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"Oh, don't tell me you don't know," Jai chimes in, shaking his head.
"Now sit the fuck down and shut up," I give him one more glare before going back to explaining what the fuck we're going to do to catch the guy.
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In a quick two days, we find his location and have our means of catching him planned and memorized.
Jai hands out the padded leathers.
Her voice fills my thoughts.
'Don't get stabbed. Or headbutted. Or hurt. Please.'
I grit my teeth and yank a jacket from Jai's hands whose eyes widen in surprise. I pull on the jacket and sit her scrunchie down on the table, pushing the thoughts of her out of my head.
"You're wearing-"
"Shut up," I cut off Theo as we get into the SUVs.
On the ride, my mind drifts off to her.
Her soft sighs when I kiss her neck. Her body shimmying excitedly when she sees me. Her soft skin.Fuck.
I get a surge of adrenaline when we pull up to Joshua's hideout. A fucking shack in the middle of the goddamn swamp.
"If I get ate by a damn 'gator, I'm gonna be pissed," Jai mumbles as we get out of the cars and sink our boots into the deep mud.
"Is now a bad time to admit I'm scared of reptiles?" Theo's voice comes from behind me. The guy she said hadpretty fucking eyes.
I hope one bites him in the fucking ass.
We execute our plan exactly as it was written.
Being nearly soundless, we walk through the front part of his shack. Guns lay all over his shabby couch. Not taking any chances, I motion for them to be taken out before we head into the back of the run-down place.
We find Joshua and a hooker both asleep on a mattress that sits on the floor. I walk in the room first. The woman's breathing catches my attention.
She breathes at an abnormal pace for anyone who's sleeping. Or awake; it's way too fast. I look at Joshua. I just barely see his arm twitch and I know that they know we're here.
I hold my arm up to the guys behind me. His lower arm twitches and he shoots up in a flash, a gun positioned in his hand.
Instead of firing, he grabs the barely clothed girl beside him and holds the gun to her head. The guys fill the room and he looks at us all.
"Drop your guns, o-or I'll kill her," he warns shakily, obviously fucked up by the fact that he's been caught.
Wanted for four counts of second-degree murder, two counts of arson, and armed robbery.
He won't hesitate to kill her. I nod to the floor and we place our guns down slowly, kicking them to the bed.
"She doesn't have anything to do with this Josh," Jai speaks and with the silence in the room, we hear the safety on his gun click off.
"I don't give a fuck," he shakes his head, pressing the gun further into the girl's temple. Being the only one slightly out of his range of view, Roman slowly moves behind Joshua. He keeps his eyes on me as he takes his other gun out the back of his pants.
"You don't want to do this, just let the girl go," Jai warns, seeing the position Roman is in.
'I've got the shot,' Roman nods to me and I look back at Joshua, then the gun in his hand. His finger rests on the trigger, slightly pressing down on it.
I give Roman a single nod and roll my eyes internally at the amount of paperwork I'm going to need to fill out after this.
