Chapter Forty-Five Anger burning a hole through her, Sophia watched Grace and her shocktroopers escort Denton from the lab. She and Cecilia were the prisoners of sixteen Berets, double agent Renée and triple agents Damien and Jay. All while Cecilia’s Elohim had been dispatched on a wild goose chase and Sophia’s team were either dead, dying or in retreat. Neither they nor the Elohim were aware of what had just happened here. A surge of pain as Renée struck Sophia in the stomach. She dropped. Renée stood over her. Sophia squeezed her eyes shut, focused on breathing the way Sergey had taught her, dispersing the energy from Renée’s blow. Two loud synchronized blasts filled the lab. Everything sounded dull. She opened her eyes. There was a flash of white light. She shut her eyes, then tried

