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“Copy that, sir, and thanks,” I responded.
“I don’t need to remind you everyone inside needs to remain alive. The good guys and the bad.”
“Copy that,” I repeated.
We arrivedin Yavaros shortly after nineteen hundred hours. We wouldn’t deploy the op until after the sun had completely set, which gave us two hours to review the plan for the raid and get everyone in position.
I sent the coordinates of where we’d meet my point person with Los Caballeros. Once I saw they’d arrived, I came out.
“Your job, tonight, is to stay out of the way and as invisible as possible until we need you,” I said, making eye contact with each of the three men, reiterating what was said in the brief they’d received and handing them a comms device.
Before returning to the command center, I got a reading on the container Razor had already confirmed was the one holding our victims. Then, there had been thirteen inside—no movement other than breathing. The latest reading from the Doppler device I held in my hand indicated sixteen, with three actively moving around. That meant we were ready to roll.
At twenty-one hundred hours on the dot, Gunner Godet issued the command to move out.
When the six of us entered the container in full tactical gear, the first thing I saw was Manual Varilla standing with a gun to a woman’s head. She was bound, gagged, and blindfolded.
“Let her go, Varilla. The container is surrounded. There’s no way out,” I shouted.
“You let me go, or she’ll die,” the asshole shouted back at me.
“If she dies, you die.”
“Traer el coche.”
“Goddammit,” said Gunner. “The fucker just called for backup.”
“Four incoming,” one of the Los Caballeros guys said through the comms.
“Take ’em out!”I responded. I heard three shots followed by confirmation there were that many down. A few seconds later, I heard two more. One was from outside the container and another directly in front of me.
If we’d had another two or three seconds, Cayman and Puck would’ve neutralized Varilla. Instead, he shot the woman he’d had his gun trained on. “Goddammit!You stupid motherfucker!” I shouted.
“She’s dead,” Cayman reported.
“He’s not,” said Puck, who was holding a gun to Varilla’s head. I couldn’t remember a time I’d wanted to issue a kill order more.
I looked behind me and saw Kodiak had one of Varilla’s accomplices on the floor and was cuffing him while Razor did the same to the other.
Now the fun would begin—interrogating the motherfuckers. No one would kill Varilla, but we’d make damn sure he wished someone had.
“Follow me,”said Gunner, leading me outside the container. “The first thing we want to know is if Luisa Reeve is alive and, if she is, her twenty. I know that might go against your plan of attack, but I’m giving you a direct order.”
“Yes, sir,” I responded.
“Then, we’ll get him to give up everything else. Got it?”
“Yes, sir,” I repeated.
Gunner raised a brow. “You’re sure?”
“I don’t have an agenda. Whatever we want out of him, we’ll get, in whatever priority you order us to.”
He studied me. “I like you, Ares.”
“Thanks, sir,” I said, letting out the breath I’d been holding. There were only a handful of people who intimidated me. Gunner Godet was definitely one of them.
The two menVarilla had brought with him were giving everything up they said they knew before I even reached the command center.
