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“How are Brooks and Lennon?” he asked.

“They’re good.Two boys, Dawson and Davis,” said Ramey.“Go.Go back to Marnie and give her our love.We’ll come back when they say we can.”

The celebration moved to the cafeteria, to allow the parents and babies some time to acclimate to their new lives.For a few short hours, the focus was on birth, new life, and the future.

In a short while, it would be focused on something vastly different.

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

Cooper’s team of Rangers, along with two other teams, descended upon the area surrounding the drug warehouses.They couldn’t touch the animals and they couldn’t touch the coliseum but this was their domain.

“Coop?If we do this those animals are going to die,” said one of his teammates.He nodded, realizing that it was the truth.“We can get to the warehouse holding the product and destroy that by flooding the building.We’ll set off the fire suppression system, soak the product, and it’ll be destroyed, at least temporarily.”

“I guess we don’t have an option,” frowned Coop.

“There is another option,” said a soft voice from behind him.

She was their source, their informant and she’d been giving them intel for weeks now.Her own parents and two brothers had been killed during the construction of the coliseum, their bodies tossed in the river like they were nothing but trash.

That’s when she vowed to ensure the death of Marco. The problem was she wasn’t a soldier or a spy.She wasn’t a woman that had any real talents at all other than making handbags for tourists from recycled materials found in the area.It was enough to live on but it did little to fight a mad man.

“Alright, Bianca, we’re listening,” said Coop.

He’d told the entire team that she was hands off.She would be treated with respect and dignity and if anyone dared to touch her, they would answer to him.She wasn’t some jungle whore, she was an innocent wanting exactly what they all wanted.

“Beneath the warehouse there is a tunnel that leads to the river for easy escape or an alternate delivery of the drugs.If you blow the gate, the tunnel is flooded.”

“And so is the warehouse,” smirked Coop.

“Yes.The sprinklers in the warehouse can be shut off easily.You might cause some damage but not enough.”

“But the river isn’t going to rise enough in the warehouse to destroy it all,” said one of the men.

“That’s true,” nodded Coop.

Lightning flashed above them, the sounds of a storm rolling through the region, about to begin.He shook his head realizing what shit luck they were having.He thought about calling home but shook his head.No.This part of it they needed to do themselves so that the others weren’t left with all of it.

“The gods are listening to you,” smiled the beautiful woman beside him.Her thick dark hair was braided down her back, the huge brown eyes staring up at him.She couldn’t be more than five-feet-four to his six-feet-two.She had a narrow waist, curvy hips and the most gorgeous chest he’d ever seen on a woman.

“The gods?” he said hoarsely.

“Yes.We are about to have a, what do you Americans say?Ah!A deluge.”

“Great, we’re all going to get wet,” he frowned.

“Yes and if we open the roof of the warehouse, so will the product.Blow the gate to the river and create holes in the roof.It will flood from up and down.”

“Fuck, she’s right.We can get on the roof, plant a few blocks of boom-boom and the whole thing will cave,” said the man.

Coop nodded.It could work and it would give the home team the opportunity focus on the manufacturing site, the animals and the coliseum.Rodriguez was arrogant enough to think it was all just an accident caused by nature.

“You need to leave,” he said turning to Bianca.

“What?No!No, this is where I should be.I want to see him destroyed,” she whispered.

“He will be destroyed but we won’t risk your life in doing so.You need to be far from here when this happens or he’ll know you were involved.”

“But…”He gripped her arm, roughly pulling her away from the men.He wanted them to know he didn’t favor the woman and he wouldn’t risk their lives.