Page 2 of Flawed Revenge

Their family had to be protected at all costs.

And that was what they were. A family. Not born of DNA, but forged in blood nonetheless. They’d been brought together for different reasons, but from the moment they signed up for the program and were appointed as a team, they’d become each other’s everything. They’d relied on each other for everything, lived naked in a cage side by side for three hellishly long years, watched each other’s backs, and supported one another when the rage and suicidal thoughts became too much.

Now that their family had grown, there was even more reason to protect it, no matter the cost, even if that meant eliminating an innocent. There was no way he would allow the men he considered to be his brothers to suffer the same loss he had. If that meant the person at their gate was innocent, but killing them was the only way to ensure his family’s safety, then he’d do it in a heartbeat.

There was no greater pain than losing your other half.

None.

Maybe the woman he’d loved hadn't died, but the position he’d put her in had cost a life nonetheless, and he’d never gotten over that. Lion had been responsible for a lot of deaths, both in his military career before the experimental drug program and after, but only one haunted him.

Only one kept him up at night.

Only one made him feel like he deserved more punishment than Dr. Gardner ever had.

Only one had effectively destroyed the only woman he would ever love.

Pressing his hand to the ring that hung from a silver chain around his neck, Lion vowed to do whatever it took to protect his new family. He’d failed his last one, and it had almost destroyed him, he wouldn't fail again. These people were all he had left in the world, and he wouldn't lose them.

Couldn’t lose them.

He’d barely survived losing his last family, losing his team, losing the women who had become like sisters to him would finish him off.

With his weapon in his hand and his team at his back, they moved soundlessly through the trees. Special forces training alongside their enhanced skills made them a formidable opponent, one that whoever had shown up couldn’t even begin to imagine.

“Thunder says there’s one person standing by a car at the gate,” Blade whispered to them.

Because of his enhanced speed, Thunder always went ahead of them to scout things out. Then relayed whatever he saw to Blade, whose enhanced hearing could hear whispers from over a mile away.

While the trees impeded Lion’s ability to use his enhanced vision, as they moved a little closer, he spotted it.

A black car, parked outside their gates.

A single figure, also dressed in black, standing beside it.

The person didn't appear to be holding a weapon. Instead, they were standing by the gate, looking through it, with an almost perplexed expression on their face.

But there was anxiety there as well.

Whoever this person was, they weren't sure that they wanted to be there.

Too bad it was already too late to take it back.

They were here now and they were about to get an up close and personal look at just how dangerous he and his teammates could be when someone threatened their family.

March 13th

1:15 P.M.

Maybe going there was a mistake.

This place was creepy.

Like horror movie vibe creepy, and Kate Gage hated horror movies. She’d never been good with scary things, not as a child, not as a teen, and not now as a twenty-eight-year-old woman.

Turning around, getting back into her car, and driving back into town would be the safer option.

Definitely the smarter one.