Page 163 of G.O.D.S Omnibus

“I’m in too,” Jimmie declares.

Chester steps up to him. “If I find out your girl had anything to do with this, I’ll kill her.”

I have to give Jimmie credit, he doesn’t cower even though Chester is taller, stronger, and could kick his skinny ass.

“If she had anything to do with this, it’s not a team I want to be part of.”

“I’m in,” Summer slurs, stumbling slightly. The girl is wasted.

“Hold on,” Khale announces. “We need to think about this. Are we willing to risk Summer’s life over this?”

Summer turns to face him. “Jolie is my friend. I don’t care what you want to do, Khale, but I plan to help.”

“How about we all help. But, Khale, you can take Summer and sober her up. They can give you two a safe job—I’m sure there is surveillance to watch or something,” Leland says, before they can argue again.

“Done. Chances are they have left the building, but I want to do a sweep just to make sure.”

Everyone nods and breaks off into their teams, who then get straight into searching.

Half an hour later, Jolie is nowhere to be seen, which is what we expected. We all pile into our cars and head back to the house. We need to wait on Ziyon, and I have some calls to make.

Twenty-four hours have passed since Jolie disappeared from the party. We haven’t heard anything from Mr Z and that worries us immensely. Jolie could be experiencing any horror at this point in retribution for the lies we told. He knows how important she is to us and wouldn’t blink at the prospect of taking her away as punishment. While he would have to know we would come for him, it takes time to rally together the people we need to pull this rescue off. We never wanted to hurt anyone else, but he has left us no choice.

Camilla was more than happy to go to war, especially after she spoke to her granddaughter Amelie. I’ll owe them, and every team they send in to help us, a favour. I’m more than okay with that if we bring Jolie home and take Mr Z down.

Her people started arriving minutes ago, and Ziyon is running everyone over the plan. Olympia is under heavy surveillance using state-of-the-art equipment. It’s so heavily secured that Marlow hasn’t been able to hack into its system yet, though he can disable the gates and the electric fence. But once we are inside, if he can get to the security basement, then he can control the cameras.

We have an air strike ready, and bombs have been strategically placed in the underground tunnels just outside of the Olympia walls. Everything is ready to go.

Stuffing my hands into my pockets, I walk back inside the house to find Marlow and Jimmie talking about the best strategy to get to the basement. Jimmie is a computer nerd and knows his way around a basic computer hack. He came up with an idea to sidetrack the Olympia team with a fake attack on their system. They’ll be busy fixing that and hopefully that will buy us a fewminutes to get in. Marlow hands him a laptop and Jimmie sets himself up at the kitchen bench; he will start once we’re all in place.

It was decided at the last minute that Sinclair and Blayne would run surveillance with Summer, as we need eyes watching and listening to us. They’re in the office where all our screens have been tuned to watch the Olympia grounds. Blayne wasn’t happy about it, but no one was willing to risk their women in this fight. We know we’ll lose people, but it’s better for it to be us than the girls.

Movement out of the corner of my eye catches my attention and I turn and watch as Chester, Creed, and Laughn strap themselves with weapons. This is a suicide mission for them. They’ll walk in, guns drawn, and start shooting anyone who moves, and I’m powerless to stop it.

The Order has come through and sent us twenty men and women, each scarier than the next. Camilla made it clear that The Order doesn’t generally work with non-members, but her board held a vote, deciding to make an exception when I gave them a list of useful things that our teams are especially good at achieving. Anything they could want from us doesn’t worry me; it’s nothing we wouldn’t have done before. And there’snothingwe wouldn’t do to get Jolie back.

Mr Z knows we’re coming—this isn’t a secret attack. We head outside and get into our vehicles, all except Chester, Creed, and Laughn. They climb into a chopper that just landed, along with a team that Camilla promises specialises in air attacks.

He may know we’re coming, but I hope he’s not ready for the force we have behind us. I tried to reason with everyone that, if possible, we should capture him alive. This isn’t a shoot-to-kill mission.

The line of cars drive at speeds well beyond the limit as the sound of the choppers radiates from above. Boston, Kai, Trace,and Davis are packed into my car; we’ve tried to reduce it down to as few vehicles as we can. Kai is in charge of setting off the bombs once we are all in place.

Boston’s knee bounces as we get closer to Olympia.

“If anything has happened to her,” he seethes, not really talking to anyone in particular.

“I doubt he would hurt his own daughter,” Davis says, but we all know that’s a lie.

He is out to benefit himself, and luring us in is killing two birds with one stone. It’s no secret that he wants us dead. Unbeknownst to him, this has been Plan B for a long time, and we won’t be leaving without Jolie and having dealt with him.

We all split off at the fork in the road that leads around the Olympia grounds. Kai confirms with Creed that they’re in place and ready to go before he opens a burner phone and presses some buttons. We watch as explosions illuminate the sky, one after another.

Boston talks to Marlow through an earpiece; it’s one that we all have, so we can hear everything they say. Jimmie has already started hacking into the Olympia system while Marlow shuts down the gates and electric fences. Once he gives the okay, people rappel from the chopper and Ziyon’s men storm the outside of the building.

We head towards an underground tunnel, one that leads into the basement. Marlow and Case catch up and join us.

Case leads the way, moving us through the pitch black with Kai hot on his heels. There is one more door we need to get through, and we pray Kai can see what’s on the other side.

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