748 Now We're Talking

"We get payback." Jake finally replied with bone-chilling detachment.

Aisling gulped as she felt the stifling aura welling up from him. In that moment, she almost forgot she was supposed to thank him for his help. The whole emotional roller coaster of meeting her father again, being freed, and then having her father recaptured in the process of rescuing her hadn't made things any better.

Right now, her mood and thoughts were a bit unsettled and messy. The strong, charismatic leader had been pushed into the background, momentarily replaced by a young woman as distraught and hopeless as a child lost in a supermarket.

Wyatt, by contrast, viewed Jake's words as the light at the end of the tunnel. His heart ached for vengeance and he was willing to stake his life to save Carmin and get revenge for his tortured comrades that Jake had previously freed.