SEAL Team Seven Tyler: Book 4 Read online

  Dude, seriously? If I didn’t know better I would swear that bitch made shit was rubbing off on me. I washed her up while she tried to drown my ass as she wet down the whole bathroom with her shit, talking my ear off the whole time.

  “Say uncle Ty.” I think she knew what she was doing because every time I said that shit she’d look at me and grin. I managed to get us both bathed and dressed without too much hassle just before she started fussing.

  In the kitchen I found a note on the refrigerator door. Apparently her dad had come up for air long enough last night to bring some expressed milk over for her while we were asleep. Sweet, that meant I could stay in a little longer which was good seeing as it was the ass crack of dawn and I wasn’t in the mood to see anyone, I was still a little raw.

  “Okay little girl, let’s get you fed and then uncle Ty is gonna teach you how to do crunches.” She answered me like she knew what the fuck I was saying, and I carried on with our usual convo about boys and how icky they were. I figured if I start from now it’ll sink in by the time she’s ten.

  We went through my morning routine with her talking a mile a minute and getting into shit before it was time to start the day. Her father was at my damn door ready to knock when I opened it. “Something I can do for you bro?” He rolled his eyes and reached for the kid.

  “Yeah you can give me my baby girl. Hi pumpkin you have a good time with uncle Ty?”

  “Da-da.” She clapped his cheeks and chortled while I looked around for the others.

  We’d gotten into the habit of meeting in the yard early in the morning before heading to the commander’s place to go over shit. Today was back to work day after laying low for the past few. But we still had shit to batten down here before that could be done.

  “Where’s the rest of your bitch made crew?”

  “I heard Lo and Gaby going at it on my way over.”

  “I wonder what she wants now.” I looked towards Lo’s house, things must’ve got really loud for Zak to have heard them arguing.

  No one was screaming bloody murder so I figured Lo hadn’t taken a strap to her or she hadn’t brained him yet this morning. It’s a regular movie set in this place these days with all the different personalities trying to mesh.

  “Same thing, wedding shit most likely.” Just then Lo came slamming out his door and I could tell from over here that he was cussing to himself. Nope, no thank you, too early in the day for this bullshit.

  Before the women came we use to be up in the mornings doing our routines, which we still did four days a week now, but there was never any drama except for what was for breakfast. Now there was always some shit going on and my fuck stupid brothers only seemed interested in multiplying the fucks. Lo looked mad enough to bend nails the dumb fuck.

  “What’s eating you brother?” I tried to keep the grin off my face; he can get snippety especially after Gaby’s been after him. It’s the only time our fearless leader loses his cool. From the looks of things she’d given him a run for his money this morning.

  Still he started to give me shit until the baby sidetracked him. “Hey baby girl, come give your uncle a hug I need one.” He took the baby and sniffed her hair that I’d just washed. “I just cleaned her up watch it.”

  “Damn Ty what do you think I’m gonna do with her?” Her mom came looking for her not long after and we headed for the commander’s place as the others left their houses.

  The day was off to a good start with our usual bullshit bantering and as usual I listened for the undertones in their voices to see where everyone’s head was at. So far today it seemed like the guys were doing good. Dev and Quinn were arguing about video games of all things, and fuck me why would anyone who’d ever been in a war want to reenact one on a screen was beyond me.

  Con was bitching about morning sickness and some shit like he thought he could kick its ass, what a heel. Cord wasn’t saying much but that’s only because he was probably thinking up ways to add to the dungeon he had in his basement the freak.

  I felt my shoulders ease as I ascertained that for now, they were all okay. As for me, and my little issue, we’ll see what we see; maybe it’ll cool off with time. Who knows, maybe after not seeing her for a while if I can avoid it, the novelty will wear off and I’ll go back to the way things used to be before she floated into my orbit.

  They’d better is all I can say. It had been weeks since I’d fucked anything other than palm and her five daughters and me and dry spells have a hate-hate relationship. Shit, either way you look at it she’s in for it. If I decide to pass once and for all, cut her off completely, she was bound to be hurt. If I took her up on her offer after going without for so long she’d be begging for mercy within five minutes of her back hitting my bed.

  For fuck sake Ty think of something else, any one of these meddling fucks get a whiff of what you’re thinking they’d have you hitched faster than you can blink. “So what the fuck are you three dickless wonders gonna do about this wedding shit? The way things are going those women are gonna mutiny soon and you know what that means, they’re gonna go on strike. You AWOL motherfuckers fuck with my food intake I will help them scalp your ass no joke.”

  I was only half kidding about that shit. The food around here of late has been top notch. If I have to go back to eating the swill these mooks come up with I just might off my fucking self and be done with it. “My girl won’t go on strike and I have it on good authority that she can cook, you won’t starve little brother.” Listen to this one.

  “Thanks Genghis Kahn but if it’s all the same to you I’d rather not have some poor girl chained to the stove so I can get my grub on.” I rolled my eyes at him as I wondered if anyone else had caught on to that sure sign of ownership, ‘my girl’.

