Page 296 of Forged in the Fire
All while my heart ravaged and my spirit howled.
Brinley.
Brinley.
I’m coming for you, baby.
This wildfire that had torched my beliefs and brought me back to life.
SIXTY-TWO
SILAS
We basically crawledon our hands and knees up a steep embankment on the most remote side of the property.
As fucking deep as you could get in these woods.
We’d swung a mile out before we made our way up the backside of the land that most would consider untraversable.
Cliffs and boulders and a crush of impenetrable woods that crowded out the heavens above.
Trevan, Phoenix, and Cash were at my side.
Everyone had been divided into groups of four that would steal in at different points. Strategically to take out the guards, their circuits and schedules another element that Cash had mapped out.
Keeping crouched, we made it to the top of the ridge, and it brought us to the boundary we were looking for.
The chain-link fence with the top fortified by razor wire.
Now electrified after Cash and his crew had broken in and rescued Elena.
Something I’d wanted to be the one to do, but now, I somehow understood that I hadn’t been ready.
Unprepared for what really had been waiting for us or the way my path was going to veer.
Guess I’d become a new believer in fate.
I peered through the pitchy bleakness, the bare outline of my brothers’ faces staring back.
The poison in the darkness was so thick I could taste it.
A vileness creeping through that permanently lifted the hairs at the nape of my neck.
Cash tipped his chin, and he quickly worked with the wiring, killing the electricity running to the fence.
The low hum it’d been emitting fell into silence.
The second it had, I sent the prepared text that went to the lead of each team.
Me
Go
And that’s what we fucking did.
Cash yanked wire cutters from the back of his jeans and snipped through the links in a blink, shoving them wide enough that we could slip through.
We crouched low as we ran through the forest that was every bit as thick here as it’d been creeping up the side of the mountain.
