Second Time Lucky (Club Decadence Book 5) by Maddie Taylor

Author:Maddie Taylor [Inconnu(e)]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blushing Books
Published: 2015-05-28T17:00:00+00:00

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Rooted to the spot, Sean watched helplessly as the blaze lit up the night sky. From two blocks away and twenty stories up, he was powerless to help. Rage, fear, dread, guilt, and a slew of other volatile emotions vied for dominance within him. Guilt edged out front, as he thought of his friends gathered for the pre-mission rundown, where he should have been. He’d gone off the grid for the last few days, searching for Mara—a useless, waste of time when she’d become an expert at disappearing—only returning in the nick of time to rejoin the team and carry out his role for the mission tonight. Yet another exercise in futility.

Their mission, to break up the underage slave auction for which Victor and his minions had been leaving a trail of bread crumbs to for weeks, was completely bogus. Fucking Mendozas! It was obviously a diversion for the real event.

Cap, Jonas, Rick, Dex, Lil T and Jack in surveillance, all of them would have been there, possibly others. He sent up a silent but no less fervent entreaty that they’d had enough time to escape.

“No answer,” Dano said from behind him. He walked to the windows and stood beside Sean. “Damn. It’s fully engulfed. We’ve got to do something.”

“What?” Sean fired back. “The flames are near the roof.”

“Has the chopper taken off?”

He squinted, trying to focus through the smoke. “I can’t tell. Glasses,” he barked, holding out his hand to the man packing the gear behind him. In a second, he slapped a pair of high-powered night vision binoculars into his palm. Sean immediately scanned the rooftop of the burning building. “Dammit. It’s still there.”

He scanned down to street level, zooming in on the EMS vehicles, searching for familiar faces or god forbid casualties. It was mayhem, however. “I can’t see shit with the crowd of gawkers down there.” He kept scanning south. “Maybe they evacuated through the crosswalk to the Park Tower.”

Locating the building next door, he cut to the area in front. Scanning the entrance and the darkened street, he switched on the digital zoom and the instafocus feature to enhance the image. Two men standing in the middle of the street caught his eye. One wore a familiar white fedora.

Startled, he lifted his head a fraction, his eyes shifting to Dano. “It’s Mendoza.”

“Motherfucker! Returning to the scene of the crime.”

“More like he stayed to check out his handiwork first hand. Call SAPD dispatch, Dano. There are at least a dozen units down there already. Surely someone can arrest this asshole.”

A cell rang in the background.

“It’s Cap, bud. They’re out. All accounted for and no injuries, thank god!”

Like Dano, relief washed through him.

Sean went back to scanning. As he locked onto Mendoza again, his mouth suddenly went slack and he blinked, disbelieving his own eyes as Victor crumpled to the ground. “No fuckin’ way,” he whispered as he zoomed out to get the entire area in view. The man at his side, a muscle man from the looks of him, also lay on the ground motionless.

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