Page 105 of Stolen Kisses
I saw now there never was to begin with.
Chapter 30
Dante
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Elliot Granger’s face was plastered all over the news within the hour of me leaking the story to the press.
Leaking was the tamer version of explaining what I had done.
I didn’t do the standard mundane spread of providing unauthorized confidential information. I blasted it, fucking blasted it to kingdom come so it would fucking spread to all corners of the damn globe.
It was everywhere. Headlines of how the governor of Illinois was a fraud, murderer, terrorist liaison, and even how he rigged various cases to allow criminals who were guilty as shit to be acquitted.
We took all that information Christina collected and did a grand exposè.
All secrets and fucking lies exposed.
It was a big thing to do, considering it probably put us all at risk, but we did it anyways. I did it and we were all ready for any kind of backlash it would cause.
When secrets like that were exposed there was little anyone could do to fix the problem. There was no respite in damage control. No one to help you in the end.
I definitely got this guy good, but nothing would give me more satisfaction than killing his ass dead.
It wouldn’t bring back Christina. It might not mend the hole in my heart that widened as the years went by, but it was something. Something I had to do, something I would do.
Now we rode hard like demons from hell to find him.
About half an hour ago the secret squad lost track of him. Then Gibbs came through for us and sent over an address.
Elliot was currently at the civic center. It was a fifty story building in the city that could be seen from everywhere.
We were about five minutes away.
“When we get there it’s all the way up to the top floor guys.” Claudius instructed through the wireless microphone. We all carried one. It was a small virtually undetectable device that fit on the lapel of my jacket.
When we pulled up out front we parked on the door step. Normally this building closed at six. Claudius waved his all access pass to the city over the sensor panel on the door and it opened for us.
Us …
Not just The Four.
There were twenty of us total.
Twenty of the meanest badass guys on this side of the planet.
Bad to the bone guys who were trained to kill on sight. We did not travel light either.
Trouble met us at the door as expected.
Bullets started flying the minute we stepped into the foyer. Three guys ran out with their guns blazing.
Alex ended them in two seconds.
It seemed like either these people here didn’t think we’d find them or they underestimated us.
I hoped it was the latter.
