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Hadley smirks as I close the door and open the blinds so I can keep an eye on everyone. Someone will probably come to me now.
“Don’t worry,” Hadley says, grinning over at me. “I made it look like those files were put into the system by Director McEvoy himself. It’ll have his IP address all over it. It can’t be traced to us.”
The screen inside Craig’s office flips from the heat signatures to a wide shot of the town, just as music starts playing.
I glance over, seeing Johnson walking inside town hall from a different camera angle, and my eyes flick back to the girl dressed in black leggings and a red tank top as she stalks through town, armed to the guild.
“Disturbed,” Hadley says with a smirk.
“What?” I ask, entranced by the fierceness I can finally see in those haunted green eyes.
“Disturbed. Down with the Sickness,” she says. “The song. It’s almost perfect.”
Lana pulls out a mask, a red one with black lines over it, and she tugs it on.
“Why a mask?” I ask, confused.
“I don’t—”
Before she can answer that, the monitors outside the office change over to a news station with a breaking bulletin that has been leaked from an informant inside the FBI—who is probably Hadley pretending to be McEvoy. It’s the same video we were just watching, minus all the graphic scenes involving Victoria, Marcus, and Robert Evans.
My eyes flick back to the monitor near me that has Lana moving through the empty town streets, heading straight for town hall.
Knots form in my stomach, and my mouth goes dry as I watch her take her time.
On another screen, I see one of the deputies look up at one of the speakers playing the song that’s on a loop, and he says something I can’t hear as he turns back and heads inside the building.
Another steps out, looking at it too, and I hear him yell for them to call the sheriff.
By now, I think Lana has already killed him, considering his absence and hers for so long.
The last deputy steps back in just as Lana rounds the corner, less than a block away from the building now. She reaches back, grabbing her backpack, and she tosses it to the sidewalk next to the building when she reaches it.
My eyes move to the screen in the main room, watching as the newsroom pulls up live feed from Delaney Grove, and my heart sinks when I see Lana on there, tugging out a shotgun.
I see her pump it once, then back against the wall beside the door. Her chest inflates and deflates rapidly and harshly, then she cracks her neck to the side before kicking open the doors.
The screen on that TV doesn’t change, but the one near us does, and I watch as all the deputies swing their surprised gazes toward Lana. She fires without hesitation, and my stomach roils as a half a head explodes from a deputy’s body before he can even reach for his gun.
Immediately she pumps the shotgun and fires again, this time blowing a hole through another’s chest.
It’s like the room catches up and their shock wears off, as everyone grabs their guns at once.
Lana dives and slides across the floor, firing with the shotgun again, and nailing a deputy in the waist.
“So she’s also a great shot,” Hadley says with no emotion.
My heart is hammering in my chest, and I flick my gaze to the news, seeing it still just showing the angle from the outside as they report on the craziness that is Lana and Jake’s revenge against the world.
Everyone is just staring, watching like we’re not supposed to do anything. Everyone is too stunned to even react as they hear the blasts of gunfire in rapid succession, windows crashing and blowing out with the force of the gunfire.
My eyes drop to our private viewing screen, and I see as Lana slides across the floor, tugging her mask off. Apparently the mask was just for the news, and she doesn’t care who sees her inside there.
Which means…
“She’s planning to live,” I say on a tight breath.
“Then why the hell would she walk into a room full of trained officers?” Hadley growls, furious as Lana ducks and rolls across the floor again, tossing her empty shotgun aside and pulling out two glocks.
