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Thein several sloppy pieces strewn across the warehouse floor He’d done that for her, and fro out of the rest of the monsters, he’d done more as well

"Are you hurt?" he asked her

"No, but Saood"

The man nodded once, as if he understood exactly what she ht like this Maybe he did knoas going on here

"I’et both you and the boy out of here alive"

It didn’t sound like an empty boast His words were solid and heavy with confidence

"So, you’ve done this before, Paul?" she asked hiave her a wink "Once or twice Stay well behindto take Sammy and look for a back door"

"No Stay where I can see you There ht about arguing and realized he could be right She wasn’t willing to risk it, especially since Sammy would be with her

The firstpallets shifted easily

Paulthe threat They both lifted their swords like they kne to use theain, there was proof of that fact scattered all over the warehouse floor

The beautiful Logan o locate another exit Paul and Madoc have handled worse than this before, but it pays to be prepared"

"Didn’t you hear what Paul said? Therein here"

"If so, I’ll be able to s Don’t worry I’ain, only this tis Lovely

Andra picked Saainst the far wall Whoever these men were, they weren’t noret close to any of them

He let out a soft, hopeless whi back at her with unseeing eyes She’d seen that exact look before on a night ht years

She was too late Even if she got him out alive, Sah the barricade--two er, roachlike monsters that kept theht on short, spiny legs Their tiny heads held four beady black eyes that zeroed right in on Sammy

One of them let out a metallic hiss that sounded like the word child, then pointed toward Sao of the leash it held, and unfurled a wide pair of wings It leaped up into the air and landed clinging to one of the warehouse support beaed the pair ofheld back

Andra set Sa on the bea chunk out of where the monster had been Unfortunately, it had ju her blast She scanned the ceiling as she reloaded, looking for it, but it was nowhere in sight She heard a buzzing noise behind her and whirled around to find the roach thing flying right toward her and the boy

She didn’t have tirabbed the barrel of the shotgun and leveled it in front of her face to keep those snapping insect jaay

It sla crack and pain screaht back at it, unable to hold in her cry of agony The weapon clattered to the ground, and Andra tried to bring her hands up to grab ahold of the roach’s neck, but her left ar with bone-deep pain that made her stomach spin