I walked over to the board we’d had set up and looked over it all again. There was the name of the town, the CO, Stockton, Dee and Sal, but what was the connection and where the fuck did Colt come in?
“Okay thinking out loud again. Ty, you and I are connected through the Ops we ran together, under your CO, which mostly involved…” I looked at the SEALs in the room.
“Something you wanna tell us?” Everyone got quiet as my blood started a slow boil. So far all they’d told us was that they thought the local barracks was involved somehow but they hadn’t expounded too much on that. Now Lo sat forward in his chair before looking around at all the players.
“All non military personnel have to leave.”
“Fuck that, try me.” Lyon didn’t even break a sweat when he stared down the big tough SEAL; guy has balls. Logan studied him long enough to come up with his decision while Law, Blade and I gave the go ahead for our men to file out.
“Your kid’s involved you get a pass.”
“Uh-huh.” I’d forgotten what a hard ass Lyon tended to be. He nodded to his boy Jared who did not look too pleased as he gathered the rest of their crew and headed out.
Now it was just Law, the SEALs, Blade, Jake, Lyon and I left in the room. “What I’m about to share doesn’t leave this room, your word on that.” Each man nodded his agreement before Lo got to his feet and approached the board.
“We have reason to believe that this man is involved, if not actually running the whole thing.” He added the Desert Fox and I felt another piece of the puzzle slide into place. Still there was something missing.
“Who the fuck is that?” And there you have it. Lyon had no dealings with him, unless he was building bikes for terrorists.
“He’s a very bad man who we hunted for three years and were under the impression until here lately had been annihilated. His name was found in some files in the same raid in which we found the infamous picture book.”
“Now this guy Stockton.” He drew a line from the Fox to Stockton. “Is just a bit player, he works for the Porter family….”
“The fuck did you say?” Lyon was out of his seat moving towards the board as if he’d seen a ghost. “You know them?” Lo watched him out the side of his eye. I would too, that fucker looked like he was about to blow.
“If it’s the same, their son tried to rape my woman before she was my woman years ago. He and his pals actually succeeded in raping her friend who went on to kill herself. Their son got off while the others did time in jail. They never made it out.”
He looked around the room like, ‘make of that what you will soldier boys I don’t give a fuck.’ What he didn’t know is that every man in the room including the law enforcer would do the same as he was implying to protect their own.
“If these fucks are fucking with my kid you’re never gonna have the chance to solve your deal here. They’re fucked.”
“I feel you brother, but that’s not the way to go. We safeguard your family, but we have to find these other girls, and look it, we have another piece of the puzzle.” Lo turned back to the board.
“Okay so with this new information, we know that The Fox is the common denominator. So far he’s gone after all of our women in one-way or another, with the exception of you Lyon, he went after your kid. Maybe as a favor to this family, since you had nothing to do with him personally.”
Yeah, that’s the piece that was missing. “How the fuck did they get into bed with this guy? They’re not in Georgia either…”
“The oldest son was in army intelligence, we only just found that out through a source that we are not at liberty to name.”
After that we tried to piece the shit together with what we had, but it was obvious we were still missing huge chunks of information. For one, how did The Fox know anything about Jessie, unless he was having me followed? And how had he gotten to Dee and Sal?
I understood them doing it for the money, that part was self -explanatory, but who had made the approach, how and when?
Lyon was prowling the room like his namesake and this shit was not gonna end well for anyone if we stood in his way. I’m thinking we need to get to the bottom of this shit and soon before this boy pops his leash. Then nobody would know shit and the rest of those kids would be fucked.