Page 206 of Darling Wildfire
I finished with my AR and started loading bullets into a mag.
“What do you think?” I growled.
His face grew hard, and he nodded. “I can’t imagine how you must feel. If it was my sister I thought was in there—” He shook his head.
I sighed and put everything down, resting both palms flat on the table and leaning over it.
“My nerves are shot,” I admitted.
“I know, that’s why you have Atlas and me at your back,” he said, his grin back in place. “We’ll be there in case you need to unleash hell.”
Atlas walked up and slung an arm around Nyx’s shoulders. He leaned in and whispered something to Nyx that made his eyes shadow and the barest hint ofcolor stain his cheekbones.
“Fuck,” Nyx breathed. “Promise?”
He turned to Atlas and bit his lip as he looked at him. Atlas brought his thumb to Nyx’s lip and pulled it out of his teeth.
“Don’t do that,” Atlas said gruffly. “Makes me want to do naughty things and we don’t have time.”
“We always have time,” Nyx said.
“Jesus, you two,” I teased. “Get a room.”
Atlas chuckled and looked over at me. “Don’t worry, we’ll grab your girl on the way home. Then you won’t be so salty.”
“You think she’d let us join in?” Nyx perked up, looking way too excited about that prospect. He held up his hands. “Or watch, I’m not picky.”
“She’s known him for five days,” Atlas said. “Let them get to know each other more before we insert ourselves.”
“I mean, T did say he wouldn’t be opposed to finding a girl we could all share. It was pretty hot with Red,” Nyx insisted. “With T ordering us around and everything—”
His grin was contagious, and I shook my head, unable to hide my own anymore.
“We’ll see how it goes,” I muttered.
Somehow both of them always got me back on track and calmed me down which I knew was their intent all along.
We swept through the dingy warehouse.
It was dark and stuffy and smelled like sex, fear and death. Deathwing and I were in lead pushing through the main door. There were also two teams going through the back. Rune was in our ear with a play-by-play from the cameras he’d hacked. When we entered, we were in a long narrow hallway where part of the warehouse had been sectioned off into rooms. There were girls of various ages chained inside.
Deathwing and I quickly took out two men in the hallway and Nyx and Atlas entered the first room, pulling a man off the girl chained to the bed. I didn’t wait around but heard Nyx unload a clip into the man’s face.
Deathwing and I continued down the hallway as the teams behind us swept through the rooms. We reached a door at the far end and I lifted my gun and gave Deathwing a nod. He pushed open the door, surprising a group of menwho jumped to their feet, grabbing for their guns. I shot two in my sector before I was on the third. I slammed my gun against his face and shot the man coming up behind him. A Glock was aimed at my face, I shoved his arm down at the last second and the shot hit his friend across the room. The anger surged up inside me as the thought of these men putting their hands on my daughter took over every rational space in my mind. It took all of my self control not to beat these men to a pulp with my bare hands. They didn’t deserve the quick death my bullets were giving them.
With the room secured, Deathwing and I moved to the next door. This time I pushed it open, and he entered, but the room was clean.
“Sector one all clear. Report in,” Deathwing said over comms.
All teams reported all clear.
“Two taken alive. We have them restrained in Sector three.”
“Copy that. Hold there for now.”
One of Deathwing’s men appeared. “Boss, you need to see this.”
He led us to the back of the warehouse and into a room that must have been their command center. All along one wall were printed headshots of girls. There had to be at least a hundred of them lined up and labeled with a number. I walked up to them, my eyes scanning each one, only to land on a pair of raging grey eyes so like mine, it made my heart stop.
