Chapter Thirty-Seven
Atrium
Olesya found Xiu at the edge of the atrium, past the boomerang-shaped Destiny drone that Aviary had landed earlier.
With her Vector in both hands, Xiu looked out at the city of Prague below.
‘Are you OK?’ Olesya asked, approaching her carefully.
Xiu removed Olesya’s smartwatch from her wrist and gave it back, closing Olesya’s fingers over it. ‘I’m afraid this is my ride.’
Olesya heard rotor blades, then saw a helicopter rise over the atrium. Denton was sitting in the co-pilot seat, one of his operatives at the controls. The chopper’s twin autocannons were quite capable of destroying Olesya without harming Xiu, but instead it circled and landed on the open atrium floor.
‘You don’t owe him anything. Leave him and work with us.’
‘What is us?’ Xiu asked. ‘Do
