action, but even though Doc Josie cleared her for duty, she stressed that Storm needed to stay as much on the sidelines for this mission as possible. That was okay, Storm rocked at sniper duty as well. Both women were locked and loaded and ready to start picking off guards when Angel gave the order.
The team had decided their best course of action was to take out the guards on the back side of the mansion, then scale the fence to gain access. Now, Angel ordered. Rikki and Storm made quick work of the guards, before scurrying back down the trees and moving to new positions at the front of the mansion and on the West side. Ryker was already in position on the East side. The object was to surround the building with snipers and take out as many guards as they could while the rest of RARE infiltrated through the back.
Take them out, Angel ordered. As guards started falling, Angel growled, Go! Not waiting for the rest of RARE, Jade swiftly followed Jinx up and over the fence and stayed on his six until they reached the backdoor of the mansion. Glancing back, she saw the rest of the team had also scaled the fence. Phoenix and Jaxson quickly moved to separate sides of the building and started setting the bombs, rigging it to blow.
Knowing she wouldn’t be able to keep Jade from finding her mate once they breached the walls of the mansion, Angel had given Jinx, Jade and Flame instructions to go directly to the basement for Trace and Gypsy. Angel and Nico were going to find Sari. Silently, they entered the mansion, Jinx quickly snapped the neck of the guard standing right inside the door. Motioning for Jade and Flame to follow, Jinx headed down a long hallway with plush, dark red carpet. The sound of a television greeted them as they reached a living room. Jinx stopped, holding up his hand. Jade and Flame waited as Jinx slipped his sword from the scabbard on his back. Silently he crept up on the two men standing by a window. One was looking out it while the other was frantically talking into a cell phone, gesturing wildly with one arm. They were obviously aware the estate had been infiltrated.
Jade watched unemotionally as the blade of Jinx’s sword severed first one head and then the other. These men hurt her mate. They deserved exactly what they got. Wiping the blood off his sword on one of the men’s shirts, Jinx turned and continued into the kitchen area right off the living room, a stunned Flame following. Stopping at the door leading down to The Dungeon, Jinx looked back at the women. “There are three men down there right now, unaware of what is happening up here. They are getting ready to work Trace over again.”
Jade palmed her Glock and growled, “I’m ready.”
“We got this,” Flame snarled, pulling out a knife from a sheath on her leg. Jinx tried the door, finding it locked from the inside. With one last look at Jade and Flame, he slammed his shoulder into the door smashing it inward off the hinges. Scaling the stairs in two leaps, he took the head of one of the men fighting to get Trace on the table with a quick slice of his sword. Shocked, one of the other men dropped a clamp he had in his hand and ran past Jinx to the stairs. Flame took him out on her way down, with a knife to the heart. The last man standing snarled, “Bring it on you sons of bitches,” as he pulled out a gun to shoot. Jade put three bullets in his heart before he could pull the trigger. The gun slipped from his fingers as he fell lifelessly to the floor.
Jinx sheathed his sword and grabbed Trace before he could drop to the ground. Trace struggled as Jinx tried to lift him onto the table to get his chains off.
Running to him, Jade framed Trace’s face with her hands, tears streaming down her cheeks. “It’s okay, Trace. It’s okay, my mate.”
Trace slowly stopped struggling at the sound of her voice. Forcing his swollen eyes to open, he drank in the
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