The Solider Husband

18 May, Li Family Villa, Capital

Seeing that her family was not harassing John but talking calmly about things with John Bronwyn turned and followed her father to his study before shutting the door behind them on entering.

"What is it Bronwyn?"

"Yes, General sir…"

Shaking his head, "What did we just talk about?"

Chucking Bronwyn said, "Sorry Dad, it is sometimes hard to change tacks."

"Matthew Rong gave you something to give me?"

"How…"

"I have to play dumb out there, because despite your Uncles and their families knowing we both serve, your mother and I have always kept it secret from there our assignments and that you are working in my direct line of command. Your grandfather was always worried about his princess following in her father's footsteps and made your mother and I promise him a few things. He knew that I have been the commander of Special Forces for fifteen years."

Seeing the shocked look on Bronwyn's face he continued "You forget your grandfather in his teenage years came in in the early years of the establishment of our modern country to use his busines ac.u.men to support the country development. He would have been told my posting as a favour when he asked."

"We promised your grandfather, if you joined that I would do everything I could to try and keep you from a combat role and to get you under my direct chain of command. The fact you decided to join to have the military pay for your legal education basically ensued that. Your academic record however had to see me resort to a few tactics to get you under my direct chain of command, but I succeeded. But we promised that we would not tell your Uncles that."

"Damn it Dad, I wanted a career, not it to be fulfilling an obligation…"

"Bronwyn, when have I ever said that it is an obligation. You know in the special forces we look to get the best of the best in. That not only includes operators but the support staff, including legal staff that can handle international issues as well as domestic matters for us and support our members if there are civilian legal matters that have to be dealt with. That protects the embers of special forces and promotes the national security of the country."

Seeing the look of anger on his daughters face General Li continued "You forget, you are brilliant at what you do, hence like every other divisional head I thought to get you under my command. While it was slightly underhanded the comment I made in the end that saw you placed under my command is that if you were placed in any other command, because you are my daughter and a lawyer there would always be questioning by them of whether special forces were trying to exert influence in their commands."

Bronwyn paused before saying "There is logic to that dad. During the time from finishing university until I was formally recognised as a lawyer I had to work in the Main Legal Division for the military. I always felt that people were overly cautious around me. Now that makes sense."

"It does. Now, if I did not say it last week, you did an exceptional job in handling all the legal matters that arose. I thought there would be a huge fight, particularly due to the attitude of the senior police and prosecutors late on Saturday and into Sunday, but you navigated it brilliantly."

"Are you trying to praise my to leave you alone? You know I have as high of a clearance as you do."

"You have top level clearance with almost every special project clearance, but if the message I received from Matthew is correct, this is one of the very few things you are not cleared for…"

"Then read me in."

"Bronwyn," came a voice behind her. "You father has no ability to read you in. That has to be me."

Before she even turned around Bronwyn said, "How can you do that Legend?"

"Bronwyn, you are badgering your father and your boyfriend is out there being interrogated by your family. I would have thought rather than engaging in a conversation with your father over why you were placed in his chain of command you would be preventing that."

"I trust him, and he can cope. You two know what he would have been through to get to his position so stop trying to change the course of this conversation."

"You got approval Legend?"

"After a lot of trouble. You know those cleared were only meant to be two from each agency for this raw data. Unlike getting Matthew into the inner circle on this, because of his location and connections this was challenging. It was only after I explored the last two batches of raw intelligence and the potential ramifications of this with them three times, we all finally concluded that we needed a legal opinion given some potential consequences. The question was who, and while domestic intelligence wanted to have someone from their legal division be that person, we all ended up agreeing that we needed someone tied to those already cleared."

"So, they are happy with Bronwyn?"

"Yes, while they wanted someone in the capital, the other benefit is given her current assignment in City K, it gives us two people cleared there without suspicion. If someone from here was cleared in the end, we would need to shift someone there and that may give everything away."

Looking between the two of the, the Bronwyn asked, "What in the world are you two talking about?"

General Li calmly said "You know not being cleared for some things; well this is something that you are going to be cleared for. Other than the three of us and Matthew Rong there are only four other people in the whole of the country plus our intelligence asset that are cleared for this. No politician knows and all intelligence this operation generates is cleaned so much before going out its original source is well hidden. Welcome to the inner circle."

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