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“He’s never used the button, but he’s called several times to report suspicious activity. He’s one of my well-known affiliates, but he’s also one of the more important ones.”
She nodded as we pulled up in front of a building swarmed by my soldiers.
“Stay here.”
She scoffed and reached for the center console, grabbing a backup firearm I kept there and loading it. “Nice try.”
Sienna left the car before I had a chance to move, and I audibly groaned at the hardheaded woman who would certainly be the death of me if she insisted on being in the center of all dangerous situations.
I stood from the car. “You have experience in shit like this?”
She only shot me an exasperated look and nodded.
Of course, she did.
My soldiers moved around me quickly, waiting for orders on how to approach the situation. “This will be a trap, but we have an asset inside. Only shoot a target you won’t miss, and stay in your assigned lines. Clear the building and find Mr. Frazier. When he’s acquired, get him out safely.”
I could feel the silence around me. My soldiers all spoke as they got into their flawless lines. The sound of movement remained steady, but the silence of the street around me was jarring.
Anyone inside knew we were there, but no bullets flew.
“Go,” I ordered, my chest tightening as I gave the order.
Immediately, everyone burst into the building, and gunfire immediately exploded from everywhere. Sienna settled at my side as she watched our men explode into the warehouse alongside me.
“Is this normal?” she asked.
“I don’t know why someone would take him,” I admitted. “It’s not adding up.”
“Why are we not going inside?”
“It’s a trap.”
She looked over at me. “So you’re sending them?”
“It’s a trap for me, not my men. Mr. Frazier is an asset that I can’t lose. We need to get him out, and I have a feeling that if I go inside, there will be more of a threat than with me standing out here.”
She paused before sucking in a sharp breath. “I think you’re right.” I glanced down at her as she tapped her gun against her leg over and over again. “I gave Valentino the name of a law office. His header was on a document I saw in your office, and it was some of the information I sent. I didn’t think it was relevant, but…”
I ground my teeth. We’d reviewed the information she sent, but that hadn’t come up.
“I forgot about it until now. So much happened between me finding the information and now. It seemed so irrelevant at the time. Nothing I sent felt important, so I didn’t think about it. God, I’m so sorry.”
It didn’t matter. Valentino would have used something else if not this, and from the devastation on her face, I could tell this had been far from intentional.
The gunfire continued, and I watched as two of my soldiers came back out the front door, carrying a man between them. I knew exactly who they carried, and from the blood covering his entire shirt, I knew he wasn’t alive. Not anymore. He’d likely been shot at the same time as the panic button had been pressed, and it had been used to draw us here.
They placed his body on the ground before us before rushing back inside, rifles raised.
I bent and felt for his pulse, sighing when I found nothing.
“This was him?” she asked, kneeling and pressing a hand to his face, closing the sightless eyes. I only nodded and stared into the building.
Six of my soldiers streamed out of the building in rapid succession, and I tensed as two of them fell from gunshot wounds, another stumbling out of the way.
“Cover,” I shouted at Sienna, though she was already moving behind the nearest car, gun withdrawn. I did the same, and when a small horde of men left the building, my eyes caught on to what they carried.
I understood why my soldiers had run rather than fight.
