Ty
Rain beat our shoulders as we slugged through the thick terrain that had been our home for the past three days. Heavy mud clung to our boots, and drops of water constantly ran into our eyes. To say I missed the desert was an understatement.
Keith was on all our minds; it was hard to put it aside. This mission was hard both mentally and physically. I’d finally begun to understand the depth of the Cartel. They just never stopped coming. They were an army of thousands with endless funds to replace any who fell. We had been ambushed at one of the locations we’d thought we had already cleared. One of them came out of nowhere, and Keith nearly lost an arm. I popped two in the guy’s back even as I wondered where they’d come from. We had been so careful to clear every inch of the land we were
