Reaper's Salvation: A Last Riders Trilogy by Jamie Begley (reading e books .txt) 📕

Two hours later, his aching eyes had him calling it quits for the night. Before getting ready for bed, he sent several texts to the brothers, then sent a mass text to everyone in the club.

He put his hands on his thighs, about to rise, when he looked over at Ginny as she lay sleeping. Laying on her side, facing his direction, she had kicked the covers off, and he could see a bruise on her thigh.

This morning, when he told Viper that Ginny was pregnant, his brother had known that, if the heavens had suddenly rained down fireballs, nothing was going to keep him from getting to Ginny first.

Viper had been running alongside of him, ordering the others to find the FBI agents, when they saw a Moke speeding toward them. Every man raised his weapon at the vehicle as it pulled up alongside of them.

“Don’t fire,” Reaper commanded as Agent Clark jumped out of the Moke.

“Allerton’s security just tried to take us out in my bungalow. I have them contained. Agent Collins hasn’t checked in this morning. We’re going to the resort.”

“Allerton has Collins and Ginny.”

Viper and Reaper followed Agent Clark back into the Moke.

“Go!” Reaper yelled loud enough for Cash to take off in the first Moke.

The two vehicles sped away, leaving Stud, Calder, and Knox behind on foot, heading in another direction.

“Where are they going?” Agent Clark shouted.

“To the security building. They’re going to stop Allerton’s additional security at the resort and the air field,” Viper told him.

Reaper saw Cash stop his Moke at the side door of the resort.

“Park next to him,” Reaper told Agent Garcia, who was driving.

Springing out of the vehicle with his gun at the ready, Reaper ran toward the side door where the other brothers were nearly mowing down Hammer when Desmond Beck opened the door.

Reaper pointed his gun at Beck, prepared to take him out.

Viper tilted his gun down. “It’s cool. Desmond helped us get on Clindale.”

“Ginny’s in Gabriel’s office with Agent Collins. I’ve managed to take care of the two guards inside. Gabriel will send more and will want to lock the building down. He does that, we won’t be able to get off the island,” Desmond informed them.

Reaper jumped over the downed guards and ran through the interconnected hallways with Beck, Viper, and the rest of the brothers following. Stabbing the button of the elevator repeatedly, he decided to head for the exit door just a few feet away.

Desmond grabbed his arm. “You open the door, it’ll set off an alarm. The button for the stairwell is in Gabriel’s office. It’s a security feature to keep anyone from getting on or off his floor.”

“Fuck.” Reaper returned to the elevator, eyeing Beck suspiciously. “He doesn’t have the same safeguard for the elevator?”

“Ethan, his assistant, supervises anyone getting access. Gabriel doesn’t want to be bothered by deliveries. Ethan has a master switch behind his desk. Unless he presses it, the doors won’t open.”

Reaper coldly focused on the steel doors, wanting to pry them open. He would allow the extra minute for Ethan to send the elevator down instead of running up the stairwell, and if what Beck said was true, Allerton had opened the elevator door when he and Ginny escaped this morning.

Fuck this ….

The doors sliding open had Reaper rushing inside. Viper and the rest of the men crowded in after him. Shade and Rider remained outside.

“Ethan will send the elevator back,” Desmond promised.

Reaper pushed the button.

“Beck, if this is a setup, you’re going to be the first motherfucker I take out,” Viper warned. “How’d you manage to get Allerton’s assistant to agree to help?”

“Not from the generosity of his heart.” Desmond stared at Viper cuttingly. “King and Shade gave me carte blanche to spend what I needed to spend. What you paid Abbott Varela’s ship captain to let you stow away and get you to Clindale is chump change to what you’re paying Ethan. Without him, we won’t be getting off this island.”

The metal doors opening had Viper and Desmond going out first.

“Clear.” On Viper’s signal they rushed out.

Reaper started toward Allerton’s office. “Reaper, hold.”

Viper and Desmond had gone behind Ethan’s desk to stand next to the assistant, who’d handed Viper one of his earbuds.

Reaper joined Viper and they all watched a bank of computer screens. On one of the screens they saw what Allerton was doing to Ginny. Enraged, Reaper moved away from the desk. The motherfucker was dead.

“Wait—we can’t go in there yet.” Agent Garcia blocked him.

“Why in the hell not?” Reaper was prepared to throw the agent over the desk if he didn’t move.

“Listen to her. Ginny’s getting a confession out of him.”

With the furious pounding rushing through his head, Reaper could barely hear the low voices coming from earbuds.

“Listen,” Agent Garcia urged.

“This may help.” Ethan reached under the flap of his suit. At the movement, he had eight guns pointed at him. “I was only going to raise the volume.” He pointed to the white plastic cord that extended upward to the collar of his shirt. “They don’t know I’m listening in.”

Reaper nodded, so Ethan could turn the volume up, and they all heard Allerton and Ginny.

“Depends on a need-to-know basis.”

“In other words, when you use the tapes to blackmail them to get what you want?”

Reaper and the others watched the computer screen as Ginny’s voice sounded through the headset.

“Can you make a copy of this tape?”

“When you’re ready, all you have to do is press this button.” Ethan showed them the button on the computer. “It isn’t equipped with sound.”

“Then fuck it.” Reaper again tried to move toward Allerton’s office.

“Wait—the polygraph machine is in there,” Garcia said. “It’s on the table. It has a recording feature; the conversation is being taped. That’s why Ginny is asking Allerton questions to incriminate himself.”

“Ginny knows she’s being recorded?” Reaper didn’t take his eyes off the computer. Allerton stood over Ginny with a cane in his hand.

“Yes,” Hammer interjected. “The idea was