Crimson Love
The rendezvous point was exactly where Helios had marked it.
An abandoned metro maintenance yard buried beneath layers of snow and rusting steel, hidden between the skeletons of two collapsed skyscrapers. One by one, armored hunters emerged from the darkness.
Eight.
Then twelve.
Finally sixteen.
Every one of them wore Zelios insignia beneath heavy winter cloaks, silver weapons glinting beneath portable floodlamps.
Jonas counted them automatically. "That's it?"
"The Commander couldn't spare more," Captain Mira answered, removing her hood. "We were told this is an extraction."