Immaculate Spirit 172 :

"Yes for the majority of them but I'm not sure for all seven. Some still had the patriotic fiber running deep inside of them. Ultimately, this is going to be a war between loyalty for the army and loyalty for the team."

"I can understand that." Scott said with a pensive expression. "Too bad they can't know that we are working for the government, that would have swayed them quite a lot in their decision making."

"We are not. We are working with the President, this is an important distinction to make Scott. It mean that we don't take order from them, the President is our client nothing more." Nathaniel explain.

"Yeah, I still have a hard time getting my head around that, it goes against everything I was taught in the army. I can't believe you manage to get a deal like that, there is a lot of defense private company who spend millions of dollars each years in lobbying to get that form the DOD. You should still have made a better speech than that to get them to sign with you."

"That wouldn't have work, these guys are army veteran, they dislike nonsense like commercial speech even more than political talk. I would have lost their respect trying it." Nathaniel shake his head.

"You are right about that but I still believe you should have done more to convince them to join. So, where are we going next Boss?"

"San Antonio, Texas." Nathaniel answers, calling a taxi and hoping in it.

Inside the pub, there was silence around the table as everyone was thinking to themselves about the job offer.

"That kid is not normal." One of them said, shocking his friends out of their thought.

"Well, he's confident, I can at least give him that." Ethan said in amus.e.m.e.nt, triggering a few chuckle from his friend.

"There is more than that. Did you notice the fact that he didn't even had a reaction when Morgan shout at him? He wasn't even startled and definitely not afraid considering the fact that Morgan is at least forty pound heavier and taller than him." One of the other named Seth interject.

"He's just arrogant like any youth." Morgan said with a laugh, taking a gulp of his gla.s.s of whiskey. "How old is he by the way Keith?"

"I'm not an expert in young pop culture you know." Keith frowned at him.

"Yes but you are the only one here who know him." Ethan step in to avoid a confrontation between the two.

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"I know him because my daughter always talk about him and I happen to remember a thing or two. I believe is sixteen or seventeen, let me check on my phone. Yeah, he just turn seventeen a couple of weeks ago."

"Does his family is involved in defense?" Ethan asked.

"What? I don't thinks so. They are just a label company, an impressive wealthy and influential one but no, they are not involved in defense. Why?"

"I'm just trying to know how he could be aware of the accident in Panama. Morgan was right, this is confidential information. n.o.body should know about this and certainly not a kid still wet behind the ears. He also said that he known everything about us and I'm inclined to believe him on that one."

"He's telling the truth." Keith said, looking at the alb.u.m with a trouble expression on his face.

"What's going on Keith?" Ethan curious about his squadmate expression.

"The message that he leave on the back of his alb.u.m, he put my daughter first and middle name on it. He also knew that my daughter was a fan of his before coming in." He said letting that sink into the mind of everyone around the table.

"You are missing the obvious here. We saw him fight and I believe we all recognized the choke hold he use at the end. It was SEAL training, it was our training." Seth said.

"Maybe he saw it on TV or something?" One of them offer.

"No, you saw how fluid he was with his movement. No, I believe he was train, intensely train in fact." Seth rebuked.

"And who would have trained him? Not the military, his way too young for that. Especially considering that SEAL only took seasoned soldiers before training them." Ethan add.

"Maybe the CIA or an other organisation in the government?"

"No, n.o.body is crazy enough to do something like that and even if they were, the kid does not qualified as a spy. We all know that the CIA prefer their agent without any family and coming from the working cla.s.s. That Lyndon kid is the opposite to that."

"Who cares really? He just have a special trainer hired by his grandpa money. This is not a big deal." Morgan say annoyed. "Let's talk about something much more important, how much he want to pay us?"

Used to his legendary att.i.tude, the whole squad laughed, one of them taking the files that Nathaniel had left behind. Looking at the number on it, he whistle appreciatively.

"That much?" Morgan said hopefully. "Give it to me, I want to see!"

Pa.s.sing the papers to all of his squadmates, the man start to look at the other piece of papers on the table curiously. Taking hold on one of the contract, it was Morgan's turn to whistle.

"I'm starting to like this arrogant and annoying kid."

"I did know that the private sector was paying quite well but this almost seem too much." One of the other said admiratingly.

"Guys, you should look at this. This is what would be expected of us if we accept the contract." He said, pa.s.sing the other stack of papers around the table.

Taking one, all of them start to read threw them. Once they were done, they were all exchanging confused and intrigued stare between them. It was not at all what they were expecting to do.

"That kid is not normal." The same man repeat.