Huge chunks of concrete slammed into the ground right behind them.
He caught sight of the exit closing in twenty feet ahead. “Almost there!”
Using every ounce of strength he had, he pulled them along behind him. Ten feet. Five feet.
Boom! Boom!
Reaper glanced over his shoulder. The entire section of roof where they’d been only seconds ago had crashed to rubble on the floor, blocking off the path behind them.
Reaper yanked open the steel gray door and shoved the girls in front of him, up the blindingly dark stairway. Debris crumbled and plinked in small showers at their feet.
“I can’t see anything,” the brunette cried out.
It was Caroline who answered, “Here, let me in front of you, I’ll lead.”
Reaper easily saw Caroline step around and in front of the brunette and then grab the girl’s hand. If he had any doubt that Caroline was enhanced like him, this proved she possessed skills.
Another massive explosion went off and the entire hallway shook. The brunette hit her knees and Reaper instantly picked her up, urging them all onward.
Light spilled through the open doorway two stories up. Almost there. He almost had them out.
A loud crack screeched overhead. The doorway began to crumble. “Go!”
Reaper ripped off his belt, slung it over Caroline’s shoulder, shoved the brunette to the side, and then grabbed Caroline around the waist. “I love you.”
He focused his entire being and threw Caroline through the doorway. The roof in front of them collapsed, trapping him and the brunette in a tiny, dark section of stairway, completely blocked from the rest of the world.
