AllFreeNovel
Share Us
Silas whispered, “Ever ride a motorcycle?”
Dev met Silas’s gaze and nodded. “I had one for years as my primary mode of transportation.”
Silas gave Dev a tight smile. “Take mine.”
“You sure?” Dev asked.
The man nodded. “If it were my girl, I’d already be halfway there.”
“Hawk,” Dev said, “I’m taking Silas’s bike. Meet me at the address Swede gave us. I’ll need backup.”
“Loading up now,” Hawk said. “See you there.”
Dev sprinted to Silas’s motorcycle with Silas on his heels. He slung his leg over the seat and listened as the biker showed him how to start the machine and shift gears. Thankfully, it was very much like the motorcycle Dev had owned for years.
Silas stood back. “Good luck.”
“Thanks.” Dev clipped his cell phone into a skeleton-shaped phone holder and brought up the directions to the address Swede had sent. Then he twisted the throttle and sent the motorcycle screaming down the street, praying he’d find Kiana there. If he didn’t, he had no idea where else to look.
She had to be there. And if she was, she was probably surrounded by more of the Demons who hadn’t been rounded up at the drug exchange.
Hawk would gather as many of the Brotherhood Protectors as he could, along with the SEAL Team 1 contingent, and be there within minutes of Dev.
Dev weaved through the streets of Honolulu, out onto Highway 1 and then onto the road leading up into Kahili Valley. He turned off the highway onto a paved road that led up a mountain to a massive iron gate. An eight-foot-high concrete block fence stretched in either direction from the gate, disappearing into the jungle. On top of the gate perched a small black camera.
Knowing someone was on the other end of the video surveillance, Dev turned around and headed back the way he’d come as if he was lost and figured he had taken a wrong turn.
As soon as he rounded a curve in the road and was out of sight of the gate and its camera, he pulled off the road, dismounted and waited for the others to catch up. He wouldn’t wait long. If they didn’t show up quickly, he’d go on without them.
Less than a minute later, several vehicles roared up the road toward him. Dev stepped out of the shadows and waved them down.
Two rental cars and three SUVs pulled to a stop, one behind the other.
Hawk, Rex, Angel and Teller leaped out of the first rental car and joined him. The others gathered around.
Dev explained the gate and fence situation.
“We’ll scale the wall out of view of the camera,” Dev said. “Assume there will be surveillance equipment and guards inside the walls, positioned throughout the compound.”
Not waiting for any further deliberation, he spun on his heel and led the way through the woods to a position further down the fence line, away from the gate and its surveillance camera.
They had no proof Kiana or Meredith were within the walls. If they weren’t, they risked being caught and charged with trespassing or, worse, getting shot for trespassing.
Dev was willing to take that risk. If Kiana was inside, he had to get to her. His gut was screaming for him to hurry. One thing he’d learned in all his years in the Marines was that his instinct was never wrong.
Chapter 17
“Bullshit,” Kiana said between gritted teeth as she lay strapped to the gurney. She refused to be a victim of Mercer’s insanity. She had an hour before the transplant would take place. A lot could happen in one hour.
“You heard the man,” Kiana said softly. “We have one hour to figure out how to free ourselves from our restraints and get the hell out of Mercer’s compound.”
“How?” Meredith pulled at the straps securing her arms, wrists, ankles and body to the gurney. “I can’t move anything.”
Kiana tugged at the straps holding her down, even trying to wiggle her way out from under them, but they were pulled tight.
Desperate to be free, she jerked her body, rocking it back and forth until the gurney wheels banged against the ground. The gurney was heavy-duty, with emphasis on heavy, and designed so that it wouldn’t easily flip over. The wheels had been locked to keep it from rolling. It wasn’t going anywhere.
“There has to be a way out of this,” Kiana said. She leaned her head as far forward as she could, hoping to reach the strap across her chest with the idea of gnawing through it. She wasn’t even close.
