Code Name: Aries (Zodiac Tactical Rescue Unit) by Janie Crouch

Author:Janie Crouch [Crouch, Janie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Calamittie Jane Publishing
Published: 2021-09-20T18:30:00+00:00

21

Ian

Sarge hadn’t been kidding when he’d said this lab was hard to get to.

We were scaling a cliff wall to make it up to where the lab was located, cleverly hidden as part of a high-end nursing home off the cliffs of the Tieton River in Washington state.

This place hadn’t been on our radar before Sarge had brought it to our attention, and there were a lot of unknown variables in this situation. Our current circumstances were far from what any of us would’ve called ideal, but time was the most critical factor.

We had a six-man team, including myself. Not the six I would have chosen under ideal circumstances, but both Zac and Finn could pull their own weight.

Finn was currently scaling the cliff wall with Sarge and me. I’d agreed to allow them on the team because they’d agreed to take orders from me. I appreciated that both men had Special Forces training, but no mission would be successful without a clear leader.

Isaac and Zac had gone up the wall a few minutes before us. They were responsible for blowing the power at the same time we blew the door. Both had to be done at exactly the same moment or the backup security measures would lock us out.

That didn’t mean we wouldn’t get in, but it did mean that the bad guys would have an opportunity to kill everyone inside before we got in there.

That was not an option.

The sixth man had already been inside the nursing home for a couple of hours—Landon doing what he did best: charming people. He was a concerned son looking for a place to put his wealthy, elderly father. If anyone tried to make it out through the nursing home, the legitimate front to the facility, Landon would be there to stop them.

A shit ton of things could go wrong with this mission, so many that we weren’t aware of all of them. It was a risk I was willing to take. It was dusk. It would have been better to come in under cover of night, but waiting any longer wasn’t an option. Getting anybody out the same way we were coming in was going to be nearly impossible.

That was assuming Wavy was mobile. She’d been in Erick’s clutches for eight days now. I had no idea what shape she was in. And if Bronwyn was in there, she could be in bad shape too.

Alive. We just needed them to be alive.

We silently scaled the rest of the way up the cliff wall and got into position.

“Everyone ready?” I spoke into my comm unit and got affirmatives from everyone involved. “Isaac, Zac, you guys in place?”

“Two minutes,” Isaac responded.

“Roger that, we’re moving to the outer security door.”

Isaac and Zac would shimmy through ventilation shafts to get to where they could cut the power. It would be a tight fit for the big men. Two were going because if one got taken out, hopefully the other could complete their part of the mission.

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