Busting Through

[Bailey]

In the moments before the door busted open, I had a nagging feeling that I’d missed something, but I shook it off. I needed to focus on staying alive. I could figure it out later.

Three men came into the room. None of them had masks on, so they didn’t think there would be witnesses or survivors to identify them. I recognized one of them as a man who’d come up to talk to Keaton and me at the mixer. He must have been trying to assess us.

That was a failure on his part. If he thought Keaton was human, he would have tracked him as someone who could fight, but he wouldn’t have been able to tell his skill level. Keaton was a pro at hiding himself in the guise of being human.

I watched as Keaton’s demeanor shifted subtly, a dangerous glint in his eyes that I knew all too well. He was ……