Concrete bursting apart.
Muzzle flashes turning the underground corridor into a strobing nightmare.
Clay slams into me hard enough to knock the air from my lungs as bullets tear through the space where I’d been standing a second earlier.
“MOVE!” Russ roars.
The tunnel erupts into complete chaos.
Some Sentinel operatives fire at us.
Others hesitate.
And that hesitation gets people killed.
Eli grabs the crying female operative beside him just before one of Wu’s loyalists opens fire directly at her chest.
“DOWN!”
Gabriel returns fire instantly, dropping the shooter with brutal precision.
“LEFT SIDE CLEAR!” Lucas shouts.
“No it’s not!” Miles fires toward the rear tunnel entrance. “More incoming!”
The lights overhead burst one after another.
Darkness crashes over us between flashes of red emergency lighting.
I lose sight of Wu immediately.
Panic spikes hard.
“Clay—Wu—”
“I know.”
His hand clamps around mine again.
Strong.
Unbreakable.
He pulls me behind a collapsed support beam as bullets ricochet around us.
Avery’s body still lies in the middle of the tunnel.
Oh God.
No.
I can’t leave her here.
I try to move toward her.
Clay catches me instantly.
“Hannah.”
