Page 74 of Kill Me Sweetly

I regarded Four. “What’s that?”

“When someone is sent to the Zone room, it’s like solitary confinement.”

Okay, that was better than a torture chamber.

“Keep me posted, Nick. We’ll be at the shop as fast as we can. Let Gabe and Mason know the plan.”

“Yup,” Nick said and clicked off.

Gabe and Mason were in the back room of the shop when Four and I arrived. Mason shot out of his chair the second he saw me.

“I didn’t want to leave him.”

“Mason, I know, but I also know JJ would have started biting people to get the attention on him for you to run, so he was winning no matter what.”

Mason nodded because he knew I was right.…That was how my vicious viper worked.

“Nick told me Four will direct us where to go and what, you and I are supposed to take this place by storm?” Gabe’s brows rose. “I get it. I know what it feels like to have to get to your person, but we need a solid plan before we bust in there.”

I turned to Four. “Is there any entrance to the building that is weak?”

He cocked his head, his eyes wandering as if he were visualizing something. “Sometimes we would go outside for free time. Not a lot. There was a blue door. Some of the guards liked to prop it open because it would lock from the inside.” He then faced me. “They smoked in the yard. Once I heard them tell a new guard if he needed a smoke, prop the door.”

I smiled at Four. “That’s perfect.”

“If we can get there and wait it out, someone will open it and we can get in.” Gabe seemed to relax a little.

Mason huffed. “You still don’t know if we can get close.”

“You can,” Four answered. “It’s not like a prison. You’ll see.”

“Is it one of those, you can get in but can’t get out?” I was afraid of that.

“No. It is made to look friendly; no one asks questions.”

Mason furrowed his brows. “Alarm systems?”

Four lifted a shoulder. “Not in daytime. Only at night.”

“Let’s go.” I pulled out my keys. “We need to see it; that’s how we’ll know.”

All of us decided my vehicle was the best choice, and Gabe left his at the shop. Four sat in the back with Mason while Gabe was in the passenger seat.

“Okay, let’s go.”

CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX

JJ

I wouldn’t sayI so much regretted having Mason get away and be safe, but I hadn’t thought it through very well. Sure, they’d get help, and I knew in my heart Four would be the key to finding me, but did the baddies know that?

Gabe had managed to take out two bodyguards before he’d escaped with Mason. I wasn’t there, but while I sat in this terrifying van, I listened to them talking.

The only comfort I did have was Nick’s soft voice filtering in my ear. “I’m with you, JJ.” I wasn’t alone, and my camera and earpiece were working. If they managed to get one, they wouldn’t find the other.

We turned onto a gravel road, and I peeked out the window, trying not to draw much attention to myself as I was crammed between two huge guys. I saw long grass, wooden fences, and then two rather large statues of crying angels.

This was the location Four had said he’d been told to return to.

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