Chapter 20: Blood and Concrete
The facility was an underground bunker, sprawling and labyrinthine. Elena fought her way through the corridors, her body moving on pure, adrenaline-fueled instinct. She was shot in the side, a glancing blow that fractured a rib, but she didn't slow down.
She breached the server room, placing C4 charges she had stripped from the armory. If Vanguard wanted the money, she was going to bury the servers under a thousand tons of rock. As she primed the detonator, a voice echoed over the PA system.
"Evelyn. It’s Julian."
