Shadows and Reflections

Chapter 114

Dawn spread across the city, scattering its light as slowly it began to stir alive, the industrial park filled with long shadows stretching out from everything, as a figure slid noiselessly along the warehouse corridors. Rachel had watched everything from those same shadows— sister to the recently discovered Lily, she was torn by loyalties and a mind in conflict.

She stopped at the door of James's treatment room, from where he now sat jiggling screws off the air vent. Her heart thumping, Rachel hovered her hand over the door handle, contemplating the dilemma: if she helped him, she betrayed Elena, and if she didn't, she stuck by the years-long plan.

Meanwhile, on the other side of town, Chloe Adams began to stir from her medically induced coma, brought out of it by her doctor. The last thing Chloe remembered was the searing pain of a bullet tearing through her shoulder and the chaos of her botched attempt at taking down James and Lily.

A nurse rushed to Chloe's side as her