I try and blink my tears away as I look up at his solemn face. “Wait!”
“Shh!” he hisses at me.
“Let me down.”
He sighs, stops, and sets me down on my feet. But instead of joining him in the direction we were headed, I turn back the way we came.
He snags my wrist out of the air and reels me back in towards him. “Elyssa, it’s this way.”
“No,” I say, shaking my head furiously. “I have to go back.”
“We can’t save Phoenix, Elyssa,” he says urgently. “Not today. But I can get you out of here.”
I keep shaking my head. “I have to go back,” I repeat stupidly.
“He’s too well-guarded, and I’m the only one who managed to get in here. If we linger any longer, we’ll be caught.”
“I have to go back for them. Theo. Yuri.”
“Yuri?” Matvei’s brows knit together. He’s looking at me like I’ve lost it
