Sophia found Czarina propped against a wall behind the main concourse. She’d moved around the ticketing train boards and down into a lowered passage. It dipped under a walkway. The operative was under the walkway.
Sophia followed a smear of blood along the wall, calling Czarina’s name as she ran, but she showed no response. Sophia yelled her name louder and louder. The Commander had shot Czarina. For that alone, she regretted her decision in leaving him with Denton.
Anger coiled inside her and she wanted to double back and kill them both. She would use as many chunks of marble as it would take to shatter their skulls. But the thought of doing that made her sick. And the sight of her new charge sitting against the wall, motionless, made her sicker.
By the time she reached Czarina she fel
