Chapter Nine
Jia frowned.
Sometimes plans sounded much better in theory than they proved to be in execution.
That wasn’t a new experience for Jia. She and Erik had been involved in so much trouble dealing with criminals and the Core that she generally assumed something would go awry.
In this case, Jia realized the terrible and retrospectively obvious problem in using fake Leems when taking on Grayhead terrorists who’d pledged themselves to the real thing. It would be more accurate to say she understood her mistake once the first hostage started screaming.
Oops.
Jia hadn’t intended to terrify them, and she mostly doubted Emma did. But once six Leems with lightning guns and shields blinked into existence, the men and women who had been stunned into silence by Jia gunning down their gua
