"What's wrong?" Jett Westgate's voice was low and hurried, laced with a tension she rarely heard.
He slowly pulled the car over to the side of the road. The moment he stopped, the ground began to shake. The car lurched violently from side to side, its tires letting out a piercing SCREECH.
In the glow of the headlights, the trees by the roadside trembled violently, their leaves RUSTLING loudly.
In the distance, along the Port Calico skyline, the lights of several skyscrapers flickered in unison before going dark.
Images from her past life flooded into Annelise Valentine's mind like a bursting dam. 'An earthquake. That feeling of near-death... it's back again.'
Jett Westgate reacted faster than she did. The very second the tremor hit, he had already unbuckled his seatbelt and thrown himself over, shielding her completely with his body.
In Jett Westgate's arms, the sound of the earthquake seemed to recede into the distance.
