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.

expected him to

you're not talking? You think silence will

certain Cassian

system

the ducts, this room would've

brink of collapse, wouldn't have had the strength to help the kid

completely unresponsive, as if Rin's presence were nothing more than background noise. Rin's patience snapped. "You really think I can't make you

pocket and pulled out a tactical flashlight. It wasn't just any flashlight-it was a tool

Cassian's body came with a special side effect: extreme sensitivity to light during

thousands of needles stabbing straight through his skull. Not physical agony-mental. Psychological torment, the kind

the brink of collapse. "I'll give you one last chance," Rin warned. "Tell me where the boy is, or I won't

breathing slow and shallow, as if Rin wasn't worth the energy it would take

might've lost his strength, poisoned and stripped of his power by a fractured psyche-but if Rin thought he could

indifference sent Rin into a

snapped. "You brought this on

on

beam of white light lanced across the room, aimed

the eyes of every technician in the lab