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The driver slowed.
She peered out the windshield. The gate had been broken open, and the men who’d been on guard at the compound now lay sprawled in the dirt. Bullet wounds. Blood everywhere. Multiple shots, until the shooter could be certain the person was dead.
The gate had been rammed at high speed with something big and heavy enough to bend the gate. It had happened fast and hard.
“Navarro.” Benjamin swore again. “He did this while we were in town!”
The driver hit the gas and raced to the forecourt between buildings. The semi had left, but she didn’t know when. Kenna sat completely still while they jumped out and ran around yelling.
Another attack.
But Navarro’s men, or someone else? Ramon hadn’t been at the meeting. Maybe this was his doing.
One of Kart’s guys, a local, ducked his head in the open door to her left. “You know what happened?” He spoke in broken accented English.
She shot him a look to encapsulate her answer, then faced front again and closed her eyes.
Protect us.
She had no idea what went on here, or what was about to happen. This could be the start of a deadly battle between Kart and Navarro that swelled into bloodshed and all-out war. And meant she would have the opportunity to escape.
Help us.
Prayer still felt awkward, but she had become more used to it. Desperation was a good teacher.
She opened her eyes and spotted the keys still in the ignition.
Freedom.
But not for Jax.
She might be able to… Had to…
Kenna grabbed the front seats. She moaned against the pain but hauled herself through to the front. She got her long legs bent, folded into the driver’s side. Door open. All the doors were open.
She twisted the key.
A punishing grip wrapped around her arm and dragged her out of the car onto the ground. Her hip slammed the dirt, and she lay there without the strength to move.
“I told you.” Kart stood over her. “You aren’t going anywhere.”
Kenna stared at his boots, her mind an eerie kind of calm she didn’t like. It would lead to her losing hope. Having nothing to grasp onto.
“You knew he would be gone.”
She blinked and looked up at him.
“Who did you tell?”
“What?” She managed to choke out the word.
“You timed it well. I’ll give you that. They came in hard, ignored the operation entirely, and got your boy out.”
“Jax…”
Kart chuckled, a dark sound. “He’s gone.”
Kenna sucked in a breath. The one hand she had bracing herself up with gave out, and she slammed onto the ground. Her face hit the dirt. Pain slammed through her head, and she coughed against the dirt.
