Hope's Delta (Special Forces: Operation Alpha) (Delta Team Three Book 5) by Riley Edwards & Operation Alpha

Author:Riley Edwards & Operation Alpha [Edwards, Riley & Alpha, Operation]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aces Press, LLC
Published: 2020-09-14T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 19

The long exchanges of gunfire started to wane to short bursts and longer periods between, and by the sound, those lobs were coming from inside the house.

“At your six,” Merlin said as he approached. “Duff and Zip are right behind me.”

Jangles didn’t stop picking the lock. He’d made the decision not to blast the door because there was no way for him to tell the women to get back and he wouldn’t take the chance of injuring one of them.

The last tumbler clicked into place and he felt the lock click.

“Ready?” Jangles asked.

Merlin slapped his shoulder twice, telling him he was ready and he’d clear to the right.

Seamless.

With a nod, Jangles opened the door, kept his barrel low until the door was fully open, then he surged in, sidestepped to his right, and scanned the room.

Four women huddled with their backs to the wall. A quick glance told him they had no visible wounds.

Ivy. Gwen. Destiny. Nori.

No Hope.

“Where’s Hope?”

Nori stepped forward, lifted a shaky hand, and pointed to the far wall. “He took her into the tunnels.”

“Fuck,” Jangles snapped.

“How long?”

“Maybe three minutes ago.”

“Demir’s got Hope in the tunnels,” he told Tex.

“Bravo’s clearing the house now. We’ll find her.”

Jangles turned to find Duff running into the bunker.

“Duff?”

He’d shoved his night-vision goggles up onto his helmet. Duff had done the same, so Jangles saw it—relief mixed with extreme fury. Ivy was already running to her man. Duff had his arms out prepared to catch her and Jangles’ gut clenched.

It wasn’t jealousy as such, but his heart throbbed with an ache so fucking deep he could barely keep his feet. He needed to find Hope.

“Duff!” he repeated and waited until he had his teammate’s attention. “When you were in the tunnels, were there other exits?”

“Yes.”

“Christ.” Jangles stalked the wall Nori had pointed to and started to feel around. “Where is it?”

“I’ll show you,” Ivy said and jogged to his side, her hand going to the stones.

He felt Duff’s presence behind him but didn’t stop feeling for any abnormality.

He vaguely heard the reunions going on behind him, Merlin barking orders, women talking. But nothing penetrated. He just needed to find Hope.

“Here.” Ivy pounded on the wall and Jangles followed her hand pointing to a tiny crack.

If you didn’t know it was there, you’d miss it.

Thank fuck for Ivy.

“I’m going in with you,” Woof said.

“No. You get Nori to—”

“He’s going with you,” Nori snapped. “She knew he wanted me. She knew and stepped forward. So shut up and take Heath with you.”

Jangles felt every muscle tighten—she’d given herself up.

“And you’re late,” Nori continued to snap. “You need a new motto. ‘On time, every time’ no longer works.”

He didn’t have it in him to find her amusing, so instead, he pulled his knife from his pocket, and with a flick of his wrist, the blade sprang free and he shoved it into the crack.

“Duff and Zip, get them out of here,” Merlin ordered. “Woof, you hit Demir’s office and drop into the tunnel from there. Jangles and I will go in from this side.

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