Total pages in book: 29
Estimated words: 26962 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 135(@200wpm)___ 108(@250wpm)___ 90(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 26962 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 135(@200wpm)___ 108(@250wpm)___ 90(@300wpm)
“I wanted to come meet the men who blew up my lab.” Keaton tucks his hands in his pants, and although he looks casual, he’s anything but. I can feel the tension coming off of him with my senses being on high alert.
“A misunderstanding.” Dolohov waves his hands dismissively then says something in Russian to the man beside him. The man nods, and then Dolohov turns toward us. “Let’s get to business, shall we?”
I hold up the flash drive with what are supposed to be the diagnostics for the drone technology. There are plans on here that look similar, but I may have included a few key pieces of information that cause the device to explode just in case this fell into the wrong hands.
“Do you have the payment?”
“I’m surprised that a man with so much money would ask for more. Information is the currency I deal in,” Dolohov says as he holds up his own flash drive. “But there’s no accounting for taste. Ten million in crypto as requested.”
The crypto currency was requested so there would be a digital trail of their involvement. It’s just another layer of protection in putting these guys away for good. With the details sorted, I walk over to the small table between us and place the silver stick on top of it. Dolohov doesn’t hesitate as he comes over and does the same. As we reach down in unison, there’s a loud rumble in the distance. When I glance over at Keaton, I see his look of confusion as well. This wasn’t part of the plan.
When I look back at Dolohov, I realize he’s not fazed at all. In fact, he’s smiling. Fuck, this is not good.
“You see what I mean about using information as currency?” In the distance, there’s something that looks like a tank rolling into the warehouse. There’s a sick feeling in the bottom of my stomach as the smile on Dolohov’s face grows. “A man as intelligent as you should have known you couldn’t keep her hidden.”
“No!” I shout as the giant truck comes to a stop, and the side of it slides open to reveal Jade and Elsy gagged and tied in the back of it.
“What I want are the true plans for the drone. Not the ones that you pretend to pass off as complete. I’ve got my own spies in the FBI, and I knew what you were planning. Now you hand them over or watch the girls die.”
I have no idea how they got to my Jade, but that doesn’t matter now. What matters is they’ve put their hand on what belongs to me, and I’m no longer in control of the thing that has always simmered below the surface. For the first time in my life, I release the animal that I’ve kept locked away, and I roar as the fabric of my shirt rips away and my muscles swell.
The sound that comes out of me is echoed on my left, and I look over to see Keaton doing the same. We’ve both grown in size and are breathing heavily as our bodies shake with rage. I assume my eyes are as bright as his because in the dark they look like beams of light pointing to the man that is going to die for what he’s done.
“W-wh-what’s happening?” Dolohov stammers as he begins to walk backwards. He’s looking between the two of us with a horrified expression on his face, but we’re too quick for him to react.
In the time it took for him to take a breath, Keaton has leapt from where he was standing and onto the truck. In a second breath, he’s ripped the man driving it out of the cab and thrown him so hard against the wall that he crumples like a tissue.
My hands are on Dolohov, and although I don’t want this to be too quick, I have to make sure that he can never hurt Jade again. He’s so scared he pisses himself as I raise him off the ground with one hand and grab his face with the other.
“The moment you knew her name you were a dead man,” I say through clenched teeth. He tries to plead, but with a flick of my wrist, his neck snaps and his life has ended.
There’s shouting coming from the back of the warehouse, and I assume that the feds have heard all that’s going down and are on their way.
“Gray!” Jade calls my name, and it’s like I can feel it over every inch of my body.
I cross the distance between us in one jump and land so hard on the concrete floor it cracks all around me. My arms are around her in an embrace as I look over her shoulder to see Keaton holding on to Elsy.