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.

the back of my

crashing into the nearby wall and then end up on the floor in a tangle of limbs, dazed and bruised

get ourselves up, Ryker

you okay?” James

“I’m fine!”

wait for James to agree before I sprint for

Ryker went down the elevator or took the stairs, but with

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

with Axel on his

Ryker?” I

on me earlier and I lost

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

ran into him on the

Aaron, he has

knows what he’ll do with it. You and James take the north side of the building, Axel and I

agree, 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

who are looking shellshocked from all

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

tomb, and we find Aaron in the main foyer, talking with the few

arrived.

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