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The Glass Rose Chapter 53
Lucien’s POVThe smashed plastic of the camera lens crunched under my boot as I stepped away from the confessional and I could feel the back of my neck prickling because I knew that if that feed was live then a splinter cell of the Legacy Council was probably already coordinating a strike team to hit this chapel. I looked at Alessia and she had that look in her eyes again where she was deciding which of us was going to have to do the killing today, and I knew we couldn't just run because they would just follow us to the next hole in the wall until they finally cornered us with our backs against a dead end. We needed to flip the situation and find the blueprints for Francesco’s bunker before the city became a total graveyard, and I knew the only place that kept the old Cold War architectural records for the Roman elite was the private annex of the Vatican archives."We aren't going to wait here for them to kick in the door so we are going to use the back exit through the rectory and
The Glass Rose Chapter 52
Alessia’s POVThe iron gate hissed as it slid shut behind us and we climbed a final set of rotted wooden stairs that led into the back of a small, crumbling chapel in the heart of Trastevere, and the air inside was thick with the scent of old incense and damp stone that felt like a relief after the suffocating smell of the catacombs. Lucien helped me lay Matteo down on a dusty velvet pew and the boy was barely conscious at this point, so I immediately pulled the glass vial of the Master Strain from my pocket and looked at the golden liquid while my hands shook with a fear I couldn't quite push down. The chapel was dark except for the moonlight filtering through the cracked stained-glass windows and I could hear the distant sound of military sirens out on the Roman streets, and I knew that if I didn't do this right now then Matteo wasn't going to make it to sunrise."Are you sure about the dosage because we only have one shot at this and if it’s too much for his heart then we’re just
The Glass Rose Chapter 51
Lucien’s POVThe helicopter hovered just a few feet above the tall grass of the fields near the Appian Way and the wind from the rotors was kicking up a storm of dust and dried leaves that made it hard to see the ground, so I had to grip the side of the door and slide out while my boots hit the uneven earth with a jolt that sent a fresh wave of fire up my spine. I reached back to help Alessia pull Matteo down from the cabin and the boy looked even worse in the moonlight than he had in the dark of the quarry because his skin was a waxy yellow color and his eyes were darting around like he was seeing things that weren't there. Nico didn't shut down the engine but he just leaned out of the cockpit and gave me a quick nod that looked more like a goodbye than a see-you-later, and then he pulled back on the stick and the helicopter banked hard to the west to draw the attention of the Roman air defense scanners away from our position."We need to get off the open road because the local car
The Glass Rose Chapter 50
Alessia’s POVThe transition from the suffocating, chemical-choked darkness of the decontamination chamber to the blinding white glare of the quarry surface was so sharp that it felt like a physical blow to my eyes, and I stumbled out of the service tunnel with my arm wrapped tightly around Matteo’s waist while the sound of the mountain collapsing behind us sent a cloud of marble dust billowing into the air. My lungs were burning from the fumes and my dress was a ruined rag of silk and blood, but as I blinked against the morning sun I saw a sleek black helicopter idling on a nearby extraction pad with its rotors whipping the air into a frenzy. Lucien was standing by the open side door with a rifle in his hand and Nico was behind the controls, and the moment he saw us he jumped down and ran across the jagged white stone while he scanned the perimeter for any signs of the Legacy Council’s mercenaries."I thought I heard the whole sub-level go up from the ridge and I was about to go ba
The Glass Rose Chapter 49
Rafael’s POVThe air in the decontamination chamber was getting thinner by the second and the sound of the emergency pumps was a low and rhythmic thrumming that felt like it was vibrating inside my own skull, and I looked at Elena who was standing there with that cold and steady grip on her pistol while the marble dust settled on her hair like ash. My side was burning where the bullet had grazed me and every breath I took felt like I was swallowing glass, but as I looked at Alessia and the way she was shielding Matteo with her own body I couldn't help but think about Isabella and how I had failed her just as badly as I was failing them now. I had spent years thinking I was a soldier for the Romano sisters because I was in love with Isabella and I believed her when she told me we were changing the world, but standing in this white-tiled box I could see that I was just a tool they used until the edges got too dull to cut anything useful."You really think you’re going to walk out of h
The Glass Rose Chapter 48
Alessia’s POVThe emergency lights in the laboratory flickered once and then died completely, and the sudden darkness was so heavy that I felt like I was being buried alive under the weight of the mountain. I could hear Matteo’s jagged and whistling breath right beside me and I reached out to grab his hand, and his skin was burning with a fever that seemed to be getting worse by the second while the sounds of the gunfire from the upper levels echoed through the vents like a constant roll of thunder. I had managed to grab a single vial of the stabilizer before the room started to collapse, but I knew it was only a temporary fix and that we needed the "Master Strain" stored in the central vault if I wanted to save my brother from the genetic debt our father had left for him to pay."I can't see anything, Alessia, and my chest feels like it’s being crushed by a pile of stones so please tell me we are close to the way out," Matteo whispered and he let out a wet cough that made me pull h
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