The Bride In The Wrong Wedding
"The hull will not hold for more than sixty seconds! We need a diversion!"
Beneath Isabella, Julian’s chest heaved with a ragged, wet breath. His stormy gray eyes, though clouded with immense physical agony, burned with the apocalyptic, cold-blooded intellect that had built an empire. His large, scarred hand reached out, his cold fingers weakly grasping Nikolai’s combat boot.
"The drone... fuel cells," Julian rasped, his velvet voice a broken, terrifying whisper that carried effortlessly through the chaos. "Vanguard... protocol."