Stronger by Ang Chris

Chapter 122

Simon POV:

“Follow directly behind me so as not to make a sound and be careful,” I told Ashely and we exited the house we snuck around the back and behind the back of several other houses.

She followed me as I crouched low below the plantar boxes and window our pack mates going on about their daily lives not aware of how ruined the morning would be.

There were two guards at the main entrance to the keep and one to the back door i moved us in a diagonal. I got up behind the main keep watching the guard as we crawled and walked out to the woods at least thirty feet. I put her behind a tree dropping the bags and she held onto them.

“Stay here, if an alarm sounds at all you drop these extra bags and run there’s a truck five miles away up the main road get in and he’ll take you to town you turn yourself into the police,” I explained memorizing her face just in case it was the last time I ever saw her again.

“Do not move from this spot do not make a sound I’ll be right back,” I tried to muster up a brave face. She nodded to me and though I could see the anger in her eyes she grabbed my hand.

“Please be careful,” she begged and I hugged her tightly kissing her head before letting her go to hide behind the tree and I ran back to the keep.

first guard was posted at the back door of our exit. The large bay window above the back door was Cyrus’s room the beta obsessed with security often checked to see what the guard was up to.

So I couldn’t shoot him…yet. Luckily he was stupid, it was old and moronic and a bit cliche but I chucked a rock into the forest opposite me he went to inspect, I quickly entered the keep and he didn’t even notice.

There were minimal guards on the inside, and people still moved about Cyrus, Marcus, and other higher–ups living here. I walked through the back door mudroom past the kitchen and dining rooms and into the grand foyer.

The people who owned this place loved opulence and showed their wealth in their design marble gold and wrought iron gilded the house. Luckily Marcus had been ordered to keep it spotless so the floor was polished to a reflective sheen, I waited in the back hall for a few moments and then hurried over to the stairwell downstairs.

It was a straight shot to the guards desk I had two ways of playing it. Go in on the defense and jab them as quickly as I could and get horribly beaten to a pulp in the process or…

“Bently,” I entered the room as calmly as I could and yes his name was actually Bently. “Did I leave my phone here?”

“Fuck if I know,” he sighed looking at the monitors. “Damn bitch just sits there at least it was interesting when she escaped,” he whined putting his feet up on the desk as he looked at Annette sitting on her bed staring at her now grated window.

I

“She’s just sitting there? Still?” inched towards him, my palm sweaty, holding the dart in my hand.

“Yeah..,” the man next to him didn’t even notice the tailed off as I jabbed him his head dangling down to his chest.

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I went over to his cohort grabbing another dart from my pocket not fully trusting myself with the pistols I’d fashioned, not in close quarters. “So bored he passed out ha!”

“What,” the man got up and went to smack his coworker awake and as he moved to stand I jabbed him in the thigh.

on his rolling chair before slumping

refuse the use of silver but Marcus saw that a pathetic excuse

tipped him over and he stopped but the two guards heard the commotion and came

him in the chest. “Simon?” He looked down

shot him as he reached for

standing on her feet backed up her arms raised to protect herself

door.

held out my hand for her and the woman I had held captive stared

furious.

She backed away. “If this is some sick joke

we do not have a lot of time,” I went to

but still did she have to use all her force? My face stung and I knew it was red. “They will come

must

as she weighed whether or not to believe me. “Even if it

did it, she moved past me. “Wait,” I handed her the gun and pulled out the

aim.

me I will tear your face off,” she pointed the gun

let’s go,” I ordered her and started heading back

a guard was headed down the stairs investigating the open line from the walkie no doubt. Over my shoulder

over came me at the sight and marched up the stairs. “We’ll have to keep going.” I reminded myself. We

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the corner of the stair well grabbing her and covering her mouth.

the shadows and waited for the ten seconds before the

as if I had opened Pandora’s box, I could see

her. “This is not the moment for revenge. They‘ put

demeanor hardened for a second in the blackness of our cover. Then I heard the gun rattle

waited for the clear in the foyer. After a

outside but before she could shoot him through the

hiding beyond the wall and covering him mouth as I held my own breath.

sinister voice came in with

in that cell with my own eyes,” Deacon told the boy. “Go wake him up,” he adjusted his

the wall waiting for him to get into the foyer before she grabbed me by my shirt and ran me out the house. We ran through the forest and

up our pace I ran for the large moss covered tree I had his Ashley behind. “Ashley!” I called as quietly as I could manage.

the side she saw me and her

and Annette hers.

had never been my

have to tonight.

have figured with his nonexistent belief in Marcus. He was