Page 435 of Scars of Fate

“Not from here.”

Adam looked toward me.

“Go.”

“You need⁠—”

“Roth knows the route. I’ll help Hawk shut down the purge.”

The emergency lights flashed.

A warning sounded.

FACILITY DESTRUCTION PROTOCOL INITIATED.

Five minutes appeared on the wall.

Kane had planned to erase the laboratory.

And everyone in it.

Adam and Hawk ran toward the control room.

Roth and I continued toward the hangar.

The blood trail ended beside a freight elevator.

Roth pressed the call button.

Nothing.

“Power has been cut.”

I forced my fingers between the doors.

Roth joined me.

Together, we pulled them apart.

The elevator car waited two levels below.

A steel maintenance ladder ran along the wall.

Roth entered the shaft first.

I followed.

Above us, the facility repeated the warning.

Four minutes until destruction.

We climbed.

The radio crackled.

Static.

Then Wynn’s voice.