“Jammer is in place,” Ramiel confirms. “Looking for Nine, now.”
“Good job, Red,” Hunter praises his boyfriend.
“She is in,” Ramiel states. “Well, her tablet is.”
Fucking finally!
“On my way to the electrical room.” Raphael is accessing the building from the south back door with Hunter.
“I have Old Betsy’s eye on you.” Uriel is pointing his rifle at them in case they need to be covered. I find it ridiculous that my brother likes to give names to his guns.
I hear a grunt before Hunter says, “Two guards down, we are in.”
Something feels off. I can sense it in my bones. I’m about to voice my concern and delay Raphael from inducing the blackout when I hear Gabriel cussing.
“What’s wrong?” Uriel asks.
“Lori is here,” he states.
“Little Wasp, what the fuck?” Bezaliel’s growl reverberates inside my ear.
What the fuck is right. What is Lori doing there? Does that mean…? I grab my phone to check Sully’s location, but the jammer has disabled it. Fuck! Only the earbuds we are using must be protected from the interfering signal.
“Guys!” Lori pants. “We have a problem.”
“What is Michael doing on the street?” Uriel cuts him off.
Michael too? Fuck no!
“I told him to stay inside the penthouse!” Raphael hisses.
“Shhh!” Hunter shushes him. They need to get to the electrical room without raising any alarm among Nine’s men.
“He’s with Linda,” Uriel keeps going.
“How about Sully?” I ask. I fucking expected he would follow my order. But I have the dreadful feeling that he didn’t, since they are all here.
“He’s in.” Linda’s reply turns me fucking speechless. Then I start seething, fuming, burning with rage.
Oliver’s incredulous, high-pitched words come next. “In? Asininside the hotel?”
“Why the fuck are they here, Linda?” Bezaliel spits out.
“We needed bait. It didn’t turn out as I planned, but…”
“We were bait?” Lori interrupts her.
“What the fuck did you just say? You used my brother as bait?” Oliver sounds livid, but nobody is more furious than me. I curl my lips over my teeth and let out a raging growl.
“Lori, I told you to protect him!” Oliver scolds him.
“We got separated inside the tunnels,” Lori explains with a weak voice I’ve never heard from him. “I tried to look for him, but he was gone. I quickly found an exit to the street and called Linda. She told me where to come.”
“I see him! They have him. Ouch!” Uriel says.
“What?” Raguel asks.
“He tripped on the stairs and fell. But he still looks in one piece.”
