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He takes my hand and kisses my palm, his eyes burning into mine. “You’re brave as fuck and more than capable of helping to save him, butterfly. But there’s no fucking way I’m letting you go in to try to get Dante out. It’s not happening, and we don’t have time for this. I’m going.Alone.”
I can’t agree. It will fucking kill me. But I have to, because I see the same all-consuming love that hit me in the car staring right back at me from his eyes, and I get it. I hate it, but I get it.
“Fine,” I mutter, biting my tongue from saying anything else.
I willnotremind him that I love him right now. He already fucking knows, and saying it would be like saying goodbye.
I refuse to do that
Besides, like he just said, we’re out of time. We have to do this right the fuck now, before we lose the element of surprise.
We have to move before they do anything to Dante that we won’t be able to save him from.
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MADDOC
I kiss Riley,hard and fast, then force myself to put her out of my mind. Logan will keep her close, and with everyone moving into their positions I need to find a way into McKenna’s house so I’m ready when they signal.
I move quickly and stealthily around to the back, staying behind cover as much as I can. McKenna’s security is for shit, and I’ve got no doubt at all that his arrogance makes him think he doesn’t need as much since this place is in the very center of his territory.
If I ever had any respect for him, that level of stupidity would have lost it right there.
Of course, I never did, so it’s not an issue.
I finally spot a promising window near the back. From what I can see, it leads into a utility room or some shit. Even better for me, some fuckhead has it cracked open, and periodic plumes of cigarette smoke escape. It means I’ll have to take him out when I go in, but if he’s stupid enough to screw with security measures just to sneak in a smoke, then it’s safe to say that isn’t going to be much of a problem.
We didn’t have long to plan, but I’m not worried, because the plan is really fucking simple. My people will attack the house from every fucking angle, and once that shit starts, I’ll go in and get my brother.
My phone vibrates with the signal to start the attack, and all hell breaks loose in the quiet residential neighborhood McKenna’s holed himself up in.
I move the moment the chaos starts, shoving the cracked window open and taking the smoker out in the blink of an eye. Then I’m in, and my focus sharpens.
We don’t know the layout of this place.
We have no idea how many men McKenna has here.
We don’t even know if Dante fuckingishere, but I can’t worry about any of that shit, and I sure as hell can’t let my fears for my family cripple me. The only way forward is to close my mind off from worrying about each of them. I can’t change what’s happening to Dante until I find him, and I can’t afford a single thought for Riley or Logan right now. All I can do is what I came to: push forward, step by step, and do what needs to be done.
I was right that this is some kind of utility room, and I crack the door open to find utter chaos.
My lips pull back. Not quite a grin, just an expression of feral satisfaction born of primal rage.
All through the house, Reapers are wreaking havoc, but shouts in the distance let me know that more mercs are on the way for backup, so the tide’s gonna turn on us fast.
I can’t let that happen.
I need to get this shit done before McKenna’s mercenaries flank my people and outnumber us.
I pull out my trench knife, fitting my fingers through the brass knuckles and ignoring the ache as the final hole rubs against the stump of my missing one, then pick a direction and move, rounding a corner to find two of McKenna’s people in a firefight with mine.
I duck low, coming up behind them, and take the one on the left out just as one of my Reapers finally drops the other.
But not before the fucking weasel clips his shoulder with a bullet.
“Fuck,” he grunts, spinning backward from the force of it.
It’s Isaac.
