Page 65 of Luke's Revenge (Walker Security - Lucifer's Trilogy 3)

Chapter Forty-Four

Luke

Anger surges through me at Kurt’s stupidity and arrogance. I surge to my feet with every intention of beating the fuck out of him but Adam’s in my path. He puffs up and pushes back. “No, man. That solves nothing. One enemy at a time.”

“Starting with him.”

“Not now, Luke. I get it. I wanted to do the same thing but first things first. You know he’s not our most imminent problem.”

Ana catches my hand and her touch reminds me that I can’t kill Kurt, but damn it, I want to at least beat the shit out of him. I glance down at her and she says, “Let’s just get off this plane, Luke. We’re sitting ducks.”

I scrub my jaw and step back from Adam. “We could take off again, but the weather is shit and he could just be waiting where we land next.”

“Let’s get off,” Adam votes. “And let’s figure out where we’re going because it’s not The Ranch where they expect us, no matter what Kurt wants. We need to hole up and stand down. I’m going to call Blake and have him find us a spot.”

“Yeah,” I say. “Call Blake.”

He punches in the number and I sit back down to talk to Ana. “This dude is bad. He’s never missed a hit. Three days is a long ass time when he’s involved. We would have been better off in a safehouse in New York. Kurt drove us right into the palm of his hand.”

Adam disconnects. “We’re set. I’ve got the address. Blake already had one of our own picking us up. A guy named Bruno. I’ve met him. He’s an asset. Let’s go.” He backs out of the doorway and moves into the plane. Ana and I join him outside the door, right along with Kurt.

The minute Ana sees him, she shoves him. “Are you crazy?”

“We need to be on our own territory. He can’t touch us out there. I’ve reinforced everything behind the scenes when you didn’t know I was there.”

“I didn’t know,” she says. “That sums up everything wrong with all of this.”

I catch Ana’s arm and hand her the coat I’ve retrieved for her. She turns away from Kurt and slides it into place, I don’t look at him or I’ll hurt him. I bundle up and arm myself and her. Adam opens the door and leans out before updating us on his view.

“Bruno is out there, waiting in our ride. Let’s go.” He shoves the door all the way open and exits first.

I pull Ana back and force Kurt to exit next. He moves forward and heads outside. Ana is next and I have her rear. The cold is shocking, the wind fierce, the night dark. We’re in a line walking toward the SUV when my senses start to buzz. I pull Ana to the left of me, sensing something from the distance, and I don’t know what.

Adrenaline surges and it happens. Instinct has me stepping around and in front of Ana right as a bullet hits Kurt. He buckles forward. Adam is closer to the vehicle and he grabs Ana, pulling her with him. I’m aware of her entering the vehicle and all I can think is I can’t let Kurt die on her. I throw myself over him, shooting toward the line of trees where this bastard must be hiding. Ana appears again, kneeling next to me, trying to get to Kurt.

“Go back to the truck, Ana!” I shout, but she’s not listening.

I have to kill this bastard before he kills her, and that’s when I see the tiniest light, a small reflection behind a certain tree. “Cover left!” I shout.

Adam throws himself in front of Ana and Kurt, shooting at the target, while I go right, away from him, where he won’t be looking. It works. I blast through the trees and before he knows what’s happened, I’m behind him. He turns just as I arrive, almost as if he senses me as I did him, and I put a bullet through his head.

I don’t wait to see him fall. Savage isn’t with us. We need to get Kurt to a hospital and now, if it’s not already too late.

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