FALLING HARD✅

FALLING HARD 24

Third person Point of view

It started, if one can ever be certain where anything starts, with a telephone call received by Jack Washington at his flat, a ten-minute walk from the Landon headquarters of SOE. As head of section D SOE, he had two phones by his bed routed straight to his office. It was this that brought him awake at four o'clock in the morning.

He listened, face grave, then swore softly."I'll be there."
Within ten minutes he was letting himself outside of the front door, shivering in the damp cold, lighting the first cigarette of the day.

Sixty-five he was, a squat, powerful-looking man with white hair, his round, not so handsome face set off by steel-rimmed speactacles. No one knew he was the father of Jessica Washington.

For three years now, head of section D SOE. Doing all the wrongs he could think of had now brought down double trouble on his head. He turn at the entrance of a street, nodded to the night guards, and went straight upstairs. When he went to his office, captain Bruno Mark, his night duty officer, a man much younger than him, was seated behind his desk.

Bruno start to rise but he stop him.

"No,stay where you are Bruno,get on with it,whatever shitty news you have to tell me."

Bruno got up and and walked across the room to a table.There was a map of the southwest of England on the table. Circled in red were areas that got jack's eyes to widen.

"Last night there was eight landing craft. Five from Plymouth and three from Brixham. Under the naval escort of course."

There was a pause. Jack said, "Tell me the worst."

"They were attacked at sea by German E-boats."

"Shit, Jesus Christ,Were there any Bigots among those officers lost?"Jack asked and paced the room.

"Three sir."

"Dear god I warned them,No Bigots to in any way undertake hazardous duty."

Seven months previously it had become clear that there were serious breaches of security, in some cases by high-ranking American officers, in connection with the invasion of Europe. Bigots knew what others did not: secret codes and plans-the details of the allied invasion of Europe.

"Sir, one of them is missing,the engineering officer."

"For god's sake, Bruno what if he was taken by one of those E boats? He could be in enemies hands right now. And they'll make him talk if they him want to."

"Sir, it was just a hit and run, plus the weather isn't too good out there maybe his body will come ashore."

For the first time Jack hoped so, he hoped his body washed ashore with rest. He hoped that, because unlike any other, This one specific  man was more than just an engineer. He was the one lead, and eye on things outside the business of SOE.

He was part of the Mafia gang. Hours passed by and he learned that his body didn't wash up along with the others.

" I have no other choice but to call him," Jack said and he took out a burner phone from his pocket and dialed.

Jessica's point of view

I watched him stare at me and I couldn't help but stare back.He continued to drive as the stoplight say go and I smiled.

"I see you are smiling,so what do you say?Gun range?Or that kiss?" I sighed and look down at my nails.

"Maybe you should just continue to drive, am okay now," Indeed I was, because since he mentioned kissing me, all I could think of was when he controlled my mind at the poolside.

"Hello?"I looked at him and his phone was in his ears, suddenly his jaw tighten and I turn my whole body to face him. He hangs up with just one word.

"Shit."

"What's going on?"

"Change of plans,we are going to Landon."

"What? what do you mean?"

"Your dad just called, Ricky has been kidnapped or dead and I'm going in."

"What do you mean to go in? What do you mean my dad called? Who is this Ricky guy? how the hell am I in this? What does my dad have to do with it? Do you think you can just take me without asking?"

"He isn't just a geek, he is more that, he is also a friend, he and Tarzan was the only friend I had, but the distance was created but now he needs me," He speeds the car and all I could do was sit and looked at him with my mouth hanging open.

***
But at that precise moment, Ricky was very much alive, more afraid than he had ever been in his life, cold and wet and in terrible pain. He lay huddled at the bottom of a life raft in several inches of water about a mile offshore. He felt the carrying him fast toward the start point.

Ricky a thirty two year old,married with two daughters.A civil engineer, and a part of a mafia gang. He had a reputation in all the fields. He was blown off his feet by the force of an explosion and slammed against a rail his life jacket kept him afloat and he lost consciousness. He was shot.

***

"Don't worry I'll get you in sir."

***

He woke up to find himself in a boat, with no light anywhere, only dark and the wind and the sound of the sea running. The unknown friend is out of sight. Then he became aware of the pain in his right leg, like a saw cutting its way through his bone, a pain he had never known.
He screamed and fainted.

Trevor's point of view

After parking the car I explained to her,her father  work and what he has been doing.All she did was stare at me.

"Look, Jessica, him not telling you anything is not your fault, It's best that way so that we don't have thousands of people coming  to kill you, we already have one and we don't know who that is."

If only she could allow me to hug her and tell her everything is going to be alright, but I couldn't because I know, guns and bullets don't smile.

"I have to go in ,there is a code,the code is life,never leaves one behind,I can't leave Ricky behind.You can take my car and turn back, Mary will get a safe place different from my home and you can take care of Rollins there. I'm giving you a choice," I said stretching across the seat and holding her hands, cold they were and even her eyes seem to be icy.

"I'm coming."

"I don't think you are ready to fire a gun and witness people being killed."

"Who told you that ? After all, I have a badass for a dad and a mafia for a protector,"She releases her hands from me and pushes a falling hair behind her ears. She held her head high and look at
me.

"You don't even know how to fire a gun."

"I'll learn, "She said and I swallowed."because you are going to teach me."

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Wow,I'm so proud of myself.As I've said before this a a romance-action, double down shit book, lol.

I'm loving it.

What are your thoughts?