Page 141 of Rugger: The Huntress

The binoculars pressed against my wide eyes. Curiosity led me straight to the boardroom on the sixth floor of the adjacent building. Suited men surrounded the large table. My brows drew inward, creasing against the binoculars. I’d struck gold.

Fahaad.

Mason.

Jayce.

Lafayette.

Four contracts. One room. They all had large price tags on their heads and I’d claimed three of them for myself.

Sonnie.

My interest was peaked as the revelation hit me. I removed the binoculars from my face to get a clear view of the area. There were two buildings in the complex besides the one I was in or the men who were about to lose their lives were in. Without a doubt, I knew Sonnie was behind the window of one of them. I pressed the side button on my phone.

Doot.

Doot.

“Call Sonnie.”

The phone began ringing in my ear almost instantly. I placed my right eye in the scope and adjusted the aim.Fahaad. His closed casket request would require rounds directly to the face.

“Good evening, Gazelle.”

“Fahaad, Mason, and Lafayette are mine. Don’t make me tell you twice.”

His chuckle was cumbersome. He found joy in driving me mad.

“It’s not that funny, Psalms.”

“What if I make a mistake?”

“You don’t make mistakes.”

“Sixth floor, hallway window. Sixth floor, elevator. Boardroom corner. Watch yourself.”

“That’s why you’re here, Sonnie. To watch me,” I confirmed, “You’re not fooling me. Thanks, but I have this. Like the rest of my projects, this one will be a walk in the park.”

The three armed men he’d mentioned, I had already noticed.

“But, if it makes you happy–”

Pew.

Pew.

I left the third one alive. Killing him meant alarming the rest of the men around the boardroom conference table and that wasn’t something either of us wanted.

“Feel better?”

“Much better, baby.”

I traded the scope for the binoculars. I scanned the building to the right. On the eighth floor is where I found Sonnie, seated behind the fourteenth window in a cluster of twenty-two.

“Why didn’t you tell me you’d be here?”

“Didn’t we agree to separate our business and personal lives?”

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