Page 57 of Evil Beautiful

One glance at her was all I allowed myself.

My eyes were riveted on Mitch. He was bleeding from far too many places on his battered body and face.

His pain filled eyes met mine and he mouthedcellarbefore his eyes fluttered closed with a heavy sigh.

Fuck!

“MEDIC!” I shouted over my shoulder as I started cutting the restraints holding him in place and gently moving his arms onto the table by his sides.

Lex and Rico left the bitch lying on the floor and ran over to help. Zach, our medic, was close behind them.

For the next few minutes I focussed on helping him cover as many of the stab wounds and cuts on Mitch’s body with pads of gauze to stop the bleeding. There were too many holes and the pads turned red almost as soon as they were placed.

“We need a life flight. I can stabilise him but he needs emergency care.” Zach snapped, his eyes not leaving Mitch as he worked.

Dom’s voice was filled with rage when he answered.

“They are on their way. Two minutes out and they have a trauma doc on board.” He walked up and stood at the head of the table looking down at the battered face of the man on the table.

“She will pay for every single thing she ordered and did, I swear it on my life.” He gritted through clenched teeth.

The noise of a helicopter approaching low and fast had him striding towards the door, throwing it open. Minutes later he was gesturing the Doc and EMT inside.

Zach quietly gave them an update as they worked frantically. In short order Mitch was loaded onto a backboard and into the helicopter. Once they were gone I could finally give my attention to the job we had come here to do. Exterminating the head of the Harrison Syndicate in Southern Africa.

The hag.

And with her everyone who had condoned what she had done and supported her actions.

When the helicopter arrived Rico and Lex had dragged her out of the room and into one of the bedrooms where they kept her until the coast was clear. We didn’t need the Life Flight crew seeing our female prisoner.

Now we had to work fast.

The pigs would be descending on the farm once the alert went out.

We had to clear any trace of our presence from the house and surroundings before that happened. All the hag’s men were dead and we left them where they fell. The owner of the farm wasn’t in residence which was lucky for him. But not that lucky, his time would come soon enough.

The personnel on the life flight wouldn’t say a word about finding us at the scene. They had all been compensated for their silence. They were stunned and horrified at what had been done to Mitch.

The life flight had been despatched after an anonymous emergency call had come in and the doc walked into the scene expecting to find a seriously wounded patient. What he had found was an obviously tortured and heavily bleeding individual in a house with several dead men and after stabilising him they transported him to the trauma centre at the hospital. They could do nothing for the other men except report what they had found.

We had until they got to the hospital to clear the area.

I knew Zach had called Kellen’s doctors to be on waiting when the flight came in. He was in good hands.

We meticulously cleaned up after ourselves. The only trace evidence the pigs would find belonged to the bastards who had helped to torture our friend. And of course there would be DNA evidence that the hag had been present. Evidence placed in such a way that it would implicate her in his torture.

She would never be found but there was satisfaction in knowing her evil would soon be known to the rest of the country, if not the world.

“We’re done here. Let’s get back and set the next phase in motion.” Dom ordered.

“We need to check the cellars first. That’s the word Mitch tried to say before he lost consciousness.”

Dom gave a stiff nod. “Darren, take some men and check it out. Be quick. We’ll be moving out with the prisoner, follow once you’ve cleared the area.”

Dom gave Rico a nod and walked out of the house.

I quietly followed him out. While he settled the hag in her new accommodations I would be heading to the hospital.

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