“What?” Cash asked.
“It’s wired. C-4 fucking everywhere. It’s a trap.”
“They’re in there. That sick motherfucker set up enough C-4 to kill them and us,” Flynn stated.
“Can you disengage them safely?” Zane asked.
“It’s going to take some time, sir.”
“Shit,” Flynn replied.
“Let’s do this right. He expected us to go in all gung ho. This asshole is really starting to piss me off. I swear, I wish you guys had taken him out back in Columbia,” Zane stated.
“Believe us, we wish we had, too,” Jett said.
“Do you think Adelina is in there?” Flynn asked.
“Let’s hope so. But it doesn’t really make sense. He wanted you two dead. He wants to hurt you and he also wants to hurt her. He could have set this up to kill us all. To end it all,” Cash stated as the others arrived on scene, too. The team was gathering the things they needed to disarm the C-4, and their friends were coming closer.
“Take them back. You guys don’t need to risk your lives or your women’s lives. We’ll go in first,” Flynn told them. Everyone was silent a moment. Cash, Zane, Hudson, Jagger, Emerson, Stone, Nash, and Riker gathered around them, with their women right beside them.
“We’re all best friends for life. That means in good times and in bad, we’ve always been together,” Zane told Jett and Flynn.
“When Toni needed help, you guys were there for her and for us,” Stone told them.
“When we needed your help with Chastity and her situation, you guys were there for us,” Nash told them next.
“You had our backs when we needed your help, too,” Cash said.
“And you guys were there for us during the crazy shit we went through with Tia Rose. There’s no way we’d leave you now,” Hudson said.
“We’re going to help you get your woman. This family of ours, as untraditional as it is, will have a happy fucking ever after,” Stone stated as he raised his voice.
“Hell, yeah!” Chiara added, and the other women added similar comments. They all chuckled and Jett and Flynn just shook their heads.
“All clear, we think,” the security team leader said, as another two men began to unlock the storage container.
As the doors creaked open, Kaitlin and Bryer ran out toward them.
“Run! Run, there’s a bomb inside, the door triggered it,” she screamed with Bryer in her arms.
Al grabbed Bryer from her and another security guy grabbed Kaitlin and they all started running.
“Adelina? What about Adelina?” Jett yelled as he stopped where he was.
Kaitlin stopped and turned despite the fact that security guy was pulling her along.
“She’s not in there, Jett. He took her with him. It was a setup. Run. Please, God, just run!” she yelled at him.
They must have looked like a bunch of crazy people as they booked it as far as they could from the container. Just as they thought they were at a safe distance, an explosion rocked the entire pier. The containers exploded, black smoke erupted in a cloud above the scene and fire immediately roared in the surrounding area. There were fuel tanks everywhere.
“Keep going. All the way to the parking lot, past the fenced-in entrance,” Al yelled back to them. By the time they all got there, they were gasping for air, and some of them fell against the fence and the cars. Sounds of sirens filtered through the air, as men working on the pier ran along with them and to safety.
“Goddamn him!” Jett yelled as he gripped the fence and shook it, feeling the anger pour from his body. Flynn grabbed his arms.
“Calm down. We’ll get him.”
“No, we won’t. He won, Flynn. He fucking won. We have no idea where the hell he took her or even how to find him. He’ll hurt her, take out his revenge on her, and then kill Adelina.” He shook the fence again, and then released it and kicked it.