Insatiable (The Edge of Darkness: Book 1) by Leigh Rivers

Author:Leigh Rivers [Rivers, Leigh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Leigh Rivers
Published: 2023-08-09T16:00:00+00:00

20

KADE

“How many do you think are inside?”

Barry sits beside me in the car, which is parked across from the building Stacey and I left two hours ago. Three SUVs are parked up too, keeping an eye on the surroundings as I strap the ammo belt around my waist and fill each compartment with magazines and daggers.

I look over and tilt my head from side to side as I contemplate my answer. “Maybe fifty.”

“Easy then,” he says in his Geordie accent.

I huff a laugh at his sarcasm. “They’re all armed, so probably not.”

“Are you sure they know her name?”

“Do you not listen?” I snap, scowling at him. “I’ve gone over the exact conversation five times.”

“I just find it a little dramatic to be doing this over a name.”

“You’ve been working for me for over a year and you think this is dramatic?”

He grimaces. “There was that time you tried to burn someone’s house down. For the same girl, may I add. Is this not a step too far?”

I stop loading my belt and pinch the bridge of my nose. “If they tell Bernadette her name, she’ll track Stacey and then probably manage to dig up our past. I don’t want to imagine the shit she’d do to her to make me more compliant.”

Barry knows everything. I had to tell him, or he would’ve thought I was just stalking some innocent girl. He sends reports to me when I haven’t the time to watch her. He thinks, as a twenty-one-year-old, I should find another obsession that doesn’t drive me to murder.

Am I extreme? Yes. But for my own fucking sanity, I need to know what she’s doing. Is that weird? To hate her yet need to know what she’s doing? Even though she’s a snake?

A snake who still belongs to me.

“You plan on killing an entire gang for a girl who apparently cheated on you?”

I grit my teeth and try not to smash his face in. “Yes,” I reply as I throw open the door. “Did you manage to find out who called her back at the hotel?”

“No. The phone has a fucking steel barrier around it.”

“Keep digging.”

Barry doesn’t respond as he, too, gets out of the car and checks his ammo belt, hidden under his suit. I made him wear the same one as me, since the material takes most of the power from gunshots.

Fifteen guys follow us, but I have three more on standby and a sniper on the roof of the building across from the warehouse. Heavy-metal music plays from inside as we hack the gate.

Our steps are silent in the warehouse, our guns aimed as we take the stairs. I send some guys left, another group right, and Barry and three others follow me.

“Clear,” someone says through my earpiece as another says, “One down.”

I keep my gun raised, aiming forward as I side-step from a corner, the silencer muffling the shot I take. The bullet sinks into the man’s skull, killing him instantly. Four more go down, and we stick explosives to the walls.

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