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“There’s three Guarde about a le formation around the compound”

Gabriel rubbed his jaw and turned to all of us “We need to split up into three groups All three Guarde need to be taken down before they can signal that we’re here We have to move fast,” he eyed each of us “This is not the tilared at Mason

At that htly winded fro Gabriel repeated what he’d just said for their benefit

“We need varoup You all have to work together Taking these three out will be relatively easy coet cocky,” with that, Gabriel went about separating us into three groups He purposely separated the couples

“What?!” Jonathon glared “No way! I’ our fingers together

Gabriel pinched the bridge of his nose “Don’t make this difficult, Jonathon”

“I’ Kylie,” his jaas set

“Fine,” Gabriel rolled his eyes “I don’t have tiue with you”

“Jonathon-” I started

“No,” he looked down atyou”

“Okay,” I whispered, giving his hand a slight squeeze I wasn’t going to argue with hi we remembered

Gabriel gave us further direction on where we needed to head After a pause, he said, “Ready?”

“Ready,” we echoed

“Let’s take down these suckers—no pun intended,” Mason grinned, trying to lighten the mood It worked