Maya's POVEverything happened in the space of one second.Alex's arm came forward, not the protective bar across my front this time but a different motion, faster, the specific movement of someone who had assessed a figure emerging from smoke and made a decision. His hand was steady. The gun was real."Don't move," he said.The figure stopped.I held his shirt with both hands, heart running, eyes trying to resolve the figure through the last of the smoke into something identifiable... height, posture, whether they were holding anything, whether the way they were standing communicated threat or something else...The lights came on.All of them simultaneously, the full overhead brightness of a house that had been in partial dark, flooding the entrance hall and the corridor beyond with the specific, disorienting quality of sudden illumination after smoke and shadow.And then the sound.It was n
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