The Gray Man Ch. 10 - Mika

Gray looked at him, "What if I'm wrong?"

The tough Chief Warrant Officer walked over to where Gray was leaning against the wall. He put a hand on his shoulder, "Son, stop. You know deep down that had anyone been lost out there we would have moved heaven and hell to get them. You're fucking special, but no more special than anyone else in this unit. Damian, Matty, Juan, and Cortez were killed doing their job. It's war, son and war is hell. People die, bad guys and good guys. The Army is something you sign up for," he pointed to his shoulder, "this fucking tab is earned," he gestured to the compound of the Recon Company, "these boys are something special. They raised their hand to sign up, then they qualified for that tan beret, then they went through hell to get selected for his unit. You would have done the same fucking thing, you would have been the first man on that Little Bird, feet dangling as you hitched on the skid and you fucking know it."

TJ was about to say something when Roberts put up his hand, "No, shut the fuck up. You doubting yourself dishonors what the fuck they died for. Remember who the fuck you are and where the hell you came from. You told those kids to honor the tab, how about listening to your own words."

Gray nodded as he looked at his unit uncle. The one who gave the guys a kick in the ass when they needed it. "Thanks Chief - I needed that."

Roberts smiled, "I know, now go get that fucking hair cut, Ranger. You look like a goddamn civilian."

TJ laughed, "Aye aye, Chief, one more favor. Any chance you can get me onto the Queen after I get squared away?"

Chief Roberts shook his head, "You are one crazy son of a bitch. I'll meet you there at thirteen hundred."

Gray did just that. He made his way to the barber shop, then grabbed a quick lunch at the Benning Club before changing into camouflage ACU pants and a PT t-shirt and driving back to Camp Darby to attack the Darby Queen.

The infamous Darby Queen obstacle course. 25 obstacles, covering over two miles of rough terrain, the Darby Queen Obstacle Course is considered one of the hardest courses in the world.

Every service member who attends Ranger School must complete this course if they want to graduate and earn their Ranger Tab. The Queen was a bitch, and if you weren't on your game, it would make you its bitch.

Barbed Wire, Walls, Ropes, Bars, Water, Pine Straw, and the famous United States Army sand which seemed to be everywhere.

Gray walked up to find Chief Roberts smoking his cigar and looking at his watch. "What the fuck happened to 15 minutes early is 5 minutes late, Master Sergeant?"

TJ nodded, "I stopped by the cemetery and had a little talk with Cortez. I'm good to go."

Chief smiled, "Watching the two of you on the tower was a fucking work of art, real Mona Lisa shit."

TJ shook his head, "Permission to skip the tower since I'm solo, Chief."

Roberts laughed, "Bullshit, I have a couple of First Lieutenants that are gonna run with you. Rangers don't do shit alone."

The Sergeant came jogging out of the woods where he had been warming up, Roberts looked at him then to TJ, "Ghost this is Robinson and Philips, vice versa."

The two junior officers looked at TJ, "So, you are the infamous Ghost." They stuck out their hand, "Pleasure to meet you."

"Sirs." TJ said as he extended his hand. Thanks for coming out on a Saturday, Sergeant. I can't imagine doing the Queen on your day off was your plan."

Roberts shook his head, "Bullshit Gray, my Rangers do this shit for fun. Besides they were already here getting ready for the Best Ranger Competition next month. Are you pretty boys ready?"

Gray started his watch as the three started down the course and over the wall and they were on their way. Henry Rollins once said, "The Iron Never Lies" - as they conquered the obstacles Gray remembered what Matty used to say, "The Queen Never Lies" - this course would find your weakness and force you to face it head on.

The toughest part of the course was in the middle of the two miles, on the top of a hill. It's called the weaver - evenly spaced four by fours, yellow, black, yellow, black up an A frame then back down again, yellow then black. You had to go over the yellow and under the black up and down. Hips, abs, arms all burned and you. The Weaver is a challenge if it were the only obstacle, but in the middle of this beast it was a killer.

Finally, as they came out of the woods into the light Gray could stop his watch. 17 minutes even. The record on the course was 12 minutes and 51 seconds, Gray and Cortez best time on the team was 13 minutes and 48 seconds. TJ wasn't ashamed of finishing in 17 minutes, but he was completely soaked and tired.

He shook the three Ranger's hands and headed back to his car to head back to the hotel for another shower. He had a shower beer as he admired the abrasions on his arms and legs. Roberts was right, he needed to remember who he was.

