Page 49 of Protecting Gina

“I don’t. Go back to her and ask her what really happened.”

He snorted. “She’s dead. I took care of her after she told me she passed the drive off to you.”

“Well, she lied. And now you’ll never find it.” Maybe it was the wrong thing to say. Pete wasn’t rational. He’d killed Anna, which showed he reacted instead of thinking. The one person who knew the location of the thumb drive was dead.

She had no idea how to get out of this, but she needed to think of something to save Cass and Wave.

Pete hadn’t taken her words well and screamed. Then he marched over to the table where he had Cass and grabbed her hair, then pulled her head up.

“I’ll gut her if you don’t tell me.”

Panic swept through Gina. She didn’t want Cass to die. How the hell could she get out of this?

A scream lodged in her throat. There was nothing she could say to save them.

Bang’s phone buzzed as they pulled into the lot across from the building where it looked like Wave was. The MPs had sent a text with a photo. Wave’s front door was smashed open, and it looked like a struggle happened inside.

“It looks like someone broke into Wave’s place. Neither Cass nor Gina is at his place. All three of them could be in there.”

“We need to go in,” Cy said.

T moved to hop out of the truck. “I’ll recon the back.”

“I’m with you,” Jump said.

Bang hated that they had to operate in the USA. This could get them in all kinds of trouble, but they needed to get Wave back just in case there were terrorists who’d taken Wave.

T and Jump had made it around to the back of the building and reported that there was a door. They needed to coordinate their breach.

“We’ll go in two minutes,” Cy said.

“Get your equipment ready,” Foster said as he strapped on his belt.

Bang had his pistol in place and two flash bangs ready to go. “Once the door is open, I’ll toss in the flash bang.”

“T, do you have your C4?” Foster asked.

“Sure do. Jump is preparing it for the breach.”

“We go in ninety seconds,” Cy said.

They moved closer to the entrance. There wasn’t any yelling or screaming inside, and they hadn’t heard any gunfire. They needed to move in smoothly and take the bastards down.

“Twenty-five seconds,” Cy said.

Bang’s stomach tightened as he prepared to go in. Ten seconds before the charge was set to blow, screaming erupted inside. For a half second, Bang thought they’d been found out.

“Plan is still a go. Don’t get distracted,” Cy said seconds before the first charge blew.

Bang tossed in the two flash bangs, waiting for them to blow and spread their confusion.

Gina was ready for Pete to do something terrible to Cass when the front and back doors blew open. Then something small was tossed in, and lights seemed to explode right in front of her.

The sound and noise dazed her. She screamed but dropped low as smoke started to fill the area. Cass was still chained to the table, but Pete had moved away from her.

She had no idea what had happened, but she hoped this had something to do with their rescue, and not another attack.

“On the ground!” was yelled to her left, and then again to her right. The people coming into the building were big, dressed in black, and scary. She saw Pete go down before one of the goons dropped to the floor.