Chapter 11: Arrival in America
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Anita stayed in the hospital for another week. Rhodes' men, on her orders, kept a watch outside Stark's door with Augustus. The colonel herself went to the base to organise the transfer of the red-haired multi-billionaire to America.
While the mercenary was on joint watch with the military, he listened to rude and straightforward come-ons from the Saldophone women standing nearby. They were trying to get his attention and simply to get laid, which they had said more than once. Augustus stoically tolerated the bounces of attractive girls. You could say that he overpowered, like a Chinese cultivator overpowering, rubbing his dantian alone on a high mountain.
After living in this world for more than half a year, August never got used to the fact that many girls in this world simply had a lack of male attention. This was especially noticeable in the saldophone girls standing next to him. Some of them had served in Afghanistan for over a year and had not seen a single man during that time. A male mercenary standing next to them was like life-giving water for a man dying of thirst. The military girls tried to put their best foot forward in front of August.
At the end of the week Rhodes arrived and rescued Augustus from a little hell. Outside Stark's chamber he was terrorised by the soldier girls, and inside the chamber by Stark herself. The mercenary could feel himself gradually going mad from such surroundings. The man even had thoughts of quietly finishing off the soldier girls and hiding their corpses. He did not want to kill Anita because of her insolence - she still owed him a lot of money.
Anita was loaded into a wheelchair and August was in charge of transporting her. He didn't trust the others, even Rhodes looked at him with some suspicion. The colonel felt his cold glances in her direction and so spoke to her friend with some caution, casting glances at the man standing behind Anita.
In an armoured transport, the military took August and Stark to their main base. There was a large airfield there, with a huge strategic bomber parked in its car park. Its size was staggering, the mercenary didn't quite understand how such a large air transport could even fit on the landing strip.
- Are we going to fly it? - August asked the colonel, holding on to the handles of the buggy. He didn't like the idea of travelling long distances by plane, they would be completely vulnerable in the air.
- We can only get out this way. This bomber is designed for long-range flights. We'll use it to get to our base in Europe, refuel and fly to America, - Jenna answered the mercenary and went to prepare the transport for the flight.
- Do you agree to fly on a bomber? - August asked his employer. If Anita refused, he would force the military to transport them another way. The military will definitely agree, Stark is a major figure in the US, directly trading with the US Army. She has multi-billion dollar contracts in almost every military project in the US Army.
- Are you afraid of heights? - Stark asked playfully. - Don't be afraid, I'll hold your hand. A strategic bomber can only be shot down on takeoff, once it gains altitude, we'll be perfectly safe.
August didn't say anything to Anita. If she agrees, he will take the risk and fly this iron coffin.
Rhodes, who had run off to give orders, returned to them a couple of hours later. A bunch of technicians had poured out of the nearby hangars, tasked with checking the bomber for malfunctions before the flight.
While the technicians were working on the plane, the aircraft was being loaded. August pushed the buggy with Stark in the transport compartment of the bomber. Rhodes decided to fly with them, along with a dozen of his fighters and a couple of doctors. Military doctors were taken as a last resort, in case something happens to the red-haired billionaire during the flight. Medical attention would be necessary.
There was a lot of space inside the plane, bombs and other weapons were removed in advance. The bomber was used as a transport.
August rolled the pram with Anita deeper into the transport compartment and stayed beside her. Later, Rhodes joined them. During the flight, the two girls talked to each other, the armour-clad mercenary remained silent as a rock. He didn't want to get involved in the conversation between the two girls, he was already tired of Anita's flirting.
After her rescue and delivery to the mercenary base, Anita began to show her signs of attention to Augustus much more actively. The man tolerated and prevailed. Stark was simply toying with him, it was in the character of the original Tony Stark. If he gave in to temptation, the red-haired billionaire would just play with him and throw him away, and he would get tonnes of headaches.
August didn't want to unnecessarily fray his nerves. So he continued to pretend to be a statue. In his head, he imagined the millions he would receive from Stark when he arrived in America. Anita was contractually obliged to pay him the full amount of the hire at once, adding to that the girl's accumulated fines for her insolent behaviour.
August had enough money in his account to spin the cheapest roulette wheel. The chance of anything normal coming out of it was approximately zero. That's why he hadn't used the roulette wheel yet. With the money he got from hiring him, he would be able to spin the mid-level roulette for ten million. There, the chance of something normal falling out was already quite high.
The bomber went in for a landing. The American European base with the right aerodrome was in Germany. The plane was refuelled and checked for malfunctions. Afterwards, they took off again and travelled across the ocean to the American mainland.
The plane landed at a military airfield in New York. First, a dozen military men came out of the transport bay, then August with Stark in a wheelchair already showed up. They were surrounded by a crowd of curious military men, some were just curious about what happened to Anita, others wanted to grease the multibillionaire. Among those who wanted to grease themselves were mostly soldiers in officer ranks, even a general was present.
August wasn't left out either. You could say he was the centre of attention because he was rolling a buggy with Stark and was wearing unusual armour. He was also a man, which also added the lion's share of attention to him.
- Who is he? - Rhodes was asked by a girl with the rank of general. Jenna told in a nutshell the information available to her about August, that he was a mercenary and that he worked for Stark as a personal bodyguard.
The female general grinned. To her, Rhodes' words looked comical. It was the first time she had seen a male mercenary and she had an immediate prejudice against him. The female general did not voice her unflattering guesses about August, so as not to spoil her relationship with Stark.
- Disarm him, he has no reason to walk around the city with illegal weapons, - ordered the generaless.
A couple of military men ran up to August and tried to pull his Kalashnikov off his shoulder without a word. The mercenary's reaction was lightning fast.
Without looking, he struck the first girl in the head, dosing his force so as not to kill her. Then he turned around and hit the second girl in the stomach with his knee. The first soldier fell down and passed out from the blow to the head, while the second bent over with a wheezing sound.
- In Afghanistan, if you try to take away a weapon, you're killed instantly. I felt sorry for your soldiers," August said calmly, raising his hands to the top. A dozen soldiers aimed at him.
- You attacked the soldiers - that's a serious offence, - said the generaless with irritation. She hadn't expected such harshness from the man. - You should have surrendered your weapon voluntarily, now you will go to the punishment cell, then the police will come for you.
- You're forgetting yourself, General, he's my personal bodyguard. You can't just put him in the punishment cell, I will be very upset about it and our rearmament contract with you may be cancelled, - said the red-haired Anita with a soft smile on her face. - August, please surrender your weapon, I'll give you a new one with a licence for free.
- Tz, okay take it Stark, but the contract must be fulfilled by the end of the year. We're on a deadline.
The mercenary looked unhappily at the full woman dressed in a general's uniform. She just wanted to put him in jail for nothing. The military had done their own damage and got what they deserved, in the man's opinion, everything was fair here. If Stark wasn't around him right now, he'd be in for a real gunfight here.
Shifting his gaze from the generaless to Anita, Augustus grimaced. The red-haired girl was looking at him with a mischievous glint in her eyes. In Stark's opinion, she had just bailed out her mercenary and now he owed her. Augustus realised this too, which was why he grimaced.
Stark's condition still required some care. The military doctors at the hospital had removed the reactor from her chest, it was no longer needed. All the shrapnel near her heart had been removed and now the girl's body needed time to fully heal itself.
A private hospital had been chosen for this purpose, Anita had bought out all the upper floors. There were more than ten rooms, she settled in the best, in her opinion, where the windows overlooked the city centre.
- I need to get ready for the press conference," Stark said aloud. - Announce to the people my return and the new company policy.....
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