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"Yes." Benedetto holds me tight. "We’ll save all of them. We don't have much time because the Antonovs are going to blow this building to smithereens any second."
I stare into Benedetto's eyes and exhale a breath of wonderment. My memories are returning. I glance toward the ceiling once again, but whoever was there was gone.
My heart skips a beat when I think it was Ollie. But not just him.
Three voices emanated from the air duct. Ollie… Sparrow andFinn.
I nearly pass out from excitement when I recall my two friends’ names. Of course, I'm such a fucking idiot. How could I forget?
I was the fourth member of their group, but they were the badasses. They did all the work the day I escaped.
Benedetto grabs his cell phone from the conference room table. "I texted Nikolai Antonov to blow this place up in exactly thirty minutes. We have half an hour to rescue your friends."
I rush toward the dead guards and grab the silver key rings off their belts.
I recognize them at once.
They’re the same rings used to unlock us earlier tonight.
There are three key rings in total, each with keys to every cage in the building. I hand them to Daddy.
"Let's go."
I hold Daddy's hand as he leads me out of the room. I breathe out a breath of relief as the cool air in the hallway smacks into my face, dispelling the smoke. Benedetto rubs my eyes and presses me flush with his body. He holds one of the machine guns the dead guards threatened him with.
"Which way to your friends?" Benedetto turns to me.
"That way, Daddy." I point to a locked door down the hall. "That's the door they took us through."
Just then two men burst out of another door. They hold up guns and snarl at us. "Get on the fucking ground."
Constantine and Gianluca step out of the conference room. "Not today, motherfuckers."
They raise their machine guns and fire a barrage of bullets into the guards.
Ratata.
The guards scream as the bullets pierce their flesh and send their limbs flying off. Their bodies slam against the end of the hallway and splatter against the concrete wall.
Smoke billows out of the ends of Constantine and Gianluca’s guns.
"Daddy." Rusty hugs Gianluca as hard as he can. "You killed the bad guys, Daddy."
"Hurry, baby boy." Gianluca scoops Rusty into his arms, then snares his lips in a kiss. "We must rescue the boys."
Benedetto turns to me. "Tell us where the rooms are."
"Room A is that way." I point to the right when we step through the door I motioned to a minute ago. "Room B is in front of us. Room C is to the left."
"You head to Room A and clear it." Benedetto turns to Constantine and Arlo and hands them one set of keys. The keys say Room A. "Gianluca and Rusty will clear Room C." He hands Gianluca the Room C keys.
"What room will we clear, Daddy?" I query.
Benedetto lets out a growl as he pulls me close. "Room B. The room they kept you in for so long."
We head toward the rooms and get to work. There's not much time to get the boys out of the cages. Thank fuck Benedetto and I work like maniacs. We unlock every cage we see and tell the boys to hurry out.
One boy sniffles as he turns up to me. "This is a trap. I'm not leaving."
