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But faster still, was Drake’s whip hand It snapped and wrapped around Brittney’s wrist The gun fired, but the bullets hit wall and ceiling

Caine, enraged, aiirl She skidded across the floor and hit the wall, so quickly that Drake was still attached and was drawn along with her

Caine ju his focus on Brittney, raised her froround, suspended in midair

“You piece of—” Brittney said, and then she was a bullet herself, rocketing through the air

She flew through the hole Sam had burned earlier

That had not been Caine’s intention The girl was lucky

Or so out for her

Outside, standing faithful guard, Dekka heard the eruption of gunfire from the control room

She leaped toward the wall just as soh the burned-out hole It landed with the unround

Dekka stared, too stunned to react

Then, off to her right, gunfire froht yellow flashes outlined the doorway

She broke her trance and ran toward the door Edilio’s soldiers juround and fell in behind her

“Orc! Orc!” Dekka shouted

She heard rather than saw the monster stir He’d been asleep in the back of the SUV The springs squeaked as he clambered out

Two of Caine’s gununs ai forms