Deadly Target [IAD Agency 3] (Siren Publishing Classic) (26 page)

“Is that what you were drugged with?” Rock’s voice lowered to a harsh, deadly growl.

“Affirmative. I’m having a hard time focusing and don’t know how long I can continue to function. I need you here now.” Slade cursed again, and she knew he understood that for her to say that it was urgent. She heard the faint sounds of a helicopter through the line getting louder.

“We’ve got your signal. Keep the phone on. We’re less than ten minutes out. We’ve got you, Lynx. I’m going silent. Rock, you got her?” Slade asked.

“I’m in the car with Adrian, heading toward you now. I’ll stay on the line and continue to monitor. Lynx, just hold on,” Rock assured her.

“Got it. See you soon. Hang on while I update the others.”

“Affirmative.”

Mikayla held the phone in her hand and breathed out a sigh of release. Help was coming and just in time. “They’re coming for us. They are less than ten minutes away.”

“They can’t tranq you,” Robert said softly.

She turned to him, aghast. “Why not?”

“David tried that. It was one of the tests he ran on one of his…subjects. If they tranq you it will have an adverse effect when mixed with the lust dust. Your heart will stop.”

“Fuck! So I can’t even knock myself out until this crap has run its course?”

Robert shook his head.

Mikayla wanted to scream out in rage, but she held it in. She wouldn’t rest until everyone involved in this fucked-up mess paid for what they had done and the entire operation was shut down hard. She would kill every sick fuck herself if she could. She brought the phone back up to her ear. “Rock, did you get that.”

“I copy. Adrian called the hospital in Colorado Springs. They are ready and waiting. We’ll figure out how to help you, Lynx. Don’t worry.”

The sound of a motor in the distance broke through the stillness.

“Shit. I’ve got incoming, Rock. Keeping the line open but going hot.” She heard him cursing and pushed the phone at a startled Katie and grabbed hold of both of the guns, forcing herself into battle mode.

“What are you doing?” Katie exclaimed.

“We’ve got incoming. Hold onto the phone and don’t hang up.”

“I don’t…oh!” Katie gulped. “I don’t suppose that is our ride?”

“No, there is a car heading our way and they are not friendlies.”

“Oh god, it’s them! I know it’s them. I thought you took care of the guards!” Robert said, beginning to panic.

“The guards back at the bunker are dead. Trust me. I have a feeling this is someone else who is tracking us somehow.”

“But how? How would they—”

“I don’t know. Quiet!” Mikayla ordered as the sound of the motor got closer then shut off. Looking around, she quickly surveyed the area for a place to hide Katie and the Doc so she wouldn’t have to worry about them. The safest bet would be in the trees. Heading to a large tree that would be easy to hide within the many branches, Mikayla stopped at the bottom and gestured the others over. She put the guns back into her pockets and bent her knee, bracing her fingers together. “Come on, I’ll boost you up.”

“I can help. We can’t leave you here alone,” Katie argued.

“No. You would just get in my way and make me split my focus. Get up in the tree, or you’re just going to get in my way.” They were on the clock and Mikayla wasn’t pulling any punches.

“You want us to…jeez.” Robert gulped as he looked up.

“Think about it later, Doc. I need you to haul ass.”

Robert visibly braced himself then, using Mikayla’s knee as a booster, he pushed himself up into the tree. Katie went next, scurrying up with the help of both Mikayla and Robert. They climbed higher, crouching down against the large tree limbs to blend in more. Thank god Katie was wearing a white coat that helped camouflage her more.

“You stay up there until I tell you. Understood? Don’t you fucking move.”

Katie nodded and pushed Robert’s head down further to hide them. Mikayla quickly moved away from the tree where they hid, hoping to draw any attention away from her charges. She’d be damned if whoever was coming would get to Katie again. No, she’d handle the threat and then she considered knocking herself out to stop the pain searing through her like a blowtorch.

