Chapter Twenty-Six
“Cops?” The man grunted. “Wait there.”
Erik glanced at Jia. She was pale, her expression blank.
“You okay?” he asked.
Jia nodded, her focus returning. “What are we hoping to accomplish here?”
Erik nodded at the door. “I haven’t been on Earth long, but I understand enough to get that guys like them don’t pull off this kind of thing without a lot of help. The captain’s freaking out, but he’s still enough of a cop to give us clearance, so we have a narrow window to find out what this is really about.”
Jia gave him a shallow nod. “And if they get violent?”
“Then we get violent back.” Erik’s grin turned vicious.
When the door slid open, a huge wall of man stood beside an olive-skinned guy in a well-tailored dark suit that looked out of place in the Shadow Zone.
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