Bullets screamed through the air like angry hornets.
I threw myself behind a rusted shipping container as concrete exploded where I had been standing. My wounded shoulder throbbed with each heartbeat, but the pain kept me focused. Kept me alive.
"Abby!" Lucky's voice cut through the chaos. "Stay down!"
But I couldn't stay down. Not when Sophia sat frozen in the middle of the battlefield, that useless detonator still clutched in her hands. She hadn't moved since pressing the button. Hadn't even flinched when the shooting started.
She was going to die if I didn't do something.
The smart thing would be to let her. She had betrayed me, shot me, and tried to blow up half the city. Justice would be letting Vincenzo's bullets find her.
But as I watched her sitting there, tears streaming dow
