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He nods before ramming his nunchucks into the clasps. With a few more hits, my wrists are released, and Kai and Milo focus on my ankles next while I rub my painful wrists.
My body leans forward the second I’m freed, my feet still wobbly from the drugs, but Kai catches me before I fall.
“Whoa. I’ve got you,” he murmurs, clutching me tightly.
I can feel myself growing weak in his arms, lulled by the safety he offers me.
“Can you walk?” he asks.
I nod softly. “If I focus.”
But I’m still stuck in this hellhole, and a million of those Bonesmen are swarming this compound.
BANG!
A gunshot makes me look up at the door.
I grasp Kai’s arm in shock. “Wait. Crystal. We have to find her.”
“What? Who?” Milo asks.
“My friend, she was taken and brought here with me.” My fingers dig into Kai’s skin. “It’s my fault. They’ll sell her. We have to save her.”
Kai puts his arm underneath my shoulder to support me. “We’ll try our best, but you’re my main priority. We have to get you to safety.”
“I can’t leave here without her,” I reply starkly.
“If we must, we must,” he grits back as he drags me to the door. “C’mon. We’ll look for her on our way back.”
A guard runs down the steps, but Milo throws his nunchucks at him before he can even reach us.
“Thanks,” Kai says.
“I’ve got your back.” Milo winks, grasping his nunchucks before beating the life out of the guard.
“Check the doors,” I say, pointing at the other ones. “I heard a scream coming from one of them.”
Milo hits the locks with his nunchucks, and they fall apart with ease, but each time he opens the doors, the cell behind it is empty.
“Shit,” I mutter, pushing myself off Kai’s shoulder so I can wobble to the cells and have a look myself. “Where is she?”
BANG! BANG!
“We don’t have time for this,” Kai says.
More screams from upstairs catch my attention, and I jerk free from Kai’s grip and bolt toward it.
“Lana! Be careful!” Kai yells as he runs after me, but I’m fixated on the noise.
Upstairs, I pause and stare at the scene in front of me. Bodies litter the hallways, blood and remains splattered across the floors everywhere I look. When I take another step, I spot the guards coming from the main hall to our left, guns at the ready.
Just before he pulls the trigger, Kai drags me back behind a wall.
BANG!
“Get down!” Kai barks, shielding me from the gunfire with his own body.
Milo jumps out only to shoot right back at them.
