Chapter 7-1

Chapter 7

“WHOA!” ROLAND STARED up at the high-rise building with his mouth hanging open. He wasn’t the only one staring. The thirty-story glass and steel structure was pretty impressive, even if I thought it was totally impractical in a state with an active fault line running beneath it.

Jordan craned her neck. “Nice.”

The building’s glass doors slid open and the four of us entered the pink marble lobby together, then stopped and stared again. In each corner stood a tall, abstract sculpture and there were more security cameras than you’d find at a bank. Directly in front of us was a pair of elevators and to our left was a desk, behind which sat a burly security guard. He watched us suspiciously then asked us what our business was there. I told him we were there to see Draegan, and he ……