Chapter Twenty-Eight
The parking lot looked like it hadn’t been used in a decade. Jay noticed that didn’t stop Damien from checking the whole perimeter before entering. They found Grace’s team tucked in close between cars ‘borrowed’ from the mall. Sophia was the first to see them. She stepped into view and waited as they approached.
‘Are you clean?’ she said.
Jay sniffed his armpits. ‘That’s relative.’
‘No tails,’ Damien said.
‘Injuries?’
‘Just the usual,’ Jay said. ‘When you’re thrown thirty meters off a helicopter.’
Sophia winced. ‘Sorry about that. But you survived, right?’
She walked them back to the rest of the group. Everyone was silent, no doubt processing everything that had gone down in the last couple of hours. Freeman and Nasira were leaning against a shiny silver miniva
