The Reveal
“Macy hit a switch that closed a pair of twelve-foot wooden doors behind them, and after expertly bundling the baby, she flipped a switch and flooded the cave with dim but adequate light.
“There’s a tunnel that leads from the house to this cavern,” she told them as she grabbed the diaper bag and directed them toward an interior room. “When the perimeter was breached, I brought the baby here and watched on the monitors until it was safe to go back. Where’s Kyle?”
Jarek’s face was stone. “Gone.”
Macy grabbed his arm. Their shared grief was quick but powerful.
Brynn looked away. She knew the unique agony of losing someone who’d been following her orders.
“I shouldn’t have sent Nino and Foster to the south wall. It was a diversion.”
Jarek stalked to the other side of the cavern, pushed a key into the lock of a fortified gun safe and retrieved ammunition for his gun.
“They might still be alive,” he said.
“No,” Macy ordered, her voice devoid of the sadness Brynn could see welling in her eyes.
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