Elena’s POVThe alarm still echoed in my head long after we burst into the corridor, Alex’s hand gripping mine as we ran. My lungs burned, but adrenaline kept my legs moving. Behind us, the red emergency lights strobed violently across the metal walls, turning everything into a shifting nightmare.Richard’s roar echoed through the chamber we’d just escaped.“He’s not far,” Alex said, voice sharp, focused. Even breathless, he moved with precision protective, controlled, every inch the man who’d spent his life preparing for moments like this. “Elena, stay behind me.”But something in me refused to hide anymore.“No,” I said, tightening my grip on his hand. “I’m not leaving you to fight him alone again.”He glanced at me quick, sideways, but full of something that clenched around my heart. Worry. Anger. Relief.And something deeper.“Elena,” he said quietly, “I can handle him. But I can’t handle losing you.”Before I could answer, the facility groaned like the walls themselves were colla
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