Chapter Forty-Eight
The heavy steps of the Elites echoed through the hangar.
Their shadows were fleetingly visible through the gaps between the shipping containers and crates as the metal monsters moved, reinforcing their size and threat.
Jia ignored them and concentrated on cutting off their line of retreat. They’d beaten an Elite before. They would beat them here. They couldn’t risk letting them escape.
All their investigations and fortune had led them to this hidden base on Alpha Centauri. This was about more than a new kind of cyborg. Jia wasn’t ready to believe in Erik’s Lady, but it wouldn’t hurt to give her a kind thought.
Perhaps two.
She wanted to believe Emma was outside as backup, but for all they knew, the MX 60 was a burning wreck, the victim of outside forces. The team
