Page 41 of Beta Team-The Saviors: Part two
“Ari and his little fa…” his words trail off when Tivon glares. “Ari and his boyfriend. They weren’t supposed to leave that prison alive.”
I start laughing before I can stop myself. “You really thought you could take out Ari? First of all, you fucked up by messing with Jason. Nothing would have motivated him more to get out of there. Second of all, you underestimated his team.” I slap Tivon on the back so he knows he’s included in that statement. “He knew where Ari was from the beginning. We’re a family. When you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us. Were you at the prison?” They both clam up, so I already have my answer. “Did either of you have anything to do with hurting Jason or Ari?”
“Answer him,” Tivon barks.
“Man, I was one of the ones who grabbed Jason,” the talkative one answers.
Tivon’s face goes from neutral to red in seconds. He bares his teeth, and before I can react, he jabs the knife right into the guy’s stomach. The guy’s eyes widen, and his mouth opens to speak, but nothing is coming out. “You almost killed him!” Tivon’s voice echoes around the basement. “Someone completely innocent to this life and for what? A monster.” Tivon looks at the other guy, who looks seconds from puking. “Start fucking talking.”
“There’s a website,” he rushes out. “It’s a dark web thing where people post looking for criminals to do things they can’t. This Cryptic guy posted that he needed bodies to go to that apartment to grab Ari and Jason. He also needed people to guard a prison. We answered it, and the next day, five guys showed up, grabbed us, and took us to a training facility. We trained for over a month until we finally met the main guy, but we never got a name.”
“What did he look like?”
“Dark hair, dressed in a suit, creepy fucking brown eyes.”Definitely Abraham.“He said that Ari was dangerous, and he had to be locked up.”
Tivon twists the knife in his friend’s stomach, making him gurgle, and then jerks his hand to the side, slitting him wide open. He pulls the knife free and we step back in unison when his guts splatter to the floor. The guy gags, then vomits all over the floor. Tivon doesn’t even bat an eye when he uses the guy’s pants to wipe the blood off the knife.
“We need to talk to Ari,” Tivon says and nods his head toward the stairs. I follow behind him, completely in awe that Tivon just reacted like that about Jason.
“You can’t leave me down here with him like that!”
“I can and I will,” Tivon answers, never stopping moving up the steps. “Just wait a while. The smell will be unbearable. Let this be a lesson for when you fuck with the Saviors.”
Tivon pushes the door open to the house and I groan. “You’re so fucking hot.”
“I’m not playing your games right now,” he says, making me smile. “And wipe that fucking grin off your face.”
My mouth drops open. “How the hell do you know I’m smiling?”
“Because I know you.”
I snort. “You don’t know shit.”
We find Ari in the living room with Jason’s head in his lap, fast asleep. Ari looks up when he hears us, continuing to run his fingers through Jason’s hair. “Did you find out anything?”
“Oh, I found outa lot,” I answer, making Tivon glare at me. “But the guys were looking for a flash drive.”
“You have something on your father, don’t you?” Tivon asks suddenly. “That’s why it’s more important than finding you.”
Ari studies Tivon for a second, assessing his loyalty, before he nods. “I have years of evidence of his corruption in Mossad, what he did to Avina, and how he treats the soldiers.”
“Why didn’t you turn it over?” I wonder.
“Because he would have killed everyone that could talk,” Tivon answers. “He would have gone nuclear. Have you ever heard of a guy named Cryptic?” Ari shakes his head. Tivon explains everything we found out downstairs. “We need to find this website.”
“I have just the guy.” With a smile, I pull my phone from my pocket and dial one of my favorite computer guys. “Hello, my adorable computer nerd,” I say when Nolan answers.
“Stop calling me that. What’s going on?”
“Say there’s a dark website that we need to find, but don’t have the web address. How would one go about finding it?”
“I just need the device they accessed the site on.”
“This is why I love you, Nolan.”
“I’ll slit your goddamn throat, Tyler,” Axel growls in the background, making Nolan laugh. I hit the video button and to my surprise, Nolan accepts it, but it’s Axel’s face that fills the screen. “If you don’t stop giving him pet names, and telling him you love him, I’ll fucking end you.”
“Are you naked right now?” Ari sighs because he knows I’m just baiting Axel. “Pan down and let me see what you’re working with. I’ll be so disappointed if you have all that big dick energy with a small cock.”
