#Chapter 365 – Assault

Sinclair

We move quickly through the sewers, getting to our launching point in less time than I had estimated it would take. I glance at my phone, not anticipating that we’d have been able to receive any messages from our home base, but disappointed regardless.

As our men range themselves on either side of the exit to the sewer, which will open directly onto Xander’s property, Roger turns to me.

“Ready for this?” he asks, his face tight.

I simply nod to him, doing my best to ignore my wolf prowling anxiously inside my chest. Then, as one, my brother and I move forward to the front of the line. If there’s any unexpected fire, I want us to take it – not our men.

Our men stand tense behind us in two lines as Roger slowly, silently, pushes open the door. And then, with one final glance at him, I’m through.

I pull myself out of the sewer and find myself in a garden with significant cover, which is good. We sent a drone to scope out the landscape, of course, but we hadn’t quite been able to discern the height of the plants. I crouch down immediately, looking around for anything suspicious, but am greeted only by silence – just the cool sounds of a large suburban garden at night.

I turn towards the Tudor house to my left – Xander’s home, where he’s been living since his brother left the throne. It looks…almost too innocent, too nice, to be housing such a maniacal man – who plots to get unsuspecting women pregnant and steal their babies. I shake my head, hating him anew, and then I turn back to the sewer to gesture my brother and our men forward.

of the sewer behind me, I move

years ago when Xander, apparently needing more

to a set of

the chain in my hand, giving it a hard, sharp

frowns at the chain in my hand, and I know that his thoughts are

tongue hanging out of his mouth slathered in his stress. Can’t be – too easy no-no- – turn around – try again

my head as I study the door.

to turn this down? Walk away from the opportunity to infiltrate this man’s house with a full stock of healthy men just because it’s too easy? Isn’t it also very possible that, after twenty-some years of going unnoticed, that Xander has just begun

He’s at

do you think?” I murmur, looking between him

when we’re going to have a better chance to do this. If we can get

mental hand down his ruff, asking him to steady, but he shakes

say, yanking one of the doors open and peering down into the basement. “Let’s

the other door up and slip down the narrow stone stairs, peering into the darkness with my keen vision and working hard to determine if there is anything waiting for us down here.

unremarkable. We sweep the room as

months,” Roger murmurs to me when

and signal our men

basement steps towards the first floor, listening closely for

lead nods to me, letting me know that we’re all in, except for the two who we’ve left guard in the garden. Understanding, I flip on

Then, glancing once more at Roger for any reason to stop – he just holds my gaze steadily I press open the door to the

night, and everyone is upstairs sleeping. Or…I hesitate to think it but

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