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I hadn’t followed my team. Kira’s eyes had locked with mine. She had something to say. Whatever it was needed to be said so that I could kit up.

Before I could prompt Kira, she rushed across the room. Her hands smacked me in the chest, her fists balled up my tee, sherolled up on her toes while yanking me to her in a display of fright I’d never seen from her.

“You have to get her out of there, Cash.”

“We will?—”

She tugged my shirt again.

“You have to. He won’t survive.”

She wasn’t wrong.

“Listen to me, KK, we’re gonna get her out and bring her home.”

“AliveCash. He’s shut down. He’s barely breathing. If we lose her, we lose him and we’ll never get him back.”

My hands went to her shoulders. I dipped my head and touched my forehead to hers.

The lock I had on my emotions slipped.

“I promise you, she’s coming home alive, Seven.”

“Okay.”

“We got this. We got him.”

There was a moment of silence before she softly muttered, “Cash is King.”

That almost made me smile.

“Goddamn right, Cash is King. Now let me go so I can grab my gear and kick in some doors.”

She nodded, released me, and stepped back.

I was at the door when Zane called my name.

His blue eyes glittering with anger. Face a mask of sheer evil. He said not a single word but the jerk of his chin said everything.

Permission.

Any means necessary.

Both Aria and Smith were coming home alive.

Consequences be damned.

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

I wasn’t sure if it was the fear, the anger, or if it was my body shutting down from the pain, but I was numb.

Numb and scared and angrier than I’d even been in my life.

Billy Rice was crazy. Certifiably, needed-to-be-institutionalized sick. How this man held down a job and no one hadn’t seen his insanity was beyond me. Or maybe he’d snapped and he couldn’t hide it any longer.

Lucky me.

I had no idea why he hadn’t killed me yet. He waved that Colt Python around while he yelled his nonsense at me. He held that damn revolver in one hand while he took pictures of me with his other. He never put that damn gun away or down.

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