“Savannah, stay behind me.”Jackson didn’t raise his voice, but the steel in it made Savannah freeze mid-step. The hallway outside the Sterling sublevel was shaking violently now lights flickering, warning alarms throbbing in long, metallic pulses that rattled the walls like a heartbeat gone wrong. Smoke curled from a blown circuit overhead, drifting down in thin gray ribbons.Savannah pushed forward anyway.“I’m not hiding,” she said, brushing past him before he could stop her. “Not tonight. Not when Harrison is this close to destroying everything.”Jackson caught her arm, his grip firm but not painful. “I said behind me.”“And I said no.” Savannah met his eyes with a stubborn fire that made something in him flicker anger, fear, something tangled between the two. “I’m done letting him corner us. I’m done being the weak link.”“You were never the weak link,” he growled.“Then let me act like it.”Before Jackson could reply, Cole rushed toward them from the server wing, breath ragged,
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