Chapter 74

*** “He’s WHAT?!” Chris exclaims as he sits straight up on the sofa, staring at Jace with his eyes wide. “He’s my dad.” Jace admits reluctantly. We had got back to the house just over half an hour ago, and after getting cleaned up and dressed (which was fun explaining to Chris why we were half naked in the first place) all 3 of us were sat in the living room and me and Jace were filling Chris in. Drake and Connor must have been out on a job because apparently they had not been home all day. “Holy Shit!” Chris breathed out as he rubbed his forehead as if the revelation was too much to handle “Well, that was a nice twist to the story wasn’t it?” he mutters bitterly. Jace snorts “Tell me about it.” He was sat on the single sofa, obviously wanting to keep a distance as he was still worked up over the fact that the man we had been hunting for all along was in fact his father. The man who had recruited one of his best friends as a drug dealer and was killing innocent people was his dad. “I know this isn’t something you wanna hear mate, but we could use this to our advantage.” Chris informs him, carefully saying his words knowing Jace was about an inch away from exploding. I shake my head cutting in “Not in this case.” Chris turned to me and furred his brows in confusion “He’s got a direct link to the target. It could be helpful.” Again, I shake my head and Jace cuts in annoyed that he was being kept out of the loop “Care to explain what you two are talking about?” I turn to meet his eyes, really not wanting to tell him what we were talking about but knowing I had no choice. I don’t think this topic of conversation would help his anger. “Well?” He asks again impatiently as neither me nor Chris respond, Chris obviously figuring out in his head why it wouldn’t work and leaving me to explain this one. Asshole. “Basically when we have someone who is a direct link to the target, we can use them as bait.” I explain to Jace, taking a breath as I continue “The target would normally gladly give themselves up to save a member of their family or a friend.” Jace burst out laughing, no humour in it at all. “Ah I see. Too bad my dad doesn’t give a shit about me or that would have been a pretty good plan.” He tried to hide it, but I knew him too well and instantly spotted the hurt in his eyes as he admitted those words. “Daddy dearest would never give up his own ass to save mine.” An awkward silence echoed around the room as Chris leans back into the sofa, not knowing what to say. I finally break it “He did mention the actual agency, and not just me as an agent.” I suddenly remember realising it could be important. Jace is staring straight ahead of him, deep in his own thoughts. My chest tightened as I felt like I wanted to go over there, comfort him and tell him its okay. That his dad’s behaviour did not reflect him. “You think that’s the reason why he let you go?” Chris questions, the crease in his brow telling me he was thinking it through. “Maybe. I mean if the agency has bothered his business before, he doesn’t just want to take out a single agent but he might want to get rid of the agency as a whole? Or just information about the agency?” I suggested, and Chris nods his head along to my words agreeing. “Probably. Right what we are going to do-” “Woahhh, hold on a minute.” I cut Chris off, holding my hand up to motion him to carry on no further “I am not doing anything tonight. It has been a hell of a long day and I want nothing more than to sleep. We can talk about this further tomorrow, right now I am officially off the clock.” Chris widens his eyes in shock, a proud twist to the corner of his lips. I guess it must be a shock to hear me not want to talk about work. Normally that is what I wrap my life around, and it was always the guys sighing in frustration because they were tired of hearing me go over everything. But right now, I just simply had enough for the day. “I don’t know what happened in that basement...” Chris began, and mine and Jace’s eyes snapped to each others, both of us having the faintest of smiles on our lips “...but the Faith that came out of it that does not want to talk about work, I want her to stay please?” I laugh slightly, and Jace smiles before speaking “I’m all up for bed.” He declares while pushing himself to his feet and looking at me “You coming?” I actually had to stop the small smile from appearing on my face at just how casually he had said it, and how right it had sounded coming out of his mouth. I nodded and turned to Chris, who had a smirk on his face and was just about to utter something dirty (Don’t ask me how I knew, I just knew) when I heard the sound of a door being smashed in for the second time today. Me and Chris were immediately on our feet, both of us reaching for the gun taped under the coffee table which I let him have and I settled for the vase on top of the table, turning and smashing it over the head of one of the guys in black that had kicked the door in. I looked up saw about 10 guys in black all in our living room, Chris had managed to shoot 2 of them while Jace was fighting off a couple more but neither of the boys were doing well. Anger ran through my body. This was our home. They had come into our fucking home! I punched one of the guys in front of me, swinging my other arm around to hit the next one that stepped to me and I received a few punches while I was at it as well. I went into the kitchen and was now next to Chris who had been disarmed. In the midst of hitting anything dressed in black, I looked over to where Jace was and felt my stomach drop. “Jace!” I yelled over as one of the guys pulled out a taser, and the next thing I know Jace’s eyes have rolled to the back of his head and he is fitting as the electricity runs through him. He collapsed to the ground unconscious. I push one of the guys out of my way violently to make my way to him, when in the corner of my eye I see one of the guys behind Chris pulling out another taser and walking towards him. I instantly go to run over to him and kill the guy behind him, when suddenly I was unable to move as I felt something zap me in the back. I began to spasm as everything went blurry, the electricity ran through my body making me lose all train of thought as I tried to keep conscious, but knew I was fighting a losing battle. Then everything went black. ..