Ren 22

Chapter Thirty-Two
Responding to an alarm, Ren blocks the doorway of the gene cache to prevent Waverly, Hennessy, Dahlia, and Trigger, and aims her gun at them, ordering them to stop. Trigger tells her that he activated a detonator, and she demands that he turn it off. He claims that he cannot, and if she doesn’t let them leave, they’ll all die. She says that she’ll die for Lakeview, and asks if they are too. Waverly shows her an image her her and Hennessy kissing in a field of flowers, and a video of Lorna blowing out the candles of her birthday cake, surrounded by individuals, before Dane kisses her. Ren recognizes Waverly and Dahlia’s genome as the one that had been recalled, and Dahlia says that those were videos of the real world. Dahlia asks Ren to come with them to escape, and Ren runs away. They follow her, exiting the building just as it explodes.