Brandon's Bliss by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Military, Romance
ISBN: 9781773360645
Publisher: Valley Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2018-02-22T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Kasha was still shivering inside even though Levi drove them home. It was not so much the shock or the fear of the last twenty minutes, but just hearing and seeing the results of all that shooting earlier—the personal losses—well, it was devastating. They hadn’t killed all those villagers, but how could they prove that to those left behind? She didn’t know. Then this was weapons dealing. What the hell did anybody expect?

Things like this just went bad from the beginning.

It made her long for a normal life back home, whatever that meant. It seemed so long ago that she had lived that life. Since working for Bullard, her life had been an ever-changing landscape, and, in the last few months, she’d wanted something different. Only she had no clue what that was. What else would she do? Maybe she could go back to school, but she had no idea what she wanted to study. She had money, after all; she’d had little to spend it on over the years here, and Bullard was very generous. The truth was, if she wanted to get a degree, she could. But it had to be meaningful. It had to be worth the years of effort, and it had to give her something she wanted at the end. The trouble was, she didn’t know what she wanted. Yet she had this void inside.

She admired Ice. That woman was incredible, but was that what Kasha wanted for herself? It was tough. So much death. Seeing that woman with her baby, … that had to be devastating for a mother. To know what had happened made it that much worse.

She tried to figure out a way forward. “I guess the military will take this over and find out what happened to the men,” she said out loud.

“Not necessarily,” Ice said. “I’m not sure they weren’t part of that group.”

“What makes you think that?”

“The soldiers never once asked where the weaponry was that the gunrunners had sold,” Ice said. “Did anybody else notice that? It’s as if they already knew. The only way they could have known is if they’ve been there.”

For the rest of the way home Kasha contemplated the ramifications of their trip. “Do you think they know we’re onto them?”

“That’s why Flynn and Rhodes haven’t shown themselves. They are following the soldiers.” Ice gave her a grim smile. “We need to know what they are up to. My guess is, no good.”

“How does a country run with that level of corruption?”

“A lot of countries have the same issues. They steal thousands to millions of dollars from companies, government coffers and anywhere else they can rob. Nobody is the wiser because no watchdog is keeping track of it. There’s nobody to look over their shoulder, or, if there is, often they’re just paid to look the other way.”

“I guess honor is a thing of the past.”

“I don’t think it is,” Ice said. “I just think there’s less of it. A lot more assholes are running the world.

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