How I Met My Mates
"That wasn't a mechanical failure. The cable was cut with a high-heat plasma torch. Clean melt."
"They set an ambush," Dominic growled near my ear, his broad chest rising and falling heavily against my back. His grip on my waist was an iron clamp, his silver eyes flashing with murderous intensity as he slowly hauled us up onto a narrow stone ledge jutting out from the cliff side. "They knew the elevator’s path."
"They didn't just know the path," Tristan rasped softly, dropping onto the ledge beside us, his dark, tattooed neck tensing as he gestured toward the severed steel cable swaying above. "They knew our exact deployment timetable. Look at the winch housing."