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.

picks me up by the back of

then end up on the floor in a tangle of limbs, dazed and bruised

get ourselves up, Ryker is nowhere

okay?” James asks,

“I’m fine!”

to agree

have no idea if Ryker went down the elevator or took the stairs, but with heightened speed, it makes

ground floor with James a step behind me, I almost crash right into Aaron coming

Axel on

Ryker?” I demand, out of

got the drop on me

for him ever since,” Aaron replies

into him on

he has

him get away with it. He’s gone rogue, only God knows

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

the few wolves we find who are looking

affirmative, and eventually we give up, walking back through the Council Hall

like a tomb, and we find Aaron in the main foyer, talking with the few Councilmembers we managed to save from Ryker’s

arrived.

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255