just hope you’re prepared to deal with the consequences if anything happens to him tonight. I’m going to do my best to have his back but…” he trailed off.
“What?” I glanced at him.
“Nothing.”
“What?” I pushed him hard. “Tell me.”
His body swayed to the side off my impact and he laughed, pulling himself back toward me. “Nothing, it’s just… of course, I’ll look out for him but you’re my first priority, Cutter.” He looked away, not wanting to show too much emotion and for Blaze, saying something like that, was considered mushy and sappy. I knew it must have been hard for him.
And although it was a nice gesture, it was un-needed.
I knew where Blaze’s loyalties resided.
“The feeling is mutual.” I glanced at him then looked ahead as well.
He wasn’t the only one who had trouble getting shit like that out.
But if anyone deserved it, it was Blaze.
We were silent the rest of the walk, each of us lost in our own thoughts. Mine, I confess, were mostly about Grace and my little sister. What was each of them doing right now? Grace was probably home, worried sick about me while she tried to distract herself keeping busy. And Heather? Heather was probably cursing me silently in her room, mad at me for hurting her little boyfriend. She had no idea where I was or that I was about to walk into a dangerous situation, she was so naïve when it came to me and dad. That was just the way I liked it. The two most important women in my life were safe and sound and that was all that really mattered.
We hit the clearing and split up, none of us needed to say anything. We already knew what was good; we knew this was our duty. If anything went wrong it was what we’d signed up for. Dying for the brotherhood wasn’t a curse, it was an honor.
Blaze and I hit the front first. The guards looked less than impressed by their surroundings, standing close together and bullshitting. I had paid someone at the security office off, causing him to hack into their cameras and replay footage from last night on the monitors. There was no reason for them to be on high alert because they hadn’t seen anything out of the ordinary inside.
We paused yards away, taking a few seconds to set up the perfect shot.
I didn’t feel the least bit bad about taking these guys out. That was the price you paid in war. Of course, it helped that most of them were pieces of shit. The three guys in front of me I knew for a fact had been brought in on rape charges more than once. Of course, nothing ever stuck. The women had a tendency to go missing or drop the charges at the last minute. I knew my men weren’t perfect, but my father and me did have some rules, some standards.
I let the first shot off quick, not wanting to miss an opportunity. It landed right in the center of his eyes and he went down with a loud thump. I’d hit the kill shot spot on and a second later; Blaze does the same to his two friends. We wasted no time getting out of there, wandering over their bloody bodies and making our way toward the back of the building.
We passed a few more bodies as we rounded the back.
My men had done what they intended here.
Shutter was behind us, staying silent for once. He hadn’t had to shoot his gun yet and I wasn’t sure if he was just respecting what Blaze told him to do for once or if he was just so overwhelmed by the situation that he wasn’t sure what he could say in a situation like this.
Everyone else was already waiting by the time we reached the back door. More dead bodies to add to the list rested on the ground in front of us. I reached past one of the guy’s blood stained hands and grabbed his keys off his belt, tossing them to Ace.
Ace jolted the door open fast and motioned for all of us to go inside. We filed in one by one, each breaking up in a different direction as soon as we burst through the doors. We all knew where we had to be and what our task was. Everyone besides Shutter, that was. I figured