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My girl is here after all.
The fence opens up in front of us and another synchronized swim thing occurs with the guys on my 12, opening up the way for me to enter—exit?—into the second clear alley. Behind me, they do a similar thing as we pile into several blacked-out SUVs, some of which will stay behind to collect my bandmates and brother.
Nerves eat at my stomach as I settle in. The car rocks with Ian’s door slam at the driver’s position, Lugh taking up point on the passenger side, but no one else enters the vehicle.
“Where is she?” I ask from the middle of the back seat like a kid requesting arrival time. Partly to get on Ian’s nerves, but mostly because I’m nervous and I don’t want her hurt.
Physically or otherwise.
No one can see that she just came with us.
No one can find out that she knows me.
“They’re coming with,” Ian grumbles to the window as he peers over his shoulder, steering us out onto the road and into traffic along with two other SUVs.
They?
I furrow my brow and look behind us to see if I can see anything.
Blacked out SUV, stupid. Nice try.
I huff but flop back with arms crossed.
“I only heard Aria.” Pushing my hair out of my face, I catch Ian’s rolling baby blues in the rearview.
“Ian to Sentry, confirm our guests.”
Guests … Plural …
Silence falls over the cab of the car as chatter sounds from both men’s earpieces, Lugh making no effort to engage in any of my antics or the conversation going on next to his head.
“Two females ID’d as Aria and Aurora Scarlett. In the third car back.” Ian eases the car into a turn as he conveys the information, eyes to the road then flicking to the rearview for sight of the vehicles behind us.
“Why isn’t she in the middle car, Ian.” My nerves dive for a different reason this time. My question, more of a statement of ‘what the actual fuck,’ coming out clipped and demanding.
Doing this as much as I have, I know that the payload is supposed to be in the middle car to prevent tails or pins by suspicious vehicles.
So why the hell am I in the front and she’s all the way back there?
“We have two fucking payloads, Rex. Now shut up and enjoy the ride.” Lugh gives a disapproving grunt like my questions are getting on his nerves, too, but taps his earpiece like he’s trying to hear better.
“Boss …”
“I fucking heard.” Ian veers off, taking a sudden turn down a side street and then another that doesn’t seem to have been part of the plan.
“What’s going on?” My question goes unanswered as Lugh taps Ian’s arm and makes a signal with his hand that I don’t get, but Ian acknowledges it and speeds up. “Guys?”
I snap my seatbelt in place when Ian takes another corner like Mario Andretti and nearly has me slamming into the door from the center seat.
“Jesus.” Ian thinks he speaks under his breath, but his words are audible enough to send me into a panic.
“What the hell is going on?” Another sigh, another look passes between the two in the front without any indication to me that they know I’m fucking back here.
Goddammit.
“She better not be fucking hurt, you numb nuts.” I grip the seat to keep from flying around the back despite my restraints as Ian floors the car, the engine roaring to life.
“She’ll be fine.” Lugh grunts, Ian meeting my gaze in the rearview again. He knows better than to keep me out of the loop.
