Free Bonus Chapter

Ted’s POV

Once we know Tony is going to be okay, we need to figure out how Sedit got free and where he is.

“Yoel is not picking up,” Bill tells me.

We have both been trying for a couple of hours.

“Time to roll that way,” I tell him.

We see smoke, fire and ash as we pull up to Onslaught’s headquarters.

“Oh, shit,” Bill says, jumping from the car while it is still moving.

“They never sounded the Alarm,” I say, looking at the destruction.

“Boss,” Bill calls me over to his side.

I see it, Yoel’s body burned and lifeless.

“We need to find as many bodies as we can,” I tell him.

I call for my S & R team, knowing today the R is for Recovery, not Rescue.

“It’s David,” Bill yells, throwing debris off the body.

I rush over, begging all the gods that he is alive. But I only see half of him.

Bill is crying loudly, and I can’t help it, I am too. Bill reaches up and closes the boy’s eyes.

“How the hell did this happen?” I ask, looking around.

“We need to go to Veronica. She needs to know what happened to Yoel and David,” Bill says, composing himself.

I nod and we keep looking around for answers to tell her.

When the team arrives, we find 600 burned bodies.

“Bill,” Betty says, tending to one body with tears in her eyes. “We don’t need to tell Veronica anything.”

I walk over and see what Bill and Betty do. Yoel’s wife and David’s mother lifeless.

“Alpha,” The leader of my team calls me. “We identified all the bodies. Onslaught Rage has been wiped out.”

I shake my head. “Do we have any ideas of what could have caused this much damage so quickly that no one thought to hit the panic buttons?”

“Not yet. We are working on that,” he tells me. “So far, we are working off the theory of bombs throughout the compound, set off at once.”

“Keep working,” I tell him.

“What do we tell our kids?” Sabrina asks me.

“Nothing until we know what happened. I don’t want Sophie and Krista upset more; they are pregnant. We can fill in Zach and Tony when we know for sure what caused this,” I tell her.

We all agree this is our secret for now.