under his control
The soldiers dropped their weapons, shielding their eyes.
Liam fought to reach her, yelling, “Ava! Let go!”
But she couldn’t. The power coursed through her, wild and alive. She saw flashes of Victoria's lab, the experiments, Carter West’s files, her own blood glowing under the microscope.
And then, for a split second, she saw the future.
A burning city.
A child with glowing eyes standing among the ashes.
And her own voice saying, “It was never about saving us, it was about replacing us.”