“Got it.” Sophia’s words barely reached my ears, more a whisper than anything else.
“Just a second.” I padded over to grab the lamp. It was bulky, awkward, but at this point, any weapon was better than none.
Sophia nodded. She grabbed the other lamp and then cracked the door open.
We waited. No alarms went off, no footsteps hurried down the hallway. Apparently, James trusted his people enough to leave us without a guard. Well, he was about to find out how wrong he was.
I slipped into the hallway, Sophia following silently behind me. The feeling of bare feet on the cold floor wasn’t ideal, but the shoes James had left me with were almost comically too large for her. So, bare feet it was.
I counted the doors as we moved, trying to keep quiet. One. Two. Still no one. Three. I pointed at
