approached Alex, who looked as pained as Reid felt. “Alex, you know we have no choice. If there were another way, I’d take it in a heartbeat, but we have no other leads.”
Alex’s jaw tightened as the other men kept their council on the situation. He himself was torn. If it were anyone other than Callie, he’d agree it wasn’t worth the price Jack and the rest of them might have to pay, but the second she was taken, he’d had the shocking realisation he loved her and would do whatever it took to save her.
Alex swung his gaze to him, and Reid saw the pain and the anger and the inner war he was waging. “Do you love her?”
Reid didn’t want to do this here, but he knew what Alex was asking—did she matter to him. “Yes, I do.”
Alex nodded once. “Then I guess we have no choice but let me say this once. If that fucker comes anywhere near me, he’s a dead man.”
“Do we have a plan for Gunner when we get him back?” Blake asked having his own grudge against the man. Their former friend had allowed Blake’s woman, Pax to be beaten.
“I do have an idea actually, but I need to give it more thought.” Jack looked pensive, and in this mood, Reid knew he wouldn’t be forced to share, and they’d have to wait until he was ready to do so.
“We don’t have the men to make two extractions safely, especially as the sister isn’t an easy in and out.” Waggs was leaning against the desk, his arms braced on it.
“I’m going where Callie is,” Reid stated his intentions and God help anyone who tried to stop him.
Jack assessed him for a second and then lifted his chin in assent. “I’m going to call in favour with Zack and see if he can help with the extractions. Alex, can you make the call?”
With that, Alex took his phone out and walked a few feet away.
He came back a few minutes later and nodded. “Zack is sending, Zin, Nate, K, Dane, and Jace over now.”
Reid let out a sigh of relief. Knowing they had essentially a second squad coming to help allowed him to breathe easier.
“Good, Fortis can extract Milla with Waggs, and the rest of us can go after Callie. We can’t assume this man Bás isn’t playing us, and it could be a trap.”
Waggs nodded. Reid knew his medical training might be imperative for someone with Milla’s complicated medical issues.
“It would be good to have a medic in case Callie needs it, but you’re right. Milla will definitely need medical attention,” Blake added not looking at Reid.
Reid felt bile fill his throat at the thought of Callie hurt or needing medical help. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath through his mouth, trying to keep his lunch in his belly.
“Agreed, but we have what we have, and you all have more than basic skills.”
Just then, the alarms at the front sounded, and Jack turned to the screen. Reid wasn’t sure whether to be happy or sad when he saw his best friend’s face smiling up at the camera. He settled on happy because there was nobody else he’d want at his back than Clay, and he had the medical expertise he prayed to God they wouldn’t need.
Reid walked toward the front door, wanting to be the one to give Clay the news his sister had been taken on his watch.
Reid disengaged the locks, his mind working over how this Bás had gotten in before he pulled the door open.
Clay greeted him with a grin that froze on his face before it fell. “Oh fuck, what did you do?”
Reid stepped back and allowed his best friend inside, not wanting to say the words he knew would crush him. He shook his head, trying to find them. “They took her, Clay. Right from me, they took her.”
He watched his friends face harden and then Reid found himself pressed against the wall, his friend’s enraged face in his. “How the fuck could you?”
“Hey, cool it, yank,” Liam called as he moved down the hallway towards them.
Clay looked at him before he shoved off Reid, who hadn’t lifted a finger to defend himself. He wanted the pain he thought Clay might mesh out, hoping it would ease the emotional torture he felt inside his chest.
“Bitch had a gun aimed a toddler. Reid had no choice, neither did Callie, but we know where she is, and