Lana had to admit that she’d been blessed in both her military and law enforcement career to have the teams she’d had. They all worked so well together.
Her current team met Trevor, and they all got along great. Trevor’s wife Dakota loved her teammates she wound up with when she’d joined the sheriff’s department.
“Kenwood…why does that name sound familiar?” Trevor puzzled quietly.
“Jayson Kenwood is the father of the twins. He was a Ranger when we were together. When I left, thinking he’d cheated on me, he eventually made Delta Force, then went on to Ghost Ops. He and his brother Ryan were both on Hubbard’s Ghost Ops team,” Lana explained to Trevor.
“They don’t have any other siblings, do they?”
Lana paused at Trevor’s question. Now her heart was going a mile a minute with questions.
“Yes. They have a sister named Crystal, who was my father’s hospice nurse here in Hellburn Falls. They also have a younger brother named Bryan, who is stationed at Ft. Bragg with a Delta Force unit. Why?” Lana asked hesitantly, fearing the answer.
“A Delta Force team got ambushed yesterday in Mexico. We’ve confirmed that three KIA and five are MIA. The younger Kenwood is one of the MIA. They are notifying the family in the morning. Lana, Hubbard’s name was mentioned in the briefing regarding the ambush. Their target knew they were coming.”
“What?” Lana gasped at the news. “Are you in the vault on this one?”
“Yes.”
“Please, tell me something is being done to rescue them!” Lana pleaded with Trevor.
“We are trying to locate them as we speak. If I had you here, we’d have them back by now!” Trevor sighed into the phone.
“Give me twenty-four hours to deal with this here and I’ll head back to help. If it gets worse, let me know asap, I’ll leave immediately,” Lana requested, hating to wait that long.
Lana clicked her phone off after Trevor agreed to the time frame. They needed to break Jayme tonight.
But first she needed to warn her team and the Kenwoods of the storm to come. Hell was breaking loose, and she had no way of stopping it.
Lana’s phone pinged with a text letting her know the “package” was secured and heading to the base. Now the real work has started.
Lana forwarded the text to the others and waited to see if anything happened as her teammates left Ryan’s house with Jayme back to the Sheriff’s department. After waiting the ten minutes they agreed up on, she left to meet up with the others to ride back to the department.
Lana stayed silent throughout the drive back to the department. Everyone in the vehicle was tense, as if they were waiting for something to go down.
She let out the breath that she hadn’t realized that she’d been holding until now. Now she had to get her team together so that she could break the news to Jayson and Ryan.
“Hey, are you okay, babe?” Jayson asked, pulling her aside after they exited the SUV.
“Yeah. I just have a lot floating around in my head. Trying to figure out all the connections. So much isn’t making any sense,” Lana half admitted to him. “Before we interrogate her, I need the team together to look at a file that’s being sent to me.”
“Okay. We’ll figure this out.”
Lana let Jayson pull her into his arms. She held him tight for several minutes.
When they walked into the observation room next to the interrogation room they were using, she motioned for everyone to gather around her. She started praying she wouldn’t walk into hell alone.
CHAPTER
FIFTY
Lana watched as Sgt. Buller and Swift secured Jayme onto the chair and cuffed her hands to the bolted table. She waited until everyone was gathered around her before she spoke.
“Jayon, you and Ryan need to go be with your parents after we are done dealing with Jayme. Sarge, I need you to let me, Rocky, and Cullen go in and do the interrogation. Rocky, you and Cullen get to play bad cop. Once we’re done here, Swift and Sunny, I need you to help Jayson with the twins. I have to fly back to Texas. I’m being recalled on an emergency op. Cullen and Rocky are being called back with me.”
Lana waited for the chaos to begin with her news. She knew Jayson was worried about the part of her leaving more than the part of him needing to be with his parents.
“What’s going on, Ice?” Rocky asked, standing straighter.
