Freeing Their Heart: A Reverse-Harem Romance by Mira Stanley

Author:Mira Stanley [Stanley, Mira]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dirty Little Secret Press
Published: 2023-06-03T22:00:00+00:00

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St. Patrick’s is a shithole.

I can tell it didn’t used to be. Overhead is an array of arched stone, like the ceilings you see in historic cathedrals, but on a smaller scale. The pews are made of solid, good-quality wood. The windows are stained glass. The floors are stone tile in what used to be a pearly white with black diamonds set in. I bet it looked real fancy in its heyday.

It’s not fancy anymore. Shep keeps the barn back home cleaner than this.

Dust coats everything in a thick layer of grime. Gangs have tagged every surface, including the pews and pillars. The few pieces of furniture original to the place are broken and knocked over. The stained glass is blacked out in places and covered in cardboard in others.

Lighting is provided by strings of bare-bulb lamps connected with power cables, like you see on a construction site. At the front of the sanctuary is the security hub, which is basically three folding tables covered in computer monitors and receivers. Wires like spaghetti make messy tails off the backs of the tables. It’s a rickety, disorganized mess.

If this is how they run things, it’s no wonder me and Shep took out five guards so easily.

I make a beeline for the hub…and the three dead bodies on the floor in front of it. One of the three managed to get his hands on a gun before we took him out, and another got off a call into his comm, but otherwise, their resistance was minimal. Amateur.

As I step around a pool of blood, my confidence surges. That helo crash back home must have taken out their A-team. If all we have to face are their second string, this mission is going to be a piece of cake.

“Chopper to casino team.” X-Ray’s voice comes over my earpiece. “We’ve got six or seven on the casino floor, clustered together. Four others are on upper floors of the hotel. Let us know when you’re in position, and we’ll send the casino an invitation to this party.”

Sarge radios back to the chopper, and I tune them out. They’ve got their mission—blowing the casino and everyone in it to kingdom come, and I’ve got mine. While they’re doing their thing, I’ll be disabling Raptor’s security systems so the search team can look for Jud without raising any alarms. Since the search team includes Cora, I can’t afford to fail. Each one of us has to pull off our jobs flawlessly to ensure her safety. Otherwise, this is all for nothing.

I get the heebie-jeebies standing in the middle of three corpses that are still warm, but, hey, they sealed their fate when they sided with that punta Raptor. My conscience is clear as I use my boot to shove one guy’s leg out of the way so I can stand over the mismatched equipment.

Crooked monitors lean over keyboards with missing keys. The table surface—or rather what little surface isn’t covered in dirty napkins and crumpled bags of chips—is stained and sticky.

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