Chapter 14 Machine
FOURTEEN
MACHINE
I was overwhelmed by fury as I listened to Evelyn explain herself to Kade. Not only had she lied about who she was, her mission was to intercept information about Ricci and bring it back to her team.
Realization dawned on me. If Evelyn was on a special operations team, that meant… no. Badger was also on this team! What the actual fuck! I couldn’t let myself think about that. Not when Ricci was prowling toward Evelyn like she was his next meal.
I couldn’t watch as Ricci put a syringe in Evelyn’s neck. Once Ricci left with her, I looked at Kade with a worried expression.
“What’s the plan here? You aren’t seriously going to let him torture her, are you?” I asked Kade, who was pacing the room.
Kade flung his hands up in the air. “Of course not, but fuck, man, this is fucking insanity! How could I let this happen?”
After some back-and-forth, I was able to get Kade calmed down enough to comprehend the gravity of the situation. Fuck, I needed a cigarette. Just one, to take off the edge.
“Do you love her?” I asked him once he had calmed down some.
“Of course I fucking do!” he yelled back at me.
“Well then, let’s use this to our advantage and take down Ricci once and for all,” I responded.
“What did you have in mind?” Kade asked.
Just as I was about to start spilling out ideas, Kade got a text from Ricci stating it was time to strike back at Evelyn—now known as Phantom.
Ricci knew more than he should, so protecting Evelyn and her team was going to be next to impossible.
Ricci sent another text to Kade saying it was time to “burn the place down to the ground,” meaning Dominos. I knew we needed to act fast.
“I have an idea, but you may not like it. First things first, we need to call Evelyn’s boss and tell him what’s going on. Then we can get everything in order to make sure everyone gets out safely.”
Kade nodded. It was time to make this motherfucker pay for everything he had done.
Ultimately I knew that Kade would go along with my idea.
It would be the only way to get close enough to Ricci without him suspecting that we were actually working against him.
It also would allow us to be able to give Evelyn’s team enough notice to make sure that no one got hurt.
I just hoped everything would go the way was planned.