Chapter 259: Olive’s POVThe corridor outside the room was darker than I expected, lit only by the emergency strips along the floor, and somewhere ahead of us, the sound of gunshot cracked twice, then again, faster this time and suddenly stopped.“Stay behind me,” Zane said again, like the first six times hadn’t landed.“I heard you.”“I mean it, Muffin.” Heat sparked between my thighs, ‘god I was so fucked up’“I know you mean it. I’m still walking next to you, not behind you.”He didn’t have the energy left to fight me on it properly. I could see that in the way his shoulders dropped half an inch, in the way his jaw worked instead of arguing, and we kept moving together through a corridor that smelled like gun smoke and concrete dust, toward wherever Simon had run to hide.A figure stepped out from a side passage ahead of us.Zane’s gun came up before I’d even registered the movement.“Don’t,” the figure said, both hands already raised, palms out. “I’m not here to fight.”The figure
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