ge is damp and smells of
ement. She pulls her keys from her purse, pressing the unl
cream echoes through
rain and strikes directly at her maternal instincts. She duck
ng. Two massive men wearing black ski masks are
overhead fluorescent light flickers, i
's breat
traight nose. The ex
s L
not Leo's usual clothes-but the fluorescent light cuts out again, plunging the van into shadow, an
ring rage erupt
s. Barefoot, she sprints o
terina uses the hood of a parked sedan as a springboard. She l
back of the kidnapper's n
collapses face-firs
eyes wide. He pulls a serrated huntin
ands, using his forward momentum to twist his arm violently b
. He drops to his knees, gasping for
van. She grabs the terrified boy, pu
ctively to Mandarin, the language she always used with her son i
n holding him. He doesn't understand the language, and he has never,
d heavy boots echoes fro
. She scoops Julian up, holding him t
ngine roars to life. She slams her foot on the gas. The SUV tires squeal, burning rubber
bursts into the garage, a
ing men on the floor
ellows, grabbing a secur
a room
The guard scrambles to rewind the foota
versized sunglasses take down the two men with lethal precision. H
nose almost touching the monitor. He stares a
the doctor, Astrid, was w
ss-topped desk, the heavy surface s
hinged light. "The doctor. She orchestrated the whole thing. Find
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