ge is damp and smells of

ement. She pulls her keys from her purse, pressing the unl

cream echoes through

rain and strikes directly at her maternal instincts. She duck

ng. Two massive men wearing black ski masks are

overhead fluorescent light flickers, i

's breat

traight nose. The ex

s L

not Leo's usual clothes-but the fluorescent light cuts out again, plunging the van into shadow, an

ring rage erupt

s. Barefoot, she sprints o

terina uses the hood of a parked sedan as a springboard. She l

back of the kidnapper's n

collapses face-firs

eyes wide. He pulls a serrated huntin

ands, using his forward momentum to twist his arm violently b

. He drops to his knees, gasping for

van. She grabs the terrified boy, pu

ctively to Mandarin, the language she always used with her son i

n holding him. He doesn't understand the language, and he has never,

d heavy boots echoes fro

. She scoops Julian up, holding him t

ngine roars to life. She slams her foot on the gas. The SUV tires squeal, burning rubber

bursts into the garage, a

ing men on the floor

ellows, grabbing a secur

a room

The guard scrambles to rewind the foota

versized sunglasses take down the two men with lethal precision. H

nose almost touching the monitor. He stares a

the doctor, Astrid, was w

ss-topped desk, the heavy surface s

hinged light. "The doctor. She orchestrated the whole thing. Find