Wind howled past her ears, and Cate instinctively tightened her arms around Lucian's neck.
Go see her.
Lucian's voice still echoed in her mind.
Cate buried her face in Lucian's chest. She did not know what would happen next, but wrapped in his solid embrace, the panic of being betrayed had miraculously subsided considerably.
Lucian hovered in front of a small, lit-up villa.
It was Dean Indira Shetty's private residence.
There were no lights on inside. Lucian landed on his feet and swept his gaze across the spacious room.
The bedroom was elegantly furnished but empty. The bed was impeccably made, without even the slightest sign that anyone had slept in it.
No one was there.
"She's not here?" Cate lifted her head from Lucian's arms, confusion and bewilderment flashing in her red, swollen eyes.
Lucian scanned the room. If that woman was not resting at home at this hour, she was most likely in her real "office."
"I know where she is," Lucian said quietly. Holding Cate, he turned and leaped out through the window again, flying toward the heavily secured Woods deep within the university.
The Woods research facility.
It was a secret facility Vought had hidden beneath Godolkin University, dedicated to imprisoning, torturing, and studying Supe students. Shetty was the one who actually controlled it.
Lucian slowly descended with Cate in front of the facility's ground-level entrance. He was no longer in the mood to ask for access clearance.
He raised his free right hand, spread his fingers, and aimed at the blast door supposedly capable of withstanding C4 explosives.
The alloy door, weighing several tons, suddenly buckled inward at its center like crumpled tinfoil. Then the hydraulic linkages on either side snapped, and an irresistible force tore the entire door out of the wall, sending it