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Soon enough, I heard the hinges on the opposite side from where I came from. Ben was the first one to get inside, and I didn’t give him any time to prepare before I jumped on him. It seemed he was waiting for it, as he picked me up with ease and crushed me to his chest.
“You’re safe.” He repeated it as a mantra, more to reassure himself than me. He broke our hug, placing his hands on my face to look me up and down.
“Did you get hurt?” That came from Zach, who looked unsettled.
“How are you,cariño?” Danny stepped inside to give me a bear hug.
“I’m fine. Scared. I’m not hurt, but Mia was. She said she’d be behind me, so she must be coming any time now.”
I didn’t miss the look shared between Ben and Danny, but I didn’t know why. Zach, on the other hand, seemed even more agitated.
“We need to get in.Now.”
“No! Mia said—”
“Aaron is almost here,” Zach went on. “We can tackle the entrance to the storage and from the window on the gym.”
“You can’t go inside yet—”
“Some of us could go through the truck entrance. She’s in the storage, we could open that path,” Danny offered.
“But she asked me—”
“Depending on how many men Aaron sends, they should climb the building—”
“Listen to me!” I interrupted Ben, as I’d had enough. The three men stared at me in surprise. “You can’t go in yet. Mia asked me to tell you not to go inside until I gave you her message.”
“We don’t have time for this.”
“Let her speak,” Ben scolded Zach.
“I don’t know what it means, but she said you would.”
“What is it,cariño?”
“Code Black.”
The three men paled before reacting. Danny picked up his phone to call someone, giving orders I didn’t comprehend. Zach honed a murderous focus as he reached for the locked closets around the bunker. Ben grabbed me by the hand and pulled me out.
“You need to get out of here.” His voice was urgent, and I didn’t miss the fear behind it.
“I’m not going anywhere. What’s going on?”
Danny paced by the car, wildly gesticulating and whisper-yelling to whoever was on a call with him, and Zach came out of the bunker with handguns and rifles, a bulletproof vest already on.
“Forest, as soon as Aaron gets here, you need to leave. Someone will take you to Rosie and Jackson’s, and you’ll stay there with them and the kids.”
“I mean it, Ben, I’m not leaving. What the hell is going on? What does ‘Code Black’ mean?”
“I need you to leave.” He was already putting on a vest.
Zach went back to the bunker, only to get out with more apparel. Danny was also preparing himself and grabbing some of the guns.
I pulled Ben’s arm so he’d look at me. “What did she mean?”
His eyes were troubled as he tried to answer. “There’s a bomb in the building. Maybe more.”
I gasped and took a step back so I could lean against Danny’s car. It was hard to breathe as I wrapped my mind around what was going on.
