Page 73 of Secret Redemption

Zack saw Kanan stiffen and held out his hand to silence him. “If you hurt any of them I will take great pleasure in killing you. You know what? Fuck that. I will take great pleasure in killing you anyway.”

Hamilton laughed and then spoke, “I want you and the red-haired bitch to walk outside and get into the car on the street. The driver will bring you to me so that we can have a family reunion for you all. Don’t think about being clever or I will let you watch as your mother-in-law is raped by my men and then killed.”

Ava drew in a breath, and her face turned hard.

“Fine, I’ll come, but Ava stays here, and then I promise when I kill you I’ll do it painlessly.”

“This is not a negotiation. Come now or they die!” Hamilton hung up, and Zack hurled his phone across the room and pulled Ava into his arms.

“We’ll get them back honey, I promise.”

“I know you will,” she said quietly.

“Daniel, call the others back. I’m leaving this up to you now. I’ll activate the tracker when we reach a final destination.”

“We have this Zack. We’ll have you all home safe before you know it.”

Zack shook Daniel’s hand and felt a confidence in his team and the man he had as his second that reassured him. “I know you will man and we will be ready.”

Taking Ava’s hand, he marvelled that it didn’t shake at all, and he hated that he had to take her, but he was sensible enough to know that she would never risk her parent’s lives by not going. It was him that felt sick with worry. Having the love of his life put in danger and knowing he couldn’t control any of it was terrifying. “Remember your training and whatever you do, do not show this man your fear. He feeds off it.”

They reached the outer door and walked to the street with the entire team at his back. A car door opened on a Silver BMW and a large man got out. He was heavily armed and clearly paid muscle, Zack hoped all Hamilton’s men were, but he highly doubted it.

The man patted them both down without saying a word and then turned them both, zip-tying their hands. The man pushed them into the vehicle and told them not to speak.

Zack turned to Ava and winked, trying to instil some confidence in her. She weakly smiled back but looked determined.

Chapter Twenty-Six

Everyone was looking to him for leadership, and much as Daniel hated the circumstances the focus felt good. He currently stood at the head of the conference table, Dane, Lucy, and Sly were back, and everyone was ready to go.

Contact had been made with Roz, and she and her girls were mostly fine. Kanan and Liam had gone to meet with them, although he wasn’t sure K would have obeyed had he’d tried to stop him; Fucking maverick.

Hamilton had used gunfire to get them inside the warehouse, where he had gassed them all with KO gas, incapacitating them all. When they came to, it was to find Henderson hanging from a hook on the wall, his intestines hanging out of a slit in his gut. Perversely they had left him alive, barely. The damage had been done a few days ago though by the look of things because the stench, by all accounts had been disgusting.

Henderson had died as they unhooked him and had been no help at all. Mercy, the girl who had been captured by Hamilton, had indeed been raped and beaten multiple times. Daniel’s heart felt heavy at that. It didn’t matter to him that she was an operative or that she knew it was a risk as a woman in this business. All he knew was that someone’s daughter had been violated in the most heinous way imaginable for a woman.

Roz had instantly stepped in and had her whisked off to a private facility she owned. Zenobi had taken a knock, but they would retreat, regroup, and come out swinging. Those women didn’t know how to quit. Lucy was swinging between abject rage and cool silence as she processed what had happened to her friend. It was cool Lucy that worried them all. She had been through so much and had kept her shit tight, Daniel knew that when she blew people would die.

He tried to feel regret about it, but if those lives were the people that had raped Mercy, then he would happily help her. Daniel had very strong feelings about men that did that to women.

Now he looked down the table as they waited for info to come in from different sources. A list of any buildings related to or with any ties to anything to do with Hamilton was spread out before them. The problem was, Hamilton had the money and the anonymity of the MOD behind him. He could be using any facility that they owned and easily hide what he was doing.

It had been three hours since they had seen Zack and Ava leave and the tracker that Zack had very cleverly placed in Ava’s engagement ring had not been activated.

The team had narrowed down what they thought was the most likely targets based on the time they had been gone and the area surrounding the buildings. They now had the schematics of the three candidates laid out in front of them.

Daniel had Eidolon increase security at the Estate just in case this was a ruse to go after the families. Dane had also had extra men put at the hospital to watch Lauren and the babies.

Will came running into the conference room, followed closely by Drew. “The tracker is on!” he stated and put the laptop down in front of Daniel. Everyone crowded round to see where they were.

“Fucker!” Lucy spat. The building was in a secure military compound used for hostage rescue practice. It had been decommissioned around a year ago, but it still had all the security of the military at Hamilton’s disposal and was the one the team had hoped he hadn’t used.

Daniel swiped the schematics of the other two buildings off the screen and started spreading out the floor plans and topographic maps for the building where the signal was coming from.

It was time to plan, and planning was what Daniel did best. After all, he had been planning how to make the bitch doctor pay for getting his wife killed and making his daughter motherless. He also wanted to make her pay for what she had done to Megan. Dane was his brother, and the shit that had been done to him and their families would not go unpunished.

No. Daniel was planning to end these bastards one evil fucker at a time!