The sirens split the early morning.Lance leans forward over the wheel, his teeth gritted, the steering column creaking beneath the pressure of his grip. The convoy of flashing blue and red lights ahead tears through the city, each wail of the siren clawing at his nerves. Every second feels like stolen time, like Adrianna’s life is slipping away grain by grain.Beside him, Adrian stares at the tracker glowing in his hand. A single red dot pulses against the map. He doesn’t speak, but his eyes are restless, like a man pacing in his own skull. From the backseat, Victoria leans forward, jaw tight.“She’s still there,” Adrian mutters at last, tapping the screen. “He hasn’t moved her. We can’t waste time.”Lance nods, but he barely hears him. His chest feels heavy, like he’s carrying two wars at once—the one barreling ahead of them in smoke and gunfire, and the one replaying in his mind from the night before.Because last night, for the first time, he’d seen Adrian stripped raw.And the wo
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