POV: Maya Chen
Ashton's phone call lasts thirty seconds.
"Marcus, gather everyone. We're going to war."
He hangs up and looks at me. "We have twenty minutes before my team arrives. The Architects will reset your father in one hour. That gives us a forty-minute window to break into Chen Group, fight through their army, and save Victor."
"Those are terrible odds," Sophie says.
"I know." Ashton loads his gun. "Which is why we're not going through the front door."
He pulls up a blueprint of Chen Group on his phone. "There's a service tunnel that connects to the underground parking garage. It was built during the Cold War as an escape route. Only three people know about it—Victor, me, and now you two."
"How do you know about it?" I ask.
"Timeline 11. Victor and I were allies. He showed me all of Chen Group's secrets before The Architects killed him." Ashton's jaw tightens. "This time, we're saving him."
