ARIA POV
*Let the world burn - Chris Grey*
We were almost there, so close I could feel it in the way Kara was pushing harder under my skin, in the way every step we took was eating away at the distance between us and him, in the way his scent was getting stronger, sharper, saturated with fear that hadn’t been there before, the kind that only came when prey understood it wasn’t going to outrun what was chasing it.
Almost—
And then he hit something on the wall.
A button.
Small, hidden, a desperate gesture. He turned back, one last look right into my eyes and then… the world dropped.
Not the ground.
The ceiling.
A wall of silver bars slammed down between us with a deafening metallic crash that shook the entire corridor, almost catching both of us by the neck. Just a few inches from o
