Chapter 52

A blade spun overhead, and Nema ducked, heart pounding. Not just in fear but exhilaration, and even relief.

Ever since falling into the chasm, she'd suffered an intense sense of foreboding. Having something finally happen, actual danger to explain her trepidation, did more to relax her than the amazing sex.

Sex with the two men just proved how much she wanted to live and not die in this place that oozed of wrongness.

Moving away from the spinning blade, they jogged up the hall, only to sharply turn right as a wall suddenly slid into place, blocking them.

"How are we supposed to find the center if the maze is fighting us?" Ray ducked just in time as a bar of metal swept past where his head was a moment ago.

"I don't think it's fighting us. More like it's the parts moving in a giant machine." Zak crouched and peered around them.

"It looked like a labyrinth."

"I didn't realize machines had to look a certain way," Zak retorted.