Mate Rebound
I defeated him, blood gathering but Tyler was gone, and then, something else flew, a trap’s click — explosives, ready to burst.
“Fall back!” I roared and retreated. We ran up the stairs, the first explosion shaking the walls, heat licking at my back. We exploded in through the casino doors, smoke trailing behind me, my team bloody but alive. And Tyler had gotten away, his trap a coward’s act, but I wasn’t through. I scavenged through the rubble of the lab with my hands, holding up a blueprint where the edges around had been burnt. A vial tumbled loose, marked “Jules Blood, Phase Catalyst,” and I seized it, too hard—it broke, glass slicing my hands, her smell a trace in the fluid.
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