Sworn to Secrecy (Special Ops) Read Free

That was part of the deal he had worked out with the connections he had. They didn’t get much by way of location, mission or length of time needed, but that freedom and willingness to cooperate came with a price. Alex had simply shaken his head at their predicament. Maybe they were ending up with more government contracts lately because they needed special clearance for so many assignments.
     
    Alex would have flown commercially, but Preston didn’t think it was a good idea. He didn’t either actually. He needed his gear and going commercial wouldn’t allow for him to take it. He had his own connections in specific areas of the world where he knew he could get the weapons and other supplies that he couldn’t get onboard a commercial flight, but this wasn’t a place where he knew anybody he could go to for a hookup on weaponry. He wouldn’t have time to try to secure what he needed once he arrived in the country, especially when they didn’t have any reliable contacts in the area.
     
    He knew they had a bidder down near where he needed to go. He could have taken a detour and acquired things that way, but a bidder was just that—a man or woman who sold their services to the highest payer. They never used one if they could avoid it. If they couldn’t avoid it then that usually meant it was a two member assignment, something so detailed and complicated that for some reason they hadn’t been able to use the private plane and they needed some heavy duty weapons to get to their location. That scenario was rare. While they did tag team some missions, some of the more dangerous ones, it was rare that those missions led them to a bidder. He rolled his shoulders and shook out the tension already creeping into his muscles. He wasn’t nervous. This was like a walk in the park—a really hot and humid park, but that didn’t mean that his body wasn’t already giving him grief for the trek he was going to have to take once he landed. First they would have to land someplace secure, someplace where he could get out in a hurry without having to log a flight plan. Preston said he knew a perfect spot. He had researched their options long before he agreed to take the case because that’s what he did. Between Preston and Natalia going in blind was never an issue. They always had knowledge of what awaited them; even though they didn’t always have knowledge of every detail they weren’t flying completely blind either.
     
    Alex was also going to have to acquire, and by acquire that meant steal, a vehicle and stash it on the route he planned to take out of the jungle. Then, as always, he was going to have to enter from an outside direction so that the way out and the way in never overlapped. He couldn’t risk any bad guys knowing his general location and tracking his movements back to his escape vehicle. Oh yeah, he thought; this mission was going to be barrels of fun, and of course that thought was pure sarcasm, but that didn’t mean he wasn’t ready for the challenge or that he wasn’t up for the mission. There were two things he knew about himself. The first was that he loved the danger and the excitement; while he knew how to be smart and be careful he still loved feeling as if he were making a difference and pushing himself at the same time. The second thing was he knew how much he craved a challenge. Challenging assignments always got him going because it meant doing something that his family never would have thought he could do. While they didn’t know the extent of his job with these guys, and they didn’t care for that matter, it still made him feel a hundred times better just knowing he was right and they were wrong. He was worth something, even if they didn’t think he was.
     

    He got the last minute mission pep talk from the guys; the one that told him if he ran into trouble they were there, and then a quick hug from Natalia. All the guys got the same speech when they went on assignment so it never bothered