Breaking Danger by Lisa Marie Rice

Author:Lisa Marie Rice
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: HarperCollins

Chapter 8

Sophie had never seen anyone move the way Jon did. Cautious, careful, each move pondered. But fast. He ran in small precise steps designed to keep his gun level.

First he peeked out in the corridor when he opened her apartment door. He pulled his head back, said, “Don’t look around, keep focused on moving forward,” and with a gentle push ushered her out the door.

It was clear what he meant. The hallway—her very nice hallway with the Italian wall sconces in her very nice building—was littered with corpses, the walls bloodstained.

She did as he said. She watched her feet, kept her focus ahead and moved as quickly and quietly as she could. They passed the elevator bay, but he’d told her elevators were traps, and anyway they didn’t know if they were working or not. They headed for the staircase. Jon stopped her with a light touch to her arm. She froze.

He cracked the stairwell door open a fraction of an inch, pulled out a flexible tube from his wrist scanner, and bent it so he could look around the corner and down the stairwell without being seen.

Clear.

They made it down the stairs quietly, Jon managing to cover their backs as well.

They quietly exited the building into the alleyway and made their way along the wall toward Beach. Which was covered in bodies.

Right then, right there, Sophie resolved to survive the dash to the helicopter, to arrive in this Haven, manufacture as much vaccine as their lab could, and stop this thing. Save as many people as possible. She would not allow this abomination to continue.

Jon checked the flexible tube, checking all of Beach from the safety of the alleyway.

“All clear,” he said to her in a soft, low voice that was perfectly comprehensible but wouldn’t carry more than a foot. He tapped something and said in that low, calm voice, “Moving out.” He listened for a second, then said, “Roger that.”

He checked the street again, checked the scanner. “Okay. Now’s the time. We should be at the rappelling rope in about four minutes. Go.”

She went, as fast as she could. She didn’t look back because Jon was there and she didn’t look left or right because she trusted him to keep an eye out. To have keen situational awareness. Her job was to get herself as quickly as she could to the Ghirardelli Building, and she put everything she had into it.

Though it was late afternoon, it was dark. The many fires had cast a pall of smoke, drowning out the light of the sun. Still, there was enough light for her to see the shapes on the ground. She jumped over the bodies when she could, ran around them when she couldn’t, trying as hard as possible to maintain a straight line for the Ghirardelli Building.

The air was thick with acrid smoke and something that she just knew was the smell of mass violence. Blood, burning bodies. Bodies that had voided at death. Somewhere behind them the swarm was moving away, but the noise they made was still audible.

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