Drake Sisters 07 - Hidden Currents

disappear or be destroyed. Even in the unlikely case that he was convicted, he would be running his empire from where he was and reaching out to destroy El e’s life. No, Stavros wasn’t going to prison.
    Jackson glanced up and met Ilya’s knowing eyes. The Russian just nodded at him, a smal , barely there assent. There were two of them that felt the same way and Ilya was a good man to have at his back.
    â€œI think the real question we need to be asking ourselves is, why is he so strong,†Damon ventured. “When any of you use your talents, it drains you. He’s a sea away yet he sustains power. That makes no sense.â€
    Jackson’s attention jumped to Damon. The man’s brain was a machine. He was on to something. Whatever it was had to be important and valuable or he wouldn’t have brought it up. He’d been giving it some thought and if he asked the question, he had an idea of the answer.
    Damon shot him a quick glance and Jackson had to struggle to maintain his expression. Damon also knew that Jackson was planning to go after Gratsos and he wanted in, it was there on his face. Damon was no fighter, but he could plan a battle—hel , he’d developed defense systems for the United States.
    â€œMaybe it’s because he’s a male,†Jonas said, using his logical voice.
    Hannah cuffed him hard. Joley smacked him as wel , not once but twice.
    â€œYou’re such a freakin’ chauvinist, Jonas,†Joley accused him.
    â€œHe has a point,†Ilya said, straight-faced. “Look at me.â€
    Joley punched his arm. “Don’t flatter yourself, Prakenskii. I’m looking and al I’m seeing is a lot of hot air.â€
    He caught her by the back of her hair and pul ed her head back, finding her mouth with his, unapologetical y taking possession. When he lifted his head, his eyes laughed. “I’ve obviously not been doing my job lately.â€
    Joley grinned at him. “You do wel enough.â€
    Sarah made a little sound in the back of her throat, bringing everyone back to attention. “Actual y, Damon brought up a good point. How is he able to maintain his energy?â€
    â€œHe’s not real y using his own energy,†Damon said.
    Tyson leaned forward, a puzzled frown on his face, hands clasped together in his lap, his gaze locked on Damon in that focused way of his. Nothing and no one else was in the room at that moment. “You think he sets the energy seeking in the fog? Free from him?â€
    Damon nodded. “It has to be that, Ty. How else? There’s no way he could sustain an attack in so many places at once. I looked up the Hidden Currents website and the fog was in sixteen places around the world at exactly the same moment. Now, most of those weren’t even in the same time zone, but stil , the fog hit precisely at the same moment regardless of what time it was in that particular region.â€
    Tyson snapped his fingers. “I see what you’re getting at. Clever, clever man.â€
    â€œI don’t understand,†Jonas said, his voice irritated. “Enlighten me.â€
    Damon’s brows drew together. “He creates the fog to find psychic energy.â€

“I get that,†Jonas sounded disgusted. “How does he sustain it? If he doesn’t feed the energy, his fog would col apse, just dissolve.
    Something has to sustain it.†He looked to Hannah for confirmation.
    Hannah’s attention was on her sisters. They were al looking at one another. “Could he do that? Have any of you ever tried? Ilya?†She looked to her brother-in-law.
    â€œWhat?†Jonas exploded. “Try not to make the rest of us feel like idiots. Al this hoo-do crap is annoying as hel .â€
    â€œDon’t you see, Jonas?†Tyson obviously didn’t notice that Jonas was about to lose his temper. “He sends out the fog, sustaining it himself until it finds psychic energy.†His eyes lit up, admiration gleaming for a moment. “Then the fog feeds off the psychic energy available to it, leaving him free to create another trap in the water. Because he uses anything natural to the environment, he just basical y has to set things in motion for his traps to work. He used kelp, sharks, fishing nets, wind, and he’s got to be traveling on the hidden currents on the water. If there isn’t one available he creates