Dark Revenge Of An Unwanted Wife: The Twins Are Not Yours!

"Where is everyone?" Sandro whispered, looking around the space they were currently in. Having passed two corridors with no one to fire a silencer gun at, things were beginning to look suspicious.

For one, Athena was beginning to think that Spider had perhaps gotten tired of being loyal to Ewan—that perhaps he had sold them to the gang. Worse, he hadn't dropped any message in their buds since detonating that bomb in the plane.

She looked at Ewan, seeing the apprehension in his face—something she thought was an alien quality, because her ex-husband was rarely flustered, always calm.

"Do you think we have fallen into a trap?" she asked him, nudging him with her shoulder gently.

He licked his lower lip, darted his eyes to the center block, which was right opposite them—no guards guarding it, as Spider had warned.

"I don't know. I don't think Spider would have led us to a trap. So, it's either this is luck, or he is being kept out of the loop, being suspected by Kael."

Zane and Sandro exchanged glances tainted with fear.

"Who is Kael?" Athena and Aiden asked at the same time, worry burning on their faces, worry born from the expressions on Sandro and Zane's faces, and from Ewan's flusteredness.

"Kael is the new leader of the gang," Ewan replied, inhaling deeply. "Let's move forward. If it's a trap, we buckle down and fight to the end, knowing we are fighting for a good cause, for the future of our children at large… and if it's not, then fate is more than on our side. We don't have much time to contemplate or wonder."

But as Ewan moved toward the center block, eyes darting here and there, he really did wonder. Had Spider's loyalties run their course? Or was his friend playing another game? Or was Kael playing them like pawns in a chess game?

His successor was known for his sly and cunning tactics in business. Ewan's brain calculated, amidst the slight headache now throbbing in his head, the possibilities, the realities, the escape routes, as he remembered from his time here.

When they reached the door of the room where the victims were, their woes were compounded by the fact that the door was open.

"Ewan…"

"Let's just look and see if they are there…" Ewan cut in, interrupting whatever fear-themed suggestion Zane wanted to make.

He moved in first, a furrow marring his forehead, gun hanging loosely by his side when he realized that Lucas and Kendra weren't absent.

He watched as Lucas stirred painfully from his position. He was leaning on the wall with his back, while Kendra slept with her head on his thigh.

Ewan immediately placed a finger on his lips, indicating that the latter kept quiet.

Lucas nodded, eyes shimmering with tears of gratitude, as he tapped Kendra awake.

Kendra, waking up, met her father's gaze. Then, noting the presence of people in the room, she turned. Her mouth opened when she saw Athena, shutting when she saw the finger placed on the lips of her friend's mother.

Keep quiet.

She understood and did.

Immediately, Aiden rushed forward and carried her on his back, a smile on his lips, momentarily forgetting his worries when she wound her hand around his neck, her legs around his waist, and muttered a thank you.

Though her tiny legs couldn't do much, he was pleased she understood what they were here for.

Meanwhile, Sandro and Zane had lifted Lucas, bearing much of his weight. Then Ewan's alarm rang, shattering the quiet. A beep, really.

"We are almost out. Just four minutes more. Let's move out," he declared, noting the cameras which weren't blinking. Spider had done what he said he would do—but where were the others?

Why wasn't he saying anything in their communication systems?

He flanked his people behind, turning at intervals with the gun strategically, in case a criminal was coming around, while Athena flanked the front. Aiden helped along, since Kendra's understanding had helped with easier body movements.

But they met no one, saw no one—even at the gates when they came out. Because they wore masks, they had no fear that any camera had captured their faces, if paraventure they were being watched.

"This was too easy," Sandro muttered, when they got to the agents waiting at the vegetation. The other three agents had joined them when they came out of the gates, having the same reports—no one seen, except the dead guards at the gate.

"Yes," Ewan agreed, restless. Where was Spider?

Without any words, they moved to the private jet, which was waiting a few miles away, as if knowing the condition of Lucas.

With little effort, they lifted Lucas into the plane and into a relaxed seat.

Kendra took the position beside him, watching as Athena started treatments on the latter, who kept thanking them for the extraction.

"Lucas, if you don't keep quiet, I will let you be," Athena spoke hurriedly, aware of Ewan pacing restlessly feet away from her.

The pilot's voice came through the intercom:

"Departure in three minutes."

Pausing her treatment, she watched as Ewan reached for his phone, which he had left on the makeshift table when they had gone for their mission.

She watched as his eyes widened at whatever he saw on it. She watched, worried, as he darted toward the door of the craft while the engines hummed, opened the door, and jumped out.

"Zane, apply pressure on the wounds… and tell my grandfather to keep a medic waiting!" she shouted to a Zane who was stunned at Ewan's actions.

He had been focused on getting rid of the suit, and so had been caught unaware by Ewan's action. Immobile even as Athena hurried out of the space, even as she jumped after Ewan.

"Where is Ewan and Athena?" Aiden and Sandro asked, coming out of the cockpit area, frowns masking their faces when silence greeted them.

"Zane?"

"They jumped out of the plane."

Aiden's mouth opened in shock, then shut, aware of Kendra's tears. She must have thought Athena wounded or something from the jump.

"Don't worry, she will be fine," he muttered, patting her head softly. Then he looked at Zane. "Did they say where they were going to?"

Zane shook his head, disbelief yet coating his features. "Should we go back for them?"

Aiden looked at a bleeding Lucas and shook his head. "Athena would have our hide if anything happens to him. Did she take her phone?"

Brian nodded. "I think she did."