Page 90 of Beta Team-The Saviors: Part two
Tyler starts laughing. “Holy shit. I don’t know whether to celebrate or cry. When Nolan said Aharon was going to kill you, I almost gave us away trying to get to you.”
“That wasn’t going to happen,” Tivon throws in, squeezing my thigh.
“Tyler, you missed it. This crazy motherfucker comes in like an avenging angel, covered in blood, and slices Aharon’s head clean off with Kane’s machete.”
“Shit,” Tyler groans. “This is going to be a problem. I’m rock fucking hard at the image.”
“Of course you are,” Tivon replies dryly. He checks his phone and nods. “The rest of the guards have been rounded up. Cryptic is helping find the rest.”
“What happened there?”
“I heard them fucking him over,” Keon answers. “I took out the guards at the door to stop it, then the ones inside. He doesn’t deserve that.”
“Agreed,” I say and get to my feet. “Give me a minute with him, then we can finish this.”
I walk into the basement and drag a chair over to sit in front of Abraham. His eyes blaze when he sees me. “Where’s Aharon?”
“Dead.”
“What?!” He jerks against the chains. “Mossad will fall apart without him.”
I shake my head. “Mossad will go back to the way it’s supposed to be. An agency run with honor.”
“You’re such an ungrateful child.”
“I’d watch what you say to me right now. The tables have turned, Abraham. You no longer have control over me. My family is alive and fucking thriving, no matter how much you tried to stop it.” I stand up and walk to the wall where I saw a nasty looking rusty knife. I grab it and go back so he’s in my line of sight. “I want to drag this out, but honestly, I just want you to feel what you put Jason through. I don’t give a fuck what you did to me. You would have never broken me, but you fucked up when you had him grabbed.” I thrust my hand forward and stab him in the stomach. The knife is just sharp enough to penetrate the skin, so I have to dig it into his stomach further. He screams, and chills run down my spine. “I’m going to end you, then I’m going to go home with my family and forget you ever existed.”
“Aryeh, we can work through this.”
“Begging? Isn’t that beneath you?” I dig the knife in further. “You were never anything but a pawn to my father. Someone he could bend to his will because you have always been weak.That’swhy he would have never given you Mossad. He wanted to bring the son he hated back before giving you that control. What does that say about you?”
“Fuck you.” I twist the knife, and his face pales even more.
I leave that knife in his stomach and grab the one from my sheath that Tyler gave me. This one is sharp enough to get thejob done. I lean forward so I can whisper in his ear. “Enjoy hell, motherfucker.”
I pull back and slit his throat. His mouth opens as blood pours from the wound. I stand there until the life drains from his eyes, and then pull the knife from his stomach. I laugh and stab it into his eye.
I wipe Tyler’s knife off on his shirt and go back into the hallway where they are waiting.
“It’s done. Let’s go home.”
We can take care of everything else later. I just need my family in my arms to remind myself that we made it out of this stronger than ever before.
I grew up with a mother who mentally checked out before she died, and a father that was cold and heartless. I lost my sister to a senseless act of negligence but I ended up with the best family a man could ask for, and I know Avina is smiling down on me, finally able to rest now that I’ve found my place in life.
With the Beta Team.
With my true family that I’ll treasure for the rest of my life.
EPILOGUE
Ari
After everything at the prison, we went straight to Kira and Jason, then took a two week vacation in Mexico. During that time, Nolan turned over the evidence I gave him to the US government, and they ripped through what was left of my father’s loyalists. Tivon’s guy took Aharon’s place, and Mossad is finally the agency that I grew up idolizing. Now that he is in control, I stepped foot back in Israel for the first time in years.
I sit down beside Avina’s tiny headstone and dust it off. “Hey, Avina. I’m so sorry I wasn’t here to save you.” I let the tears roll down my cheeks, because I’m finally able to grieve for her. “He’s dead. So is Abraham. I just wish you were here to see it and meet my family. You’d love Kira. She reminds me a lot of you. Beautiful, strong, funny, sweet. She deals with us all, so she has to be special. You’d love Jason too. He puts me in my place.” I laugh at that. “I’ve always felt like you were watching over me, but I hope now that you can find peace knowing that I’m safe, I’m happy, and I’m so fucking free.” I look over the cemetery, meeting the eyes of my team waiting for me to do what I neededto do. “I’m going to show them how beautiful Israel is, and one day I’m going to ask them to marry me. I love you, Avina.”
I sit there with her, thinking about how life has changed. After the prison, we struggled to find a balance, until Kira reminded me of what I showed her before shit blew up. I grabbed Axel, Cole, Sean, and Kai to finish the house that I bought for us. We had it done in no time, and I surprised them with it. That’s when we found our groove. We decorated together, making it ours.
