Page 77 of Sadistic Retribution

“When did you get back, bro?” I ask.

“I just got back. Listen, I'll be holed up with Purge soon. Keep everyone else out—including you. I've been ordered to only have us there.”

“Why are you bringing this to me? Shouldn't you be telling Synn or Frost?”

“You can relay it to them. I don’t have time for arguments. I figured you were the least risk of giving me shit. We’ll be going in there soon. Can't believe it’s close to noon already,” he mutters.

I nod slowly. “Sure, man, I’ll tell them.”

“I’m going to wait for Purge in his room.”

Purge

Me and Razor are finally finished with clean up duty. It was messy as fuck, but it’s spotless in there now. And the bodies are buried deep in the forest.

We walk in together after changing our clothes and burning the ones we were wearing that were covered in blood. We have a stash of clean clothes near the forest for this very reason.

We see Iskra sitting on the sofa and go straight for her.

“Iskra, thank fuck,” I say.

“You had us scared, Fiasca,” Razor follows.

She just flips double birds and looks away.

Harris comes up behind me, leaning over to whisper in my ear. “You and I have to be on your computer by noon. We'll be watching the meeting with the Dark Web contact.”

“Just us?”

“Yes, we have earpieces and will have video to watch.”

I nod once in understanding. I glance at my phone, seeing it’s a few minutes until twelve now. I stride into my room, and Harris follows me. I hear Synn question us, then Trikk’s voice.

“Trikk is telling them,” Harris says with his voice low. Whatever, I'm sure it’ll be resolved. My focus is only on this insane meeting right now.

Chapter 27

Hunter

I shift restlessly waitingfor Purge to boot everything up. At least I can sit next to him. He borrowed Razor’s computer chair for me.

“Once you’re in, go to the coordinates here,” I tell him, sliding my phone with the information he needs toward him. I made sure to erase any messages that could call out ZYGOS. Usually, the messages auto-disappear, but I didn’t run that program since I needed to save some pertinent info.

His eyes cut over to my open phone screen, then he types quickly, inputting the numbers. The screen flickers twice, then a black, static screen appears.

“Put in your comm now, we need to make sure they work.” He picks his up, it almost slips through his fingers it’s so tiny. It's about the size of a pencil eraser. I copy his move, inserting mine, too.

I tap mine twice, which turns it on, and explain the same to Purge. He does, so I test them out.

“H and P here, anyone copy?”

It crackles, and Jax's voice comes through. “Copy that. The item is in place now.”

Code for his guy being ready. “Explain to P,” Jax says. “Turn off until ready.”

I look to Purge, motioning tapping the comms once to silence them. We both tap once, putting the comms to sleep for now.

“So, who’s your contact?” Purge questions.