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Where the hell was she?
“What’s the plan?”
Nitro turned to Eveque after another scan along the Bat-tie grounds. “Her being here already is the plan.”
“Belle Eveque just told me they spotted her at the ferry with your boy Seth and her feathered friends.”
Nitro’s guts loosened and Eveque chuckled. “Mon Freire, you act like a man who put his dick in it.”
“I put alotmore than that in it,” he assured as 8-Bit and Hurricane came into the dug-out area where Nitro waited with seven of his men. Basically to play capture the flag with her bats if he understood correctly.
“What’s all these ruffled feathers I’m seeing?” Hurricane muttered on his right, the hard clamp on his shoulder giving him punching urges.
Ever since 8-Bit handed over his intel on Jake Drysdale and his dirty brotherRay, he’d wanted something to hurt. Instead, he had to piss Felix off. But after talking to Seth about what she said those birds could do, he needed to see it for himself. She’d agreed but wanted to use an animal to demonstrate. He needed to know if they’d attack a human. A human threat. And if they could, then he wanted them in their army for the upcoming war.
“If one of you manages to catch a flag, just let them know not to be aggressive. If they sense I’m scared or getting hurt, they could attack.”
“Don’t you have signals for that?”
“I do, but they’re smart creatures and protective. I just don’t want to take a chance.”
Well, he wanted to take a chance and would. The question was how he’d get them to attack.
“Don’t overthink it,” Eveque called back, heading to the stands with Hurricane.
Too late.
Nitro turned to his men. “Hey,” he yelled, getting their attention. “Remember the goal is to capture a flag. We just needone.Get the rest of your gear ready, she’s about to get to the field. There’ll be entertainment before the main event but not sure how long that’ll last.”
They yelled out their Hatch’sBoomBoomChakalakaBoomBoomgame chant, getting roaring answers from the crowds already packing the stadium. Felt a lot like one of their annual football games between the Hatches with them all in uniform. That was for protection from any possible bat attacks. Felix was positive they were all healthy birds, but he wasn’t taking any chances with one of his men getting bitten. He’d even had them add screen over the front of their helmets for eye protection. Last thing he needed was one of them accidentally blinded before a war.
With their Hatch colors being black and gold, they resembled numbered royal crows, the golden crests on their chests matching his tattoo with their Hatch insignia.
The sound of applause drew his gaze to the field where his Petite Rebelle entered waving and smiling with her huge falcon perched on her shoulder. She stopped in the center of the field as a covered cage was pulled by a tractor.
As it got parked on the edge while Felix looked around. When her eyes reached their dug-out, he waved, getting her attention. Her smile bloomed when she recognized him before she hurried across the field to him.
He met her halfway, remembering they were supposed to be somewhat at odds. “No hugging,” he reminded her.
“Right,” she gasped, not quite wiping her grin from her face. “You told them the rules?”
“I did.”
“No aggression.”
“Right.” He still wasn’t sure how them trying togetto her wasn’t seen asaggressive.“How long before we’re up?”
“Maybe thirty minutes. I don’t want to overdo it. They’ve never performed for a big crowd like this so I’m keeping it simple.”
“Good idea.” Nitro caught Bishop’s wave from the bleachers. He pointed to his own phone and Nitro acknowledged with a salute.
“I’ll be the last one to try for the flag,” he told her. “Good luck Mah Petite Rebelle.”
“Same to you, Mah Bien Monsieur.”
He headed back before he gave in to the urge to kiss that smirk off her pretty face while wondering what Eveque wanted. He found his phone on the bench and dialed him. “Hey.”
“We have company here.”
