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She heard Maizie say something through the phone but couldn’t make out the words.
Kenna said, “Hang up. Leave her out of this.”
Kart chuckled. “Is that right, kid? ’Cause I don’t think so.” He paused. “I guess we’ll see about—” He stiffened.
What was Maizie…
“You drain my bank accounts and you’re dead, girl. And I’ll kill Kenna. I don’t do threats, so you can trust me, that’s the stone-cold truth.” He whirled around and jogged to the door. “If I get to my computer and you’ve—” He disappeared through the door.
Kenna glanced around. Moaned. “Maizie.”
There was no one else in here with her, just Benjamin—who was dead—and Ramon. Her former colleague had lost enough blood that his face had paled, his skin nearly translucent.
“Hang on, Ramon. I’m going to get you out of here.”
An explosion rocked the building.
Kenna sucked in a gasp and had to cough it out. Ramon was out, completely unconscious. She didn’t want to let off pressure on his wound, but she was the only one in here with him and Benjamin—who she really hoped was actually dead and not just out of it.
“Come on.” Whoever was here…
Kenna shuddered.
Focus.
She patted Ramon’s pockets but found nothing. Which stood to reason if they’d taken his things when he came into the compound.
Another explosion rattled the building, shaking the windows. Dust rained down from the ceiling.
Kenna lifted Ramon’s hand and laid it on the towel. As soon as she let go, it would likely slip off, but she needed a phone or a weapon. Preferably both. She raced over to Benjamin’s body and checked his pulse first. The injury on the side of his forehead was nasty. She found no sign of life.I guess you finished him for good, Ramon.
Gunfire rattled outside, a steady hammering of shots in quick succession. It sounded like war outside the window, but she couldn’t worry about what was happening. Or whether it really was Stairns. Could he really be here? If he was, then he needed to help her get Ramon out.
She wasn’t about to leave one of Navarro’s men in this compound.
Kenna found a knife on Benjamin’s belt. She folded the blade out of the handle. The door flung open, and she pointed it at the men who poured in. As if a knife was a match to a gun.
“Come.” The first man waved her with him. “Vamanos.”
Another one of them lifted Ramon over his shoulder.
“Careful.” Kenna followed them to the door. “His shoulder.”
The man who’d ordered her to come with them looked at her with a note of confusion in his expression. He didn’t speak enough English? She pointed at his gun. Then at her shoulder. Then said, “Ramon.”
He nodded. “Come.”
She went ahead of him, part of a huddle. They backtracked through a couple of hallways before emerging outside. The men were already loading Ramon into a van.
Kenna climbed in the back.
She was either being kidnapped by Navarro, or this really was the rescue operation she wanted to believe it might be.
The van door slid closed and set off. Everyone rocked with the sudden movement. Each building in the compound was decimated. They’d laid waste to the whole place.
She gasped. “Is everyone dead?”
No one answered.
