Page 276 of Scars of Fate

My fingers barely touched her boot.

The containment door opened another inch.

Cold vapor spilled across the floor.

Hawk shouted.

“If the inner seal breaks, we’re all exposed!”

I grabbed Wynn’s ankle.

“Take off the jacket!”

“I can’t reach it!”

The clock showed forty-five seconds.

I lowered myself flat and forced my shoulders beneath the unit.

Metal tore across my back.

Pain meant nothing.

I found Wynn’s hand in the darkness.

“I’ve got you.”

“Lucas, you can’t fit.”

“Watch me.”

I pulled.

Her jacket ripped.

Wynn slid backward into my arms.

I rolled over her as cold vapor poured from the opening.

Hawk reached inside the control panel.

“What are you doing?” Ghost shouted.

“Stopping the failsafe.”

“How?”

“I’m killing the power.”

“You said the batteries would activate.”

“Not if I overload them first.”

“That could ignite the containment unit.”

“It could.”

Boone looked at the clock.