Kaela pouted dramatically as she looked around the devastated underground parking level. What had been a coordinated criminal hideout less than a minute ago now resembled a demolition site.
She planted one boot squarely on the chest of one of the C Rank Titled she'd just flattened and folded her arms.
"He left me these weaklings then hogged the fun one for himself."
The defeated man beneath her groaned weakly as Kaela sighed in exaggerated disappointment.
"He better not take too long."
Ethan had every intention of making it quick.
Unfortunately, the man sprinting ahead of him clearly wasn't one of the pushovers Kaela had just dismantled.
The pair burst out from beneath the abandoned shopping complex, racing through an unfinished construction zone where skeletal concrete frames stretched toward the sky. Tower cranes loomed overhead, while stacks of steel beams and shipping containers created a maze across the site.
Ethan was steadily gaining on his target.