Mikayla heard the crunch of footsteps in the snow and moved even further away from the others to meet the coming threat. It was fortunate the falling snow had already covered their tracks already. She took what she hoped was a casual stance and put her hands in her pockets, her hands wrapped around the guns with her fingers lightly on the triggers. She saw two men break through the trees. Both of the men seemed startled to see her waiting for them.

One of the men lifted a radio and spoke into it as the other one lifted his gun and pointed it at her. “Target acquired, sir. We’ve got one of them.”

Static sounded before a voice squawked through. “Which one is it?”

“The one the boss wants.”

“Hold her there. We’re coming to meet you.”

“Got it.” He put the radio in his pocket and raised his gun toward her. “On the ground, bitch.”

“No.”

The men looked at each other as if they couldn’t believe she had refused. She sighed. “Look, I’m not going to lie or kneel down in the snow. I’m already cold and getting wet would just piss me off more.”

There was a pause then one of the men asked, “Where are the others?”

“Obviously not here, asshole.”

The guy bristled at her insult. She smiled back at him despite the pain wracking her body. She heard more footsteps and saw David Henley and another guard break through the trees to join them. Four against one. Not the best odds, but she’d had worse. She’d just keep them talking and hope that the cavalry arrived soon.

“You killed Carl and Paul, you bitch!” David accused.

“Yes. Yes, I did. Unfortunately for them they tried to rape me. Call me crazy, but I figure that was kind of like asking for me to end them.”

“Carl was my little brother! You made a mistake when you took his phone. We were able to track you with it. I’m gonna make you pay, you fucking whore.”

“I would say I’m sorry, but I’m not and I would say that you were the one who killed him getting him involved in this crazy scheme. Kidnapping, rape, murder and making a hideous drug that takes people’s willpower away from them? What did you expect, David?”

“You don’t know anything! We’ve made millions already and we’ll make more. George, go tie the bitch up so we can track down the other two and get the hell out of here.”

“I don’t think so.” Mikayla pulled the two guns out of her pocket and trained one on David and the other on the guard that had stepped toward her. “I’m not going anywhere with you and you should know I’m no one’s fucking target.”

Everyone froze.

Mikayla kept her voice light as she saw something move out of the corner of her eye. She fought the urge to look and kept her gaze trained on their leader, keeping their attention on her. “You thought no one would notice when you kidnapped this many women? That was stupid.”

David laughed. “Stupid? We’ve taken over twenty-five women so far and no one knows it’s us. We’ve taken dozens of homeless people before that. When we branch out we’ll have one of the most successful trafficking networks in the US with trained bitches who are begging to be fucked. So what, you have guns? There are four of us. If you shoot me they’ll kill you.”

“Probably. But here’s the thing. You made a mistake. I’m not just an average woman, David. I’m not like those other helpless girls you’ve taken before. I’m a trained covert agent, which means you’re seriously fucked. My team knows I’m missing. You may have tracked me with the phone, but so are they. They’re coming for me.”

“Bullshit! You lying whore!”

“No motherfucker, actually she’s right,” Slade’s hard voice rang out.

Backup had arrived.

David and his guards took a frantic look around to see Sebastian, Gage, Nick, Dylan, and Slade covering them with their weapons as they all but seemed to appear in the clearing. Gage’s dog, Wulf, let out a ferocious growl as he lowered closer to the ground, ready to spring into action. The guards’ guns tracked back and forth, unsure who posed the biggest threat.

Hearing the confrontation over the phone, Gage had flown his helicopter carrying their team into a clearing close to where Mikayla, Katie, and Robert had stopped. From there, Wulf had tracked Mikayla and Katie’s scents straight to them, allowing the men to get into position without anyone knowing.

Mikayla wanted to weep with joy as she heard Slade’s voice. She forced herself not to look at any of the men joining their little party in the woods. She especially refused to look at Gage. If she allowed herself to look at him she knew she would break down. Up until now there had been sheer determination driving her forward, pushing her to escape and ensure that she got the others to safety.

