SEAL's Desire (Alpha SEALs Coronado #1) - Makenna Jameison Page 0,14
breach the camp from this side, the terrain is quite thick. If we lose them, we lose them.”
“Not gonna happen,” Blake said, grabbing his weapon. “All we need is Abboud. The others can live off the land as far as I’m concerned. They’re not our mission.”
“The Humvees are here, Raptor,” a voice said over the headsets, calling Blake by his nickname.
“Roger that,” Blake said into his mouthpiece. He looked around at his men again. “Jackson, Ethan, and I will be in the first vehicle. The rest of the team will ride in the second in the event shit goes south. They’ll drop us a mile away so we’re not detected by anyone.”
“Nothing like a little hike through the jungle in the middle of the night,” Troy said, rubbing his hands together.
“Watch out for the monkeys,” Blake quipped.
“Hell,” Ethan muttered.
The men filed out as Blake chuckled. Jesus. He would have a job where he needed to look out for rainforest wildlife. Chemical weapons. Terrorists.
Adrenaline pumped through his veins as they walked out into the dark night. He could see perfectly with his night vision goggles, noticing the movement around the Colombian airfield. The military was already rolling out to wait nearby, and he and his SEAL team climbed into the waiting Humvees.
The vehicles began moving, and Blake watched as they pulled away from the compound. Hell. After they nabbed this asshole they’d be wheels up, flying back toward San Diego. It was a quick op, but he was okay with that.
“Everyone have the coordinates of the camp?”
“Roger that,” came the replies over the headset.
“There are no vehicles in sight,” the driver said. “The highway is deserted. I think we can do the drop at a half mile out.”
“Roger that,” Blake confirmed. “Let’s move closer.”
The Humvees rolled to a stop alongside the highway, and the men jumped out in the dead of night. One by one they disappeared into the rainforest, moving toward the terrorist camp. Blake heard the engines as the vehicles made a u-turn and headed back the way they’d come.
“Radio when you’ve retrieved the package,” the CO said over the headsets. “We’ll helo in and move on out. The Humvees will be on standby in the event we need to exit via land.”
“Understood,” Blake said. “We’re moving into the rainforest.”
“Shit there’s a hell of a lot of vines here,” Logan muttered, moving forward. “We should’ve just flown in and let them know we were coming.”
“Put on your big-boy pants,” Ethan joked.
“What the hell was that?” Jackson asked, looking up as something scurried above them in the trees.
“It’s like I’m with a bunch of girls,” Troy muttered. “Man up.”
“Just a walk in the woods,” Blake quipped, moving forward. The brush was dense through his night vision goggles—vines, trees, flowers. It was like a fucking tropical paradise save for the fact he was decked out in his gear with his SEAL team. He almost expected to run across a waterfall with the local wildlife frolicking in the moonlight or something.
He checked his coordinates and continued on.
The rest of the journey was silent as the men moved through the rainforest.
“ETA?” the CO asked over the headsets.
“The camp should be in sight in five minutes,” Blake confirmed.
“It looks like there’s a clearing up ahead,” Ethan said in a low voice. “I think we’re almost to the edge.”
“Affirmative,” Blake confirmed. “We moved through faster than planned. Hold up,” he said as his group came to a stop near the edge of the jungle.
The men peered through the trees, staying out of sight. There were a couple of lanterns lit surrounding the perimeter but no movement inside the camp. Blake noticed a couple of trucks off in the distance. He couldn’t see the highway from here but knew it must be on the other side. There’s no way anyone could drive those vehicles through the rainforest. They’d been moving in chemical weapons from somewhere and offloading them right there.
“It doesn’t look like anyone’s guarding this side of camp,” Jackson said, his voice deep. “We don’t have eyes on the other side though.”
“That works to our advantage,” quipped Troy. “No one’s here to stop us when we mosey on in.”
Blake nodded. “We’ll move in and breach the camp on my command. I’ll go straight in with Jackson, Logan, and Gray. T-Rex and Everglades, you two enter from the southwest side. The Colombian military is further up the highway, so we won’t worry about the opposite side of camp for now.”
“Affirmative,” Troy said.
“Understood,” the others repeated.
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