Another long silence. Chen could almost hear the calculations happening on the other end, the weighing of options and risks and potential payoffs. "How does Mirreti plan to deliver Ethan?" Raymond's father asked finally. "What's his method?" "He'll use Angela as bait." Chen's stomach churned sayin

Angela's phone rang at the worst possible moment, cutting through the tension in the warehouse operations room like a knife through silk. She'd been standing frozen for the past twenty minutes, watching Ethan and his soldiers plan their counter-ambush, listening to them discuss kill zones and tacti

Ethan closed the distance between them, his hands finding her shoulders, his eyes boring into hers with an intensity that made her breath catch. "Because I love you. And I'm strong enough to protect you. That's what your father doesn't understand. That's what Raymond's father keeps learning the hard

Raymond stood at the window of his father's penthouse and watched the city tear itself apart at the seams. Not literally, not yet. To anyone else looking out at the sprawling metropolis below, everything appeared normal. Traffic flowed through arteries of asphalt and concrete. Lights twinkled in wi

He showed his father Earth as the beings saw it. A junction point. A crossroads where dimensional walls were thin enough to breach. A place where the pursuing entity would eventually arrive because the beings had fled here, had left a trail that couldn't be hidden. He showed him humanity's role in