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Adrenaline pumped through my veins as I turned the corner to the warehouse where Pierce had told me to meet him. I was so close to the goal we’d worked toward the past three years.
So close to freedom.
I found him leaning against his car, the scowl that seemed perpetually etched into his face in place. Alarm bells rang in the back of my mind as I took in the otherwise empty parking lot.
“Where is everyone else?” Slowing to a stop several feet away, I watched his scowl deepen, and those alarm bells rang even louder.
“Inside, waiting for you. Come on.”
“Where are they parked?” Suspicion niggled at my brain, but my mind instantly rebelled. This was Pierce, my handler. The man who had been walking me through my undercover assignments for years.
One of the few people on this Earth I trusted with my life.
“Around the side. Are you coming, or what?”
“Yes, I am coming.” Falling into step behind him, I let my gaze scan the area around the warehouse. Far enough away from the bustling crowds, it was the perfect spot for an ambush.
Pierce yanked open the front door and I followed him inside, our footsteps echoing through the cavernous, empty space. Each step bringing me closer and closer to retribution. To the moment I could look Cole in the eyes and tell him the man who had murdered his sweet, innocent cousin was finally behind bars, that we could both move on with our lives now that he was no longer a threat.
With Giorgio taken care of, would Cole be willing to go straight for me? Even as the thought entered my mind, I realized I didn’t care. I’d been undercover long enough to understand the world wasn’t as black and white as I’d once considered it. That most people lived within those shades of gray, myself included. Unlike Giorgio, Cole was the type of criminal with his own moral code, one he would defend with blood if it came to it.
It was a code I understood, and one I could live by, if he was willing to forgive me when this was all said and done.
Suddenly itching to get this over with so I could return to him, I picked up my pace, hurrying to keep up with Pierce’s long strides.
We made our way past the rows and rows of empty shelves inside the warehouse to another door. This time when Pierce opened the door, he stood off to the side to allow me to walk ahead of him. I stepped through, my brain freezing as I struggled to make sense of the sight in front of me. And when the cold metal of Pierce’s handgun pressed against my spine, I knew I had been right about one thing.
This was the perfect place for an ambush.
Cole
“Where the fuck could she be?”
“I don’t know, boss, I’m working as fast as I can.” The irritation in Mikey’s tone did little to settle my own nerves. “Either her phone is off, or she has some kind of blocker on it that’s preventing me from tracking it.”
If either of those options were true, she was just racking up the reasons for me to spank the daylights out of her when she was finally safe.
In the meantime, we had to figure out another way to track her down. Closing my eyes, I struggled to think through the worry and fear, to find any straw to cling to that might help us get to her. “What about Giorgio?”
“What about him?”
“Can you track his phone? If it’s a trap, she’s wherever he is.” The phone fell silent, and I snarled at the device. “Well?”
“That’s fucking brilliant, and I’m pissed I didn’t think of it,” Mikey growled back. “Yeah, I’ve got him and he’s definitely not at his estate. If he’d make a goddamned call, I might be able to pinpoint his location for you.”
As if he’d spoken it into existence, a new call appeared on my screen. “I think we’ve got him. Hold, and keep doing what you’re doing.”
“Got it, boss.”
Hitting the button to answer the new call, I forced the fury from my tone. The last thing I needed was to tip him off that I knew something was up and lose my one chance at tracking them down. “Giorgio.”
“Are you psychic now, Porter?”
At the sound of his voice, the fury came rushing back, a red haze coloring my vision. “No, you’re just that damn predictable.”
“We’ll see about that. I’ve got someone here you might want to say hello to.”
“Cole, don’t you dare come for me, it’s a trap!”
