Chapter 4

He pried my fingers off him one by one and scooped Madeline up into his arms.

The hangar doors slammed shut in my face.

I curled up on the freezing ground, my body feeling as though an inferno was burning right through me from the inside out.

As my consciousness grew increasingly blurry, sheer instinct drove me to seek out water and cold air. Stumbling through the connecting corridor, I pushed open an unlocked door.

A pair of powerful hands caught me right in time.

The man carried a faint scent of cedar, and his embrace was so steady that…