Chapter 165

“Nathan, wait!” Walter appeared again, just off to the side of the entrance into their planned corridor.

It was dark enough in the cavern that Nathan didn’t need Walter’s warning. He could see the lights flashing inside his jacket from the pheromone detector he’d forgotten about. It wasn’t supposed to pick up on Sasha…

With a great crunch, a clawed hand smashed into the cave wall from around the curve of the passageway. Horrifyingly slow, the rest of the figure appeared as if it were climbing out of the rock itself, out of the very fissures of the earth like a hellbeast.

Nathan stared, clinging tightly to Alex.