Page 204 of Darling Wildfire
Knight scoffed and nodded his head for me to follow as he exited the treeline and made his way towards the main tent. “That’s cute—this is his deal, of course he’s going to find out.”
I entered the tent behind Knight.
“We have a stowaway boys,” Knight announced.
Cal looked up from the gun he was cleaning and groaned.
Ghost just laughed and West didn’t even turn around from his computer.
“And you’re surprised she’s here, why?” West grumbled.
“You’re off the hook, Ghost,” I smirked.
“How’d you even get here?” Cal asked, then turned to Knight. “She’s not going in there.”
Knight ran a hand over his face and threw up his hands. “Then you’ll probably have to tie her to something, Cal, because there’s no way she’s going to listen. It’s probably better if she comes, that way we can keep an eye on her.”
“Or we could put her right back on that plane,” he grumbled, fixing me with a look.
“Now that’s just silly,” I scoffed. “I’m here and I’m not that girl you found in the forest, Cal,” I said.
We stared at each other for a long moment. I’d been a wreck when they’d found me and Graham. That had been a dark time for me. Nearly two years later I was stronger and much more capable than I was back then.
“Fine—but you stick with one of us at all times,” Cal said.
Nyx walked into the tent and stopped in his tracks when he saw me. “Oh hey, baby girl, fancy seeing you here.” A slow smirk took over his features. He chuckled and looked at Knight. “He’s definitely going to kill you.”
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KAELIN
Cal led the way towards the house. It was the grey before the dawn and everything had a muted quality to it. A heavy fog rested across the landscape with the dark green treetops poking through. It was haunting and beautiful—the calm before the horror that would inevitably ensue.
Knight had received the signal from Demetrius. The games would start in an hour and our job was to help him clear the mansion and find a man named Albatron. Well, their job. Mine was to find the server room and plant the kill codes for the drones so that when the games started, the drones would first be transferred over to West’s control and then rendered useless. We carefully made it into the house where we parted ways with Nyx who went off to find the others, specifically Atlas. He kissed my cheek.
“Give ‘em hell,” he said with a wink.
We entered the first room and ran into trouble immediately. Cal and Knight had to go after one of the guards who tried to get away and Ghost was just finishing knifing a second when a third rushed out from the back room. I didn’t want to use my gun yet…so far the men had been silently using their knives—so I pulled mine out and intercepted him.
“Intruders in the—” I didn’t let him finish his report over comms. I brought him to his knees and shoved the blade into his neck. When I looked up Cal, Knight and Ghost were watching me.
“Shit,” Ghost muttered. “Gigs up.”
He pulled the comms unit off one of the dead men and put it into his other ear. Cal and Knight did the same.
“Get to the server room,” Cal ordered. “Ghost, go with her.”
Ghost and I made our way through the house. The server room was off the main control center so when we got to the doors, there were two guards posted outside. Ghost leaned out into the hallway and using his handgun with a silencer, shot both men. He motioned for me to follow him and wesettled on either side of the door. He opened the door just enough to peek inside and signaled to me.Two men. Take right.
Ghost shoved open the door and he shot the left. I didn’t hesitate but shot the guard on the right and we moved into the server room. While Ghost watched my back, I pulled out my phone and the drives and got to work.
A short time later, I heard Ghost curse.
“Shit, they’re sweeping this wing, we need to go,” Ghost said.
“Alright—almost done,” I muttered. “Just transferring control over to West.”
I set the countdown on the kill code and pocketed my phone and the drives. I nodded to Ghost. “Let’s go.”
