Chapter 0276

Chapter 0276

**Josie’s POV**

We port in with the military teams and the moment we have everyone here a shield goes up to block anyone from being able to port out. The men begin to move in, approaching the Mall from all sides.

We have been paired with Bryce and a few other men, and we run towards the front entrance of the mall. The door looks intact, it has been repaired since the pictures we saw were taken. One of the men, Ryan, approaches the door quietly, signalling for us to stay back. He gently pushes on the door before looking back at us and shaking his head, indicating it is locked.

Mason moves forward, focusing on the door. I expect it to dissolve in a tinkling of glass, but instead, I hear a click and Mace nods. He must have managed to unlock it because the man beside him slowly pushes the door open. I focus my hearing inside the building but lear nothing

Ryan holds out a mirror on a stick, sliding it cautiously through the gap in the doorway.

“Clear,” he announces, before pushing open the door fully and stepping inside.

We all follow him in. The place is much cleaner than I’d expected, and the entryway opens up to reveal a large dried–up fountain in the centre with a big, curved staircase running on either side that leads up to the second floor.

the upper floor,”

their protective formation around me, whilst Bryce and the other

a place abandoned this long. The first shop we enter is mostly empty, apart from a waste bin and a few books

more and

I had a feeling something wasn’t right. We should have moved in the minute he was fucking brought

someone says through the comms, and my heart begins to race as a million possible explanations for how the blood got there flow through my mind.

move into the main hall

down here

way,” Bryce nods,

and I feel as though I’m in a bit of a daze, the stress of the whole situation finally

into mine, and I know it’s

we enter is an old piercing and tattoo shop. A makeshift bed is in the centre of the room and there is a small pool of blood on the floor beside it. As if whoever was on the bed had a

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is all the blood they

crate at the end of the bed. On top of It lays bloodied rags,

that’s the tracker,” Luke curses.

did they find

have

it. We should have expected this. This is our

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