He dressed and headed into Columbus to Lepona's Pizzeria. Once inside the door, the aroma of pepperoni and garlic brought back wonderful memories of the guys in his detachment downing pizza and garlic knots.

Gray ate and headed back to the hotel, early to bed was the plan of the night. TJ set his alarm for 4:30 so he could start the drive north.

When he was on the road on Sunday morning he called his cousin. They talked about the girls' night with Angela. Gretchen was shocked that TJ had told Angela about what they were doing and even more shocked that Angela was so into it.

Eventually Gretchen said, "Speaking of that. I have an interesting one for you to consider."

TJ took a deep breath, "Go on."

Gretchen said, "Visiting Professor at American., Japanese American, Long Black hair 5'2" 38 DD, submissive. Seems she has a friend and her former lover, a football player at Virginia Tech..."

TJ interrupted, "Professor fucking a football player? Really?"

Gretchen chuckled, "That's what her application says. Anyway the first time he fucked her was in her office, he made her call her best friend, a newscaster. Made the friend listen to the sex, and to Mika's descriptions. The student entered the portal and transferred to a different school. Along with a nasty divorce, before fucking her student she needed a change of scenery and came to American for a few semesters. She wants to relive her past and wants to be fucked in her office while she's on the phone with her friend."

Gray smirked, "No way that happened, sounds like one of dad's old "Dear Penthouse" letters, but if that's what she wants, who am I to argue."

When he was getting closer to home his phone chirped, when he answered he was surprised to hear Andi's voice on the other end. Her voice was almost shaky, "I have the client list. I'll be running in a little while, doing the Mt. Vernon loop, starting at Marine Corp Memorial. Can you meet me?"

Gray looked at the clock. "The only running clothes I have with me are disgusting. Do you mind if I have a friend join us?"

Andi paused, "Is he cute?"

TJ laughed, "It's a she and yeah she is. She's also a Marine so a run from the Memorial will suit her fine."

Andi sighed, "Okay, but I don't want her to see when I give you the list."

Gray assured her that the transaction would be discreet. He drove to the memorial, met up with Angela and changed into running clothes. The three ran the 4 mile loop and Gray took the list from Andi. He understood her anxiety, but once they got home Angela was going to take a look at the list as well. As a logistics specialist she would be aware of some of the clients if they were in the defense or aerospace.

Once they returned to the townhouse Gray and Angela took a long shower. As the water cascaded over them Angela reached between them and started to stroke his cock. "She wants to fuck you," she whispered.

Gray played coy, "Who?"

Angela gave a rougher squeeze, "That lawyer chick. Before you ask, the answer is no."

TJ smirked, "No, really?"

She grabbed his balls and stood on her tiptoes, "The answer is no. If some hard up bitch wants to pay you AND I know about it I'm fine. However, some local whore - NO."

TJ slid his hand down her wet torso and between her wet pussy lips, he gently started to finger her, "Fair enough. I thought we weren't going to do this couple thing."

Angela slipped his finger out of her and slid to her knees, both hands grabbed his cock, "Yet, here we are," she whispered as she slid his cock a couple of inches into her mouth and started to suck gently.

After a moment Angela stood, turned towards her lover. In a well rehearsed motion she lifted her leg into his hand, he bent his knees and angled his hips and slipped his now raging hard cock deep into her, slowly but firmly.

TJ's hips thrusting gently as his cock moved deep within her, causing sparks as he bottomed out against her cervix. The moment was magic; she didn't want it to end until TJ moved slightly, changing the angle. This caused his cock to push into the little cul-de-sac before settling on her cervix. When he felt his cock bump against the back wall he stopped thrusting, just left his cock pressed deep into her. The change in pressure caused her first orgasm of the night to rock her body. As the orgasm started, Gray started to thrust, long, slow deep thrusts which caused the orgasm to be long and sustained. Angela felt her one leg still on the ground began to buckle, her leg wrapped around TJ, his strong arms held her up as she threw her head back letting the spray from the shower to hit her nipples, heightening the release or her orgasm. Her entire body shuddered.

When the orgasm subsided, TJ sat her leg down, his cock dislodging in the process. Angela always marveled at how full she felt with his huge cock stuffed inside of her, and how naked and empty she felt when he withdrew. Never had she felt more empty than she had in that moment, that glorious cock not inside of her. She turned and put her hands on the glass wall of the shower as she wiggled her ass at TJ. TJ started to slip back into her pussy from behind as she wiggled her ass again.