  From the way Lo and Con perked up I was pretty sure they did. If they were planning on intervening there I was buying the biggest tub of popcorn for that particular show. I was in no way getting involved though, that fucker’s crazy as bat-shit. And from what I know about those dominant types they have some kind of short wiring when it comes to their women, fuck that. I’d rather fight a bull barehanded.

  “We have bigger issues than your never ending gut brother. Is it me or does shit seem to be steamrolling around here? If I didn’t know better I’d swear the shit was following us, but that can’t be right because it started before we ever stepped foot here.”

  Quinn was busy tinkering around with the monitors and shit, making sure our security was up and running as he made that statement.

  Davie finally found us, and the mood changed, it was hard sometimes to remember that he was just a kid, but now with the prospect of him being who he is, the rest of us by tacit design were shifting gears. Our thing was to protect him and his sister, even from the shit that they’d found themselves in the middle of.

  It was only natural that outside these four walls we’ve been going out of our way to keep shit light, especially for the women’s sake, but we all knew we had a shit storm on our hands. Our hands being tied, wasn’t helping matters.

  It’s not like we could set up and go after the enemy the way we would in some desert or jungle somewhere. The fucked up thing was, this was the most important fight of our lives this shit had become personal. But for once we couldn’t just go hard, not yet anyway. Quinn was right though, it sure as fuck felt like we were in the midst of the fire a lot these days.

  Zak’s woman had been held hostage by our number one enemy, something we’d only just learned, and he wasn’t gonna sit still on that for too long. On top of that, nothing was really panning out the way we like shit to with this situation in our own backyard, or at least not the way I like them to.

  I like to get shit over and done. If it were up to me Dani’s ex, the Rosalind chick and the two fucks we’d brought in, would be ass deep in the ocean already. But Lo had fucking scruples and shit. I say if your asshole barometer exceeds the national limit you should be put the fuck down.

  “Okay what are we doing about
today, are the girls leaving the compound or nah?” I needed to keep my mind occupied before I started thinking about shit that was better left alone again. That question started off a debate that led into other things while we looked over the intelligence we had running in the background.

  It was just like when we were running an Op; each man had his position to fill. And although this shit hadn’t gotten half as dangerous as some of the other shit we’d dealt with in the past, there was no way we were taking shit lightly. We had to go through everything with a fine-tooth-comb before we could all go about our respective days, and we didn’t have the backing of a full fighting force on this one.

  It was decided that for now the women would stay behind the walls since it was the safest place we knew anyway. “Still not letting them out there no matter how much they bitch and moan. Ty you drew the short straw brother, you’re riding herd on the girls today.” What the fuck?

  Chapter 3

  Tyler

  The fuckers filed out fast after that. “Hey, what fucking straws I don’t recall pulling shit.” Of course they were all ignoring me. I didn’t really mind but fuck, these women haven’t been right since we put them on lock. Lo, Con, and even Zak with their pussy whipped asses were too chicken shit to stay here with them all day so I got stuck, the fuck. We headed to Con and Dani’s place since it was her turn to make breakfast.

  This was my favorite time with my family these days, when we were all together like this, just relaxed and happy. But somebody was trying to fuck with that happiness and I’m fucked if I’m gonna let them.

  I kept my face blank so no one would guess at my mood as I bantered back and forth with them. I did my usual thing to bring down their wrath on my head, eating the last of Dani’s kickass cinnamon rolls. The banter and laughter was such that you would never guess that we were just discussing life and death.

  Lo, Con and Zak said bye to their women with enough smaltz to make my ass twitch and the women acted like they were going off to war and leaving them behind. I held my favorite little person and rolled my eyes behind their backs while all the whining and cajoling started.

  “You freaks heading out or not?” somebody had to get shit moving. It had been days since we’d been down to the job site and although we had a good crew of men and women working for us, nothing beat looking over your interest yourself.

  They finally filed out leaving me with three disgruntled women. Susie and Davie were being allowed to go home because there was no danger against them that we could discern and their mom was starting to get antsy. Davie knew what to do if shit popped off and the compound wasn’t that far from their house.

  I was surprised that Cord was okay with that shit, but he’d dragged poor Susie off to the side before leaving to lecture the poor girl to death.

  I stole the baby again and tried to get her to say my name when the women finally quieted down with their shit. I knew whatever it was they were up to must’ve been serious because I actually got to keep the squirt for more than five minutes without one of them trying to wrestle her out of my arms. Spoke too damn soon.

  “Ty we need your opinion.” What the fuck? All I saw was what looked like swaths of material and a fuck load of girly magazines and I broke the fuck out in hives. “Right, if you ladies need me I’m in my place.” They laughed at my ass when I hotfooted it away from them. Fuck if I was gonna spend the day surrounded. I was gonna go read baby Zak The Art of War or some fuck to pass the time.

  It didn’t seem like I was in my place that long when I was alerted to movement at the gate. My first thought was of the girls before I checked and saw Candy and this other female that I couldn’t quite place but knew I’d seen somewhere before.

  The zoom on their faces showed that they were both agitated and highly upset. I didn’t release the gate, but instead after ascertaining that they were alone I dropped the baby off with her mom and aunts and went out to meet them.

