LOGAN SEAL Team Seven (Book 2) by Jordan Silver Page A

together.
    “They told me to.”
    “They, who’s they?” I knew what he was gonna say even before he formed the words in his damn mouth. I’m tired of chasing fucking ghosts. I’m especially tired of coming up against this shit over and over with no results. “I don’t know sir, they didn’t say.” My men were keeping their eyes peeled to the surrounding area while we had our little chat, but it was like I said, they weren’t dumb enough to show up here tonight.
    “You don’t know them but yet you came out here in the middle of the night to take shots at me and my men because they asked you to.” He started shaking harder and looking for an escape route of which there was none. Ty was looking at him like he wanted to put one in him and the others were in position to block all routes of escape.
    “They said they would hurt us if I didn’t, I swear sir I didn’t know what else to do, that’s why I shot wide, I didn’t really want to hurt anyone. They tried telling me that it was part of some night raid game, but I knew better, I’ve seen stuff on TV ya know.” Now he was babbling.
    “Kid what the fuck are you talking about?” he opened his mouth to speak but I held my hand up for silence. “Start at the beginning.” He wiped under his nose and tried to compose himself. I saw myself at his age and my heart gave a little. That shit was dangerous as fuck, you never identify with the enemy, no matter where or who, but there was something about the kid.
    “Okay, my friends and I were messing around down here a few months ago. We weren’t supposed to be, but we thought it was fun to hide out here and steal a few smokes. These guys came, they didn’t know we were here at first and we didn’t even hear what they were talking about at first I swear. But when they noticed us they went ape shit. It was really scary when they put on the things on their faces and came after us.”
    “What things on their faces?” Was this kid reciting a movie to me or some shit? He looked from me to the others and down at the sand and brush. “Those military mask things they wear in the movies.” I looked at my brothers over his head as he carried on with his story. “They were scary enough to begin with, but when they put those on it was like one of those horror movies you know. Then they roughed us up a little, not much, they just wanted to know what we heard. Then they asked our names and I was so stupid I gave them the right information, my friends didn’t though; they were smart.” He wiped his nose again. 
    “Have you ever seen these guys before?” He squinted in thought and shrugged his shoulders before looking out at the water.
    “Maybe, that night I thought one of them looked familiar but it wasn’t his face, it was the way he moved ya know, I don’t know how to explain it. There aren’t that many bodybuilder types around here ya know, so he kinda stuck out. I know they’re not from around here though and when I asked the Commander if his friends were doing some kind of training here in town he seemed surprised.” Well fuck that changes things now didn’t it?
    “You knew the commander?” Everyone was paying attention now, as the kid seemed to relax a little, sensing that just maybe his stupid ass might make it out of this alive.
    “Yeah, Don, he was a cool old guy, but when I asked him I could tell he didn’t know what I was talking about and then he asked me all these questions, kinda like what you’re doing now. Then he got real quiet like and I don’t think he was too happy.” He did that sniffling shit again, reminding me of his youth. “Go on, what else did the commander do?”
    “He played it down ya know, the way adults do when they wanna keep something from us kids, but I knew it was something big because he seemed deep in thought when he told me to head on home and stay away from the boardwalk for a little while at night, but he sure did ask a lotta questions, like a lot. I wish I’d