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force,” Mitch told her.
    “I was too,” she admitted. “I put Cole’s and my name down before even asking him. I think it’s a great idea.”
    “They’re coming back,” he said.
    She turned her head and saw that Mitch was right. Cole led Adam and Brady toward the van. She waited until they were all settled back inside. “Well?”
    “This is going to be awesome,” Cole told her.
    “We’re really going to do this?” she questioned. “I mean really?”
    “Oh yeah,” Adam said from the front.
    Even Brady was nodding. “This is gonna work. They’ll never expect it.”
    “Fine, but remember I’m human, so you’d better keep me from getting mauled,” she told them.
    Everyone laughed. Jade could admit that she really thought the plan was smart. She would never have thought of going to one of the agents’ houses to hide out. She wouldn’t have had the balls to suggest it. But there was no way that the ATF and Coalition agents would expect this move. Now came the hard part, though. They had to get Luca away from the others.
    “There’s a shopping center a couple of blocks over. Let’s drive over there and talk out the next part. We need to get moving,” Cole ordered.
    “Got it,” Adam said before starting the van.
    Cole moved to the middle of the van to sit as he pulled out blueprints of the target house and his notebook. Mitch dropped down beside him before yanking out the bags that had been stashed inside. All their equipment was packed inside the duffel bags.
    When Adam rolled to a stop he shut off the vehicle before joining them in the back.
    “Brady, were you able to overhear anything before we left?” Adam asked.
    “What do you mean?” Cole asked.
    “While I was waiting for us to leave I might have hung around the hall where the others were planning,” Brady shared.
    “You did?” Jade questioned, impressed.
    “People don’t notice me. I hang around and they just overlook that I’m there,” Brady said. “It comes in handy.”
    “That’s awesome,” Jade complimented.
    “They have three mission points to accomplish,” Brady began. “They have to hide Luca. Also, a box is coming into the bus station that needs to be picked up and secured. Last, once they secure the package, Luca will give them coordinates to drop it off. If they get to the location and deliver the parcel while keeping Luca, they win.”
    “So if we get Luca, they don’t get the location and we have their hostage,” Jade supplied. “They’re screwed.”
    “And they’ll never find us at Zak’s,” Cole said.
    She was really starting to get excited. This was their first training exercise with the joint task force and if they could pull this off the other agents would have to admit that she and Cole had something to add.
    “From what I gathered, Zak and Jamie are going for the package with a few others. If we can get to Luca before they return, we’ll have a much better chance,” Brady said.
    “So we go now,” Cole stated. “They won’t know what hit them.”
    “How are we going to get close without being spotted?” Jade asked. “The birds will see us coming if we try to sneak in the back.”
    “We’re fast,” Adam added. “But she’s right. They have a cheetah shifter. If they get the warning, we won’t be able to take him. As soon as they see the van they’ll know it’s us.”
    “So we don’t use the van,” Cole replied.
    Jade knew that look on her partner’s face. It was the same as when they were about to hit a house serving a warrant. He had a plan.
    “You want to use our SUV?” she guessed.
    “Yes,” he agreed.
    “They’ll still see us coming. If we split up and take the front and back, there’s a good chance one of the birds will spot us,” Brady pointed out.
    “We’re not going to split up and we’re not going to sneak in,” Cole told them. “We’re going to hit fast and hard.”
    Jade, along with the rest of the team, stared at Cole in shock. Cole grinned back. “Come