Kiera's POV "Seven days isn't enough time."Tommy's voice carried the exhaustion we all felt as the Steel Vultures gathered in what passed for our command center, a converted garage bay with maps spread across workbenches and weapons laid out like surgical tools. The afternoon sun beat down on the corrugated metal roof, turning the space into an oven that matched the pressure cooking inside my skull."Then we make it enough," I said, studying the faces around me. Jack, Sable, Razor Eddie, Tommy, and the handful of others who'd chosen to stay when running would have been smarter. Fear lived in their eyes, I could see it, smell it, almost taste it on the air between us. But underneath that fear was something harder, something that had kept them here when others had fled.Loyalty. Stubborn, probably suicidal loyalty."Magnus isn't sending amateurs," I continued, placing my hands flat on the map that showed our defensive positions. "He's bringing experienced killers who've spent their en
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