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Aiden
Irace forward down the wide stone floored corridor with Massimo at my side and the men in tow. Dominic is in our ears guiding us to where we need to go.
When we first arrived we launched a surprise attack on the guards at the gate. They never saw us coming and never had a hope in fuck of saving themselves.
When the gates opened for us we rushed in like an army from hell, a mixture of men from the Bratva, the Italian mafia and Rariez’ cartel. Deadly and vicious.
Mercy a myth to us.
We split into four groups to attack the place and eliminate anyone in our path while Eric clears the path. Those men will just be focused on taking down the guards while our group will rescue.
We’re going down to where Eric is first in the underground facility because it’s easier to go up to the rest of the house from there. That’s where Aleksei and Olivia are.
Before we left the house we had a good look around the place.
We saw Eric first, down in the lab-like facility in the basement that looked like something from a superhero film. I saw next Aleksei, sitting with Jeshero in a living room watching t.v.
My blood boiled as I watched the man tending to my son like he had permission to do so. It made me think of how he’d grown him up and Jeshero got to see every precious moment a parent should witness in their child’s life.
When they first walk, when they first talk, when they first start to show who they are. That man had it all. Bad enough he was part of a plot that killed his daughter, but took away everything else from me.
I fucking want it back and they will all pay for what they did to me in the past and for what they’re doing now.
For Ilya’s death and taking Olivia.
I found her last because she was on the third floor. She was sitting in a room by herself. Sitting on the floor again, badly beaten. Beyond the bruises I saw that lost look in her eyes and I knew she’d given up.
The state of her face was enough to seal Jude fate. The black and blue bruises accompanied by the swelling on her face stoked the furnace of vengeance inside me. My legs carry me forward with the thirst for blood racing through my veins.
“Guys, it looks like Jude knows you’re here,” Dominic’s voice booms in my earpiece. Then as if on cue alarms start going off around the building. “He just killed Jeshero. He put Olivia in a room and now he has Aleksei.”
“Fuck,” I sneer. “That fucking bastard, what’s he doing now?”
I fucking wanted to kill Jeshero myself, but that’s not even an issue now. Jude has my son and is no doubt going to use him against me in some way.
“They’re heading down the corridor on the third floor. Keep going down that path and turn left there’s a door there. That’s where you’ll find Eric. It’s still quicker to get to them from there. ”
We follow his instructions but when we rush a set of steps a group of guards meet us. Before we can pull the triggers on our guns, bullets fly from the sides of the walls on either side taking them all down.
Eric wasn’t joking when he said he would clear the path. he has and continues to do so.
We rush past the dead bodies and stop in the annex that’s supposed to lead down to the labs. The door Dominic spoke about is ahead
Once we open it, I see Eric Markov.
His hair is past his shoulders and he has a full beard that makes him look older, but it’s him. He’s sitting at a desk wearing a black t-shirt and slacks.
Beside him are a row of computers and big machine that looks like a what hospitals use for an MRI scan. He was making weapons. Whatever the Order had him set up here was destruction.
“My God,” he rasps looking at us.
“Eric Markov,” Massimo says with a nod. “Good to meet you, friend.”
“Likewise to all of you and thanks,” Eric looks from him to me.
“We can all say thanks later,” I cut in. “Jude knows we’re here.”