Page 190 of Scars of Fate

And no one else.

The narrow trail climbed steeply between the rocks.

Adam led.

Hawk followed with the damaged tablet.

Russ helped the pilot.

Boone limped behind them.

Wynn walked beside me.

I caught her waist when her injured leg weakened.

For a moment, we stood pressed together in the darkness.

Her hands rested against my chest.

My arm circled her.

Her lips were inches from mine.

“Lucas…”

Gunfire erupted below.

The enemy had discovered the deception.

I sighed.

Wynn almost laughed.

“Still terrible timing.”

“The worst.”

I pulled her farther up the trail.

Behind us, Meridian’s soldiers flooded into the abandoned pass.

Ahead, the old observation post waited.

If the cache was still intact, we had a chance.

If it wasn’t…

I looked at Wynn.

At the woman I had loved for half my life.

The woman who had finally said she loved me too.

Failure was no longer an option.

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