With every thump of my heart in my chest, I ran through the skirts and lanes of the city, that was as dark as a nut, and wheezing hard. More heavy steps a little faster behind me, I shook off my protesting muscles, and ran.
“Move!” Much louder this time, but still thick, Chase’s voice came from the left side of where I ran.
I took a look behind me and saw nothing but Alessandro’s back, his brows drawn together in fierce focus. Behind him, barely visible in the dark, were the forms of our aggressors – or rather men from the Phoenix Organization sent by The Raven.
How had it gone sour?
Our strategy appeared to be perfectly right to the letter. We thought we had found what appeared to be a vulnerable link in one of The Raven’s minor activities – the office block that we had ascertaine
