CHAPTER 141DARIUS’S POVThe fall didn’t feel like a descent, it felt like the world had simply stopped existing beneath my boots. One second, I was standing on a floor of polished concrete and broken glass; the next, the freezing mountain air was a blow, stripping the breath from my lungs.I didn't let go of Iris. I couldn't. Her fingers were locked with mine in a grip so tight it felt like our bones were fusing. Between us, Ethan was a dead weight, a shadow caught in the middle of our frantic, vertical plunge.The cabin didn't just burn, it exhaled. A massive, concussive whump of ignited gas and aerosolized chemicals chased us into the dark, a wall of orange heat that illuminated the falling snow like sparks in a furnace. The Charter, the stone table, the century of Wolfe arrogance… it was all being reduced to ash and shrapnel above our heads."Hold on!" I roared, though the wind snatched the words away before they even left my teeth.The searchlights from the lead chopper swiveled,
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