Chapter 106

106

I had just gotten out of the shower when the phone rang, it's shrill ringing snapping me out of my reverie.

"Hello?" I answered, picking the call. I didn't bother to check the caller ID, I already knew who it was.

"They are on the move boss." Came the reply. The infamously gruff voice confirming my guess.

Joseph "Mando" Ackerman, ex United States Navy SEAL, veteran of the Iraqi and Afghan wars, took an honorable discharge after he got wounded out on a mission to take out a cell of Taliban terrorists and now working as the chief of my security detail. Standing at a massive 6'5 and 240 pounds of pure muscle. He looked like a walking tank.

"You are on their tail?"

"Affirmative sir."

I chuckled slightly, like most veterans, he kept the habit of answering like I was his commanding officer.

"Good, stick to them, don't be spotted, text me whatever location they get to when they stop."

"Copy that boss." The line went dead.

***

I sat in my office, staring blankly at the computer screen