He released her and thumped unconscious to the deck.
Ping couldn’t contain herself. “What was that all about?”
Jam looked at her with eyes wide and filled with horror.
Ping continued, “You look like you just lost your best friend.”
Jam stared at her in dismay for one more moment. Then she blinked, her eyes refocused, and her mouth set in a thin line of implacable determination. She rose with balletic grace to her feet. “Hurry.”
They left Colin lying there and ran once more to save Dash.
Shortly thereafter, they came hurtling around a corner into the passage where the terrorists had last been seen.
Standing outside a conference room was the big one, Uwais.
Uwais sang out pleasantly, “Sabaah, the company we’ve been expecting has arrived.” Uwais dug into his belt, and with shocking sp
