AIDEN POV
The corridor exploded while Keres still had his mouth on Perse’s neck.
Not literally.
Unfortunately.
A literal explosion would have been cleaner. Also more efficient in ending this s**t. Something with fire and structural damage and one single obvious direction of danger.
This was worse.
This was alarms screaming through concrete, footsteps pounding toward us from both ends of the hallway, metal doors slamming open somewhere out of sight, and the horrible mechanical click-click-click of weapons being loaded by people who had clearly decided the escaped subjects were no longer worth preserving intact.
Thank Goddess, Keres did not move.
His fangs were still buried in her skin, one hand cupping the back of her neck, the other wrapped around her cold fingers like he could kee
