Nyxa~
We were still running when I realized my lungs were burning. Liora’s weight kept pulling my arms lower with every step and I adjusted her tighter against me without slowing down.
She wasn’t crying anymore.
That was the scariest part. She had gone quiet in that way kids do when they are too overwhelmed to even make noise, just clinging onto me with her face buried in my shoulder while her tiny fingers gripped my shirt like it was the only real thing left in the world. Behind us, footsteps echoed through the tunnel.
There were too many.
Not ours. Marshall didn’t even look back when he spoke.
“Keep moving. Exit’s twenty seconds ahead.”
I wanted to ask him how he knew that.
I wanted to ask him why he was suddenly here with enough men to turn this entire situation upside down.
Bu