TJ took the hint and slid his monster cock into her tight ass. Angela started moaning into the crook in her elbow, even biting her forearm as the monster pushed passed her anal ring. Soon TJ started to pump a bit faster in Angela's ass. After a couple of minutes Angela looked over her shoulder, "Holy Shit, that feels good."

TJ put his hands on her hips and began to take more passion in fucking her ass. Angela's heavy tits bounced underneath her as the sound of Gray's hips slapping against her ass kept tempo.

TJ heard Angela begin to build towards an orgasm. What started as a slight pant, changed to a moan, changed to a growl as she came, gripping TJ's cock in her ass. She felt everything break loose as she squirted, her hot discharge hitting her calves and feet. "God yes, fuck me, fuck me."

TJ pumped hard and fast now, growling like a beast on the plains as he mated. Soon he felt his own orgasm starting, "I'm going to cum,"

Angela whimpered, "Fill my ass, god yes, pump that cum into my ass."

TJ obliged her desire as she screamed out one last orgasm. TJ's balls pumped load after load of cum deep into his lover's ass. When he was finished he started to pull out, Angela reached behind her and held him, "Not yet, please not yet, let me feel it go down."

Finally her breathing normalized as Gray's cock began to retract, slipping slowly out of her ass. When it finally did and she pushed the cum out of her ass she turned and smiled as she wrapped her arms around his neck. "Two things. First, those bitches you are fucking need to be tested. Two, how big is your water heater?"

After the shower and the sex Gray and Angela climbed into bed and looked at the printout of clients. As they were looking at the papers they saw the clients and the date that they became clients.

After looking for a few moments Gray looked at Angela, "A lot of interesting network security and aerospace companies on this list."

Angela replied with a brief, "Mmmhmm," then she was quiet for a full minute. She rolled over TJ and picked up her phone off of the nightstand. She sat up straddling TJ as she dialed a number. "Gretchen, it's Angela."

TJ smirked that his cousin was on the phone with this beautiful woman straddling him, with her large breasts in his face. He couldn't resist and pulled a nipple into his mouth, suckling and nibbling as she tried to talk.

Through a soft moan she asked, "When did Elliot start with the firm?"

Angela couldn't get out much more than "Mmmmhmmm," as Gray's mouth awakened her easily kindled lust.

Frustrated Angela put the phone on speaker, "Gretchen, would you tell your cousin to take my tit out of his mouth so I can concentrate?" TJ was shocked as Gretchen laughed on the other end of the phone. Angela said, "As your cousin was saying, the four clients that came on board in the spring of 2018 would have been within three months of Elliot starting. All four are infrastructure, defense contractors."

Gretchen sighed, "Yeah, I remember how impressed we were that he brought in so many clients so quickly - even with a no compete clause."

TJ was focused now, "Is that unusual, Gretch?"

His cousin was calm, "It is. The truth is, when an attorney leaves a firm they have the choice of leaving their clients or actually buying them from the firm. The risk in that is that the client may choose to not leave. Most firms don't return the money you paid to attempt to take the client. So, unless you know damn well that you are the only reason they are with a firm it's a very risky investment."

TJ started thinking out loud. "So, if it's unusual to get large corporate clients at that rate, if Elliot didn't bring them with him, then it means he went to recruit them. I can't imagine that his sales pitch is that good." He picked up the list, "There are months, of course Pandemic months, where they took in no new clients. So, what if. There is someone inside those companies that has the authority to hire legal counsel, and those folks are deep plants that's only job is to give access to what the bad guys want. Elliot is the bag man, whose job is to retrieve intel and forward it to the next person up the chain."

Angela took a deep breath, "Teej, if that's the case we need to bring in some bigger guns."

Gretchen was fighting tears, "This is going to ruin the firm."

TJ tried to calm his cousin, "Deep breath Gretch. There has to be a way to protect the firm while at the same time stop the spy game. Let me sleep on that and we can talk tomorrow, if Elliot will allow me into the building."

Gretchen was confused, "What are you talking about?"

TJ told his cousin and Angela about his encounter with Elliot, about the office - the townhouse - and the car.

Gretchen growled, "That's fucking bullshit, that's not going to happen."

