tortured, and left to die. Would’ve died if Drake and his team hadn’t found her when they did. And after my girl endured that fucking nightmare she decides to stay in the Army, further swinging her ass out there. First, my girl does that because unlike those motherfuckers Berkshire and Davidson, she takes her commitment to her country seriously. And, Wick, you know my daughter so you know I speak the truth when I tell you her other reason for staying in is because she does not back down and she will not be cowed. Even if that means every time she goes out there’s a possible target on her back.”
Levi stared down Wick. “I want that target removed. I want the man who put that target on my daughter’s back not breathin’. I believe you haven’t forgotten. I believe that when you close your eyes at night you see my girl beaten to shit limping across the airstrip after her rescue. I know you also remember the little girl you bounced on your knee when she was a baby. But what you do not see is what I see, what Drake sees, and that’s because while you care for my daughter and you respect her, you do not love her down to your bones the way Drake and I do. So I believe you’re working hard, but you will not work as hard as we will.”
He regained some of his composure. “Now, I’m asking you as my friend, as a man I served with, as a brother whose back I had on the battlefield, to look over the statement and tell Brady and Dylan what missions were happening around those deposits. We got enough to tarnish the memory of Berkshire. We will find the connection to Davidson making those payoffs, but I do not want more ghosts. We learned the hard way and it’s a lesson we’ll never forget.”
No one in that room would forget the lesson that had almost cost Liberty her life. It was a lesson in revenge, but more, it was a lesson to never leave loose ends. Davidson’s plan would never have worked if there hadn’t been history. At the time when Levi, Jasper, Lenox, and Clark killed Roman’s father they wouldn’t have killed the boy or his mother, but they sure as fuck would’ve kept an eye on the situation. But they left shit unchecked, important stuff that years later had bitten them in the ass.
Wick nodded. “I’ll take the paper copies back to my hotel and go over them. I don’t want any electronic footprint. And that’s not me covering my ass, it’s me covering yours. I’ll look them over but I can already tell you, it won’t matter if I remember every single troop movement to match these dates, Dylan’s not going to find the source of the deposits.”
Fuck.
Fucking hell.
“How do you know that?” Carter asked.
“Because I’ve already tried.”
“So you knew about the accounts,” Levi stated. “Knew Berkshire had turned traitor. Knew that motherfucker Davidson had it out for my girl. What else do you know?”
“A lot. And you know I can’t tell you.” Wick’s gaze sliced to Dylan. “Give me what you have. I’ll be back at oh-six-hundred. My flight leaves at noon.”
The room went silent, but the quietness did nothing to snuff out the hostility rolling around. Dylan gathered the papers and passed them to the general. Once he had the thick stack in hand, he looked at Levi. “You’re right. I see all of that every night when I close my eyes. But I also see something you don’t because you were not there. But Drake was. So was Logan, Luke, Matt, and Trey and I think it’s important for you to know. Lieutenant McCoy is her father’s daughter. She is intimately aware that target’s on her back. And when this one is no longer there another will be in its place and she still won’t back down. She’s a McCoy, she’s a Hellraiser, and you, Levi, made her that then you gave her to the Army. You gave her to me and that’s something I take seriously. So, I’ll leave you with one last thing because I know Liberty has not and will not give this to you. She knows more than you think she does, she’s closer than you think to ending this, and I personally have fed her what she needs to end this herself. My advice to you is to give her her head and