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Bingo! I’d been hoping they would since the day I left the CIA I’d al that if I didn’t hear fro at other firms that handled covert operations

Striker wasn’t just the lead on my rescue; he’d also been ency When he left their eht, my departure may have been premature, but you had to knoho had your back in this line of work and who didn’t

Outside of Striker, there were only a handful of le one still worked for the government in an official capacity In fact, the ence firm called K19 Security Solutions, the one Striker had just said was getting ready to make me an offer

“What about Tackle?” I asked

“Him too”

Landry “Tackle” Sorenson was more than my partner on the op in Soh school when land for most of my childhood

Tackle and I attended the sainia, and went on to accept jobs with the CIA after we graduated While it was con code names, my friend and I already had thereed to allow us to use

We’d co touch football when things went a little too far It wouldn’t be difficult for anyone to figure out that Landry had tackledI wear a neck halo for six weeks

While Landry and his parents felt like absolute shit about it, I wasn’t angry nor were my mom and dad Accidents happened, they’d said I think they were just relieved that the injury hadn’t been worse It didn’t bother them at all when I couldn’t play football the next year, and while I acted like I was disappointed, I’d admitted to Tackle that I didn’t really care

The day I told hin from the CIA and freelance for K19, he said he would too

“Where are you?” I asked when my friend answered my call

“On my way to Boston”