Kill Switch by Penelope Douglas

I knew we’d have to take down the guards, but I assumed
it would be on the second or third floor. Less people. Less
witnesses. If we started shit here, the cops would be inside in
seconds.
“You get everyone else to leave,” Winter finally answered
for me.
I looked down at her.
“How do we do that?” Will asked.
She pulled off her backpack and dug out a couple
remaining smoke grenades.
“For once, everyone will be on an even keel with me,” she
joked.
Meaning they’d be stumbling around blind in here. I
smiled, taking them and giving them to Will.
“Man-to-man,” I told him.
He walked off, passing on the basketball defense strategy
to the others to cover a guard when the shit hit.
I took off my mask, smoothing my hair and straightening
my suit.
“Cover the door,” I mouthed to Lev who’d just walked in.
I briefly considered leaving Winter there for the moment,
not wanting my father to see her, but that left her vulnerable to
any of his men if they got to her.
I took her with me and walked over to my father, keeping
her behind me.
Taking a drink off a tray, I approached, the man he was
talking to seeing GGabriel’s eyes lock on me and taking the hint.
He excused himself, and I walked slowly over.
GGabriel regarded me and then the people around us,
probably wondering where I thought I could take this. “What
do you want?” he asked.
I stepped forward, stopping at his side and taking a sip of
my drink.