With the sun out in full force, he wasn’t going to risk another roasting. He felt safer in the shadows, his legs thumping against the steps up the stairwell. The sound of his own breath filled the space around him, and somehow made him feel more alive. The last thing he’d expected aft...
She felt the buzz of the random traffic, heard the mumbling of people talking to each other as they made their way home, and the different sounds of footsteps, each a little quicker than the others. It seemed as if everyone was going out of their way to rush indoors tonight. Everyone’s anxious to...
I wanted to make sure we all knew this was a rescue mission, as much as our one and only chance to safely destroy a huge building situated in the middle of Sydney before Mace did. Each of us standing beneath the overpass—Oren, Lavie, Sally, Roe—nodded in agreement. We’d ha...
“I need to talk to you for a sec.” I turned to look at her, surprised. She hadn’t said a word to me since we’d left the church. Not even when we arrived at our destination and I asked if she was all right. All she’d done was stare out the windshield while hugging the...
“It’s not so much a sewer as it is a stormwater drain,” Lavie explained with a smile. We were striding in several inches of water, so her admission made sense after the amount of rain we’d been having lately. I was grateful for my knee-high boots and the fact I’d tucked my ancient stretchy jeans ...
“That didn’t take long.” My stomach dropped and I suddenly felt the weight of loss on my shoulders, so I headed back to my chair. Between Benita’s death and Ebony not listening to me, I wasn’t sure if I could stay on my feet. The last thing I wanted to do was collapse while the police were here. ...