![]() ![]() And when we land…there’s a military-grade Humvee waiting for us. And there’s an actual plane just…waiting for us. And then you’ve got a real life Terminator who shoots big ass machine guns like it’s a goddamned toy. You go on not one, not two, but three real-life car chases with people shooting at us and everything. Like, you show up with a bag full of machine guns-sorry, assault rifles. ![]() But none of that, except for you, is true. You shoot a car in the engine and it explodes. “It’s just…none of what’s happened to me has been like I thought it would be. “What was it you were laughing about, now that we’ve got basic terminology out of the way?” What Thresh had on the cargo plane, that was a machine gun.” And AK-47s, M-16s, those kinds of things…those are assault rifles, not machine guns. Pistols have clips, assault rifles have magazines. A chopper is a motorcycle, not a helicopter. I’m a soldier, and we tend to get picky about that kind of thing. He had the good sense to laugh at himself. It should never, ever, be called a Hummer.” ![]() A Hummer is one of two things: a piece of shit civilian vehicle that shares literally no DNA with what I’m driving right now, or it’s a blowjob. “It’s not a fucking Hummer,” he snapped, “it’s a Humvee. “Magically procure guns and airplanes and military Hummers-” ![]() I buckled myself in and laughed as a thought occurred to me. Harris turned the engine over, and it made a rattling bass diesel growl. No, this was the military Hummer, huge, wide, tan, with a sloping rear roof and a brutally spartan interior. There was a Hummer waiting for us, but it wasn’t the civilian version, the watered down derivative. As soon as we landed-once again on a too-short landing strip in the middle of nowhere, Harris effortlessly bringing the big aircraft down with a single gentle bump and bark of the tires-Thresh, now clothed in a tight T-shirt and canvas boat shoes, jumped onto a waiting Harley and roared off without even waving at me. It turns out $120,000 doesn’t come free.After Brazil, Florida seemed relatively temperate. A driver stood in front of me, and he spoke six words: “It’s time to pay your debt.” Would you have gotten in? I did. A sleek black limousine sat on the curb in front of my house. And then, after a year, there was a knock on my door. How do you turn down what seems like free money, when you’re desperate? You don’t. Let me keep my baby brother in school and Mom’s hospice care paid for. It let me pay the bills without going into debt. It too contained a single word: “belong.” A third check, the next month. The next month, I received another check, again from VRI Incorporated. If you receive a mysterious check, for enough money to erase all your worries, would you cash it? I did. No mention of repayment, interest, nothing…except a single word, on the notes line: “You.” Just those three letters. No hint of identity or reason for the check or anything. There was no name on the check, just “VRI Inc.,” and a post office box address for somewhere in the city. Enough to pay the bills and leave me some left over to live on until I found a job. Inside was a check, made out to me, in the amount of ten thousand dollars. And then, just when I thought all hope was lost, I found an envelope in the mail. There was no hope, no money in my account, no work to be found. Bills were piling up, adding up to more money than I could ever make. The first time it happened, it seemed like an impossible miracle. You can read this before Alpha (Alpha, #1) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Alpha (Alpha, #1) written by Jasinda Wilder which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Alpha (Alpha, #1) by Jasinda Wilder ![]()
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