The Valkyrie Returns and Slays (Raven)

Chapter 462

Chapter 462 Where's The Boy?

The lab doors burst open with a thunderous crash.

Rin stormed in with two subordinates at his heels, eyes sweeping the room in search of Benedict.

"Find him," he barked, jerking his chin.

Catching the signal, the two technicians immediately began tearing through the lab, opening cabinets, checking corners- every movement deliberate, but careful. They avoided going anywhere near Cassian slumped in the shadows.

No one dared come within ten feet of him. The man was riddled with a rare, potent toxin. One wrong move, and they could end up poisoned too.

When the ventilation shafts and storage compartments turned up nothing, Rin's gaze fell back on Cassian.

"Where's the boy?" he demanded.

Cassian didn't even glance at him.

In fact, from the moment they'd stormed in, Cassian had only flicked his eyes toward the door once. Since then, not so much as a twitch.

Rin hadn't expected

"So you're

Cassian had

system was connected between

escaped through the ducts, this

of collapse, wouldn't have had the strength to help the kid get away. But

as if Rin's presence were nothing more than background noise. Rin's patience snapped. "You

sneer, he reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a tactical flashlight. It wasn't just any flashlight-it

Cassian's body came with a special side effect: extreme sensitivity to light during flare-ups. If exposed to a high-intensity beam,

a pain so sharp, so precise, it would feel like thousands of needles stabbing straight

mind would crack in minutes. Even a powerful mentalist like Cassian could be driven to the brink of collapse. "I'll give you one last chance," Rin warned. "Tell me where the boy is, or I

simply leaned against the wall, breathing slow and shallow, as if Rin wasn't worth the energy it

by a fractured psyche-but if Rin thought he could break him that easily, he

Rin into

he snapped. "You

switched on the

lanced across the room, aimed

every technician in the