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“Because you love the impossible.”
I thought it over. The idea was intriguing, and I couldn’t deny I liked his willingness to try anything, but I still didn’t understand the extraction method.
“So, let’s say we get close enough to the island, completely undetected, and then I drop in, landing on my feet and not breaking any bones, how exactly am I supposed to find the women?—”
“Oh, and there are also a good fifty guards roaming the property at all times.”
I nodded. “Okay, and get past the guards, rescue the women and children, and then get off the island?”
“You don’t.”
I did a double take, sure I had heard him wrong. “I don’t.”
“Not in the way you think. I’ll stage an attack on the island. Twenty or so guards will die, and they’ll need to be transported off the island. There’s no great place to bury the dead,” he said, giving me a pointed look. “The attack won’t happen right away, though. If we do it too soon, he’ll suspect something else is going on. There’s too much chance you could get caught.”
“You still haven’t gotten to the point of how I get off the island.” Though, I had a pretty good idea of how this was going down.
“Easy,” he grinned. “You’ll ride out under the corpses of the dead in the coffins.”
The idea made me want to puke. I was all for trying new things, but this was insane. “And why not just ask Cash for help?”
“Because no one can know of your involvement. You need to be dead when this happens. It’s the only way to ensure that this guy doesn’t trace any of this back to Cash.”
“He wouldn’t flip on you.”
“I’m not concerned about that. If this in any way leads back to Cash, it leads back to me. So, do we have a deal?”
“Like, you want an answer now?” I asked.
“It would be nice.”
It was a suicide mission. All of this for a few women and children? It didn’t make sense. There had to be more to why Rafe was doing this, but I doubted he would tell me. Still, if I was going to do this, I had to know why.
“What’s your endgame?”
“To save the women and children.”
I shook my head. “Not good enough. There’s no way you would risk so much just to save a bunch of civilians.”
“You must think I’m a terrible person,” he said, swallowing the last of his drink.
“Just motivated by things that move your agenda forward.”
“This moves my agenda so far past the goal post that I might actually consider taking a vacation.”
I snorted. Like that would ever happen. “Who is she?”
“Who do you mean?”
“The woman? It’s the only thing that makes sense. You need her, which means she must be something to you.”
His body tensed for just a second. “When you take this mission, you’ll understand why I need her. She has inside knowledge of his entire operation. With her, we can finally work to seriously take down the whole fucking system. Without her, all of this has been for nothing,” he finally admitted.
I thought about it for a moment. Honestly, the job didn’t mean anything to me. But if he was coming to me, not wanting anyone else at OPS to know about this, it had to be important.
“Alright, sign me up.”
“No one at OPS can ever know about this,” he reiterated.
