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Great. He waited on bated breath to hear the answer on whether he lived or died. Or worse, died a slow, torturous death.

He didn’t survive all his years serving overseas to die in Ohio, of all fucking places.

Chen answered, “Until we get some straight answers, we might need him. I think he knows more than what he’s saying.”

“I don’t disagree.”

Reaper asked, “Am I going to just hang around while you wait?”

“Bo, get him down,” came the order.

Thank fuck.

“And show him to his new accommodations. I’m sure he’ll enjoy them.”

For fuck’s sake. Could they be any worse than being strung up from the ceiling?

Chapter Sixteen

Vi sprinted down the hallway and into Badass Central. She stumbled to a stop inside the door when she only spotted Ghost. “Reaper’s been fucking captured!”

Ghost dropped his boots from the desk to the floor and shot straight up and out of his chair. “What? How?”

“I don’t know how. I only know those goddamn Chens have him. They called me thinking I’m a Russo and luckily, I figured it out before blowing it.”

“Where is he?”

“No fucking clue. Can we ping his cell phone?”

“We can try but if he’s using the Glacier phone the Russos gave him, most likely not.”

She checked her phone’s call log to see what number he used. Of fucking course, it was the one that was encrypted.

“Goddamn it. That’s the phone they used to contact me. He could be anywhere in Columbus.” How the hell were they going to find him?

“If they’re even holding him in Columbus.”

Well… “Fuck.”

“The good news is he’s still alive, right?”

“For now. But we don’t know for how much longer. He lucked out with the Russos, but I don’t know if his luck will still hold.”

Her stomach was churning and she was trying not to panic.

But she was panicking.

How could she not?

Reaper was in the next state over, being held by a notoriously dangerous crime syndicate.

They weren’t going to hand him a greeting card, pat him on the back, and send him on his way. Not after he killed over a dozen of their people.

“We need to go get him,” Ghost exclaimed.

No shit. “Of course. I’m heading out there.”

“I would understand why you want to go, Vi, but⁠—”