each step to make sure they didn’t creak. I followed steadily and Blake placed his boots wherever I placed mine.
We were almost at the bottom when voices sounded from somewhere nearby.
“Hey, they’re all in the hall so I’m gonna go and have a little fun,” a man said. “Cover for me, will ya?”
“Alright, but fifteen minutes max. And when you’re back, you can cover for me,” another man replied.
“Deal,” the first man chuckled then a beep sounded and a door opened and shut.
Kyan made it off of the final step and a loud creak came from the floorboard beneath him. We all froze and my pulse thundered on the inside of my skull as I held my breath.
Shit, shit, shit.
Footsteps started stomping this way, the crackle of a radio reaching my ears.
Kyan moved flush against the wall and me and Blake pressed against it too.
The guard moved closer and closer and my muscles coiled like a spring, a fierce energy within me waiting to be let loose.
The guard stepped past us and Kyan lunged, slamming a hand over his mouth, but as he brought his knife up, the guard jabbed his hand back and Kyan was thrown off of him as a taser took him to the ground. I launched myself at the guard without a thought, my knife sinking into the flesh of his throat as he flung around, his fist crashing into my gut and sending me stumbling back into Blake. But my golden boy didn’t slow as the guard snatched his radio, clutching the bloody wound at his throat, his lips parting to call for help. Blake’s fist smashed into the radio, sending it to the floor in pieces and Blake’s knife sank deep between his ribs before he could get out a scream.
Blake held onto the guard as he died, not letting him hit the floor as I dropped down beside Kyan, ripping the taser off of him and pulling his mask away to see he was okay.
“You worried about me, baby?” he wheezed, his expression cocky but the tightness of his voice told me that had hurt like a bitch.
“That’s not the first time you’ve been tasered, is it?” I teased in a whisper and he shook his head as I helped him up.
“Saint tasered my ass once for being ‘an obnoxious caveman.’”
“Sounds like you deserved it.” I smirked.
“Come on, we need to move,” Blake hissed as he stuffed the guard into a small closet full of cleaning supplies, hiding him among them before shutting the door.
A bang said the guy had just slipped forward and hit the door and it flew open again as the asshole rolled out onto the floor.
“Goddammit,” Blake growled, hoisting him up by the shoulders. Blood was dripping onto the wooden floor and it was definitely not fucking covert.
“Blake,” I hissed as we jogged over to help him and he and Kyan squeezed the guy into the tight space. I grabbed a mop and cleaned up the blood before tossing it in after him.
Kyan closed the door but it hit something and I looked, finding the toe of the man’s boot was poking out.
“For fuck’s sake.” I moved forward, shoving the foot further inside and shutting the door with a click.
We shared an awkward glance then Kyan fixed his mask back into place and looked to the door under the stairs across the hall. “Oh.”
“Oh what?” Blake breathed.
“We need a security pass,” he said, turning to the closet again.
I groaned, glancing around us and listening to make sure no one was heading this way. “Come on then, we need to hurry.”
Kyan popped the door open once more and the guy spilled out on a tide of cleaning supplies.
“Oh for the love of-” Blake started then a loud voice sounded further off in the building, heading this way.
“Hey two-oh-two, you can take your break now.” He strode into the hallway, his eyes falling on us and the dead guy at our feet.
My heart lurched as Kyan charged at him, taking him down in a football tackle that made the floor shudder as they hit the ground. He drove a knife into the guy’s chest before he had a chance to do anything but die and more blood pooled out across the floor.
“Fuck,” Blake growled as more footsteps sounded this way.
“What was that noise?” a woman called and we all moved faster than lightning. Kyan carried the guy he’d just killed to the closet and we furiously stuffed both of the assholes