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facility. We’ll
ghost inside, get Koda, then make it to the roof for extraction,” Grai repeated
their plan back to David.
    David nodded his head.
    He may know the plan verbatim, but
he doesn’t have a clue about what’s going on in there, David
thought.
    “Grai, you have to be ready for
what we’re going to see in there. I can’t have you go in there and lose it,”
David said, trying to get through the hardened wall Grai had built around himself.
    Grai clenched his fists so tightly
a few knuckles popped from the strain before he tapped on his comm that was
lying on the table. Seconds later, an image was displayed on the wall behind
him that had David flinching and looking away.
    It was the image his Dranovian
children took of one of Mikal’s people they had tried to rescue from a
government lab. Her chest was cracked open, her beating heart clearly visible,
but the worst was the awake and pleading eyes of the tortured female as she
reached a hand out to Chris.
    Grai leaned over the table at
David, his cold dark eyes meeting David’s.
    “This is what I’m expecting,” Grai
growled. “Because this is the worst. I’m telling you now, I don’t give a damn
if all we retrieve is this,” he said, gesturing to the image behind him. “But
we will retrieve him. He will suffer no more at their hands!”
    David looked up at Grai, watching
his chest heave with barely restrained fury. He sighed heavily.
    This is going to be a damn
nightmare. I’ll be lucky if he doesn’t kill everything on the base, David
thought . He decided to try a different tactic.
    “Grai, I think it would be better
if I just took Blade with me. Wait . . . hear me out,” David raised his hands
to stop Grai from interrupting him. “Listen, Blade can use his compulsion on
the guards instead of knocking them out!”
    David stopped, seeing that he
wasn’t going to get through to Grai. The man was determined to go in and get
his brother. He couldn’t blame him. If that was his brother, he’d do the same
thing.
    Grai shook his head, his eyes hard
and determined.
    “I will get my brother back. I will
not ask another of my people to take this kind of risk! If I could do this
without you, I would!” Grai growled, wishing he didn’t have to put anyone else
in danger.
    Grai’s biggest fear wasn’t that
Koda would be dead, it was getting another killed while doing what he should be
doing himself. It was why he personally led the teams that were taking out the
people who were targeting the aliens and hybrids that they’d learned of from
the fallen mercenaries at Fiorn’s Folly. The people who had taken his brother
and attacked his people in the forest. He clenched his fists as he recalled the
image of their helicopters firing on a heavily pregnant Jax as Sam tried to
shield her.
    Grai turned hate filled eyes to
David. His gaze sent a shiver down David’s spine.
    “These people have no honor, and I
will no longer hold back when dealing with them. But in this case, I will
follow your lead. Only because I do not want your death or capture on my
conscience. Make no mistake, David, if it comes to it, I will kill or destroy
anything that stands in the way of getting all of my people out of there
alive,” Grai promised before he walked out of the room.
    David let out a heavy breath and
looked over at a still calm and dazed Traze. As much as David wanted to keep
him that way, he knew he couldn’t. With a wave of his hand, David released the
energy keeping Traze calm.
    Traze jumped to his feet and
clenched his fists as he looked down at David, his rage rolling off of him in
violent waves.
    “If you ever do that shit to me
again, we will have more than words. Do not test me,” Traze ground out between
clenched teeth before he stormed out of the room.
    David put his head in his hands.
    What the hell am I going to do when
this all comes to a breaking point? David wondered.

 
    Chapter
Three
     
    Mikey paced the small room, making
sure to keep the bed