Page 102 of Explode
Reluctantly, I agreed to wait for Miles so we could RV, and come upwith a plan. Knowing my family home was close enough to the city, and had been abandoned now that Thorne had been dealt with, we made our way there. Waiting for Miles to arrive was sheer torture, my mind running wild with all manner of thoughts about what might be happening to Riley at that very moment.
No one dared talk to me as I paced up and down, waiting for mycousin to meet us. As soon as the cars arrived, a red mist clouded my vision when my eyes landed on Rafe sitting in the passenger seat. Hence the second Miles stopped the car, I had dragged Rafe out to let him feel my wrath.
“Any news from Ash on hacking the security system?” Miles said. Atleast one of us had a cool head right now. Rafe glowered at me like he expected me to launch at him again, which there was every possibility if the fucker did or said anything to piss me off.
“Not yet, but he thinks he is close,” Jack said.
“Fuck. Without that, it’s pointless attacking,” Miles replied.
“It’s not fucking pointless, there must be a way in. One of The Stagsmust be able to get us in,” I growled, my body buzzing with the need to shed blood.
“Kai, you know Hendrix will be one step ahead of us, he isn’t going tobe stupid enough to let anyone have access to his building,” Miles said. His jaw ticking was the only sign of just how fucking furious he was.
I knew he was right, we would be signing our own death warrants ifwe didn’t have a way to get into the building, but the rational part of my mind wasn’t thinking straight right now, all I cared about was getting to Riley.
“We can’t just stand here with our thumbs up our asses while thatfucker does whatever he likes to my wife!” I roared.
“Kai-” Miles started, but whatever he was about to say was cut off byhis phone ringing. “It’s Ernie,” he said, jabbing the answer button and putting it on loudspeaker. “Ernie, tell me you have some fucking news for me.”
“Hendrix has Mrs. Wolfe. She’s locked in her old bedroom. He’s put alock on the door in case someone breaches the security system, and the place is surrounded by Stags. Hendrix thinks you’ll attack,” Ernie spoke quickly, his voice low like he didn’t want to be overheard.
Snatching the phone out of Miles’ hand, I held it to my ear. “Why thefuck didn’t you warn us about the attack on the Bianchis?” I hissed.
There was a stunned pause before he answered. “Mr….Mr. Wolfe?You’re alive?”
“Answer the fucking question!” I roared.
“I didn’t know the attack was going to happen. Hendrix planned it withStags from Huntsville. He only told me, Carlos, and Markus minutes before the van containing Riley and the other girl arrived.”
“Was she hurt?” I gritted out through clenched teeth, hating howfucking scared Riley would have been.
“She was holding it together. Your wife is a brave woman, Mr. Wolfe. Imanaged to slip her a knife, but I couldn’t do anything else with Carlos and Markus there,” Ernie replied.
Fuck, at least Riley had some way of defending herself, but I wantedto get there before she had the need to use the knife.
“Too fucking right we’ll attack,” I replied, my hand curling around thephone and squeezing it from the amount of anger coursing through me.
“Mr. Wolfe, we’re ready,” Ernie said, distracting me from my rage. “I’ve beenrecruiting men loyal to the Wolfe name, loyal to your wife, and now to you. Say the word, and I can have them rallied within the hour.”
A sense of gratitude rushed through me at Ernie’s words, hearingthere were men still loyal to the Wolfe name.
“How many?”
“Thirty,” Ernie replied. “We lost quite a few when Hendrix took over,and they refused to conform. There might be more I could recruit if I had more time.”
Fucking hell. Before all this shit went down, I had over a hundredgang members. But this was another reason I hadn’t revealed I was alive, I needed to clean house after the amount of turncoats who went to Hendrix and Thorne’s side. I needed to know who was loyal to the name, not just me.
“There isn’t any more time,” I replied, meeting Miles’ gaze. He gaveme a nod, knowing what I was about to say. “Rally the men, we attack within the hour. Anyone fighting on Hendrix’s side dies.”
“Yes, Mr. Wolfe,” Ernie said, his tone resolute. “And if you don’t mindme saying, it’s damn good to have you back, Sir.”
A smile tugged at my lips. Ernie was a good fucking soldier to haveon side.
“It’s good to be back.” I gave him our location and hung up.
“All we need now is a way past the fucking security system. Withoutthat, we can kill as many Stags as you like, but you won’t be getting up to the penthouse,” Miles said, reminding me of the next fucking problem.
As if on cue, my phone rang, Ash’s name flashing up. “Tell me you’vefigured it out.”
