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.

Ryker picks me up by the back of

on the floor in a tangle of limbs, dazed

get ourselves up, Ryker is nowhere in

okay?”

“I’m fine!”

barely wait for James to agree before I

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

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

Axel on his

I demand,

bas ard got the drop on

for him ever since,” Aaron replies in frustration. “Why? Did you see

him on

he has the

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

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

find who are looking shellshocked from all the violence

an affirmative, and eventually we give up, walking back through

Aaron in the main foyer, talking with the few

arrived.

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