Afraid she’d launch herself after him, I held onto her. We didn’t need two people to rescue.
“Holy cats!” Mira yelped.
“What do we do?” Jax came over to us, where the floor was more stable for the moment, and laid Josef down in the corner.
“I’ll get him.” Kerry headed for the edge. “Don’t follow me.”
“No, kid! Wait! We’ll come up with a plan!” I stopped talking to secure Mimi in a better hold. For a little bitty witch, she put up a good fight.
“No time. You gotta get this rupture closed before it takes down the building.”
He was right, but I didn’t like it. He was all but sacrificing himself for someone who, one, hated him and, two, was probably already dead. Out of respect for Mimi, though, I kept my mouth shut.
“How are you gonna get back up here?” Mira yelled. “I don’t see any stairs, dummy!”
“So build me a ladder, artificer!” He grinned as she glowered at him. “Gigi, give me two minutes and not a second more. If we’re not back by then, sew it closed and I’ll find another way out.”
“It’s Hell!” I hollered. “What if there isn’t one?”
“I’ll make one.”
Then the lunatic jumped.
#
Mira
“Build a ladder, build a ladder.” Frantically, I looked around the conference room. “With what?Paper clips?”
Swearing under my breath, I glanced up—and a wide smile spread across my face.
Hoping the Witch of Endor had good insurance, I raised my hands and brought the ceiling down.
#
Kerry
“You better appreciate this,” I growled as I hauled Titus along.
“I do.”
He staggered against me, and I tightened my hold on the arm slung over my shoulders. He’d landed hard and wrong and rolled several yards away from the rupture. His one leg was all torn up, and he had bad burns everywhere his skin had made contact with Cursed ground.
When he stumbled again and nearly took us both down, I knew I was gonna have to carry him. I didn’t wanna do it, but we needed to move faster, so I hoisted him up and over my shoulders.
“Hang on.” I grumbled. “We’re almost there.”
“We going to grow wings?” His voice bounced with each step I took. “Or did you learn to teleport?”
“Mira will come up with something.”
You hear me, Boots?
“Sure, Harker. Well, I guess dying to save my girl is the way I’d want to go. It’s only too bad it has to be withyou.”
“Likewise.”
Neither of us mentioned the creatures rushing at us from all sides.
