ZAK SEAL Team Seven(42)
“We were waiting for you, we’re running a drill just to be on the safe side. Con and Lo are trying to figure out how safe it is to let the girls go to work next week, they’re gonna be running drills any minute. Cord and I are gonna do a scouting run to see if we’re under some sort of surveillance and Ty and Dev are gonna go into town and see if anyone’s talking. Apart from that our main concern is the baby and making sure she’s safe here.”
“What the fuck does that mean? She’s not going anywhere.” We’d reached the commander’s place by then where the others were congregated. Lo looked up at my outburst.
“No one said she was hothead, we were just throwing around ideas, we have to make sure the women and the baby are safe here. We still don’t know how these humps got onto us, and at this point it doesn’t matter how, the fact is that they are. We’re gonna do a run on Candy, she’s the only one coming in from the outside, the only unknown except the kids and the humps were onto us before they came into the picture.”
“I don’t know Lo, I don’t see Candy for this.”
“Neither do the rest of us, but the fact remains, she’s the only constant from the outside, and we all know there’re ways of getting to someone without them knowing it. Someone could’ve slipped something in her bag, under her skin; there are any number of ways for someone to tag her without her knowing it. We’ve done it enough to know how it’s done.”
Shit, I hadn’t thought of that, hadn’t let myself think about the fact that we could be dealing with someone as high-tech as that. “We’re not dealing with small time drug runs here are we brother?” He shook his head no as the others got restless. Just what the fuck was my kid caught in the middle of? “Okay what’s the plan?”
“We’re going over this whole place from top to bottom with a fine tooth comb. They have some way of knowing that we were making runs down by the water. We went over that place before we put our own eyes down there and there was nothing. Now they knew the commander was onto them, there’s no reason to believe they knew the old man was gonna leave the place to us, but now we’re here. Say they figure the old man had been keeping some kind of records or something, now here we are. They’ll know that we’ll find it eventually. I’m just guessing here, but we’ve got to start somewhere, I’m tired of these humps having the upper hand.”
Chapter 12
ZAK
“I have some thoughts on that. I say we sweep the place yes, but so far we’ve been playing defense, what say we start playing offense for a change? None of us want to play hostage to these fucks, so far it seems like they’ve been calling the shots, but what have we really got to lose here? Let’s secure the place, make sure there’s no way for these fucks to breech and go full tilt after their asses. Because I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m not about to be playing hide and seek with these fucks. I’m not too thrilled about my kid being caught in the middle of this shit, not to mention the girls.”
“You’ve got a point Zak and my mind was running that way, that’s what we were discussing before you got here, but we’re gonna need you one hundred percent on this brother, no distractions.” I knew that shit was coming, and I understood his reasons for saying it. “I’m cool, the sooner we deal with this shit the better.” I didn’t let my mind go to the woman I had tied to my bed, or the fact that my shit was just beginning. “Glad to hear it. We heard back from the chief, he passed the test.”
“Thank fuck, Cord told me what everyone was going to be doing what’s my gig?” As if I didn’t know.
“Follow the money. The account we pulled it from has a million layers but it’s one of our only leads. See what else they had going on there if anything.” My brothers got up to each go about his business and I felt a little better that everyone wasn’t so focused on me anymore.
I checked the monitor to make sure the baby was still asleep. I’d remembered to turn it off while we were having our little talk, but now I had an idea. I booted up the secured computer and put in the numbers from the offshore account and started running a search with variations. “Can you hear me?”
I was pretty sure she could, but wasn’t expecting her to answer. “I know you can. Are you thinking about what you did, how you robbed me of my seed? Are you worried about what I have in store for you? You should be.”
I’ve been thinking, always thinking, and I knew it was going to be quite some time before I got over this mad. Maybe at some point in the future I’d move on and the sting wouldn’t be so bad, but as of right now, that shit was all consuming. “I’ve decided that I like having you tied to my bed for my pleasure. I especially like the fact that I can do anything to you. I can exact my vengeance on you at my leisure. I’ve been thinking, why stop at one son, why not two?” I had to cut that shit out and get back to work when my own thoughts were starting to fuck with me.