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

the nearby wall and then end up on the floor in

get ourselves up,

okay?” James

“I’m fine!”

James to agree before I sprint

the elevator or took the stairs, but with heightened speed, it makes

behind me, I almost crash right into Aaron

with Axel on his

see Ryker?” I demand, out

ard got the drop on

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

him on

Aaron, he has

grim. “We can’t let him get away with it. He’s gone rogue, only God knows what he’ll do with it. You and James take the north side of the building,

then James and I rush off, running straight to the north entrance, because where

who are looking shellshocked from all the violence and confusion if they saw Ryker come

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

main foyer, talking with the few Councilmembers we managed to

arrived.

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