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“Twenty for me,” Aaron chimed in. “I’m calling reinforcements. The DEA is sending more agents.”
“I’ll wait for you before approaching the building,” Danny promised. “We need to make a plan.”
“Get them out and kill them. That’s the plan.” Zach’s tone was lethal, and he seemed indeed ready to murder.
“We can’t just barge in. That’ll get them killed.” I couldn’t believe I was being the voice of reason. That was the beauty of being part of a family, though. Whenever one of us was freaking out, the other one would bring stability and restore balance.
I was part of a family. A family that included my woman and honorary sister, and I’d be damned if I lost any of them.
The company was isolated and surrounded by gravel. It seemed every sound had its own amplifier. Even though it’d snowed the day before, I’d cleaned so we could drive around. I should’ve been lazier and left the snow there so it could muffle our sound.
“We’re here,” I announced as I caught sight of Danny’s car.
“Don’t hang up,” Aaron stressed.“Keep me in the loop.”
I jumped out of the car and marched to Danny. He was already with a laptop open, trying to access the cameras we’d installed.
To keep himself occupied, Zach kept calling the phones we had around the company, only to curse every time no one picked it up. We had them exactly for those kinds of situations. I never really thought we’d need them.
We huddled closer to Danny to watch the feeds. Our offices and the rooms upstairs were empty. So was the gym downstairs. The danger was on the level floor.
“I’m counting five men in the storage, but there seems to be more. Two of them are injured.” Danny’s fast fingers portrayed our agitation.
We were so entranced by that nightmare, it took us a while to realize my phone was ringing inside Zach’s tense palm. When I saw Mia’s name as the caller, I snatched my phone to answer.
“Mia!”
“Hello, son.” My skin prickled at his voice, fear once again engulfing me, making me feel like the long-gone little boy almost beaten to death so many times.
“Fucking son of a bitch.” Zach and Danny were alert at my lethal voice.
The devil just laughed. “Once again, we all get together. It’s been so long.”
“I swear to God, you won’t get out of here alive.”
My stomach dropped when Danny accessed the conference room. I watched, horrified at seeing Mia and Izzie tied to chairs in our conference room, while Michael and another man from the cartel cornered the women.
“Fuck!” Zach exploded.
“I’m gonna kill that son of a bitch,” Danny vowed under his breath.
“I see you already know I’m in wonderful company. I’d love it if you could join us, but you’d only get in our way. Your girls and I have so much to do.” His threat sent a chill down my spine.
“This has nothing to do with either of them. I’m the one you want, they mean nothing to you.”
“But they mean everything to you. I’d love to know which of these bitches called you. Maybe they’ll tell my loving son.”
From the security feed, we could see Michael heading to Izzie as another man watched annoyed from the door. The devil ran his finger over my Forest’s cheek, making her coil in disgust and fear, although she still stared him in the eyes, and I couldn’t be prouder of her.
“I can’t deny you have wonderful taste, son. Such beauty should be explored, cherished.”
I was vibrating in place. I could sense Danny stepping behind me to keep them from invading the building and risking them all.
“I’ll take immense pleasure in cutting off each one of her fingers.” Still laughing, he marched to Mia and grabbed her by her hair to pull her head back. “I knew I should’ve killed her when I had the chance. Any last words to my dearest son?” He punched her face, keeping Izzie at gunpoint, which was unnecessary since she seemed to be tied.
“Why don’t you hit me again?” Mia provoked him. “Ben will need time to get inside. Waste your time on me.” He threw another swing at her face. “Tic tac, tic tac,” she sang, urging him on as I was frozen in place. He punched her again as she laughed.
The annoyed man at the door chimed in, “We gotta go. Whatever you have to do, do it quickly.”
