CharlieI stand over the stainless steel sink in the scrub room, scrubbing my hands until the skin turns raw.I can still see them.Her eyes.For a second, less than a heartbeat, Orion wasn’t my son. He was a window. And Eveline was looking through him, bored and cold, assessing us like lab rats in a maze."He’s sleeping," Kaleb says from the doorway.I don't stop scrubbing. "Ezra?""Monitoring the relay. It’s still fuzzy."I turn off the tap and grip the edge of the sink, staring at my reflection in the mirror. I look like a ghost."She saw us, Kaleb. She knows we tried to burn the relay."Kaleb steps into the room. He closes the distance between us, his presence a heavy, comforting weight against my back.He doesn't touch me, he knows I’m too wired for comfort right now, but he lets his heat radiate into the chill that has settled in my bones."Then she knows we aren't waiting to be slaughtered," he says, his voice low and dangerous.I turn around. He’s wearing tactical blacks, his
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