ZAK SEAL Team Seven(15)

It had taken damn near the whole night but Lo had been able to set something up with one of the old man’s oldest and dearest, who wasn’t too pleased when we told him of our suspicions.

Because this man straddled the great divide between all factions of the armed forces, and was one of the only human beings who did, he was like our very own secret weapon.

We’d found his name in the codes and the commander had basically told us where to go if something happened to him, like a fucking blue print. It’s like he knew he was getting in way over his head coming on to the end, and that said a lot, because the commander was a smart fuck.

When we laid everything out for the chief, he’d acted as though he knew a lot more about us than we’d expected. The funny thing was, he knew about the kid as well. Well enough to ask about him.

We made shit look good by working over the other two as well, just to avoid any suspicion on their part, but we didn’t offer them the same deal. Their backgrounds had shown that these two were criminals in the making before they joined up, men like that were in it for self and was damn near impossible to turn. We blindfolded them and took them out through the secret door in the back wall.

Dev and Ty took them back to the beach where we’d found them and just left them there. Whatever they did from there was up to them. We went back to the ledger and digging through the old man’s papers and shit to see what else we could find that might be of help.

We knew that he suspected drug trafficking, but he’d seemed to think there might be something a lot more sinister going on as well. Some of his notes didn’t seem to make sense; they referred back to the Vietnam War and the heroin trade that came out of that.

“Whew.” I held up the paper I was poring over. Each of us had grabbed a bunch to go through to make shit go faster. “What you got brother?” Lo and the others turned in their chairs to look at me.

We’d given the kid grunt work to keep him occupied but he too looked up. I studied him for a second but then decided what the fuck. He wouldn’t be here if we didn’t trust him, and since the old man had trusted him, that was enough for us.

I waved the sheaf of papers in the air. “There are some big names on this shit. If I’m reading this right, then this shit goes way back and there are some heavy hitters involved.” They all left their seats and came to look over my shoulder where I’d been decoding my part.

I knew what their reactions were going to be before they started reading. “Fuck me this is bad. Total lockdown right fucking now.” Every man headed out to his post leaving the kid scrambling behind us. “What is it, what’s going on?”

“Shit I forgot about him and the girl…” Lo was about to tell us what to do there but Cord butted in before he could get the words out.

“They’re staying in, we’ll think of something to say to the mother, but she’s not going beyond these walls until this shit is squared.”

Okey dokey then, I guess that answers that. Con was riding herd on Ty but for once he didn’t seem to be on the verge of mayhem. Instead he was deep in thought, which under the wrong circumstances could be worst. “I never liked that family, a bigger bunch of fucktards I have yet to see.” At least he was speaking intelligibly.

“Ty you cool?” I needed to make sure he was okay before I headed off to do what the fuck I had to do. Con and Lo’s women lived here. Cord had already laid down the law where his apparent woman was concerned.

I had to go secure mine and make sure that she knew there was no way for her to leave now, not only because I didn’t want it, but because it wasn’t safe. I went and took care of my part of security, which was making sure that all the cameras we had linked up were in fine working order, and that all the communicating devices were up to code. Then I went to find her.

I found her in the living room with the other three and I don’t know what the topic of conversation had been before I came in, but they looked guilty as all hell. I just quirked my brow at them and called her over with the crook of a finger. The others broke into laughter making me eye the cups in front of them, but I knew Dani wouldn’t be dumb enough to drink while carrying Con’s kid or he’d wring her neck, so it couldn’t be that.

“She’ll be right back.” I walked her out of the house and headed to ours. Ours, I like the sound of that. I sat her down at the island in the kitchen while I grabbed a drink. One thing about the south, it can get very hot, very early in the day. “Something came up while we were going through the old man’s papers.

Something that makes us believe that anyone who’s been involved in this thing in anyway may be in danger. You can’t leave. Not that I was gonna let you, but now it’s official, no one leaves for the next few days at least.” She got that fucking panicked look on her face again.