No one will.
“Ace,” I whisper.
He hears it.
Feels it.
Because he moves—
At the exact same moment Daniel does.
38
Ace
The shift happens in a blink.
One second—
Stillness.
The next—
Violence.
Daniel moves first.
Gun coming up.
Eyes wild.
“Tessa—DOWN!” I bark.
I grab her, pulling her hard to the side as the first shot cracks through the clearing.
Gunfire erupts.
Trigger and Beast engage instantly, flanking wide, cutting off escape.
Blaze drops back, tracking, feeding movement through comms.
But I don’t hear any of it.
Not really.
Because all I see—
Is him.
And the way he keeps trying to get to her.
Tessa
The world explodes around me.
Sound—
Gunfire.
