The two little pups hunched low and slipped through the gap beneath the robot’s base. As small as they were now, they didn’t even register in its visual scan range. Lucy’s cheeks were flushed red, her face set tight with focus. Mia copied her exactly, eyes locked forward, the two of them looking like little wolf pups ready to pounce at any second. I was breathing hard. “What’s the plan?” I asked Ethan under my breath. “Celine keeps Daniel distracted. The girls drug him.” Ethan’s breathing was ragged too, each sentence broken by a sharp inhale. There were too many robots. Celine and the two little ones couldn’t end this on their own. The only way to end the fight was to sever Daniel’s control over them. From the moment I saw them, I’d noticed the vials in their hands. I just hadn’t kn

