"No!" Jared cried out, his voice raw and broken. It was a sound of total, unadulterated agony: the sound of a man watching his entire universe get extinguished in a single second.

The gunshot echoed like a thunderclap against the brick walls of the warehouses, a sharp and final punctuation mark to the nightmare that had haunted them for years. 

For a heartbeat, time stopped.

Myla felt a sudden, heavy weight slam into her, knocking the wind out of her lungs as she was thrown hard onto the ...