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.

hadn't expected him

you're not talking? You

Cassian had seen

lab's ventilation system was connected between

had escaped through the ducts, this room would've been

of collapse, wouldn't have had the

Rin's presence were nothing more than background noise. Rin's

he reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a tactical flashlight. It wasn't

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

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

weak 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 won't hold

so much as lift his eyes. He simply leaned against the wall, breathing slow and shallow, as if Rin wasn't worth the energy it

and stripped of his power by a fractured psyche-but if Rin thought he could break him that easily, he

indifference sent Rin into a

snapped. "You brought this on

switched on

beam of white light lanced across the room,

technician in the lab lit up-not with