Jay’s brows hiked. “You ready to come work with us?”
Bobby shrugged. “I dunno. Maybe.” He took another sip of his coffee and smiled at him. “I’m not ruling it out.” Deric tossed Bobby a set of keys. Bridger picked them up and eyed him cautiously. “What’s this?”
“The keys to my camp,” Deric shrugged. “With what Slippy has listed for compensation for damages? It’s all bought and paid for. You liked it, so…why not let you have it. You can rebuild it however you like.”
Bobby dangled the keys and actually looked like he might get misty. “Thanks, man.”
“No problem.” Deric wagged his eyebrows at him. “I have my eye on a missile silo now.”
Jay tapped his spoon on the side of his water glass to get the men’s attention. He held up his coffee cup and made a toast, his voice solemn. “We shall go our way into battle… And we shall be accompanied by the spirit of millions of our martyrs, our ancestors tortured and burned for their faith, our murdered fathers and butchered mothers, our murdered brothers and strangled children. And in this battle we shall break the enemy and bring salvation to our people, tried in the furnace of persecution, thirsting only for freedom, for righteousness, and for justice.” He held his cup higher and stated softly, “Menachem Begin, 1948.”
“Hear, hear,” the men called soberly.
Jim cleared his throat and held his cup up. “George Washington once said, ‘You will, by the dignity of your conduct, afford occasion for posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to mankind, had this day been wanting, the world had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining.’” The group looked at him with shock. Jim shrugged. “Google is your friend.”
Slippy quickly stood and held his cup high. “There once was a young lady from Wheeling, who would get a peculiar feeling—”
Groans and chuckles circled the table as Deric pulled him back to his chair. “Give it a rest, man.”
Bridger eyed the group of men that he had fought and bled with on far too many occasions. Men who were closer than any brothers could be. Men who would gladly lay their lives on the line for each other, and who would always have his back. He knew that he couldn’t keep hiding in a hole in the ground. There was more to life than just survival.
He held his cup up and looked to Jay. “I’m in.”
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Also By Heath Stallcup
My stories so far:
The Monster Squad Series
The first saga:
Humanity has spent its time enjoying a peace that can only be had through blissful ignorance. For centuries, stories of things that go “bump” in the night have been passed down and shared. When creatures of the night proved to be real, the best of America’s military came together to form an elite band of rapid response teams. Their mission: to keep the civilian populace safe from those threats and hide all evidence of their existence.
This time, they face the largest threat ever to rise against mankind as it prepares its own twisted Apocalypse. The only thing standing in its way is the Monster Squad. Man and monster will fight side by side in an epic battle to the death to try to defeat an evil so great, it could only have been created by The second saga:
An ancient evil is awakened by a naïve pawn. Planned centuries in advance by fallen angels, the reign of Lilith is put into motion. With a legion of demons at her command, she plans to enact her revenge upon the world’s largest religious group before thrusting herself center stage and taking her seat upon the throne as Queen of the World.
With threats coming at them from every angle, the Monster Squad turns to an ex-member to form a new team—a team made up of the most unlikely warriors to hunt down and face the Demon Queen.
However, when it comes time to remove the Queen in this grand game of chess, will they be able to sacrifice their own game pieces to do it?
Caldera the Series
For years, the biggest threat Yellowstone was thought to offer was in the form of its semi-dormant super volcano. Little did anyone realize the threat was real and slowly working its way to the surface, but not in the form of magma. Lying deep within the bowels of the earth itself, an ancient virus waited.
Recently credited with wiping out the Neanderthals, the virus is released within the park and quickly spreads. A desperate plea for assistance reaches the military, but are they coming to help those battling for their lives or to wipe out every living thing in an effort to prevent a second mass extinction? Can humanity survive the raging cannibals that erupt from within?
Whispers Trilogy
How does a sheriff’s department from a small North Texas community stop a brutal murderer who is already dead and buried?
When grave robbers disturb the tomb of Sheriff James ‘Two Guns’ Tolbert searching for Old West relics, a vengeful spirit is unleashed, hell bent for blood. Over a hundred years in the making, a vengeful spirit
