Darkness swallows everything.For one terrifying heartbeat, I think I’ve gone blind. The locker room is pitch-black, the fluorescent buzz overhead gone silent, like someone ripped the power cord out of the world.My breath catches.Noah’s last words echo in my skull: If you get this… run.I can’t run.I can’t even see.“Ava,” Jace’s voice cuts through the dark, low and rough. His hand finds my arm, steady and warm. “Stay with me.”“I’m right here,” I whisper, though my voice shakes.Something creaks behind us—metal? A locker door? Footsteps?Jace pulls me closer, positioning himself in front of me. My shoulder hits the wall, cold and unyielding, grounding me just enough to breathe.“We need to move,” he murmurs, breath brushing my ear. “If someone cut the lights, they want us trapped.”“Or separated,” I whisper back.He curses under his breath. “Not happening.”The emergency lights flicker on at that exact moment—dim red bulbs casting long shadows across the tiled floor. The room look
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