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“Bravo team on scene. Parking three houses down,” Jonesy cuts in.
“Kri, you stay in the van with the one you knocked out,” I advise her. “I need you to keep watch for incoming tangos.”
“Copy,” she replies in a clipped tone. She probably dislikes being benched, but she’s not back to work yet. Plus, I need eyes on that side of the road, especially having pulled Aaron. And we damn sure aren’t leaving the unconscious one alone in the car.
Junior comes over comms. “I’ve got Savin with me to identify the girl he needs us to remove.”
“Fuck that. We’re taking them all,” Klein decrees. “We’ve got three vehicles on scene. We can get them all out.”
My heart thumps louder. My sweet little hero.
“Anyone object to that?” I ask. “Speak now or get fucked.”
No one objects because they all have hero complexes. And the girls inside are lucky they do. This team has likely saved countless others in the past, and they’ll continue to do so in the future.
And I’ll be helping them every step of the way.
Pride fills me at the thought of all the good I’ll be a part of here.
Junior announces he’s returning the informant to the van since we no longer need him on the scene. If his girl is in there, we’ll get her out with the others.
Tomer whispers an update to the group. “I can confirm the northwest interior bedroom door is closed, and no tangos in here. I’m infilling through the window.”
A collective hush falls over the team, the comms going eerily silent as we listen to what happens once he’s inside.
I keep an eye on Aaron’s chest cam feed. When he gets to the window, the soles of Tomer’s boots are all I see.
“T, should I follow?” he asks.
“Hold,” Tomer whispers.
Now on the scene, alpha team surrounds the property with weapons drawn. I direct them to potential infil points.
“Okay. I’m in,” Tomer announces softly. “Any movement from the kitchen, Shep?”
“Negative.”
Everyone remains silent, listening to Tomer try to rouse the girls in a hushed timbre.
A few seconds later, he gives us an update. “No sign of Lettie. I’ve got pulses on the three girls. They’re alive. One is groggy but waking. The other two are out cold.”
Well, that complicates the exfil.
“Can you lift them?” I ask. “Pass them to Aaron out the window?”
“Not yet. We get Lettie first.”
I bite my tongue, drawing blood. I want to tell him no, but I won’t do it.
Not that it would matter.
Tomer is a one-man Lettie Holt retrieval system tonight. He’s wearing blinders to block out everything else.
“Shep, move to the east side to prepare for infil through that bedroom window. We can assume if they haven’t heard Tomer by now, they aren’t going to. Entering through the windows on each side is our best bet, and then you guys will meet in the middle, where the hostiles are concentrated.”
What am I missing? Think, think, think.
Is there any other way I can get them all inside without flash bangs and bullets ringing out?
