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Adam surfaced in front of her with a gasp.
“You absolute rotten bastard!” Ellie exclaimed.
He laughed, his eyes glittering.
“Miss me?” he prompted.
Ellie gritted her teeth as she bit back the string of inappropriate vocabulary that rose to her lips in response.
“There’s a chamber,” Adam quickly added. “Can’t tell how big.”
“There was another sinkhole on the other side of the plaza,” Ellie noted with rising excitement.
“Then there’s a good chance that it’s all part of the same system running under the city,” Adam replied.
“A system with an exit?”
“Possibly,” he cautioned.
“That seems like better odds than what we’re facing here,” she pointed out.
“Yup,” Adam replied. He plucked both sets of boots from her shoulder and swung them around his neck.
Ellie bristled.
“I am perfectly capable of carrying my own—”
“Ready?” he cut in as he patted the boots with a wicked grin. “It’s a long way, and we’re going against the current. It’s a pretty gentle current, but still. Use the walls. Push yourself along. There are a couple of pockets of air along the way, but you’ll have to stay with me. And stay calm,” he added pointedly.
She fixed him with a glare.
“Have I ever given you any reason to think I am the type to react irrationally?” she demanded.
“You jumped off a balcony with your hands tied,” Adam replied.
“I was taking the most direct route away from a pursuer,” Ellie retorted.
“You were planning to blow up a boat to get me to listen to you.”
“But I didn’t!”
“And you tried to set Mendez’s pants on fire,” Adam finished.
Ellie opened her mouth to reply, and then closed it.
“How did you know about that?” she demanded cannily.
“I saw the burn marks on his trousers,” Adam said. “Now—deep breath. Stay close.”
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Thirty-Seven
Absolute darkness presseddown upon Ellie as she held her breath and followed blindly in Adam’s wake.
Her hands caught against the smooth sides of the tunnel. She could feel the pulse of Adam’s movements through the water ahead of her. His proximity was the only thing that kept a pure, instinctive panic from closing up her throat.
Ellie kicked against the stone floor as she pulled herself along. The tunnel was just wide enough to swim through. The current was a gentle push against her as she moved.
