Our Challenge

Finally.

Joseph POV

"We will be splitting Zaiden and Lyric up for this mission. We do want to see how they would react after being apart longer than 24 hours." Scarlett says as she points to a monitor.

We are all back in the meeting room and we decide to run another test on Lyric and Zaiden, but complete a mission at the same time.

"Is Kade going to be the only one going? Cain's not leaving Alazea's side and Niall's work has piled up." Toby mentions.

Scarlett nods her head, "Oh, no worries. Joseph's going."

I choke on my spit, "I'm sorry, what?"

She looks at me, "You're going. You will be there with Kade."

Titus shows me a mocking smirk, "You wanted to test my son to see if he can take care of your daughter, right? Get to know him this way instead."

I shake my head, "No, I'm not going."

"You're not?" Scarlett gives me a look.

They all look away from Scarlett and I visibly gulp, "N-No. Why do I have to go?"

She slowly walks up to me until she is directly in front of me, "You lead Kade onto Estelle. Not only that he found out my connection to her and William. Then you have the nerve to try and hide this from me. Joseph Mills. You. Are. Going."

I slowly nod my head and she walks back to the front.

I look and see Bradley, Titus, and Toby all sitting straight and looking forward.

I clear my throat and Scarlett continues, "Since we know that Kade knows about my connection with Estelle and William we will just send him to the next mission. We will let Kade in on what we are doing with the crazy couple."

Titus raises his hands and Scarlett rolls her eyes, "Why are you raising your hand?"

He shrugged his shoulders, "I just felt like it was the safest thing to do."

She gives him a blank stare, "What's the question, Titus?"

"What exactly is the plan and what is our goal on this mission?"

She looks at Bradley and motions for him to stand up, "You have the floor."

She sits in his seat and Bradley clears his throat, "So the U.S. found out that some stolen nuke codes are being sold on the black market. The auction for the codes is in Qatar a country somewhere in the Middle East. It's being sold by a famous Australian mobster by the name of Ario Henry."

A picture of Ario pops up on the monitors behind us. "He is known for clearing out all of his rival gangs within only a year of showing up in the spotlight. He has been running the streets of some parts of Australia for a decade now. He has one right-hand man by the name of Auton Fisher."

A picture of Auton with a bald eagle on his shoulder pops up.

"What's up with the eagle? A pet?" Toby questions.

Seconds later a picture of two bald eagles pop up, "Ario and Auton got their hands on these bald eagles very early on in their reign. Their names are Creo and Flow, they are a mated pair of eagles who trained to be Ario and Auton eyes. These eagles can also bring them weapons, it has been seen that they will take your weapon out of your hand while in a gunfight. They will fight against you if told by Ario and Auton."

We all nod our heads in understanding.

"Now that introductions are done. The U.S. does not know how they got the codes but we need to recover them before they are sold on the market."