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But we all knew that was a long shot. If Detraux had made us, he would be on the run. Guys like him always had another escape route.
“I have to go,” I said, opening my car door. If anyone could walk into a hornet’s nest of Beast Boys and come back out, it was me. I’d done it once before, and I would do it again.
“Not alone.” Shai opened her door as well.
Ella sighed, pushing her door open.
“Oh no, you don’t. We’re the muscle,” Shai said, meeting Ella’s eyes in her rearview mirror.
“And I’ve been trained too. There’s no way I’m letting you two go alone,” Ella retorted, conviction ringing through her words.
I heard a fourth door open.
“Not you, too,” Shai sighed.
“It sounds like a party. You know how I feel about missing parties,” Nadia said and I glanced back in time to see her pump her eyebrows.
Suddenly I wasn’t sure about my plan. Putting my own life in danger was one thing, but these women? What if we lost one of them? My stomach turned.
But then I remembered who we were. We weren’t taught to run to safety, we’d been trained to face danger. So who was I to stop them from doing what we’d been trained to do? What we knew we had to do.
We got out of the car and headed toward the elevators, moving in sync. Like the team we were.
“Susie, we’re at One Plaza. We’re going into 1212,” Ella said into her phone.
She pulled it away from her ear, wincing, and we all heard Susie yelling at her to stand down.
I took the phone from Ella. “We can’t, Aunt Susie. This guy made us. He’s going to be gone by the time reinforcements get here.”
“Aria, your mother,” was all Susie managed.
“Knows that this is my job. My calling. Don’t make me choose between family and this. Please, Aunt Susie,” I pled.
Susie sighed, defeat evident from that one sound.
“You are only to slow the combatants down, is that clear? If you can possibly keep from engaging, do so,” Susie said.
The other girls nodded that they’d heard so I answered for us, “We’ll try.”
“I guess that’s all I can ask,” Susie said before adding, “but I’m calling Colt. Maybe he can get some cops out to you sooner.”
Shai didn’t look pleased but didn’t argue either. We all knew that no one would get here before we would have to engage.
Susie hung up on us as the elevator doors opened to take us down to level one.
“From the floor plans, I was able to find that 1212 consists of a waiting room and eight offices. There is the main door but also a back door that lets out into an alleyway.”
“These guys sure like their alleyways,” Ella muttered.
“We have to split up,” Nadia said, not acknowledging Ella’s comment.
I’d known the same thing, or at least assumed it. The guys were smart. They had their offices on the first floor. Of course they had a back way in and out.
Shai stared at me. It was easy to see she wasn’t comfortable with letting me out of her sight. But we had to split up. As the two muscle, our typical teams made sense.
She closed her eyes and I knew what she was debating now. Which location would be the most dangerous? She wanted to send me and Ella to the safer option.
“Nadia and I will take the back,” Shai decided.
