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Love Bea
Betrayal
Chapter 31
Stephs PoV
October 31, 2011 2031 hours
Bodie, WA
Our plan was a simple one.
"Gentlemen" Ranger began "We are expecting guests in a few minutes. Tank is coming to finish the job."
"Ähm Ranger," I interrupted with him, "That might be not exactly right. It´s quite possible that coming for me or for another reason entirely. You see what I hadn´t had the chance to tell you before the arrival of," I gestured to Hawk, Tell, Hades, and Morelli, "interrupted was that Tank now knows that it wasn´t your bullet that killed Elif. It was his."
Jaws dropped to the ground. Yeah I know that feeling.
"This information was never disclosed to you or anybody else and only two men knew of it. One was the Secretary of Defense and the other was Hamilton. Hamilton shared the information with me before the takedown."
"You mean to tell me this whole clusterfuck is based on a misunderstanding?" Ranger was flabbergasted to say the least.
"Yes"
"Fuck" said Lester, Bobby, Hal, Manny, Eric, Jordan, and Adam together.
"That about sums it up but it doesn´t change the situation now. Tank is on his way here and he is being followed by a FBI Swat-team. I don´t have to tell you Tanks escape from federal custody wasn´t a coincidence after you arr…" I trailed off. Synapses connected.
"Please God no." I had wondered how they found us but there was nothing I could do about that now I´ve shoved it aside in favor of dealing with the current situation, first. I zeroed in on Ranger.
"Please tell me you took out the subcutaneous GPS-chips, Ranger." I didn´t need a verbal answer. The widening of his eyes and the hands of him, Bobby and Lester that flew to the back of their necks rather gave it away.
"Damn it, Ranger." I cried.
"You knew, but…"
"Cause I knew. I'm a professional in information procurement remember? But I never disclosed this piece of information to anyone."
I don´t didn't have to say it; he knows how stupid it was to forget the GPS. Only the core team had them and knew about them.
"Ah, shucks!" I said "Bobby, take chips out but don´t destroy them, they might be of use for a distraction should anything go Fubar. Leave them here. "
Bobby made a small cut with his knife at the base of Rangers skull and fished out the small capsule. Ranger didn´t even bat an eye.
Show off.
"I would prefer to make a stitch or two, but well you will survive it Rangeman." Bobby said pressing a patch of mull on the wound. "Hold it there until the bleeding stopped, then I will put a band-aid on it."
He moved to Lester repeating the process and I resumed my speech.
"Okay, Tank, and a Swat team are on their way here. The first call I made was to my former boss, asking him to call the team back. The answer was a negative even after I offered to take care of their dirty work. That answer leads me to believe that I´m not the only target. It seems they are trying to tie up loose ends and I think they want to eliminate Ranger also. Although I have taken safety precautions, what I am about to do is…commit murder and there is no guaranteed that I will be left alone after tonight. I´m not that presumptuous to predict what `The Powers that Be` will do. So, this is your chance to get out. Nobody knows you are here."
"If you think for one second we will leave you in this mess alone Angel" Cal growled hovering above me. "Then you better think again. You had our backs, now we have yours. So who are this Leland and his team?" I looked around and every Merry Man nodded.
I had to bite my tongue to keep the tears away. My Merry Men.
Leland on the other hand…
"Leland Anderson is mine"