Chapter 43: TYLER

"Vanessa, I need you on point, I have to make a run. No one in no one out." I didn't have time to explain things to her either but at least she had training, and she knew better after the last time than to let her sisters get her involved in shit. I heard my niece in the background babbling away before I hung up and for some reason that was able to give me a bit of that calm I'd been searching for.

My guts were in knots and I still refused to think, to let my mind wander to what-ifs. I was worried on two fronts. If there was one thing I'd learned in my years as a SEAL it was to look at a situation from all angles before heading in. It could very well be a setup, something to lure me away, but I had to take the chance.

It was a hard call, you never left your post for any reason, but this was Victoria Lynn, I had to go. I jumped in the Hummer, which was one of the safest vehicles on the compound. It was tricked out with every security measure known to man, and was our go