Cry For Tomorrow by Dianna Hunter Page B

can use your corpses for their damned experiments! They pay me by the body and it’s no difference to me.”
    I knew by the look of cold hatred flashing in his eyes that this man had every intention of following through on his threat, but I also knew that to allow him to take us in was not an option. When Sanders took a step back to get a clearer shot, I took one step forward and to the side and another step further from the others.
    I was about to strike when my eyes were drawn to a sudden, stealthy movement by Rainor, sliding in behind his partner’s back. Before Sanders could react, the grey agent was pressing a weapon that had been concealed in the palm of his hand against the back of his commander’s neck.
    “Wha—” Sanders tried to twist away but he was too slow to react. There was a sharp buzz and the agent stiffened, his eyes popped wide.
    It seemed to take an eternity for his lifeless body to crumble to the ground.
    Jennie was at my side and had me by one arm, trying to drag me away.
    “W-why did you do that?” I gasped faintly as I stared in disbelief at the grey agent. Are we next on his hit list?
    “Because the bastard meant what he said.” He picked-up the taser gun lying at Sanders’ side and checked the settings. “Just as I thought—set to max. Sanders had every intention of killing you.” He raised his sharp grey eyes and looked me in the eye. “I know this is a little confusing to you, but I’m not one of them .” He kicked the dead man in the ribs. “It’s true that I’ve been working with the military agents but I’m not really one of theirs.”
    “I didn’t intend to approach you in such an abrupt manner, and I know you might have a little trouble understanding this, but I am in fact an agent of Tereus, a world that exists in a parallel dimension to your own. I infiltrated this man’s military unit several months ago in the hope of making contact with some faction of the telepaths that have gone into hiding in your cities. Unfortunately, time is of the essence and it has taken me this long to even get close to someone connected to the psis, and I’ll be damned if I am going to let Sanders just kill you for the sake of feeding his blood-lust.”
    This was all just too much for me to digest. I shook my head, annoyed beyond belief. What was this maniac trying to say? “Hey, look, Sergeant who-ever-you-are, I was perfectly able to deal with that bastard, and would have if you hadn’t interfered, without killing him,” I snapped at him. “Now there’s a dead agent, a military agent to boot, and we’re going to be blamed for it!”
    “Yeah, all because some crazy man saying he’s from someplace that doesn’t even exist thought he was helping us out!” Jennie glared at him as she came to my aid.
    Faced with our distrust and total disbelief, Rainor shook his head in resignation. “Hey, I’m sorry I had to spring this on you so unexpectedly but I’ve been trying for months now to get some kind of lead on telepaths like you, but most of them have already been driven underground by the Company and military. You’re the first real lead I’ve been able to get close to and this butcher was going to kill you all so he could collect the bounty, and well, I just couldn’t let him do that.”
    Jennie tugged at my arm again, silently urging me to follow her, but I shrugged her hand off and remained to face down the stranger. I needed to know what was going on here. I was relieved when she gave up and returned to gather the younger children, slowly leading them away from the agent.
    Determined to keep the stranger’s attention on me and away from my friends, I took a couple of steps in the opposite direction. I needed to keep him talking long enough to give myself a little time to think about the things he was telling us. I considered myself a pretty good judge of character and for no really logical reason this man’s words rang true. Jack and Rosa’s house had been a gathering