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What was that?
The lights.
The lights!
She reached for her phone, but in her haste and the darkness that had suddenly enveloped the office, she felt her nails hit the edge and then heard it hit the ground on the opposite side of the desk.
"Jacob?" She whispered the word as a prayer knowing that she might just need the help. "Jacob, be careful."
* * *
Well, fuck!
The door to the stairway was jammed.
How that had happened... he didn't know.
No, he did.
The security cameras in the building weren't in the stairways.
Well, fuck him sideways.
"Your door stuck?"
Fuck and a half.
"Yeah, Walker, I'm jammed here." He grit his teeth together. "But not for long."
Stepping back, he slammed his foot against the door, near the lock.
He heard a little groan, and it gave a little.
"Looks like they've got something jammed in the lock. I'll have it open in a second."
"Huh," Walker growled, "that'll be a second behind me."
Jacob let loose another fierce kick near the lock and heard an echo of Walker's efforts through the earpiece and didn't say anything when his door's lock gave way first.
He just pushed through it and headed for Molly.
"Stay safe, Mol. Stay safe for me."
* * *
It wasn't more than a moment after the lights went out that Molly dropped down to the floor and crawled under her desk.
Breathing in and out through her nose, she listened to the room around her and tried to hear outside.
That was one thing that made this whole plan difficult. Every room in their office was pretty much soundproofed so that people didn't bother each other.
Now it was working against her.
The only thing working for her was that she was used to walking around the office in the dark. When she was working late, she didn't leave on any unnecessary lights. She didn't even leave on some necessary ones.
But she knew that Jacob and Walker were coming. She just had to trust that they would get there in time. That was what she'd been told.
And when it came to her safety and theirs, the last thing she would do would be to go against her instructions.
