Page 104 of Five Fingers of Death

JASON

“Do you think he’ll understand the message?” I asked, staring through the binoculars at the entrance to the abandoned underground government site.

I could practically hear Rae rolling her eyes over comms. “Why are you asking that? Do I look like the type of person who doesn’t know how to send a message?”

I glanced at Johnny, who laid beside me on the ground. “How the hell does Duke put up with her?”

“Maybe she’s great in bed,” Johnny grunted.

“She’s a pain in the ass.”

I heard the telltale click of a gun behind me and froze. Who the hell managed to creep up on us in the dark? Slowly, I rose to my knees, abandoning the binoculars on the ground. Johnny did the same, neither of us moving too fast for fear that we’d get our heads blown off before we had a chance to make our move.

“I happen to be amazing in bed,” Rae said, nudging me with her gun. “But that’s not the only reason Duke’s with me.”

I let out a long breath and put my arms down, spinning around to face her. “What the fuck are you doing?”

“Besides scaring the shit out of you?” she grinned.

I rolled my eyes, getting to my feet. “You’re not sticking to the plan.”

“The plan changed. Let’s move.”

She walked away without another word.

“You could have just said that over comms,” I muttered.

“Ah, but then I wouldn’t have been able to see you laying on the ground, scared shitless as you saw your life flash before your eyes.”

“You know, I walked you down the aisle at your wedding,” Johnny muttered. “And I performed the ceremony.”

“Which means you should be on my side,” she chuckled. “Now, should we get to work or did you want to let Cash get away?”

“He’s here?” I asked, wondering how the hell I had missed that.

“It’s a good thing one of us knows Cash better than Rafe. Come on.”

I grabbed my pack and followed Rae through the trees, down the mountainside. The terrain was rough, but I remembered scouting out here enough times to know the best route to take to make the trip as easily as possible. Thankfully, we weren’t having to make the trek in the dead of winter. Snow in Colorado was unforgivable.

“He’s at the back entrance,” Rae whispered as we approached the front gate.

“Any chance he has control of the facility?”

She shot me a look that begged me not to repeat that question. “He has Knight with him. He probably had control before he stepped foot inside.”

“Where’s Jack?” Johnny asked.

“I would imagine he’s already doing his job. Who knows? Maybe he’s cornered Cash, too, and is interrogating him.”

Johnny muttered something under his breath, but was on the move before I could ask him what he said. Rae ran to the first gate, entering the code quickly. As soon as the light turned green, we slipped inside.

“We’ll be lucky if we make it through the next two gates,” she mumbled. “Let’s make this quick.”

I pulled out the explosives from my pack and attached the leads to the system on the wall. It would knock out the power, preventing anyone from trying to hack the system. Anyone being government officials or whoever the fuck was after us. This was first and foremost Rafe’s facility. He taught us the ins and outs, where to pull the trigger to bring down the whole facility, and all the fail-safes he had in place. There wasn’t a single inch of this place that we couldn’t control.

I nodded to Rae as she typed on her computer. She’d hacked into the mainframe, sending signals throughout the system, jamming our location. Technically, this facility was no longer in use, but that didn’t mean the government wasn’t watching.

As soon as she gave the signal, we moved again, turning down a hallway instead of heading for the next gate. At the end of the hallway was a storage room, nothing special, and definitely not something anyone would take a second look at. We slipped inside and headed for the back wall, removing the fake panel that blended in seamlessly with the rest of the room.

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