“Then why are you doing this, motherfucker?” I question lowly so that no one but us can hear it.
“You work better alone, without Love around, you won’t be fully bound to anyone else. You’ll be able to do your job and come back home to her,” Josh says smiling meanly. I smile back. Maybe my hand will slip accidentally and my rifle will hit his dear Marcus by mere coincidence.
Everyone is in their own cars when I look at Karl on the front passenger seat and enter mine. I start to drive, knowing we’re going to the wolves' cave, and they won’t be happy. Good thing they won’t be expecting it either.
Chapter 29
Love
Breathe. He’s fine.
“Footage of us from some days ago has been perfectly manipulated to show different videos of ourselves for 24 hours. Which means we’re safe. Our team has been preparing for this moment ever since Vance died,” Vance is gone, our dad is gone. Rian squeezes my hand when Josh says those dreadful yet true words.
“Both my parents are gone,” I whisper in Rian’s ear leaning my head against his shoulder.
“You’ll always have me,” Rian whispers back holding my hand and kissing it.
“Thank you for being my best friend,” I say turning our hands and kissing his. Rian and I go way back, and he’ll always be my favourite insane prick. Don’t tell Dominik, he won’t like that I love any prick other than him.
“Thank you for being my sister,” Rian murmurs and Ifeel warmth in my heart. We’re going to be ok. Our team has both Rian and Josh they can handle anything. At the beginning it was just us.
“Don’t call her your sister, it’s bad luck, all your family dies,” Thomas says and I punch him strongly in the arm. My hand hurts more than his arm probably does but it’s worth it. “Forget it she’s tough,” Thomas says smirking and turns to Josh. “Who knew she could punch”
“She was trained from birth until she was fourteen, so don’t have any ideas she can and will kill you and if she doesn’t, I will,” Josh warns, it’s the only warning Josh will give him before resorting to violence. Either physical or mental as he prefers the latter. I don’t add anything I just smile proudly. I may not have my parents, but I still have a family and one who’ll stick around forever, and never let me go.
I watch Sammy on the front seat next to Josh completely frozen. Her brown eyes looking anywhere but at him. So I get the phone Josh gave me. It is strictly only for this mission. So I struggle to find Sammy. She’s the last in Josh’s list.
Me: Don’t forget to breathe. We’ll be fine. <3
Sammy: I know we will. Don’t let Thomas’ words get to Rian. He’s our boo.
Me: I won’t, I promise I’ll check on him as soon as we get home.
I type that, yet I’ll also check throughout the whole mission. I’ll keep an eye on him. I decide to give Thomas a warning of my own.
Me: Don’t you ever speak that way to Rian again or Ipromise you I’ll make your life living hell.
Thomas just looks at me and smirks, I hate him. I already hate him and I haven’t properly met him yet, and have no interest whatsoever.
“Remember, we’re a team everyone,” Josh says as the air grows thicker and harder to breathe. “We’re arriving. Prepare your guns, we need to move as soon as I stop this car,” Josh says going off the road and into the forest. He drives for three more minutes until the trees are too dense to keep going.
“We have about one kilometre of walking to do before we reach our first destination,” Josh says and we all nod, getting out of the car. “Everyone prepared?” Josh asks unlocking his rifle. Everyone assents. We were all ready before he spoke, I was ready since he first mentioned us to prepare our guns. “We’re going silent team, there’s no room for mistakes, if you think you’ll be a liability this is your last chance to stay behind. I won’t repeat what might happen to you if you don’t,” Josh says looking at Thomas, but Sammy is the one who swallows hard. “No one? Alright. Let’s go,” he whispers the ‘let’s go’ part and we start moving.
The forest air is salty, the beach isn’t far from here and you can feel it in the humidity. The north always reminds me of childhood, when we had peace, and my father superposed himself over any other leader, so we were safe children. We liked to travel. When I was kidnapped it all started to fall down like a chain of dominoes until now, where the city is a hidden war scene.
Josh says the police are trying to find Liot, and we’re using that to our advantage. Josh has been planning hisarrest. There’s nothing worse than a mafia leader with no power in prison. He’d be better in hell to be completely honest. He’ll be everyone’s rag doll.
I pace slowly behind Josh and Rian, I’m in the second attack line with Kit and Camilla. My aim and speed will be useful if anyone tries to shoot any of the others. I hope I still got the hang of it.
The green and brown of the trees, start to be repetitive when we’re walking for about ten minutes, I’d say. We still have about seven more minutes until we arrive I think. I trip on a rock and pay more attention to the ground until I spot someone, I hit my phone’s power button two times, it’s the signal someone’s near. Everyone’s phone from our team vibrates almost inaudibly. I only hear Camilla’s and Kit’s.
We all hide, while Josh and Rian go further to evaluate the situation. I walk from one tree to another to get a clean shot at the guy. He’s still far, so I get my old buddy from my back, a sniper gun. I adjust my arms on a strong tree’s branch and keep the guy's head as my focus. Five more people appear from behind some trees, Josh looks behind.
“Got a clean shot?” he mouths at me, I nod, “Big guy,” he mouths back and I readjust the position of the gun.
He talks to the others but I’m paying too much attention to the big muscle wall guy, Josh wants gone. I look at Josh for one second and he starts to count down from three with his hand. I count the other numbers by the seconds passing. And when I shoot the guy, his body falls flat on the floor, everyone else goes insane. Now my only job is to make sure they don’t contact the otherguards in any way.
Two more gunshots are heard but I don’t see who falls. I just check if it’s my people quickly and look at a guard more distant grab his walkie-talkie, no friend, you’re not contacting anyone.
