Total pages in book: 168
Estimated words: 169013 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 845(@200wpm)___ 676(@250wpm)___ 563(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 169013 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 845(@200wpm)___ 676(@250wpm)___ 563(@300wpm)
My crew began to segment off.
Teams heading to the different drop sites and the safehouse, while the rest of us barreled toward the compound.
Our only hope was that Kent had no clue about the magnitude of our hit. Had no clue that we intended to completely wipe them out. That we were striking everywhere at once.
Counting on the idea that he likely thought it would only be a handful of my men showing up at his door to rescue Brinley, not the all-out assault that was coming for him.
Ten miles out, we cut our lights. Darkness reigned as we traveled under the cover of night.
Five miles out, we split into thirds, taking the hidden paths that Cash had scoped out so we could completely surround the fenced-in property that covered close to two miles.
All while my heart ravaged and my spirit howled.
Brinley.
Brinley.
I’m coming for you, baby.
This wildfire that had torched my beliefs and brought me back to life.
SIXTY-TWO
SILAS
We basically crawled on our hands and knees up a steep embankment on the most remote side of the property.
As fucking deep as you could get in these woods.
We’d swung a mile out before we made our way up the backside of the land that most would consider untraversable.
Cliffs and boulders and a crush of impenetrable woods that crowded out the heavens above.
Trevan, Phoenix, and Cash were at my side.
Everyone had been divided into groups of four that would steal in at different points. Strategically to take out the guards, their circuits and schedules another element that Cash had mapped out.
Keeping crouched, we made it to the top of the ridge, and it brought us to the boundary we were looking for.
The chain-link fence with the top fortified by razor wire.
Now electrified after Cash and his crew had broken in and rescued Elena.
Something I’d wanted to be the one to do, but now, I somehow understood that I hadn’t been ready.
Unprepared for what really had been waiting for us or the way my path was going to veer.
Guess I’d become a new believer in fate.
I peered through the pitchy bleakness, the bare outline of my brothers’ faces staring back.
The poison in the darkness was so thick I could taste it.
A vileness creeping through that permanently lifted the hairs at the nape of my neck.
Cash tipped his chin, and he quickly worked with the wiring, killing the electricity running to the fence.
The low hum it’d been emitting fell into silence.
The second it had, I sent the prepared text that went to the lead of each team.
Me
Go
And that’s what we fucking did.
Cash yanked wire cutters from the back of his jeans and snipped through the links in a blink, shoving them wide enough that we could slip through.
We crouched low as we ran through the forest that was every bit as thick here as it’d been creeping up the side of the mountain.
Weapons in hand, we hurtled through the foliage and underbrush.
Boots quiet on the soft, squishy earth.
Breaths held and silent as ghosts.
My spirit moaned. The old thirst for vengeance completely replaced by a brand-new need.
The anguished need to set her free.
Desperation streaked through my being. A pervasive urge to find her safe and whole and unharmed.
All I could see in the back of my mind was the shape of that unknown body mangled on the ground.
This woman who had changed every fucking thing.
Finally, we came to a halt at the edge of the thicket, still cloaked beneath the overabundant branches.
The air left me on a violent wheeze as the vast expanse of grass and the fortress from where Kent reigned beyond it came into view.
We faced one side of the enormous outpost. It was constructed of metal, Kent’s operation run under the façade of a logging company, and on this side, there was a row of semi-trucks lined up like they were waiting on their next haul.
Hazy lights glowed back through the fog, and a baleful stillness echoed through the mist.
Too still.
Too quiet.
I shared a glance with my closest men.
Kent and his ring were waiting for us.
We knew it.
So there was only one fucking thing we could do.
I gave the cue and we ran, ducking through the shadows in an attempt to remain unseen.
In the distance, a gunshot rang out.
No question, one of our other teams had been discovered.
And that was it.
It was instant bedlam.
Blinding lights flicked on to blind our eyes right as a barrage of bullets started to fly.
Two men came rushing around the side of the building. Phoenix had guns in both hands, and he started running toward them like the madman he was, unloading on both motherfuckers with a roar.
They stumbled back, piles of trash that dropped to the ground, while Cash took out three men who came from the other side.
Trevan gave me a look. Our job to stay stealth so we could get inside the building.