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Chapter 28: Jason
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the squad Chapter 29: Roxy
I closed my eyes as soon as the plane took off and pretended not to notice the way he'd positioned himself as if to stand between me and the others. The guy sure was trying hard, but I had more pressing things on my mind. Can it really be her? If so, what a monumental coincidence.I reached over to the bag in the seat next to me and patted it down, making sure I could feel the little lump made by the sheets of paper I had hidden in the lining. They would be hard to find unless you knew they were there in the first place, but of everything I kept there, including my weapons, those documents were the most important.I let my mind playback over the last few hours as the smoothness of the flight threatened to put me to sleep. Not that that was going to happen. It's been years since I've been able to sleep with anyone else in the vicinity. The first few years after I'd been taken, I'd spent each night in terror; in fact, from the time the sun started making its descent in the sky some e
the squad Chapter 30: Mouth
"I have to get the hell off this island.""You need to calm down.""Don't tell me to calm down, mob boy, you heard what he said up there. Someone put a hit out on my mom, and it's not who I thought it was all these years. These people that he's talking about, I have to find them, I have to…" I was starting to shake. I was so mad.'This is probably why my dad and uncle didn't come. They knew what he was going to reveal.""They'll be here later; you can kick their ass then. Right now, I need you to think about our kids and keep a cool head. Too many f*cking unknowns around here right now."He wasn't lying, there had to be at least close to a hundred and fifty people on this island right now, and that's not counting the security detail. Anyone watching wouldn't think anything was going on since there were pregnant women and children here, but you only needed to step foot on the place to feel the underlying current.I don't know what I expected when we accepted the invitation t
the squad Chapter 31: Mancini
The jet should be landing any minute now, and I find myself on tenterhooks. I'd listened in on Jason and Roxana's conversation when they were back at the house. Not because I'm a nosy f*ck, but because my wife asked me to save this girl in a roundabout way, and I feel a sense of responsibility to her. I've listened in on others' conversations before, of course, the house is built and fitted out for that, all of the safe houses are.There are eyes and ears everywhere in each of them since we usually deal with rescuing children. It's just another layer of protection that was put in place by the organization to ensure that everyone working with or for us was on the up and up. I don't plan on listening in on those two in the future since it was blatantly obvious that the boy had already staked his claim.That's not what's worrying me now, though. I don't think he picked up on it, but she seemed to give in way too easily at the mention of my wife's name. Not her married name, but her ma
the squad Chapter 32: Mancini
"Are you sure that's wise? These are children we're talking about…wait, did my kid hear about what happened to her grandmother?""No, that's not how it works, Catalina is too smart for that, to just sit and listen. That's why you saw a readout of the meet. The device she used transfers audio to text. Since I know where and what it is, I can turn it off when I need to, and it wouldn't show on her end.""Had she been listening in, that would've been a different story. I'll demonstrate later so you'd see what I'm talking about. You didn't touch anything in there did you? I don't want them to know that I know what they're doing. Since you already know what they and their friend in Asia have already uncovered, you should know what they're capable of. I'm just giving them what they need to carry out whatever it is they have planned.""But, they're eight.""And when you were eight, you were already very proficient with a bow and arrow." I raised my brow at her at about the same time h
the squad Chapter 33: Lyon
"Hey, Pothead, a minute of your time." I caught him bright and early the next morning when he, Cyrus, and Drake were on their way to the beach for a run. Everyone else is in work mode, but these three are on some kind of holiday. Don't get me started on Elena and her sh*t .I refused to look at him since he'd foregone a shirt and was wearing shorts more suited to a man half his age. But since I wasn't here to rip him a new one for being an embarrassment, something I've had to live with my whole f*cking life, I let that sh*t slide."Hey, Colt, what's up, son?" He did some stretches and a little jogging in place action, and I barely refrained from rolling my eyes."Why didn't you or mom tell me that you're cousins?" He stopped moving and stared at me, open-mouthed."Who told you about that?""What if one of my kids came out with a third eye or some sh*t ?"He had the nerve to laugh like he thought I was being funny. "First of all, your mom and I are distant cousins, perfectly
the squad Chapter 34: Roxy
Oh, he's still pissed. I don't know what he expected. Did he really think I was going to sleep with him? To be fair, that's not what he'd asked. But to sleep in a bed with him keeping watch in a chair next to it was pretty much the same thing to me. Last night I'd been too tired and emotionally drained, so I let him get too close. But by the time we landed here in the early morning hours, I had myself together.I looked around the room after seeing the toddler in Lyon's arms, feeling a little more at ease but not by a whole lot. Since the women were on the beach, I decided on a different tactic. According to how they handle this next request, I'll know whether or not I'll be fighting my way out of here."I need to call my uncle, let him know I'm okay or he'll worry.""Sure, but first, hand it over." The Mancini guy held out his hand with a smirk, and my cheeks reddened. How did he know?"I don't know what you're talking about." He started to walk towards me, and Jason got betwe
the squad Chapter 35: Roxy
She pulled me down a long hallway that had most of the doors closed to what I was sure were all bedrooms. The place was huge, which I'd seen from the outside when we landed in the dark. All I knew for sure is that we were near the ocean because I could smell it, could feel that certain breeze that comes only with clean, fresh sea air. Something I hadn't felt since before my dad died.We used to travel a lot when he wasn't deployed and then of course after....after I was taken, there was no traveling any further than the other houses in the neighborhood where the kids that were held there were suffering the same fate as I. It felt almost sacrilegious to have those thoughts while holding hands with the kid who had yet to let me go. We came to a door that was slightly open, and she eased it open further and walked in. "Lily!" She hiss whispered at the lump on the bed. Another little girl rolled over and rubbed at her eyes before they popped open. "Did Nia call already?" She sat up wh
the squad Chapter 36: Jason
I wish I had his confidence, his absolute belief in me. I wish even more that I'd been better prepared for what she makes me feel. It doesn't seem real that in the space of a few measly hours, she could've turned my well-laid plans on their head. Even now, she's only been gone out of my sight for a few minutes, and already I was feeling that now-familiar itch between my shoulder blades.It started last night when she slammed the door and locked it between us. The second I didn't have eyes on her and couldn't get to her, I got this damn itch. It took all my control not to break the door down to get to her, and even though I knew she was safe, that no one could get by me to reach her, it wasn't the same as being next to her."I'll think about what you said, but don't tell Ash, not yet.""You're an idiot if you think she's not going to notice something straight off the bat. And from what I've heard in the last few hours since coming here, these women stay on top of sh*t . It won't b
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