Their formations are sloppy, and the lack of teamwork means backs aren’t covered.
A couple of men drop behind parked cars, firing blind over the hoods.
Bullets spark against metal near my head, but I don’t flinch.
I squeeze the trigger and take down one, then shift my target before the body even hits the ground.
“Push left!” Brennan yells, already moving.
Our men fan out, corralling what’s left of Sean’s crew toward the corner of the lot.
A few throw down their weapons and bolt, but I let them run.
Why not send a few of them back to Sean with a message?
“This is just a taste of what to expect if you fuck with us again!” I yell.
The rest of Sean’s men don’t get that mercy. We finish them off in minutes.
Only when smoke hangs thick in the air, and my ears ring from the gunfire, do I take a look around at the bodies littering the ground.
Blood soaks into the concrete, staining it red, but leaving them bleeding is not enough.
I’m not leaving here until every last remaining man is dead.
“Check for survivors!” I call out.
To my left, a man clutches his leg as he groans.
Before I can take care of it, Brennan appears and without hesitation, puts a bullet between his eyes.
My crew moves quickly, checking for pulses and stripping weapons from the bodies and tossing them into the trunk of one of our SUVs to either be repurposed or dumped later.
The bodies will be dragged into another warehouse before sunrise. When the new day rises, they’ll be nothing but ash.
As I finish hauling the last body into the SUV, Brennan appears beside me.
“How do you want me to handle this? I mean, twenty guys don’t just disappear for no reason.”
“I don’t care.” I slam the back door of the van shut. “Just keep this out of the papers.”
He nods, and I can see that he’s already mentally listing the cops and detectives we own.
My phone starts buzzing in my pocket with a call from Lorcan, so I step away and leave Brennan to deal with the last of the cleanup.
“Seems the foil went to plan?” he says when I answer.
“It went as well as can be expected. We didn’t lose any men.”
“What about Sean?”
“He didn’t show his face, but that wasn’t a surprise. He thinks he’s too good for dirty work. But I made sure to send a couple of his men back with a warning.”
“Of course, you did.”
“It won’t be enough to stop Sean from retaliating, but it might buy us some more time.”
“It might…”
