Page 61 of Resurrect Me

“No. We do the right thing, Shawn. Which is turning in the bad guys. Not killing them. If we kill them, we’re no better than them.”

“And how many Org members have you killed so far, Boss?” Shawn says.

“One.”

“One?” Shawn stares at me blankly. “Just one?”

I nod. “That’s correct.”

“I thought you were a vigilante,” he says and rubs the bridge of his nose. “I thought we were following behind a bad ass mother fucker. You’ve taken out one Org member? That’s it?”

“I didn’t come back to life just to kill people. I came back to save people. The Org is an evil group of elites who want nothing more than to take out the population. To repopulate the world with the people they think are superior. To get rid of anyone who is different or who opposes their agenda. If I go around killing folks, I’m only feeding their appetite for death.”

“Who was it, Boss?” Thor asks. He and two others sit on a bench, cleaning their guns. “Who was the lucky mother fucker who died at the hands of Aris King?”

“The guy had it coming,” I answer. “He abducted my wife. Almost killed her. I did what I had to do.”

“Doesn’t matter who the Boss has taken out. What matters is that we’re a united front against The Org. And that we have all the intel we need to break them. And safely turn them over to the people to judge. If we can prove The Org is a real establishment, and that they are corrupt, we will prevail,” Reggie says.

“No one wants to hear that their political officials and leaders, Hell sometimes even the higher ups in their companies, want to kill them. Are poisoning them through medicine and food. Are holding their children down and turning the youth infertile. As soon as this info gets out to the public, there will be an outcry.And things will change. It might get scary for a bit. But we’ll come out the other side as stronger people. A stronger city. And we’ll put the people behind bars who seek to destroy us,” I remind them.

“Let’s neutralize them,” Thor says and loads the clip of his gun.

Chapter 31

Aris

“How many times will it come to this,” Declan hisses as he presses a gun to my temple. “One of us with a gun cocked on the other. I didn’t think you were still fucking alive.”

I put my hands in the air and clench my teeth. I’d hardly made it into the Org’s stronghold when Declan popped out of the shadows. I’d just pushed through the tunnel window, as planned, and was headed to meet up with Reggie in the east wing. How did he fucking know I was there? Did he run into me by accident?

“We saw each other last night, didn’t we?”

“I mean before last night, mother fucker,” he growls. “How does it feel to be on the receiving end?”

“You would know. Why are you asking me?”

“Always the fucking smart ass. You haven’t changed, Sol. I mean, besides the name…and the streak in your hair. But how? I saw them put you in the ground. I saw your wife mourn your death.”

I chuckle. “You didn’t attend a viewing, did you?”

“Is the casket empty?”

“Oh, no. Someone’s in there. It’s just not me.”

“That’s some sly shit right there,” Declan says. “Now, turn around and start walking. There are some people I’d like for you to meet before I put a bullet in your head.”

I freeze. Not knowing if I should run or try to take him out and continue the mission. If he takes me to The Org council, it’ll blow the whole plan. My men will get caught and executed. I can’t let that happen.

“I said, move!” He growls and slams the heel of the gun into the back of my head. I see stars for a moment and brace myself against the concrete wall to keep from passing out.

“Fine,” I grunt.

The corridor that leads upstairs is at least long enough to give me time to come up with plan B. If Shawn and Reggie were coming in through the east wing, and Thor and another to the west, perhaps my known presence would be a good thing. Could cause a distraction. I’ll roll with it. I don’t have much of a choice with a gun pressed to my head.

“Who’s with you?” Declan asks as he shoves me down the hallway and to the bottom of a set of spiral stairs. “I know you’re not here alone.”

“I came to kill you, Declan. I work alone.” I step up the first few stairs. He’s moved the gun from my head to my back.

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