Tazer stepped casually through the shattered entrance of the mall, the air around him humming with a lethal, static charge. He barely glanced at the terrified hostages, his piercing blue eyes locked instead on the scorched crater, the incinerated corpse of his own subordinate, and finally, on Jayden.
A low, amused chuckle vibrated in Tazer's throat. "I have to admit, I'm impressed. Not many people can react fast enough to dodge a direct lightning strike from me."
Jayden stood at the far end of the atrium, his posture perfectly still, his mind working in overdrive. The pieces had rapidly fallen into place.
He had been lured.
