Page 199 of Sage Haven

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And they punished him for it.

“If there’s anything we can do,” I said, quiet.

Castor nodded, solemn. "Anything."

Nael met my gaze, before he spoke, “We find Sage first.”

I nodded.

Because this wasn’t about me.

Not anymore.

Every second wasted was another second, they could be hurting her.

“You got the coordinates?” I asked.

Nael tapped the screen of his phone. “Already marked. We hit the primary site first. If they moved her, we have backups.”

I forced myself to breathe, “Good.”

As the Camaro’s doors opened, and we climbed inside, for one sharp second, it felt like the old days.

Before we were broken men..

Before we forgot why we did this.

But this time…this time we weren’t hunting for profit.

Or power.

Or vengeance.

This time, we were hunting for her.

And I would burn every last man alive to get her back.

Nael killed the lights as we crept up the path, headlights going dark.

Our tires crunched slow over gravel.

No one spoke. We didn’t need to. We were already synced.

Just like always.

Keenan’s voice sliced through the silence, “You remember the plan?”

Castor’s nod was a shadow. “We take the perimeter.”

Nael’s grin was pure hell. “We clear the inside. We find Sage.”

And I finished, “We end this.”

I loaded my gun. Checked my knife. Checked the second gun. Holstered both. And when I spoke again, it wasn’t to them.

It was to the men inside that bunker.

To the Ovitt brothers.

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