But now all she could do was think about how much she loved Gage. Really, truly loved him to the depths of her very soul. It seemed that she couldn’t even lie to herself due to the drug haze she was in, and she no longer wanted to. She loved the son of a bitch and if he thought he was going to shake her off now that she was all in, he was going to be sorely mistaken. She wanted love, marriage…a future with him.

She wanted it all.

And she especially wanted his hands on her. And his mouth, and tongue and cock…

Shit!
She needed to hold it together and focus!

“You’re gonna want to watch what you call her, you son of a bitch!” Gage snarled as he trained his own weapon on David. The dark fury was evident in his tone and it had David eyeing him wearily.

A few feet away Slade had crept up behind one of the guards and pressed his gun right at the back of his head. “You’re gonna want to put your gun down nice and slow or else you’re gonna give me an excuse to blow your fucking worthless head off.”

“Drop your weapons!” Nick called out. “Drop them now!”

“Fuck you!” In a desperate attempt, David swung his gun back toward Mikayla. She didn’t hesitate. She shot through his hand so he dropped his gun, screaming in pain.

Sebastian dropped one of the guards with a bullet to the chest as he made a move. The two other guards took the smarter way out and dropped their weapons, holding their hands above their heads. In a matter of seconds Nick and Slade had David and the two guards were on their knees.

“Lynx, are you—”

“Fine. You got this? Good,” Mikayla said to Slade as she threw down her own weapons, passing by him with barely a glance. She hurried over to Gage, grabbed his hand and tugged him with her as she continued to walk away from the others. “Katie and the Doc are hiding in that tree over there. We’ll be right back.”

“Mikayla, what’re you doing?” Gage asked, confused.

She continued to pull him with her until she couldn’t walk anymore and stopped behind a large tree. He blinked in pure shock as she reached down and undid her jeans then sputtered as she took his hand and shoved it down her pants.

“I need to come, Gage. I swear to god I hurt so bad I feel like I’m gonna fucking die if I don’t.”

“Jesus…”

She bit her lip to hold back a sob as she felt him thrust two of his large fingers inside her sopping wet pussy. Gage dropped his weapon on the ground, but she didn’t even hear it fall. All she could focus on was his hand on her hip and the other inside her. The pleasure was so acute it bordered on pain as she rode his fingers. But it wasn’t enough. She’d waited too long and the adrenaline mixing with the drugs were shifting her into the third phase of the cycle. “It’s not enough. I need more. Fuck, it hurts!”

She cried out in pain as Gage pushed her up against the tree, taking her mouth with his. He paused and pulled back, concern shining bright in his brilliant green eyes.

“Waited too long. Hurts to touch. I feel like I’m burning alive.”

Gage cursed at the tears that tracked down Mikayla’s cheeks in rivers. His cock had gone rock hard in his jeans the second she had shoved his hand down her pants, but he softened slightly at the sign of her distress. The feel of her tight pussy gripping his fingers made his mouth water to taste all the slick juices he felt dripping from her. But he couldn’t wait and neither could she. He could see her violet eyes were bright with the pain and the induced madness of the drug.

Fuck, he couldn’t stand seeing her like this.

Pulling her jeans down to her knees he spun her around, bracing her hands on the tree, jerking her hips back so she was slightly bent over. He unbuckled his own jeans, ripping down the zipper to free his throbbing cock in the chilly winter air. Hissing out against the shock of cold, he hunched over her, but was careful not to touch her as he braced his hands above hers on the tree.

This was going to be hard and fast.

“Hold on, baby. I’ve got you,” he whispered into her ear as he lodged the head of his cock to the entrance of her pussy. Bracing his legs apart for leverage, he shoved deep, spearing her on his cock with a single brutal thrust. The feel of the intense heat of her soaking pussy surrounding his cock was the complete opposite of the cold air blowing at his back. It was a contrast that heightened his senses and made his body shiver.