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“Ready?”
I look over at my brothers who nod solemnly.
“I’m going to lead the way. Ye follow me. Eros can take the back. I want the other two men flanking me.”
I raise a brow.
“It sounds like I would be the protected one of the lot of us. That’s a different song and dance than ye were presenting to me only a few weeks ago.”
Ares shrugs a shoulder. “We’re here to rescue yer woman. There’s no point in doing any of that if yer not here to hug her at the end. Am I right?”
He looks at Eros and my other brother shrugs. “That’s what I would do,” he agrees.
I shrug. But of course Arias is right. I need to hold Penny after her rescue, to make sure that she and the baby are okay. Everything else is easily accomplished by my brothers or even the hired guns that will flank us as we roll in.
I screw up my face and try not to wince. “Fine.” I point up at the house where we need to go. “Do ye have a plan in mind?”
Ares shrugs again and brandishes his weapon. “Not really. We don’t know shit about what we’re walking into right now. So my plan is really just to take down everybody that we see, and make sure that every shot is a kill shot.”
“Yer goddamn right,” mumbles Eros. “Let these fuckers know exactly what they got themselves into and who they decided to mess with. We are the fucking Lyon brothers, for fuck’s sake.”
I raise my eyes up to the house and try to formulate a plan. But Ares gestures to the two security guards. They all start sprinting toward the house, climbing up a gentle hill.
I grumble and start after them, my feet digging into the soft ground as I climb the grassy knoll behind my brother. My whole body is tense as I try to assess the situation from every conceivable angle. But it’s still a surprise when someone shoots at us from a long distance, missing us but only by a hair’s breadth.
Instinctively, I drop onto my belly and grit my teeth.
“Where the fuck are they shooting from?” Ares growls.
I prop myself up on my elbows and look around, spying someone a glint of metal from the far side of the house. I call attention to the shiny glint, tapping my brother on the shoulder.
“Right there. Look.”
I have no sooner said it than one of the hired guns stands up and pops off a round straight at the glint of metal that I saw.
Out of the corner of my eye, I see movement. I turned my head and noticed that there is a parade of trucks moving slowly toward the house, winding down the same road that we came from.
Shit. I look at Ares, my face tight. “They have reinforcements.”
Eros swings around and looks at Ares. “If you guys want to leave me with one of the security guards, we can easily hold down the fort and keep those guys from advancing on the house. That would just mean that he you have to go it alone, just the three of you.”
I nod. “That’s what we should do. If you’re sure that you can hold down the fort, do it.”
Eros nods and checks his clip, smiling grimly. We will lay low here and wait for them.”
“Let’s go. The situation at the house isn’t going to get better by us waiting around,” Ares says.
The three of us get up and start moving up the hill, trying to be as stealthy as possible. We come around a corner and almost stumble upon a guard.
He barely has time to raise his weapon when Ares fires at him, hitting him in the middle of his chest. He falls and already we are moving on, stepping over his body and advancing up the stairs into the actual porch.
As my head clears the porch,I glance around, licking my lips. But it seems that no one is guarding the porch. Just the lone guard, now just a body, fallen behind us.
I look at Aries, trying to judge whether or not to spread out or attack one single door of the house. He’s obviously thinking the same thing, because he gestures that all three of us should head to the east. I crane my neck and spot a side door that's just a few feet away.
We move silently in a line, Ares creeping close to the house. We stop when Ares raises his hand. He waits for a second and then heads pokes his head into the doorway, looking through the glass window that affords him a view of the inside of the house.
He glances around and then looks at me, his eyes tightening.
