Chapter 282

James and I step out of the elevator on the restricted access floor to find Ryker running down the corridor toward us, Aaron nowhere in sight.

Ryker is holding something, and I recognize the cylindrical

solid state drive we’d used at Roberts Corp with the full and final software on it. He has it!

The Al tech is in that solid state drive. The SSD is the key.

I don’t even stop to really think.

I have to get that SSD.

I launch into a sprint straight toward Ryker, partially shifting as I lunge.

Ryker barely breaks stride as we crash into each other, and while we both have Alpha power, he outweighs me by a hundred pounds, and it feels like getting hit by a train.

Still, I try to grab for the drive.

Behind me, I hear the sound of James growling as he aims to

get into the fray.

up by the back of my shirt and flings me into

nearby wall and then end up on the floor in a tangle of

the time we get ourselves up, Ryker is nowhere

okay?” James

“I’m fine!”

for James to agree before

have no idea if Ryker went down the elevator or took the stairs, but with

ground floor with James a step behind me, I

with Axel on

Ryker?” I demand, out of

the drop on me earlier and I

ever since,” Aaron replies in frustration. “Why?

ran into him

Aaron, he

with it. He’s gone rogue, only God knows what he’ll do with it. You and James take the north side of the

off, running straight to the north entrance, because where else would Ryker go with the drive? He’s obviously going to run and take

asking the few wolves we find who are looking shellshocked from all the violence

one gives us an affirmative, and eventually we give up, walking back through the

the main foyer, talking with the few Councilmembers we managed to save

arrived.

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