The kind of thing people don’t survive emotionally once they fall into it completely.
And judging by the look in Clay’s eyes—
he feels it too.
Then Gabriel’s voice shouts from the embankment above us:
“WE NEED TO MOVE!”
Reality crashes back instantly.
Searchlights suddenly sweep across the river behind us.
Police vehicles.
No.
Not police.
Black SUVs.
Sentinel.
Of course.
Mason raises his rifle immediately.
“They tracked the river exits!”
Russ starts pushing children toward the waiting vans hidden beneath the bridge.
“MOVE!”
Clay helps me over the embankment wall just as gunfire erupts above the river again.
And somewhere across the storm-dark city—
Director Wu finally learns Hannah Bowers survived the purge.
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Director Wu
The underground command center trembles from the collapse beneath Bucharest.
Water pours through the fractured tunnel and feeds across the security monitors while alarms scream throughout the facility.
Sector Seven is gone.
The church tunnels.
The nursery.
The transport routes.
Destroyed.
And yet—
