Nova struggled to breathe, but her lungs wouldn’t expand. Nova! The scream was muddled in her head, eclipsed by mounting panic and throbbing pain. “Adrian! You’re alive!” yelled Captain Chromium. She peeled her eyes open, wincing from the effort. A figure was sprinting toward her. Tall and broad-shouldered. Dark skin and thick glasses and a metal pike gripped in one hand. Sweet rot, but he was the most handsomely heroic vision she’d ever seen, and Nova was filled with abject terror that he was there. Ace would destroy him.
