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The loud club music roared into the night until it suddenly stopped, and the entire property was cloaked in darkness.
I sprinted the last bit, latched on to the top of the wall, and threw myself over it to the sound of the initial confusion from the guests. Shouts of complaints.Where’s the music? What happened? Come on, man! Don’t kill the party!I knew I had a handful of seconds before people were gonna start turning on the flashlights on their phones. I jogged over to the patio and moved seamlessly between the groups of people.
My focus sharpened; I was catapulted right back to the times when all this had come naturally. I zeroed in on guards and gave River the green light. A couple women in bikinis began chanting for the lights to come back on, which prompted others to follow.
“Lights back on! Lights back on! Lights back on!”
Idiots.
A second later, the first shot cracked through the air.
That ended the fun.
Several guests screamed in terror, while others scattered.
I unholstered both my handguns and found a strange calm in the mayhem where only I could see clearly. No matter how fast someone was, emptying a backyard of over fifty people took time, and most civilians couldn’t handle themselves for shit in a crisis. The second I spotted a guard, I aimed at his head and fired. River caused a few to drop too, and it was officially chaos on the patio.
“Someone call 9-1-1!” a guy sobbed.
“Help me!” a girl screamed.
“Target running toward the stairs,” River stated. “I can’t see farther than that.”
I hurried after, pushing past a handful of guests and killing another guard on the way.
I counted three other shots that didn’t come from us.
At the bottom of the stairs, just past the living room, I fired at one of Luiz’s personal guards. Then I was darting up the stairs, and River told me to go right. It was the logical direction—where Luiz had his office. My ears rang loudly, my breaths came out rapid and shallow—
“Fuck,” I exhaled, almost ramming into one of the guards. I immediately flinched forward and shoved him away from me, only to get enough distance between us to shoot him in the head.
I heard yelling from inside the office—
“He has at least one guard with him in there.” River spoke quickly. “Three are dead.”
I fired at the lock, then stepped back and put all my strength into a kick, and the door loosened from its hinges.
With another kick, the door flew open, and I shot the man coming at me before he could lift his gun.
“Who are you?” Luiz yelled from behind his desk. “You don’t know what the fuck you’re getting yourself into! Do you know who I am?”
I didn’t answer. I couldn’t fucking see—piece-of-shit night vision was too grainy when I needed details.
“Power back on,” I growled. As Luiz lifted his gun, I shot him in his arm, and he dropped the weapon with a scream. Then the lights flicked back on, and I ran over to the desk and freed up my hands. I grabbed the guy by his throat, shoved him up against the window, and punched him hard in the liver. He choked out another scream, and I pressed my thumb and forefinger to his carotid arteries before I grabbed a fistful of his hair and slammed the back of his head against the window.
He dropped like a sack of shit, unconscious.
“Law enforcement on its way,” Ramirez told me. “We have six 9-1-1 calls in the last ten seconds.”
Copy that. With a final blow to Luiz’s trachea, I estimated I had at least a minute or two before he’d come to.
“Coast is clear,” Ramirez continued. “Don’t face the camera that’s by the stairs on the left. The upstairs is empty.”
Good to know.
Thank fuck this guy was scrawny. I grunted as I hauled him up and threw him over my shoulder.
I grabbed my guns, leaving nothing behind.
