The gunshot echoed through the warehouse.
For a second, nobody moved.
Then everything happened at once.
“DOWN!”
Dave pulled me to the floor.
Another shot.
BANG!
A glass window shattered somewhere above us.
I covered my ears.
“Dave!”
“I’m here.”
His hand found mine in the darkness.
“Stay close.”
“Where’s Dad?”
“I don’t know.”
“Adrian?”
“Don’t know.”
I could hear people shouting from different directions.
Then—
a metal shelf crashed.
Someone screamed.
“THEA!”
My father.
“Dad!”
“Stay where you are!”
Dave looked at me.
“We need to move.”
“But Dad—”
“He’ll find us.”
“How do you know?”
“Because he’s your father.”
I almost laughed.
“That's not reassuring.”
“Sorry.”
He pulled me behind a row of shelves.
We crouched there.
My heart was pounding.
I could barely s
