Page 1 of Burn Bag

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FOX

My eyeballs twitchedas I stared at Cash through the restaurant window. Sitting there with a group of men he had no right being with, I knew what I had to do. It didn’t take long to get to work. I had been watching him for a while now, taking my time to plan everything out perfectly.

Tonight was the night.

And it was gonna be alright.

I laughed to myself as the words tinkled in my head. I cracked myself up sometimes. If only others learned to have as much fun as I did. Their lives would be so much happier for it. Whistling, I turned to the job at hand and slid under the car, taking the device out of my pocket to plant under the vehicle. I was going old school on this. If there was one thing I learned over the years, it was that sometimes things had to be done a certain way.

As much as I wished I could get my hands on a vat of acid right now, this called for a little more finesse. I attached the bomb and set the timer, sliding back out from under the vehicle just in time to run to the alley before anyone saw me.

I giggled as I squatted down against the brick wall. A mouse creptup beside me and squeaked a few times. “Yep, it’s all going down. Only a few more seconds and it’ll all be over.”

The mouse squeaked again and scurried down the alley. He probably didn’t want to see the aftereffects. Not that it mattered. The rest of the world would see, and that was all that counted.

Cash walked out of the restaurant and got in the back seat of the car as the others got in beside him. The driver shut the door and walked around to the front, checking his surroundings before getting inside. I chuckled at the fact that he ignored me. Dressed as a homeless person, no one took me seriously. But then again, that’s how I’d been living for the past month. It was how I gained the intel I had today.

I glanced down at my watch, knowing others would be watching this very moment, and pulled out the trigger.

“It’s been nice knowing you, Cash.”

I hit the button and grinned as the car shot up, flipping in the air, as the bomb tore the car apart. It landed with a thud, completely engulfed in flames. Not a single person would have survived the blast, and that’s the way I wanted it.

Snickering, I rubbed my hands together in glee as I got to my feet and skipped down the alley. My mouse friend joined me, scurrying alongside me as we left the dark alley just as sirens sounded in the distance.

All they’d find were the charred remains.

2

KAVANAUGH

I watchedIKE from across the room, pissed that I even had to be in the same fucking place as the man. Everyone here went behind my back and rescued him when he found himself in a world of hurt. And why? Because of Isla. He meant something to her, and therefore, they all ran to the rescue.

The pencil in my hand snapped in half when he shot that cocky grin at Eli. How dare he try to talk to my teammate and get him on his side.

“Dude,” Lock leaned in and whispered. “You might want to take it down a notch. You’re putting off some major murdery vibes.”

“That’s because I could seriously kill someone right now.”

He clasped a hand on my shoulder and squeezed. “I know you hate him, but he’s part of the team. You need to find a way to deal with this anger.”

Deal with my anger.

Didn’t he get it? This went so much deeper than anger. I was hurt. I was fucking depressed. I was…I was struggling to find a reason to stay. IKE took the one good thing from me with a snap of his fingers. Isla was mine, and he fucking knew it.

But she wasn’t really.

I swatted at the voice in my head, irritated that it chose this moment to return and annoy the fuck out of me.

I gnashed my teeth together as I continued to glare across the room, but that stupid fucker wouldn’t even look at me. Sitting there in his pristine suit with his slicked back hair, you’d think he was in a fucking board meeting. Who wore a vest under a suit? Didn’t he know it was fucking Kansas, not a wedding? And we protected people—we didn’t try to sway them into doing the right thing with charm and debonair.

“Fucking prick,” I muttered, not even realizing I said it aloud until everyone at the table looked at me.

IKE smirked, already aware I was talking about him. I could wipe that smirk off his face in two seconds. I shoved to my feet and bared my teeth.

“Outside. Now.”

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