“So instead of coming to you for help, she decided to run away and never speak or see you all again. How does that feel? She had to leave you in order to survive and live, and it’s crazy. No matter what she did to save herself, she’s still wrapped up in your shit, and some sick fuck has beat the shit out of her because of something you all are in. And what the hell have you done to try and get her back?” Josh pointed to Noah’s father. “You’re listening to the very son of a bitch who’s got her in this situation in the first place. All of you gave up your rights to fucking care. You didn’t fight for her, but here I am fighting for the woman that means more to me than my fucking life. I’m going to get her back and in one piece. I will not fail.”
Josh looked at his team. “Let’s go.”
Chapter 21
Joshua
Just when Josh moved to leave with his team, more people arrived. Diane, Jacks and a few of her team members stood in the way of the front door.
“You aren’t going to do anything, Cooper,” Diane barked.
Josh didn’t look at her, instead he looked at Jacks.
Misty walked up to Jacks and asked, “What the fuck are you doing with this bitch?”
Jacks kept his eyes on Josh. Josh could still see the bruises left on his face. Misty however, wouldn’t let Jacks ignore her, so she punched him in the chest.
“I went to back for you, you fucking idiot.”
Jacks frowned and looked down at Misty. “You know damn well he’s out of control, and for what? Someone else’s wife? He’s going to get this woman killed for his selfishness. I’m here to make sure it doesn’t happen.”
Misty shook her head and stood back and looked at Diane while saying to Jacks, “Wow, her pussy must be stellar to have you wrapped around her little pinky. But I’m going to let you enjoy her shit. When you find out the truth, you’re not fucking welcomed back, in my opinion. No matter what you feel or how fucked up a situation is, you don’t side with the enemy.” Misty looked at Josh. “Let’s go get Kenya.”
“You aren’t going anywhere,” Diane said again. She looked at Josh. “Let us do our jobs. We will find her.”
Josh breathed out. “We’ve already found her. And I’m going to go and get her.”
Diane shook her head. “You don’t understand, Josh.”
Josh, growing frustrated, said, “No Diane, you don’t understand. Your fuck up is the reason why she’s there. She got kidnapped and beaten because of you. You placed her in harm’s way when I clearly told you not to. You involved her in this shit storm, creating a fake marriage license and practically pointed them to her. Again your fuck up, and I’m going, like always, to clean up your shit.”
Josh and his brothers moved to the exit, and some of Diane’s boys moved to meet them.
Josh kept his eyes on one of her men and said, “Let me tell you how this is going to go, Diane. You’re going to tell your men to move and let us go, or it’s going to get messy, and you know I don’t mind messes.”
“Josh, be reasonable.”
“Fuck reasonable, Diane. I was reasonable back in Pittsburgh when I told you not to bring trouble her way. I was specific, I didn’t hesitate, or did I speak in a language you couldn’t understand?” Josh turned and looked at her, “Tell you what, if you get there before me, you can have who you want. But there are two that I know for sure belong to me. Now it’s your choice.”
Junior stood. “Josh, we have to go now.”
Josh moved to the door and just as he was about to hit the man in front of him in the throat, he moved.
Josh and his team filed out quickly with Junior saying, “It will take us twenty minutes to get there.”
“Hey, Cooper…”
Josh turned around to find Curtis and Jesse running up to them.
“I want to go save my sister.”
Josh shook his head. “This isn’t a fight you should be getting into before you even get your feet wet in the unit.”
Curtis frowned. “I don’t care about that shit. I care about my sister and getting her back safe.”
Shane rolled down the window. “We don’t have time for this shit, bro, we gotta go.”
“Fine get in. Junior, I want that phone call to come to my phone.”
“You got it.”
The moment they arrived where they were holding Kenya everything happened so fast. His phone rang, and he was informed where to meet and when. Josh told them the moment he saw her face he would send them the funds.
