Chapter 14A minute or so later, one of the wooden doors to the garage creaked open, and Katya crept inside, her arms laden with heavy bags. Dakota hopped out of the vehicle to help her, and, together, the two of them loaded up his Jeep with whatever belongings she could safely procure. “I could not get all the stones,” she panted heavily, as though she sprinted the whole way there. Maybe she had. “I think he took some of them. A few cases were broken open. But I could not remember all the access codes.”
Though Kenna seemed a little frustrated at that, Dakota simply hugged Katya. “I’m just glad you made it out.” He didn’t have a whole lot of friends in this world, and Katya was a good person. An innocent. He didn’t want to see her become a casualty.
“I got some clothes and food and all so