Angela stepped in, "No, let Elliot flex. Let him think he has all of the power and control."

Gretchen queried, "Let me make a couple of calls in the morning, I have a couple of friends and I will see if they have a place for you two to move."

TJ's ears folded back a bit, "Two of us to move?"

Gretchen giggled, "Oops, is this the first he's hearing of this plan?"

TJ shook his head, "What the hell happened on girls night that I don't know about?

Gretchen laughed, "Oh, nothing. Have you told him about the wedding in Hawaii?"

TJ sat up, "Wedding, Hawaii. The last I heard we weren't doing that couple thing."

Angela laughed, "Sure we are, I just hadn't told you yet."

TJ hit her with the pillow, "Fucking women."

Gretchen laughed, "That will teach you to leave the two of us alone and run off to Benning now won't it?"

Angela laughed, "You should see him Gretch, he's scratched and bruised. The dumb shit did the Darby Queen while he was there."

Gretchen howled, "Aren't you a little old to play on playground toys for big boys?"

TJ threw his torso back onto the bed, "Okay, this is enough of pick on TJ day."

Angela went on, "Plus he got his hair cut on post. He looks like a mighty fine soldier boy again."

Hearing Gretchen laugh helped ease TJ's mind but he felt he still needed to reassure her. "Gretch, I'll make sure the firm is fine. I will protect you with all that I am, no matter what it takes. Plus I guess you should know Gunnery Sergeant Taggert and I are now going steady. Hasn't this been a day?"

When Angela hung up she looked down at Gray, "Now, where were we?"

TJ smiled, "Going over client files."

The beautiful redhead laughed as she lowered her torso over him, "I was thinking more of my nipple in your mouth."

The next morning in the office TJ stepped into Gretchen's office. It looked like she hadn't slept all night. When TJ entered she motioned for him to close the door.

Once the door was closed she sighed, "Two things. Elliot and Louis are flexing their power. They are calling in an expert witness, even though they don't need it. Knight and I think it's just to get you out of the townhouse and give up the car. You finding out about the espionage when their own investigator couldn't have at least Elliot scared Teej. I can cover the house and car shit, you and Angie don't need to worry about that."

Gray started to speak but Gretchen held up her hand, "Here's the question that has kept me up all night. Is Louis involved directly, or is he just a pawn in Elliot's game?"

TJ leaned forward. "Gretch, take a breath. First, we don't know if there is a game. Just because it looks like a duck at first doesn't mean it's a duck. Second, if there is a game then part of what I need to find out is how this works. It could be that Louis is an innocent pawn - a grieving man who found someone that made him feel powerful and important. Louis brings him in and gives him freedom, and the increase in clients is an ego boost as well as a financial boost. The other possibility is that Louis, in his grief, did something extremely stupid and Elliot has information or evidence that he is using to blackmail him into acquiescence."

Gretchen looked at her cousin, "What's your gut say, Teej?"

TJ leaned back in his chair. "I went to see Chief Roberts because I didn't like what my gut was telling me. I think in this case the duck is a duck. How Louis fits into this is something I don't know. I need to do some digging into the time that Louis was on bereavement leave."

The next few days TJ worked his ass off, looking at every client that Elliot and Louis had that could be considered a National Security Interest. The internet was a wonderful thing, but often overlooked in today's world were Securities and Exchange Commission filings, investor relations literature, and even the investor calls that companies often did.

The nice thing is much of the work Gray was doing could be done on a laptop with a 5G hotspot keeping an eye on things with his new client. The Kreeger Building had two parking lots that if TJ timed things right could park for a bit. Gretchen had used a favor from a friend and actually gotten him a parking permit so that the Public Safety folks wouldn't harass him.

Gray was frustrated by the comings and going of professors. They all kept to the same schedule, coming in at the same time, carrying the same coffee. He knew that they probably left their house at the same time every day, drove the same route, stopped at the same coffee shop, probably even parked in the same place. Routine was what people craved, and routine is what made people easy targets for folks with bad intentions.

Being a visiting professor Dr. Matsuda only had one evening class and that was Thursday. There were very few classes on Thursday evenings on campus as there were almost no classes on Friday

Gray had to admit, Mika was attractive. Definitely oriental, small frame, long black hair, large tits, tiny waist, and an ass that looked like she did her fair share of working out. He noted she was in her office alone on Thursday after 9 pm, stayed to do work until about 1030 and the rest of the building was empty.