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“Pickup now! I repeat Pickup now! Enforcement has attacked Pickup now!”

“We’re on our way”

“There’s no way out Damn it!” he shouted “I’m shot Get to the terrace West side Hurry There’s—”

A deafening explosion cut the communication

Sandi pushed past her team, threw

the van doors open, and burst out, her eyes on the Co in the distance Striker, Friday, and Gray followed There were flames on the sixty-sixth-floor terrace

“Get back in here,” Hunter shouted “I’ve got Mace”

They scrambled into the van

“Mace?” Striker snapped as he rushed to Hunter’s side

“We’re stuck in a war zone” The comm line was scratchy, the words hard to understand, but it was definitely hied”

Relief surge through Striker at the sound of his best friend’s voice He felt Friday press her face into his back and curl her fists into his shirt, and he glanced over at Sandi, who blinked rapidly and turned her face away

“Position,” Striker demanded

“On the terrace It’s aeach other off I need a path out of here” There was static “—EMP Got to get it off her”

“Sandi, Ignacio,” Striker said to his two tea

“Jere,” Striker said over the coot a teaet?”