Chapter Twenty-Five
Nexus
The building shook, then tilted, turning the floor into a sheer slope.
Damien slipped across the linoleum, his hand snatching Aviary by the hood of her jacket. He used the soles of his sneakers to slow his descent, giving himself time to grab some sort of handhold, but his fingers brushed down the wall, grasping nothing.
He was sliding toward an archway, his only chance now to grip the frame of it as he passed...
He flashed his arm out, snagged it. Held.
An Azov soldier slipped by, failing to find anything to arrest his fall. Jay and Nasira slid after him, also unable to stop themselves. Nasira grabbed Aviary’s ruck, slamming it into a soldier and sending him sliding into the corridor wall. He bounced off it and tumbled through. Nasira, with Aviary’s ruck, w
