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together but placed his hand over Will’s. The younger male smirked. “Were you ever a serial killer?”
    Addyson held back a grin at Will’s teasing tone. Tanner’s lips twitched, but he kept all other emotions from his features. “I’m a sentry. I kill for a living.”
    Will laughed and lifted his hand so his palm touched Tanner’s.
    The muscles in Will’s arm gave a little jerk at first, and Addyson wondered how bad it would be for her. After a few moments, Will withdrew his hand from Tanner’s and turned to her.
    “Since you told me your shields are completely gone, I want you to try to see if you can build them using his aura,” Will said like it was no big deal.
    Well, it might not be for him, but Addyson was trembling inside.
    “Wait? Use his aura? How?”
    Will bunched his eyebrows together. “It’s one of the first techniques I learned when I came into my power.”
    “Okay,” she said. She wasn’t sure she ever learned that style of building or rebuilding shields. She tried to think back to her training as a child. She came up against a dark wall. No, it was more like a black void. Her memories of her childhood were gone.
    Sadness filled her heart, but she knew she’d lost the ability to hold on to her past before her captivity. A warm tear rolled down her cheek.
    Will took her hand in his. “Addyson?”
    She lowered her gaze and focused on the stone floor beneath her bare feet. “I don’t remember how,” she whispered.
    Will squeezed her hand gently and said, “Use your second sight to see your aura, then expand yours out to his, but don’t let your energies touch. Change your aura color to match his then bring it back to you. Your instincts should take over from there.”
    Addyson wasn’t so sure about that, but she trusted Will. After all, he’d escaped Onyx with his mind intact. Taking a deep breath, she focused on Tanner and held her hand up between them. “Hold your hand up like mine, but don’t touch mine.”
    He did as she asked. She closed her eyes and pushed her aura into his.
    She opened her second sight, or mind’s eye, and found Tanner’s aura surrounding his hands. It was a deep blue around the edges and grew lighter the closer to his skin. Her own aura was the opposite, only in purple. It was darker at her skin and got lighter to the edges.
    Focusing on her aura, she tried to define the colors within and separate them. That proved harder than it sounded. Before she could get totally frustrated, she slowed her breathing and searched for the two colors that made purple.
    Finding the red and blue strains, she moved the red away until her aura was blue. Good. Now she had to move the darker color to the outside of her energy bubble. She did that by taking hold of the white string and pulling it closer to her. Relief flowed over her when it worked and her aura matched Tanner’s.
    Now what? Oh, yeah. She had to bring the energy to her. Slowly she pulled her hands toward her body while directing her aura into her.
    Like a dull light suddenly filling a dark room, her mind formed a barrier. It was thin, but a hell of a lot more than she had before.
    Holding the thin wall around her mind, she held her hand up in front of her face, palms facing Tanner. “Slowly press your palms to mine.”
    In slow movements, he lifted his hands and inched them closer to hers. He touched his fingertips to hers and waited. A spark of worry tingled through her hands. When she smiled and nodded to him to continue, he pressed his hands to hers.
    She shuddered at the contact, but for a brief moment, she picked up on only a slight transfer of a memory. Then her thin shield crashed, letting in a wave of images. She jerked her hands away from Tanner and slapped them to the rock floor. The images faded just as quickly as they appeared, and she smiled.
    “That was great. Let’s do it again.”
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    “What the fuck is going on?”
    Keegan’s voice echoed off the cave walls as he stood inside the doorway,