“Big guns arrived from headquarters. It’s now or never.”
“Are you planning on taking out whoever the Nation sent in?”
“What choice do we have?”
“I’m out.”
“You don’t get ‘out.’ Once you’re in, you’re in, cabrón.”
As quietly as I could, I ran back through the kitchen. Once I was far enough away, I called Kick.
“You ready?” he asked, sounding sleepy. “I thought you were—”
“Get your ass here right now. It’s an emergency,” I whispered.
I heard him swear as I ended the call, but I didn’t give a shit. He wanted to give me a hard time, I’d go above his head. The next person I called was Grinder.
“Fuck,” I muttered when the call went straight to voicemail. I didn’t have Rile’s number. The only other person besides Tee-Tee that Edge had programmed in was Shadow, and I wasn’t sure what her deal was. I remembered she mentioned the Invincibles the day she gave me all the clothes, but how much did she actually know about what they did?
When I saw Kick pull up, I ran out and climbed in the truck. “I overheard two men talking about something going down tonight at the ABT. They said they were going to take out the people the Aryan Nation sent in.” I expected him to throw the truck into gear and head to wherever the rest of the Invincible team were. Instead, he just sat there. “What the fuck are you waiting for?”
I looked in the same direction as Kick and saw the asshole who’d threatened me headed in our direction. I jumped out of the truck, and when Kick came after me, I didn’t stop to think; I shot the motherfucker, and when he dropped, I raced back to the truck, threw it into gear, and punched it.
By the time the other asshole realized what was happening and raised his gun, I was close enough to plow straight for him, firing through the passenger window. I hit him and he went down, but I didn’t have time to stop and make sure he was dead. If he wasn’t, he was pretty fucking close.
28
Edge
“I didn’t copy. Repeat.”
“I said Rebel is less than ten minutes from the gate of the compound, and she’s armed.”
“What the fuck?” Casper mouthed.
“Kill the fucking truck! Stop her!” Every one of our vehicles had a remote kill switch. Decker had installed them himself. I didn’t understand what he was waiting for.
“If I do that, she’ll be a sitting duck. She’s too close.”
“Jesus Christ, Decker. What the fuck is going on?”
Casper motioned for me to lower my voice.
“We’re on our way, but we aren’t going to make it in time to intercept her.”
“Why is she headed here?” Casper asked.
“We think she may have intercepted a message at the same time we did, about something going down at the compound tonight. Grinder’s phone registered a call from her, but we were already mobilizing. She got at least a ten-minute head start on us.”
“What’s going down, Decker?” Casper pushed when I didn’t.
“Chatter that the splinter group is staging a coup. Both you and Edge are included in the target list.”
“Have you identified any members of the group?” I asked.
“Negative. Our only goal now is to get you and Casper out.”
“Roger that. We’re headed to the gate.” I pulled out my gun at the same time I heard one cock, and it wasn’t Casper’s.