Wes looked at me wide-eyed.
“Thanks for the tip.” Came a rough voice from behind us.
Wes and I both snapped around to see two thuggish guys standing a few paces away. I couldn’t tell where they’d come from.
Smiles lit up their faces as they looked at the widescreen computer monitor and watched Giovanni coming out of the secret vault with The Chameleon.
I glanced at Wes.
It was all the guidance he needed.
No further communication was necessary.
I didn’t need to tell him we’d move on a count of three.
On the third count that sounded in my mind he moved to the left and I went right.
He pulled two guns from his back pocket and fired two shots. The men evaded the bullets but went into my line of attack, straight into my knives. My throwing knives, which went straight into guy number one’s neck, ending him.
A third guy leapt down from the skylight showing where they’d come from.
He fired shots at us that we were both able to dodge.
It was stuff like this that pissed me right the fuck off. I didn’t have time for shit like this. I didn’t have time nor patience for this at all.
I stepped into beast mode and did the unexpected by lunging my body toward them, both guns whipped up firing.
They didn’t stand a chance.
I took them out and landed in a tuck and roll, right past their crumpled, bloodied bodies.
“Fuck.” Wes winced. “Jesus…”
I looked back to him then over at the bodies of the men.
Three of them and I could take a guess on who they were but I’d rather do it the more fun way. I moved to the one closest to me and lifted the sleeve of his jacket to expose his forearm.
There it was - a tattoo of an ankh.
The Ankh. The Egyptian hieroglyph for life.
Members of The Ra, as in the Egyptian sun god, all had the tattoo. The group had started in Egypt. All members no matter what part of the world they came from wore the symbol so they would know each other.
These were just ordinary Ra guys. The Spades also had the Ankh tat but they had a spade tattooed on their cheeks too. You’d know straightaway who they were if ever you saw one.
Wes came over and looked too.
“So, do we think this has reached next level bad yet Xander?” he asked. “They’re fully fledged members of the Ra.”
“Fully fledged and spying on us. How the fuck did they know where to find us?”
He looked at me, eyes wide. “They came out when they saw the footage. Came to kill us.”
“Yeah, they sure did. They came to fucking kill us so they could get to the hiding place and we’d be too dead to try.”
Things were all taking shape. I didn’t know what shape they were taking just yet though.
One thing I knew however was to tread with extreme caution when shit like this was happening. An idea brewed in my mind.
