Chapter 247

• I grabbed my phone, hands shaking so hard I almost hit the wrong contact. It rang once.
• Then a black car rolled into the school grounds like the universe decided to answer me before the person on the phone even did.
• General Gregory Sawyer stepped out, dressed like he walked out of a war room and never left it. His coat flew behind him like a warning flag and his eyes scanned the courtyard like he already owned every brick in it.