THE BILLIONAIRE’S SECOND CHANCE BETRAYAL
June didn’t think; she just grabbed a heavy rolling pin and swung, cracking it against a soldier’s helmet.
"Dante! Get up!" she yelled, pulling at his arm.
He kicked the last soldier away and grabbed June, and for a second, they held onto each other in the middle of the lurching room. The floor tilted; the whole bakery was getting pulled upward.
"June, look—your arm!" Dante pointed.
Her old gray scar glowed gold and hot, not a mark anymore—more like a compass, lines of light all pointing straight below the oven.
"There’s something under us," June said, voice trembling. "Not just the bakery—something ancient."