Page 57 of Kidnapped By the Boss
Unable to react fast enough, the car crashed into the back of my car, denting in my whole back end. I hopped out of my car as quickly as I could, and the car that had hit me tried to pull back and drive off, but within seconds, the rest of the cars that I had with me had formed a circle around us, trapping the car in.
I stormed up to the door and smashed the butt of my gun against the window. When it shattered, I unlocked the door and wrenched it open. Inside were two people. The driver I’d seen before, Tanner—the Joker.
As Annie climbed out of her car, she pointed at Tanner and said, “He was driving the car that tried to hit us!”
“This guy?” I said, pointing at Tanner.
Annie nodded. “I wasn’t sure, because it happened so fast, but seeing him now, I know that it was the same guy.” She ran around to the other side of the car and pointed. “Look! Here’s the damage from where he screeched against the front of my car!”
That was all I had to hear. I didn’t even ask him if he’d done it or not, because at the end of the day, it didn’t matter. I pointed my gun at him and blasted him right in the forehead. He died instantly and fell to the ground, but I still shot him a few more times just to be safe.
The other person in the car was clearly a lesser soldier in Antonio’s ranks, because he was staring at me through wide, terrified eyes—but there was no sympathy left in my body. “Get out of the fucking car,” I growled at him.
Shaking as he did, he climbed out of the car, and Annie grabbed him and dragged him around to my side of the car. Rather than bothering with asking him any questions, because I firmly believed he wouldn’t answer, I motioned for Annie. “Search him. I want his phone, any weapons. Anything.” Annie started to dig through his pockets and found his phone, which she handed over to me. I tried to unlock it, but it was locked behind a fingerprint. I stuck my gun all the way into this soldier’s mouth and said, “Lift your hand.” He nervously put his hand in the air, and I pressed his finger against the screen one by one until the phone finally unlocked, then I handed it back to Annie. “Find me something I can use.”
She started to sift through the phone and then said, “I got Antonio…” Then after a few more seconds she said, “I have an address. I’m not sure what it is, but it seems like that’s where they were meeting.”
“Good enough for me.” Then I killed the soldier. I snapped my fingers and a couple of soldiers appeared at my side with Devrick behind them to begin packing up the bodies. “Take my car back to the estate,” I told Devrick. “I’m taking this car.”
“Yes, Boss.” Devrick motioned for another soldier to go get my car and they drove away, then I loaded into the damaged, but still operational car that I’d pulled Tanner and the other soldier out of and started in the direction of the address from the phone with the line of cars behind me.
The address led us to a shipping container yard with no discernable buildings in sight. I pulled my car to a slow outside, with the rest of my ranks flanking me on either side. I got out of the car and started to look around for where the soldier and Tanner could have been meeting with Antonio, but nothing looked any different from the next thing over. It was still daylight out, so it was impossible to see if there was any light coming from any of the containers, but I was not about to split my crew up to walk around this massive place. We’d wait it out in front until these people ran out of food if we had to.
Annie, Taylor, Devrick, and Mario each climbed out of their cars and came to stand near me.
“What should we do?” Mario asked. “Do you want me to search the place?”
“No. We don’t split up. He probably already knows we’re here and is betting on us splitting up. Weapons up, heads on swivels, we’re waiting it out.”
Silence fell over us as we all stood there waiting for any sign of life in this place, but ten minutes passed, then twenty, then thirty, and we still hadn’t heard anything. Katya was always talking about gut feelings and I was starting to develop one. There shouldn’t be no movement at all for this long. Either he knew that we were here and was planning to wait like we were, or we’d somehow been led to the wrong place by a series of events that he could not havepossiblypredicted.
“Boss…” Mario said in that tone that I’d come to recognize. “Can I be reckless?”
“What are you planning to do?” I said.
“Taste of their own medicine?” he replied. “They blew us up, let’s blow them up.”
I side-glanced him. “Do it.”
“Taylor, you still got that stuff, right?” Mario asked.
Taylor nodded. “Yep.”
“Get it.”
Taylor turned around to walk back to the car, and the second he did, a shot split through the air. It hit Taylor right in the back and he fell forward onto this face, a pool of blood quickly growing around him.
“Sniper!” I screamed. “Don’t turn your back, get back in your cars.”
Everyone backed up as a flurry of bullets started to fly. I felt one hit me in the chest, and though the impact hurt, I knew I was protected, so I continued to back up until I was able to climb into one of the trucks that I’d brought with me. They were bulletproof and protected us from the hail of bullets from outside.
Next to me, Mario was pulling Taylor into one of the other trucks, but I couldn’t tell if he was alive or dead from my angle. In one of the other trucks, Annie was opening the door and I wanted to scream for her to get back in when I noticed her taking aim. I followed her angle and realized that she’d spied one of the shooters and was trying to take him out. He was on top of one of the shipping containers and looked like he was lifting up from a lying position.
This was a trap.
My heart fell down into my stomach as I realized that this hadallbeen by design. Antonio had Katya’s car attacked, because he knew that I’d come out guns blazing if I knew they’d tried to hurt Katya or Sascha. He wanted us out of the house.
Because he’d correctly guessed that I’d leave Katya behind.
I wasn’t sure whose car I was in, but that didn’t matter. I had to get back home to Katya and Sascha before Antonio did.