I looked about at the three dead men laying around us, then up at Mace who was staring at War in as much shock as I was. Both of us had believed this was game over.
“Help me move them. Hurry the fuck up.”
War grabbed the guy he’d shot and started dragging him deeper into the trees. Mace didn’t waste any time and went after the first guy. I pushed my gun into my pants and grabbed the arms of the third guy and started dragging him after War. Once I got him behind a large group of dense bushes, dropping him on top of the other guy, I helped Mace pullthe final guy in. War was back out brushing the ground with his feet to hide the drag marks.
“Once it’s clear, we’ll move them. No one can know we were here. Ballistic’s called it in and the Sheriff’s on his way, we’ve diverted the cops to where the meet was, so we’ll have a chance to move those guys before the cartel or the cops find them. We just need to hope the cops clear them out.”
“Someone is hanging back?”
“Rail and Hammer.”
They were both ex-military guys, used to covert ops, still I felt uneasy knowing they were hiding out there. Even with the cops on our side hoping to disperse everyone.
War double checked the area to make sure our quick cover up would hold. It wasn’t great, but it would have to do. He bent and picked up the shell casings, then grabbed one of the cartel guys’ guns and tossed it at Mace, he caught it easily, surprise registered on his face.
“Let’s go,” War headed into the trees, still holding his gun up just in case.
I followed behind him, Mace keeping pace with us. We hadn’t heard anymore gunfire after I shot the second guy. War’s gunshot might alert people to where we were, so we needed to move fast. War wasn’t stealthy about it either, he damn near ran and we moved quickly, keeping up. There was no time to ask questions. Eventually we came out onto a fire road where a truck was waiting.
Casper was behind the wheel, and he started the engine as soon as we ran out into the road. His hands slapping the steering wheel to hurry us up. War jumped in the passenger side, and I grabbed the back door and clambered in, moving over so Mace could follow me.
Casper was a fucking maniac behind the wheel of a car but right now, I was glad for it. The more space we put between us and that clusterfuck the better.
“What the fucking hell was that?” I snapped out.
“That,” War looked over his shoulder at me. “Was nearly a fight over who was going to take Nytro out first,” he said. Casper chuckled and I glared at him. “Before you ask, we don’t know what the fuck they were doing there but when we spotted them coming in, we pulled back. Lastthing we need is them seeing us. If they think they’ve taken out the Kingsmen they’ll back off, no need to come at us.”
“You were fucking stupid coming back for us.”
“Pretty sure you ought to be thanking me,” War arched a brow, then grabbed onto the handle on the roof as Casper took a sharp turn way too fast and had to spin the wheel to compensate and get us back on the road. “Take it fucking easy,” War told him.
“Sorry,” Casper said, not sounding sorry at all, in fact there was a small grin on his face. The guy was fucking insane.
“You put yourself in danger,” I told him.
“You want me to apologize?” War shouted at me. “For saving your fucking life. If I hadn’t doubled back, both of you would be fucking dead right now, and they’d see your cut and know you weren’t Kingsmen, so they’d come after us. That’s the only reason I did it, not to fucking save your sorry ass or anything.”
“Piss off,” I punched his shoulder when he grinned. “And I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t have come for the Devil’s,” I muttered. The cartel didn’t discriminate when they killed, in the moment, but even they weren’t stupid enough to come out of those woods and go after us. Their job was in the woods tonight, nothing more.
I leaned back, tipping my head onto the head rest, staring at the roof of the truck. My heart was racing a mile a minute and I felt like I was going to throw up. After about ten minutes of more twists and turns, Casper slowed his driving a little as he pulled onto the road proper, and the adrenalin had me crashing. It was late, not a lot of cars about, but I did see headlights pull out behind us and for a moment my pulse spiked again.
“It’s Ink and Raptor,” War said, clearly sensing my rising panic.
“Where is everyone else?” I straightened up in the seat.
“Back at the compound, we had to get out of there. There were too many of us to hang around.”
“Cops,” Casper said as a row of police cars came around the corner, their lights filling the dark road, but they weren’t blaring their sirens. He slowed and pulled to the side slightly, letting them pass by, they were going so fast our car rocked as each vehicle flew past alongside us.
I glanced back and saw Raptor doing the same, allowing the police to get by. War took out his phone and called Hammer letting him knowthe cops were heading to the other end of the forest and they had to get those guys out of there fast.
“Can the two of them deal with it, there are three bodies?” I asked.
War just looked over his shoulder at me. “It’s Hammer.”
Oddly enough, I knew what he meant. We didn’t have anything to worry about.
“What about Nytro?”
