Chapter 16 - The Mountain Escape
They crawled through the damp, narrow rock tunnel on their hands and knees as cold mountain air rushed toward them.
After twenty agonizing minutes of crawling, they emerged into a snowy ravine two hundred yards behind the cabin.
In the distance, the cabin suddenly exploded into a massive ball of orange fire, sending shockwaves through the trees.
Debris rained down on the snow-covered forest as thick black smoke billowed high into the winter sky.
“They tried to incinerate the evidence and us with it,” Miller panted, clutching his side in the freezing air.
Clara held her coat tightly around her chest, securing the red folder she had managed to slide into her jacket.
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They trudged through deep snowdrifts back toward their parked vehicle, knowing their lives were now in extreme danger.
The shadow network realized the threat Clara posed, and they would stop at nothing to silence her forever.
