Ethan ripped the beacon from my dress hem with a sharp, violent jerk, tearing through the silk before slamming his boot down onto the stone floor to crush the microscopic chip into fine dust.
"Don't move," he growled.
Before I could even choke out a response, the heavy hydraulic systems in the walls hissed like dying beasts. The titanium blast doors at both ends of the narrow stone corridor dropped with a series of deafening metallic thuds, sealing the space in absolute, heavy darkness.
The sound echoed off the cold walls, cutting us off entirely from the outside world.
Ethan stepped into my space before the echoes even faded. His towering frame shoved me back hard until my spine slammed flat against the cold metal surface of the blast door. I gasped, the impact knocking the breath str
