Eve hit the floor hard. She sat there, clutching her cheek and trembling.
"This doesn't make any sense," she stammered. "The settings were right. They were exactly right."
Lucas charged into the room.
He shoved Eve aside and practically dove at the control station.
His fingers flew across the keyboard as he desperately tried to reboot the machine.
The giant red skull remained frozen on the screen. The alarm kept screaming.
Then things got even worse.
One after another, warning alarms started going off from the neighboring treatment rooms.
Within seconds, every major machine in the clinic had gone dark. The entire system was down.
Emily's patience finally snapped.
The eight bodyguards she had brought with her stormed into the room and immediately blocked every exit.
Emily gave th
