Page 74 of Crucified By the Dark
Morry stepped outside and looked around, an eerie feeling creeping over her skin.
“What is it,” Trev asked, his voice quick and his eyes sharp.
“It’s quiet, like too quiet. People are usually outside the bar smoking until at least four in the morning, and someone is always heading out or in on a bike. But there’s nothing.”
Trev stepped back and lightly tapped on the door where Kes was staying. The sound was minuscule, yet Kes opened the door, gun in hand. “Get Arek. Tell him to find high ground and go with him to keep an eye on his six.”
“What do you think is happening,” Morry asked. Her eyes scanned every inch of the place but saw nothing moving. Even the air was still tonight like it was holding its breath to see what would happen.
“I’m not sure, but there is tension in the air,” Trev said, voice her own inner feelings.
She knew what he meant. How many times had they walked into a small village or the remnants of one where only rubble remained and knew something or someone was out there? They’d been honed to feel it like a sixth fucking sense.
Arek emerged from his room with his sniper case in hand, and the two men took off into the shadows. Arek was a pain in the ass ninety percent of the time, but when you needed him to be on point, he never let you down. Just them being here with her made her feel better. It wasn’t like she couldn’t take care of herself, and she didn’t need a man to make her happy. But to have her brothers around her was like a blanket on a cold winter’s night, and Jeremy had become the fire she wanted to sit by.
“Do you think an attack is coming, you see anything on the ridge?”
They both looked out toward the skyline for any movement, any sign of someone trying to sneak onto the property by repelling down the massive rock face. She instinctively cocked her head and listened for a helicopter, wishing Wolf was outside. He could hear things no one else ever could.
“No, I think that whoever this is, they’re already on property,” Trev said.
“Okay, now you’re freaking me the fuck out. I hate it when you say shit that sounds creepy. You used to love telling horror stories overseas until no one could rest.” Trev smirked, but it didn’t reach his eyes as they searched the darkness.
“No better way to keep guards awake,” he said. “Do you have your gun?”
Morry reached for it in her jeans and swore. “No, I ran out of the room and forgot to grab it.” Trev’s gaze shifted to hers, and she felt him telling her off. At that moment, she felt like a cadet all over again. Fucking Trev had a strange ass power to him.
Trev opened the door to his room and slipped inside, returning a moment later with two guns handing her one. Trev tapped the face of his watch and spoke low into it. “Sweet Delilah, Baby Girl, and Lady Luck, this is Three, Four, Three, Zulu, Foxtrot, Bravo, Whisky, code word, Father Time. Come online.”
Morry watched in fascination as the dashboards in the Hummers lit up. “Oh, sure, you get all the cool toys, and here I thought I was the only one with the advanced gadgets,” Morry teased.
Trev smirked and relayed his next command. “All Hummers, guns ready.” The click and soft whir made her shiver as the guns slowly rose from the tops of the deadly vehicles. “Sweet Delilah, how many friendlies and bogies are on the property?”
“Only one potential hostile detected.”
“Show me where all humans within a mile radius are located. Hostiles in red and friendlies in blue,” Trev said casually.
She could see him as the next James Bond character. If they hadn’t been kicked out when they got back, she had no doubt he would be an Admiral by now. There wasn’t a boardroom, courtroom, or room full of dumb, wet-behind-the-ears cadets who didn’t sit up straight when he spoke.
Morry leaned over Trev’s arm to look at the small screen, and as soon as she saw where the hostile dot was, her heart dropped. “Oh, God. Jeremy.”
She stepped forward, but Trev grabbed her arm to keep her under the overhang and out of the open. “No, not until we can see the threat. Be smart. Don’t let the fear rule you now.”
“But we know they are in there,” she whispered, her voice harsh with the fear that she was going to lose Jeremy or had already lost him. No, she couldn’t let herself think like that.
“There is also one deceased. Would you like to see where?” Baby Doll said.
Trev lifted a brow at the Hummer. Unless given a command, they weren’t supposed to guess what you wanted, but itwouldbe Kes’s Hummer that acted freaky. It suited him.
“Well, that did nothing to ease my fear,” she mumbled.
Morry covered her mouth as the little green dot appeared in the same building she knew Jeremy had gone. The fact that he hadn’t made it to Wolf’s room and wasn’t standing beside her right now had chills spreading throughout her body.
“No, this is not happening,” she breathed out.
Suddenly, the sirens and lights flashed. Someone had hit the emergency button.
She stared at the line of closed doors. She expected everyone sleeping to come running out of their rooms, but no one did. It was still a ghost town like everyone had been abducted.
