Page 18 of Alpha Awakened

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Page 18 of Alpha Awakened

“On it!” he shouted back.

Running full out to catch up with the speeding vehicle, he leaped, catching hold of the roof rack and hanging off the driver’s side. Luckily, the window was down. He reached in and grabbed the steering wheel, yanking it to the side so that they swerved off the driveway into the field.

“Stop the truck! You’ve got nowhere to go!” Hazard shouted.

“Fuck you!” Lewis spat before he shoved his foot down on the gas.

Unfortunately for him, the grass was tall and thick and the ground soft from a recent rain, which prevented him from going as fast as he had on the road. The truck bumped along at a slower pace as they fought for control of the steering wheel.

Suddenly, there was a thump, and the vehicle rocked to the right. When Hazard looked up, a grin split his face. Ice was there, hanging from the other side of the roof rack. His wolf mask, painted in stripes of black, green, and brown tonight for camouflage, was a menacing visage on the other side of the passenger window.

“You’re in trouble now,” Hazard said in a sing-song voice.

Ice raised the butt of his gun and slammed it against the window, instantly shattering it.

Lewis screamed, arms flying up to protect himself from the flying shards of glass. Ice reached across the cabin and grabbed the target, yanking him half way into the passenger seat so that his foot left the accelerator. Without a foot on the gas, the vehicle slowed to a crawl. Hazard opened the door and swung in to sit in the driver’s seat. After stopping the truck and shifting into Park, he grinned at Ice.

“Excellent teamwork, Captain,” he said happily.

Ice didn’t answer. He opened the passenger door and dragged Lewis out, dumping him on the ground at his feet.

Hazard got out of the truck and went around to the other side to join them. Lewis sat upright in the grass, a defiant sneer on his face.

“I’m not talking!” he shouted. “You’ll have to cut out my tongue.”

Hazard crossed his arms over his chest. “Now why would we cut out your tongue? Can’t get info out of you like that.”

Ice withdrew a big knife from the sheath he wore on his hip. Squatting down in front of Lewis, he waved the knife in front of his face. Without saying a word, he trailed the knife from Lewis’ lips down his throat, over his shirt, stopping when the point of the blade dug into the denim over his crotch.

“Don’t want your tongue,” he finally said. “But there’s other parts of you I can cut off.”

Lewis’ eyes went wide. A full body shudder went through him, face blanching white as the moon above. “I can give you whatever you want to know! Locations, names. Just please, don’t cut off my dick.”

Hazard had to admire the direct simplicity of Ice’s intimidation technique. “That’s more like it,” he said to Lewis. “I love a cooperative citizen.”

Jax and Ortiz strolled up.

“So do I.” Ortiz said. “Mr. Lewis, we’ll be happy to hear everything you have to say back on base.”

Jax reached down and hauled Lewis to his feet. He used FlexiCuffs to restrain his hands behind his back then lead him off to the transport they had waiting. Ortiz followed directly behind him, leaving Hazard and Ice to walk together.

Hazard knocked his shoulder against Ice’s arm since he couldn’t reach his shoulder. “You have to admit it was bad ass the way I jumped on the truck to force him to slow him down.”

“You were effective.”

Hazard pretended to stumble, as if Ice’s dryly uttered words had knocked him off his feet.

“Effective! High praise indeed. Gonna hold that one close to my heart, Captain.”

For the second time that night, he heard that low, rough laugh from Ice. Hazard smiled to himself as he walked along at Ice’s side, trying not to show how happy it made him to have earned that sign of amusement from his superior.

* * *

The plane rumbled loudly as they flew across Illinois returning to Oklahoma. Their target sat strapped into his seat, hands bound, sulking. He’d be turned over for interrogation once they arrived back to base.

With nothing to do for the long ride, Ice thought about Hazard’s question.Why did he wear the mask?He’d worn it for so long, it was a part of him now. His reason for wearing the wolf mask no longer mattered. It served its purpose, which was to scare the daylights out of anyone he was up against. But he understood Hazard’s curiosity. It had to be odd for him to never see his teammate’s face.

Ortiz had seen him. She’d known him before he started wearing the mask and she was one of the few people he currently allowed to see him without it. Jax hadn’t seen his face. But the other alpha had never asked him to take off the mask or balaclava. He seemed to understand that Ice would show him when he was ready. Or he was too chill to care either way.




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