Chapter Twenty-Three
Nexus, Praha 1
Olesya opened her eyes. She’d blacked out, but for how long, she had no idea.
An alarm was wailing through the building, echoing down the nexus. She didn’t know who had triggered it, her own team or Zakhar, but either way it meant Purity reinforcements would be coming for them.
‘I’m confused,’ Zakhar was saying, his voice raised over the alarm. ‘You said yourself that you wanted to stop Purity. Was that a lie as well?’
Olesya sat upright and blinked. His bandaged face came into focus.
‘You want to kill everyone with an implanted chip,’ she said. ‘How is that saving them?’
‘I never said I wanted to save them. Because we can’t,’ Zakhar said, pacing the catwalk that wrapped around the Spear’s antenna, keeping between her and the transmitter controls.
