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Brennan
Creed and Trace leave with our brothers piled into the back of a van. The party is about to wrap up anyway, so it’s not like they’re going to miss anything important. I don’t doubt Betty knows about Team Hades. She’s a very smart woman; her entire team is nothing but brawn except Jimmie, who is smarter than all of them combined. How he ended up in their team is still a mystery to everyone. We will need to question her, but for now I need to get back upstairs. I get in the service lift that the staff use and the lights start to flicker on and off when the entire lift halts to a stop and then everything goes pitch black.
I push the telephone button but nothing happens. Pulling my phone from my pocket I try to call Chester. After he doesn’t answer, I try again but just like the previous time it goes to voicemail.
Next I try Kai, he answers on the fourth ring.
“She’s gone.” he says, panic lacing his tone.
“What do you mean she’s fucking gone,” I snap.
“She was feeling dizzy, so I went to get her a bottle of water.”
“You left her alone?” My pulse picks up and sweat beads my brow at the thought of her being alone when she wasn’t feeling well. Anything could have happened to her at this point.
“Chester was watching her and Colt was right next to her but the lights went out and now we can’t find her anywhere.”
“Fuck,” I hiss. “I’m stuck in the lift and the others have just left. I'll call them to come back.”
“We'll keep searching. Shit, I have to go, Chester has Colt by the throat.”
The line drops out and I scroll down to Boston’s number. I pause for a minute. If I call them this will blow his cover. I know that Jolie would kill me if I make the call and Boston will kill me if I don’t.
Deciding pissing off Boston is worse, I make the call.
“What’s wrong?” Boston asks, answering on the first ring. I don’t ever call him unless it’s important.
“You need to come back, immediately. The entire building has lost electricity, Kai and Chester can’t find Jolie. I’m stuck in the fucking lift.” I must be on speaker phone because I hear a chorus of words you wouldn’t repeat to your grandmother.
“He knows we’re alive, doesn’t he?” Boston asks but he already knows the answer to that question.
“I’m going to kill him!” Laughn booms.
“Her tracking device is turned off,” Marlow adds.
“This is bad,” Davis says. “We fucked up again.”
“That we did.” I say ending the call. I know they'll be back within minutes, so I call the one other person that we need to help save Jolie. We have always had an ambush plan in place in case we ever needed it. Is it a smart idea? No, because it will end in casualties, but right now we're left with no other choice.
“Hello,” he says.
“Ziyon, we have a problem.”
He listens with rapt attention as I explain to him everything that has happened. He thinks it over for a minute, then tells me he'll meet us all at Creed’s house. He doesn’t want to risk Melinda’s safety, and I can respect that. He also tells me he'll gather his men and he expects us to do the same. We have a handful of teams that would easily turn against Mr. Z given the back up. He has made a few enemies along the way to the top.
There is also another call I can make. Jolie may have struck up a friendship with Amelie who runs a secret society in the United Kingdom, but what she doesn’t know is Amelie’s mother Debbie has been part of Olympia for years. She also hates Mr. Z. She didn’t have anywhere else to turn but we had her back. Camilla, a damn old lady that could scare the pants off a grown man, runs the criminal underground and now is part of The Order within Australia. I know way more than I should and I know they work on a favour system. I don’t care what it costs me or that I’m not part of their secret society. I know we have things that they want and I’m willing to give them access if that's what it takes.
The lights finally flick back on and the lift starts to move; the seconds feel like hours until the doors open. Most people have left, except for Chester, Kai, Colt’s team, Summer’s team, Sinclair and Jimmie. I rush over to where they are.
“Any sign of her?”
“No, we're about to sweep the entire building. The manager gave us his word that his security teams are making sure everyone leaves the building. I split these guys up to take sections, now that you’re back you can join us.”
“Don’t forget about about us, fuckers,” Laughn says storming into the room.
“What the fuck!” Blayne shouts.
“How the fuck are you alive?” Colt questions followed by a laugh. “Of course you’re alive.”
