Iwatch as the drywall buckles beneath Dex’s fist. He yanks it back, and I see specks of blood dripping from his hand. Sighing, I point to his knuckles. “She won’t be happy when she sees you’ve been injured.”
“At least she’ll be here!” he yells before raising his fist and punching yet another hole in the wall.
“Dude, that’s not helping,” Pete tells him as he paces back and forth behind where Jagger is typing away on Elias’s laptop.
“What the fuck else am I supposed to do? I can’t stand just waiting here knowing Robert has her.”
“It could be Ivan who took her,” Pete says, and I send him a glare.
“You’re not helping,” I tell him as I try to calm my own racing heart.
It’s been like this for the past day. Dex and Pete want to storm Robert’s compound, but Jagger and I have convinced them it’s a bad idea. Not only do we not know for sure that she’s in there, but our previous plan involved Elias hackinginto their system and using the signal disruptor to help cover us while we’re in there. Without his help, we’d be going in completely blind.
Even if she is in there, we don't know where she will be, and the compound is large. Not only that, but we no longer have a vehicle, so we need to acquire one before attempting any sort of break-in.
Jagger is the most technologically savvy of the four of us, and we’re hoping he can figure out Elias’s gadgets and help us get in there. But it’s not like he left a set of instructions or explainedhowhe’s hacking into their system.
Jagger’s hacking skills are preschool-level compared to Elias's, so I’m not holding out much hope.
Dex and Pete have been getting more agitated by the hour, which is why there are a dozen holes in the drywall, and I’m not sure how much longer I can hold them back. I’m not sure how much longer I can holdmyselfback, either.
Knowing that someone has her and could be harming her this very minute… It makes me itch to get in there and kill every man inside those gates.
But with their security system, they’ll see us the second we approach the fence.
“How did they even find us here?” Pete asks, not for the first time.
The best we’ve been able to guess is that they followed us back from our stakeout. But they didn’t attack straight away, and that worries me. They could have come in at night and attacked us in our sleep. Were they really just waiting to get her alone—or as close to alone as they could? Were they watching us for days?
The thought is sickening. I pray they didn’t see her and me in the backyard. Knowing they may have witnessed herfirst time makes my blood boil with the urge to kill anyone who laid eyes on her.
“Is that the compound?” Pete asks, pulling me from my dark thoughts. He’s looking over Jagger’s shoulder at the screen, and I quickly move to join him, along with Dex, as we take in the screen.
It looks like footage from their own camera, pointed at the entrance gate and into the road beyond. “Those look like the front gates!” Dex says excitedly.
“Are there any other feeds?” I ask hopefully.
Jagger clicks on a few things until it changes to a few of the front of the building and several parked cars. “There!” I say, pointing to our SUV.
“That means Robert has her. We have to go, now,” Pete says, standing up as if he’s ready to run all the way there right now.
But I shake my head quickly. “Not yet, let’s see if we can get eyes on the inside first. The better we can plan, the better chance of success.”
Pete presses his lips together in annoyance, but must agree, as he turns back to the laptop while Jagger slowly moves through the different feeds.
We watch silently, praying we’ll see her, and she’ll be uninjured. After a few minutes, it becomes clear there are only cameras on the outside of the building.
“It makes sense, if Elias had eyes inside, we would have been able to take Robert down earlier,” I say with a frown.
“So what do we do now?” Pete asks in frustration.
“We watch. Let’s see if we can figure out how many guards there are and if there’s any pattern to their movements.”
“Then we go in?” Dex asks eagerly.
“Yes,” I say with a nod. “Then we attack, and this time, we plan to leave no survivors. The only people walking out of there are the six of us.”
“Fuck, yeah!” Pete says with a smirk.
