Chapter 19

Luca's POV

Astrid has been steadily feeding me information about the positions I should avoid and go through but the line suddenly went shut. There was suddenly tension in her voice before she was cut off.

I paused, pressing my back against the wall as I scanned the area. She had been trying to warn me about something, her voice cracked with urgency.

“Wait, Luca, there's something else…”

Then silence.

I waited a moment, listening to the static in the earpiece, but there was nothing. The connection was broken, making me curse undrea my breath. If Astrid's system was down, it meant trouble. I trusted her with the tech and system aspect but if the Hills has set up something, we're going to be in it. It was unusual for her system to fail unless it was either a counter measure was perfectly executed or something was wrong on her side and both was a one in a million chances occurrence.

I moved forward cautiously, avoiding every guard I came across but it wasn't easy without Astrid's d