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The house - gone, Reid. Oh God.
Debris began to rain down around us. The wound on my leg throbbed, and I couldn’t tell whose blood was where, but none of it mattered. None of it matters if Reid is gone.
I felt the first crack of my heart. Then, without warning, it ruptured.
Reaching around to my back, I grabbed the grenade. My last resort.
I pulled the pin and threw it, aiming toward the house that no longer existed.
“You promised me, Reid Chapman.” The words were torn from the rupture in my chest.
My body heaved, and I convulsed with emotion as the soldier picked me back up again and began running.
That’s the last thing I remember before everything went dark, and I welcomed the peaceful slumber.
???
Reid
“Thirteen!”
I strained to hear through the headset I pulled on as the loud noise of the propellor blades cut through the black ink of the night sky.
“What?”
“Thirteen times I have saved your ass, Chapman.” I smirked at her sassy response as I looked out over the property down below as it burnt to the ground.
“I know you secretly love me Em, that’s why you keep saving my arrogant ass. Don’t worry, your secret is safe with me.” I joked with her, but the mood was anything but light.
Straton isn’t exaggerating, she saved my ass. The tunnels were abandoned when I finally made it to the bottom of the elevator shaft, but I saw the carefully placed explosives, and I hauled ass. I ran as fast as my legs would take me to the ladder that Holly and I used, and prayed it was still there.
Where was everyone? Where was the shipment?
I could hear the noise from the helicopter as soon as I opened the hatch in the middle of the field that was my escape route. We barely made it off the ground before the first explosion went off.
Emily was talking to Alex over her radio when I got in. He has her. I know that he’s protecting her with his life but that doesn’t stop my heart from seizing in my chest as I watch a second explosion detonate on the property that surrounds what’s left of the old plantation house.
“Check in again, Emily. What the fuck was that?” The urgency in my voice carried through the microphone in my headset.
I listened to her voice ricochet through the line over and over again as she tried to make contact with Alex and simultaneously pilot us further away from danger. Further away from the other half of my heart.
“Check in, Alex. Check in.” Nothing.
“Alex, dammit, check in.” Silence.
My eyes met hers in the reflection of the glass, and I could read the words that she wasn’t saying.
The last resort.