  “Ladies?” I looked from one to the other as I stood just inside the yard while leaving them outside. Females or not, I wasn’t about to let anyone in that didn’t have clearance.

  “Ty we need your help, where are the others?” Candy looked worried as fuck as she looked behind me for backup. That wasn’t her usual speed so my alarm started buzzing. She didn’t look hurt so I was assuming the danger whatever it was wasn’t immediate.

  “You got me what’s going on?” I could tell from her level of stress, the way she wrung her hands, and the other woman’s tear stained face that some shit had gone down though. It had to be big for them to come here. I certainly wasn’t expecting what came next though.

  “There’s been some trouble down at the hotel where Maria works.” That’s all Candy said before she stopped again and looked over my shoulder. What the fuck?

  “What kind of trouble Candy?”

  “Have you heard of Carson Stockton?” The name sounded familiar but nothing that jumped out at me. “He’s the big man around town, I’m sure you’ve heard of him.” Whoever he was the little maid Maria was scared shitless if the way she crossed herself and looked over her shoulder was any indication.

  “I’ve heard the name, can’t say I know him though.” I remember hearing about some fat fuck who was supposedly the big man in town that everybody steered clear of. There’s always one in every town, especially one this size, but that was about all I knew about him other than a few rumors. “What about him?”

  “He took someone, a girl, worked her over real bad and have her chained up in a hotel room down there. He says if anyone tries to help her he’s gonna do the same to them and theirs.”

  Now hearing that shit already had my blood on slow boil, it didn’t matter to me who the ‘she’ was, any female being mistreated would’ve sent me on a mission to search and destroy. But hearing the next few words set my world on its ass. The emotion that gripped me in that split second of recognition would stay with me for a lifetime.

  “Ty, it’s Victoria-Lynn, I’m sorry.” I didn’t really get what she was saying at first, but when her words registered everything started to dim. “What the fuck are you talking about?” I’d already started to move, but hearing that it was ‘her’, had stumped me for a hot minute.

  Everything in me came down to that one moment in time. It was as if my whole life ceased to matter. Everything that I ever was, ever hoped for faded into nothingness at the implication of her words.

  “You have to come quick Mr. Tyler she’s hurt really bad please.” Maria grabbed my arm in her distress and the look in her eyes scared me more than her words. I tried to process the information the way I always did when we were on a mission, told myself to treat it like any other Op, but that’s when I realized that I’d only been prolonging the inevitable.

  That all those weeks I’d let slip by were for nothing. If I were a crying man that shit would’ve brought me to my knees, but I harnessed that shit and dug down deep. She needed me; that’s all I could think about as I put my shit in order in my head.

  As much as I tried to shut down my emotions, the harder it was to do. I didn’t have time to get my brothers behind me. If the shit they were saying was true, then her life was in grave danger. I guess Maria had searched us out because she knew our reputation when it came to women, everybody knew, it wasn’t exactly a secret.

  And Candy would know what it would mean to me personally. Even though I’d done my best to hide it, it looked like the only one I’d been fooling where she was concerned was myself.

  I wanted to get to her ten minutes ago, was pissed the fuck off that it was going to take me the ten minutes or so to get to her. It’s crazy what goes through a man’s mind when his woman is in danger, your whole fucking program goes out the door.

  There was shit I had to do before I could leave. I was on security duty today, looking after my sisters I reminded myself. Although the place had more security than the Pentagon, I wasn’t about to take any chances, especially not now with my niece in residence. I had to secure this s
hit before I did anything else.

  All the girls were still on lock and Vicki had been here only the day before Ty, why isn’t she here? My conscience decided to fuck with me. I knew I shouldn’t have let her leave, not when everyone else was keeping their women close. Maybe if I hadn’t been such a dick she would’ve let my brothers talk her into staying.

  When I’d first realized she’d gone I’d felt the loss, but I didn’t think for a second that she would end up hurt or I never would’ve let her go. I would’ve found an excuse to make her stay. Instead I’d hid my disappointment behind playtime with my little niece. Fucking chump.

  I thanked Maria and Candy and let them head back out. Candy hadn’t been allowed to come back to work as yet, not until we can figure out what’s going on there. I’m still waiting on the right time to do the search without her knowing, don’t want to spook her unnecessarily lest it’s nothing.

  We were still trying to figure out if she was the one being used in some way for the assholes to keep tabs on what we were doing. We didn’t want to show our hands by keeping her out, but we weren’t willing to take any chances. Not that we thought she was involved, we just had to figure the shit out. So we’d told her to stay home for the next day or so.

  She had no idea why she’d been given the order, we’d just told her that one of the girls were sick and we were trying to keep the bug contained. It was hell keeping her away, especially after she heard about baby Zak, but she was good people, and she did as she was told. That’s the only reason my brothers actually let her come to work for us in the first place, because whether or not someone had found a way to use her, we trusted her.

  So I wasn’t too worried about leaving my post and following them. It never crossed my mind that it might be a set up, but still, just to be on the safe side.