Total pages in book: 160
Estimated words: 149137 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 746(@200wpm)___ 597(@250wpm)___ 497(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 149137 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 746(@200wpm)___ 597(@250wpm)___ 497(@300wpm)
Josh handed Ezra over and knocked on the door.
Shane opened it. “Hey, what’s…holy shit. Ezra?”
“Bad night, man. Op didn’t go the way we thought it would,” Ezra said as Bishop got him through the door. “Shane Landon, this is John Bishop. He’s a dead man and we’re going to join him if we don’t find Kay and get the fuck out of here.”
Shane had pulled out his phone, not bothering to ask another question. He was on the phone to his headquarters the minute he realized things had gone awry. “Boss, sorry to call late, but this thing has gone to shit. Ezra’s shot. I don’t know how bad it is yet. Kay’s been taken by god knows who. I’ve got Hunt, but Riley and Declan are on their way back to the city. And there’s someone here named John Bishop.”
He stepped away, but Josh noted he didn’t turn his back on Bishop.
“If that’s Taggart, tell him Green’s gone rogue and he needs to pull his men out of that drop tomorrow,” Bishop said. “It’s meaningless at best, could be deadly at worst.”
Shane started talking to his boss, relaying the message.
Bishop was busy trying to get a look at Ezra’s wound. Whatever he saw there made him frown.
“Can you get me out of this fucking vest?” Ezra asked. “I can barely breathe. I took one to the back. It didn’t get all the way through, but it hurts like hell. I do thank you for saving me from the assholes who came to bury me.”
“You’re welcome,” he replied. “I was in the shadows. There were too many for me to stop them from taking Kay, but if they’re planning what I think they’re planning, they need her alive for a little while. Eventually they’ll figure out she won’t talk, but for now Levi will try to finesse his way out of this. And no, I can’t get you out of the vest. It’s literally the only thing stopping the bleeding from your chest cavity. I pull this off you anywhere but an OR and you bleed out.”
“Fucking awesome.” Ezra turned a nice shade of pale. “I’m going to kill Levi Green.”
“Not if I get to him first, brother,” Bishop swore.
Josh looked down at the gun in his hand. Could he pull the trigger? Fuck, yeah if it meant saving Kay. Actually, he was thinking about pulling the trigger just to let those assholes know they couldn’t take his sub. A protective instinct like nothing he’d ever known welled up inside him. How fucking dare anyone take her from him.
“Yes, sir. I understand.” Shane hung up, shoving the phone in his pocket and staring at Bishop like he was some mythical creature. “Who the hell are you? My boss told me to do anything you asked of me. He told me you were in charge and if he found out I’d done anything but follow your orders to the letter, he’d…well, he likes to talk about entrails a lot.”
Bishop’s lips curled up. “Young Taggart. He’s made something special of himself and that company of his. He was one of my trainees back in the old days. When I joined the Agency, I was recruited by a man named Franklin Grant. After I became proficient, Grant let me train some of his special recruits, including his adopted son, Tennessee Smith. Ten recruited Taggart and I took him with me on some of his first missions.” Bishop looked back at Josh. “Where is Jiang Kun?”
Shane’s eyes widened. “Kayla’s sister?”
Ezra was looking firmly at Bishop, his eyes practically blazing. “Jiang Kun is dead. She was killed during…you son of a bitch.”
“She’s back in my room. They switched them out and expected I wouldn’t notice the difference.” Josh didn’t care who was a son of a bitch or what Bishop had done in the past. All that mattered was Kayla in the here and now and what they were doing to her. The thought of her alone and in pain gutted him. This was what it felt like to really fucking love someone. He would change places with her in a heartbeat. “She thinks I’m getting condoms.”
“I want to know what happened,” Ezra said. “Big Tag might give you a pass, but I won’t.”
“You want to take me out after this is over, come and find me in Colorado,” Bishop replied, his jaw tight. “You won’t be the only one gunning my way. And what I did with Jiang Kun and Kayla Summers was done with the full approval of the director of the CIA and the president of the United States. Everything I did at the Agency with the exception of how I left was with the support of command. Believe me, they were more than happy to hear this particular plan.”
“What was the plan?” Josh asked.