Glass shattered like frozen rain.
Adrian threw himself toward Elena.
His arm wrapped around her just as thousands of glittering shards crashed across the greenhouse floor.
Marcus shouted orders that vanished beneath the roar.
“Move! Move!”
The security team scattered, pulling one another away from the collapsing ceiling.
Metal screamed overhead.
The old greenhouse trembled violently before settling into an eerie silence.
Only the rain remained.
Elena slowly lifted her head from Adrian’s shoulder.
His body had shielded hers from the falling glass.
Tiny fragments glittered across the back of his coat.
A thin line of blood ran down his right hand.
“You’re hurt.”
He barely glanced at it.
“It isn’t important.”
“It is to me.”
The words escaped before she could stop them.
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