Page 12 of Her Tempting Protector

“We’re on it, Kane said. Give us five minutes at the most. You’ll have your diversion.”

A spray of bullets went flying out into the streets from the hospital.

“What the hell was that? I thought we were on a lull?” Kane asked.

“Ah hell, it’s the other two security guys,” Cullen groaned.

Asher started rushing to the stairs, he was hunched over so that he wouldn’t make himself a target. “I’m on it. I’ll let them in on our plan. It’d be good to have us all singing from the same sheet of music,” Asher said into his mic.

“Yah think?” Kane asked sarcastically. Kane was second-in-command of the Night Storm team, he had reason to be pissed off. As soon as the shooting calmed down, either Cullen, Asher or Hans should have been upstairs telling those other two men what the four-one-one was.

“My fault, Kane,” Cullen acknowledged.

“Fine,” Kane rumbled. “Don’t fuck up again.” He was breathing heavy; it was obvious he was moving fast.

“I’m in position,” Leo said.

“Wait for me, Perez,” Kane said over the link. “I want to make sure your ass is covered before you start shooting.”

“What’s going on?” Hans asked timidly. All he had heard was Cullen talking into his mic, he couldn’t hear anything that had been said into his earpiece.

“We’re going to take out the sniper. Then we’re going to do a front and rear assault on the RSF rebels. It’ll all be over in ten minutes or less.”

“I’ll tell Isaac,” Hans said as he fumbled for his cell phone.

Motherfucker, he had a cell phone to get ahold of his subordinates the whole time?

“Yeah, why don’t you warn Isaac to expect a Navy SEAL named Asher Thorne. How about warning both of your team members while you’re at it?”

I didn’t call him a Dumbshit. I’ll go to heaven for keeping that to myself, won’t I?

Cullen had kept his eyes trained on the street. Nobody had come close to the armored truck, they were still keeping back behind the barricades they had set up. There had been a few police who had valiantly tried to keep the RSF rebels away from the hospital, but their bodies now littered the space between the barricades and the front of the hospital.

There were fifteen hospitals around this area, but the reason they chose this one was due to the team of American, British and French doctors who had come at the request of the new prime minister. But according to what Max told them, the aides at the Embassy had explained, almost all the doctors and scientists were currently over at the University involved in a symposium.

When the RSF rebels realized they had fewer targets they were pissed off. So, they focused on the Doctors without Borders at the Hospital for the Indigent. And of course, it was their buddy Hans who had informed them of this fact.

The RSF rebels would do anything to make Hamdok look bad. What better way than to attack his hand-picked group of doctors that he had invited to help his newly formed democratic nation?

“I told Isaac to expect you. I told him to stop shooting, was that good?” Hans asked.

Cullen nodded. He was sick of talking to the man.

Hans’ phone rang. Please say they hadn’t started shooting at Asher and were injured. Asher would feel like shit if he had taken out one of the good guys.

Hans listened for a moment. Cullen continued to listen to Hans’ side of the conversation. “It’s bad here. We have some of those American special warfare types here. I think they are Delta Ranger SEALs or something. They didn’t come in time to save Roger. They came through the barriers with an armored truck.”

Hans listened some more. It took everything Cullen had not to rip the phone away from Han’s ear to find out who the fuck he was talking to.

“Jamal, you’ll need to go to a different hospital. Take Dr. Adams with you. Tell her it wasn’t my fault this happened.”

“What do you mean she’s not with you?” Hans asked.

Two more minutes, and Kane should make his move on the sniper at the bank. But it sounded like they had a missing doctor. This was not part of the plan. According to Max, they were now supposed to evacuate all the doctors.

“Raiden, you ready?” Kane whispered.

“Yep.”