Page 432 of Scars of Fate

He reached behind it and opened a concealed mechanical panel.

Inside waited an emergency lever untouched by the destroyed network.

He pulled it.

A second door opened behind the chamber.

Cold air entered the laboratory.

Beyond the opening, a narrow rail tunnel descended through the mountain.

A small maintenance cart waited on the tracks.

Straight toward the private airstrip.

Minser lowered himself into the driver’s seat.

“Come on, Mrs. Spencer.”

I tightened my grip on Lucas’s gun and climbed onto the cart beside him.

We had destroyed Fate.

Now we had to save Elena.

Recover Kane’s registry.

And end General Kane.

39

LUCAS

The hidden staircase ended at Level Four.

Roth reached the laboratory first.

Elena’s chair stood beneath the rusted surgical light.

Empty.

Blood covered the seat.

More marked the floor.

Roth stopped.

For one second, he became a brother instead of a commander.

“Elena.”

“She was alive on Kane’s last transmission,” Adam said.

“He shot her.”

“Not fatally.”

“You don’t know that.”