lost, scared little girl.
    “Next time, make sure it has bullets.” Christian put the safety on the gun before shoving it into the waistband of his pants.
    His eyes found Brett and Dylan Roth, brothers both turned UDs, a rare occurrence. The odds of two siblings having the disease were almost unheard of. “Tie her up. She’s coming with us.”
    “Tie her up? We can’t have her with us, Christian. It’s too dangerous,” Juli argued.
    “ What’s the alternative?” His eyebrows lifted as he waited.
    She sighed, rubbing her face. The alternative was death. Juli knew it. Tenderhearted, there was no way she would allow that if given another option.
    “Can’t we just knock her out and leave her here?”
    “ She can help us. We need training.”
    “ She tried to kill you!”
    “ She didn’t succeed.”
    Confusion marred Juli’s features. “What? You’re not serious. She’ll try again. You know she will. Look at her. She hates us.”
    “ She can help us, or she can die.” He caught Natasha stiffening out of the corner of his eye. Looking around the bedraggled group, he said, “Pack up. We’re leaving.”
    On his way past Jax and Dominic, he kicked their legs and they began to awaken, blinking at him as they sat up. He glared down at them. “You