Chapter Fifty-Two
Jay led the way to the Vector labs. Without power, they had to manually open the glass doors. A fire extinguisher was sitting up against the wall, rigged to the doors with a length of det cord. Nothing came out of the extinguisher. Someone had already triggered it.
He continued through, taking the right-hand side. Nasira took the left.
The blast door to the Vector labs was closed, Sophia and Benito nowhere to be seen. What they found instead was a shocktrooper with half a head missing. Which was how Jay preferred them, really.
‘The blast door should be open,’ Nasira said.
Jay lowered his pistol. ‘One of us failed.’
‘The power’s out.’ She looked at him. ‘We failed. There’s nothing we can do for Sophia now. She either stops Denton or she doesn’t.’
Jay checked his wat
