Page 108 of Agony

“We meet again,” the man said to Justice.

“Who is he?” Fisher murmured.

“Crow.”

“You work for Tanis,” Fisher said from between his clenched teeth.

“That is a misconception.” Crow looked them over before pointing at him. “You’re Fisher.”

“So?” Fisher narrowed his gaze.

“Take the zip ties off,” Crow ordered, and one of the several men in the room stepped forward to snip all three of them free. All guards had automatic rifles pointed at them so they weren’t out of here by any means.

Fisher rubbed his wrists, welcoming back the circulation.

“What the hell do you want?” he said.

“I need your help to take down Tanis,” Crow said and pulled a metal chair over to sit in front of all three.

“We’ve got it handled,” Justice said and Crow shot the man a disbelieving look.

“Why?” Fisher said before Justice could do something stupid like try and take on all these guys. He’d been wrong, there weren’t five, there were seven and that was not including Crow and any others outside.

They were geared and he suspected they were military and probably active, but he couldn’t be sure.

“I’m looking for a boy who was taken by Tanis roughly six months ago.”

“Have you checked the basement? The fucker always has one,” Fisher said, crossing his arms.

“No, I didn’t. I needed Blue to get me down there,” Crow responded, aiming a dark look at Justice and Steel. “But Blue is dead.”

“If you had been more forthcoming, we could have worked something out instead of you skulking in the shadows,” Justice growled.

Steel remained quiet as if assessing the room and how best to take out the enemy. However, Fisher suspected that this group may not be their opposition.

“Why me?” Fisher was dying to know.

“Because one of the last orders Blue and I received from Tanis was to bring you back.”

“Did Tanis kill Ryan?”

“He sent Garrett,” Crow said. “My team and I were on our way to that house to help.”

“You were hours too late,” Fisher snapped.

“With Blue dead, my inside information dried up,” Crow growled.

“Do you know if Garrett took Mikey?” Fisher said.

“Mikey?” Crow frowned.

“Yeah, he’s nine and he was in that house with Ryan.”

“So, we have another boy to save, don’t we?” Crow responded.

“Who do you guys work for?” Steel spoke up for the first time.

“That’s on a need-to-know basis—”

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