Page 359 of Broken Oath

Warning lights flashed red through the northern access corridor. Dust poured from widening cracks in the ceiling.

Black Site Theta was dying around us.

And we were running deeper inside.

Fathom’s voice broke through the radio.

“Rook, the collapse sequence is accelerating.”

“How long?”

“Seven minutes. Maybe less.”

“Find Reeves.”

“I’m tracking movement through the internal cameras, but I’m losing feeds.”

A steel door slammed somewhere ahead.

Sarah heard it too.

“He went that way.”

She broke into a run.

I stayed beside her.

“Falcon, status.”

His answer came from the landing pad.

“Madow is secured. Helicopters are two minutes out.”

“Get him aboard the first one.”

“Understood.”

Another explosion tore through the lower level.

The overhead lights went dark.

Emergency illumination returned a second later, covering the corridor in a bloodred glow.

“Rook,” Fathom said. “I found Reeves.”

A grainy security image appeared on the screen attached to my wrist.

Reeves moved through the eastern access tunnel with a rifle in his hands.

He wasn’t heading toward an exit.

He was moving toward the prisoners.

Toward Wade.

“He’s intercepting the survivors,” Fathom warned.

Sarah’s expression turned deadly.