Chapter Twenty-Six: Race Against Time
Four floors left.
Alex’s mind stays razor-sharp even as we plunge. “They emergency brake override—” His voice cuts through the darkness. “There’s a manual release in the control panel. We have to get to it now.”
Three floors.
My hands find the panel by touch, ripping it open as Marcus’s tablet provides faint illumination. The metal edges slice into my palm, but I barely feel it. Eliana braces herself in the corner, her face a mask of determination. The truth about Geneva Rodriguez—Alex’s supposedly dead mother—can wait.
First, we have to survive.
“Yellow wire,” Alex commands, his breath hot against my ear as he reaches around me. “Cross it with the red—careful, don’t let them touch anything else.” His steady hands guide mine through t
