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“I see a hangar There’s only one Nothing on the tarar, waiting out the stor to have to walk”

They couldn’t take the chance of tipping off Delgado The elee They didn’t even kno ar, between them and Jessa Everyone would be ar held Inside the plane? Deep in the hangar? Did she have a gun to her head? Was she tied up? Had Delgado already assaulted her?

Every one of those thoughts terrified hi in wouldn’t save Jessa, just get theht

“It wasn’t your fault,” Cole assured hi therapy over this, but you have to know that Hilary was living out some fantasy in her head That is not your fault”

Burke’s face turned down “I knew she thought of ently squelch her feelings long ago”

Cole groaned He knehat his brother was thinking, but Burke had to let it go “I knew she had a crush on you, too But neither of us ever io after Jessa with your head all fucked up Put the guilt and shit out of your ”

His brother finally looked at hi him down “What is that?”

“That we have the right to protect her, to love her She belongs to us, and we’re going to save her No s coht where Burke was In led not to fall into that dark place in his soul But he refused to let guilt and doubt cost hiive theod she would have to deal with the to let his son groithout a father And he wasn’t going to let her be alone again Even if he had to protect her from afar, he would

Burke took a deep breath “I love her”

“And she loves us We just have to remind her”

Cole felt a deep sense of relief as Burke’s eyes hardened and his hand curled around the Glock on his lap “We’re going to kill him”

Cole understood what his brotherto die They wouldn’t hold hiainst hiado’s trial was over He was guilty, and his punishment would be swift

“We’re going to kill hireed

They took aa few assu tactical experience They threw in a few prayers for good measure

“Then let’s go” Burke tucked his gun under his coat and took off in the pouring rain

Cole followed There was no other person he would atching his back than thefor sure Somehow, someway, they would win

Jessa shivered She tried to hold it in, but she’d gotten drenched in the rain, and now the cool air of the hangar in which Delgado held her prisoner

“There’s no use pretending, Miss Wade I know you’re awake”

His voice filled her with dread She’d co her into the hangar She’d listened to him scream about the weather and threaten to kill the pilot, who had siht-line winds was the sa a bullet in his brain, and the bullet was faster

Marco had backed off, but he hadn’t been happy about it

There was a long sigh “Keeping your eyes closed will not solve the probleive up the game, you’ll find I’ve provided you with a blanket”

There was a tense atado see little choice, Jessa opened her eyes She would have preferred to play possus they had given her made her head ache

She sat up, a dizzy feeling taking over She was inside the plane, but she could see the lights in the hangar frolass of amber liquid in his hand He seeo on a trip in style

God, if she didn’t do soain He would grow up, and he would forget her face She would be a ghostly vision in photographs, a si to hiure Tears squeezed fro to hold hi her cheeks, to rub her nose against his

She had to trust and pray that if Cole and Burke were still alive, they’d take care of her son Oh, she wasn’t giving up Jessa intended to fight until the bitter end But at the ood And if Cole and Burke weren’t alive… God, that thought was too painful

“Are they alive?” She had to ask

The last thing she could re up around her and thunder cracking through the rooet to her, protect her She’d reached for the and her vision had been blurred And then she’d felt the sharp stab of the needle entering her flesh Nothing after that

Delgado took a long sip of his drink “Yes Though I doubt they’re happy about it right now I can only iine the terror they feel It is horrible to know that your loved one is in danger when you knohere to find theine the terror is a million times worse when you do not knohere your loved one is”

He s Jessa breathed a sigh of relief Burke and Cole weren’t dead They would look for her She ht not trust them with her heart, but they wouldn’t let her down in this They were heroes They would never stop until they found her