“Holy cow, I still can’t believe they didn’t lose anyone!”Carl said, shaking his head.“I mean, I’m glad, but that’s just wild.”
Mateo laughed.“Yeah, I know.I have to not only quit giving her a hard time, but I also need to respect her.I mean, I already respected her.”He laughed harder.“But she put her money where her mouth was.I am impressed and completely in awe.I owe her an apology for all the shit I thought about her.”
“You sure Trent can’t put Ray’s head back together?”Carl grumbled.
“No,” Dewi said without taking off her sleep mask.“But Trent’s looking into how to claim his body without raising suspicion.Probably need a Prime to go in and charm a few people and get the case closed as an accidental death.”
Carl barked a laugh.“He accidentally decapitated himself and left himself in a location, sans head and hands.That’s a good one.”
“As long as the cops close the case,” Dewi said, “that’s all I care about.”
“Save me enough to pee on,” Ken said.“If I can’t disembowel Faegan, at least give me that.”
“Good thing we’re the good guys,” Dewi joked.
It was funny, but also…
It wasn’t.
Yes, in this case their ends absolutely justified the means, and Ken knew that.Still, it was a shocking revelation to him that, a couple of years ago, he would’ve been horrified even despite the mitigating circumstances.
Now?
He wanted to be the one doing the killing, in some cases.Legitimate reasons and completely justified, though.
But…
They had money and literal power, not even counting the mundane influence their money provided.
How easily that could be corrupted in the wrong hands.
How easily ithadbeen corrupted by others.Faegan, Ray Dorland, and whoever the fuckers were behind creating the lab in the first place.Anyone helping them, because the mercenaries employed to kidnap people had to know what they were doing was wrong.
The people who worked in and ran the lab.
He hated to admit he was glad they eliminated all of the facility’s personnel.Probably in ways too easy for them to die, considering the tortures their prisoners had endured.
Their flight landed without incident.It was ironic that it was him instead of Dewi who wasn’t excited about the landscape.He’d already been here before.
Although this time would be, in many ways, far less stressful and far more fulfilling.
“It’s pretty here,” Dewi said as the helicopter that met them at the airport whisked them to the estate.
“It is,” he agreed.
“It’d be a lot prettier if it wasn’t so thoroughly soaked in blood,” Hamish grimly noted.“I mean, speaking familially, not historically in general.”
“Sorry,” Dewi said.“I wasn’t thinking of it like that.”
Hamish offered her a wan smile.“I know.But there will be more blood being shed in short order, I’m certain.Rightfully so.I cannot imagine Callum and Bryn allowing Donnel to live any longer than necessary.”
“Have they been told yet?”Ken asked.
“No,” Dewi said.“They will be kept in the dark, for now.”
When they landed at the estate, Trevor’s men swarmed the helo to get their bags.Ken took the baby carrier from Dewi and headed inside.Peyton met them at the back door Ken was now familiar with, hugging first him, then Dewi, and the others.
Then Badger emerged from somewhere.“Hiya,” he said.“They’re ready an’ waitin’.Ye want any food?”
