Faith
"No!"
The word ripped from my scorched throat, raw and unyielding against the roar of the advancing inferno.
Nicholas grabbed my uninjured waist, his large, trembling hands trying to pull me toward the emergency fire stairs leading out to the upper docks. "Faith, look at you! You're bleeding, your shoulder is shattered, and your ribs are broken! You can barely stand! Let me go down there alone!"
"I am not leaving him!" I screamed back, shoving his chest with my good hand. "I know exactly where he is hidden! Every second we argue, he is inhaling poison!"
Before Nicholas could lock his arms around me, I broke free.
I dropped straight to my knees on the metal grating. The thick, pitch-black chemical smoke had already crested over the ceiling beams and was descending fast, choking