Of course they weren’t happy with that, so he offered majority of the money to be sent then the rest once he saw her face. They reluctantly agreed, and Josh sat there waiting for any movement from the large house, and nothing happened. The meeting place was a half an hour away, and they hadn’t moved in ten minutes after the call.
Josh called Junior. “What does the layout look like? Can you see where they’re holding her?”
“I’m using the heat recognition satellite that the NSA just put in space. So far I can’t be certain,” Junior told him.
“On the tape she indicated she was underground. She saw a few rooms but no windows. She also called out the number of guys she saw.” Josh offered.
Curtis, who was sitting behind him said, “You heard that too? I thought it was weird when I heard it.”
“She plays this virtual reality game with a friend of hers from college. She always asks me questions about operational strategy and tactics. I told her it’s important that if you get captured and you’re able to get a hold of someone to help you, you tell them everything you can as quick as you can to help them find you.” Josh turned and looked at her brother, “She listened.”
“Coop, I think I found her. There’s a lone figure in the southeast corner. No one’s surrounding it though, so I don’t know if it’s her or not.”
Junior sent picture to his cell phone.
“It’s her. Let’s move.” Josh looked at Malcolm, and he nodded.
One of the tactics Josh told Kenya when ambushing a building was the element of surprise. The way they hit this house was no surprise. They hit the building on three sides and hard. Josh went through the house with swiftness and without prejudice. Shooting his way inside, and after that, doing and using whatever necessary to bring anyone he came close to down. He didn’t bother with a body count as he moved, his primary focus was on one person, Kenya.
Everyone split up in teams, and Shane went with Josh in search of Kenya according to the directions Junior gave them. Ivan, Misty, and Jesse went to the left of the house to clear that section, and Stan, Malcolm, and Curtis went right to do the same. Once Josh and Shane made it to the bottom floor of the house, they searched every room and door they could find, but they couldn’t locate her. Just when he was about to call Junior, Shane found a small door with a pad lock, and it looked to be booby trapped with C4 and a mechanism attached that Josh hadn’t seen before.
Josh got close to the door, and it was that moment the timer on the trigger started counting down.
“Fuck!” Josh yelled.
He knew once he got out of here and got Kenya to a safe place, he was going to kill every last person associated with this Cartel.
“Start looking,” Shane said quickly.
They had less than two minutes now, and they both moved out in search of some other place they could have put Kenya. Josh called Junior. They were running out of time.
"Are we close to her?"
"Yeah, you’re like right on her man. Also, we got company," Junior replied back.
“Shit!” Josh looked at his brother and hung up the phone. Josh met the questioning look from Shane, but his question was answered when he heard commotion and yelling to put down weapons. Josh said to his brother, “Junior says we are right on top of her."
Josh and Shane looked around the room then Josh looked down at panel under his feet. Time was ticking away.
The tiles underneath him seemed normal to him. They were long panels with screws in all four corners of each panel. He was running out of time in more ways than he knew it, he could feel it.
“There.” Shane pointed.
There in the far corner was a panel that looked the same to the eye, but when you moved closer, it looked slightly different than the others. He moved quickly and tried to figure out a way to open the panel. It was sealed tight. Josh quickly studied the screws and noticed those too seemed to be new compared to the other panels.
“Stand up and put your hands in the air.”
Josh and Shane looked back to see Diane and her team, along with Jacks standing behind them.
“Don’t even think about moving, Josh,” Diane barked.
“Listen to me… There is a bomb that’s set to go off any second. I’m not leaving here until I have Kenya, and she’s buried underneath that panel. You are going to have to shoot me because I’m not leaving her.”
Jacks moved to the area Josh signaled and found they had less than fifteen seconds.
He called out, “We are toast no matter what we do.”
Jacks looked closely at the bomb and the wires coming from the trigger. His eyes followed the wires as he pulled the switchblade from his pocket.
“Josh, no matter if you can get to that panel, we all will be dead anyway. The panel is wired as a second trigger, and once we move this panel the bomb will start again. We have to do this quickly or we’re done.”