Page 309 of Broken Oath

“You won’t.”

“You can’t promise that.”

“No.”

I held her gaze.

“But I can promise you won’t face whatever is waiting in there alone.”

For one second, the hunter disappeared.

The sister beneath her armor looked back at me.

Then Sarah nodded.

The helicopter descended into the storm.

Inside Black Site Theta, the freight elevator opened.

Wade stood at his cell door, watching through the narrow window.

Guards weren’t only moving prisoners.

They were removing evidence.

Hard drives.

Weapons cases.

Boxes of documents.

Entire filing cabinets.

Anything that couldn’t be carried away went into the incinerator.

Smoke tainted the air.

Black Site Theta was being erased.

This wasn’t a relocation.

It was an evacuation.

One of the guards stopped outside Wade’s cell.

Young.

Nervous.

Sweating.

Wade had seen him before. The man couldn’t have been older than twenty-five.

He looked down the corridor before stepping closer.

His voice barely carried through the door.

“You should pray.”