Chapter 25
“Stay here, and not a sound,” Rodriguez growled. He turned to Juan. “If she moves, shoot her.”
Juan nodded.
Drew sucked in oxygen through her nose and glared at Rodriguez as he sat staring out the windshield.
It wasn’t like she could say anything anyway.
Rodriguez had her arms and legs zip-tied, but he added a piece of duct tape over her mouth.
He’d put her in the middle of the back seat, so if anyone shot through the windshield, she was the first to go. Asshole.
Tessa was out there. Drew scanned the area through the windshield and side windows.
She thought she saw McGuire in the corner by the pallets, but she wasn’t certain, and she was pretty sure that she’d had a glimpse of Stone up on the catwalk but it didn’t matter.
She didn’t need to see them to know they were there.
Cross, her brother, Patch, and Stone. There was no way they would leave Tessa on her own for this.
More importantly, they would do anything they could to get Drew back. That’s what worried her.
Rodriguez and Miguel were playing cat and mouse. She wanted to warn the others, but she had no way of doing it. The SUV rolled to a stop in the cavernous warehouse, and the door started coming down behind them.
“Whoa,” Dunlop commented. “Can we ask them to keep the door up?”
Rodriguez ignored his cousin. He stared out the windshield from his seat to the right of Drew for a long moment.
“Are we going to do this or what?” Miguel asked from the bench seat behind Rodriguez.
Rodriguez nodded and then opened his door.
The gunman on Drew’s left also opened his door, and then the men in the front did the same.
They all flooded out and soon the warehouse was full of men with guns leaving only her with Juan behind her to her right, and Dunlop behind her to her left in the SUV.
Juan leaned forward. “Too bad about the money. I would have liked to get paid before I kill you.”
It had been Juan who had suggested they tape her mouth. He was probably worried she was going to rat him out, and given Rodriguez’s mood, he’d probably kill Juan whether he believed her or not. No point taking the risk.
Drew hated having her mouth taped and wanted to curse Juan out, but she couldn’t, so she slowed her breathing, hoping to make her mind work to find a way out of this situation.
Unfortunately, she just kept coming up empty.
There was nothing she could do. She just had to trust her brother and her former lover.
She closed her eyes and sent up a prayer that they all made it out of this alive.
Juan’s phone went off, jarring her out of her thoughts. “What?” he growled into the phone.
Thank God these guys weren’t trained operatives who used ear buds, otherwise, she wouldn’t have heard what was going on. “We’re good to go. We have a line of sight on every cartel gun. Say the word, and we’ll take them out.”
Drew stayed frozen. Juan’s phone was so close she could hear every word.
She tried to make sense of it. Rodriguez must have extra people in place that the cartel guys don’t know about.
Her heart sank to her knees. It was as she suspected.
The cartel was planning on taking out Rodriguez, and he was planning to preemptively take out the cartel shooters.
This was going to be so much worse than she imagined.
And she had no way to tell anyone.