Blessed are the Peacemakers by Kristi Belcamino

Author:Kristi Belcamino
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mystery suspense thriller crime fiction amateur sleuth women sleuths
Publisher: Kristi Belcamino
Published: 2017-07-26T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN

Monica seemed distracted today. After a rambunctious lovemaking session, she turned away from Donovan on the small futon mattress and buried her face in her hands.

“What is it?” Donovan brushed back her sleek black hair, trying to see her face.

“El Senor is bringing another shipment in and I don’t think my heart can bear it.”

Donovan held his breath. She had never spoken about the “senor” or anything besides her own sad past.

At first Donovan thought she must mean a shipment of drugs, but Monica saying she was heartbroken about another shipment of drugs didn’t make sense. As soon as he thought this, the horrific answer became clear—another shipment of young women who would be used as drug mules.

He tried to hide his surprise. How did he know this? It was something from his memory. He flashed back to sitting in the seat of an airplane—a large commercial jet, not the small plane he crashed in. While he sat, he reviewed a stack of photos of gruesome bodies encased in plastic that had been found in an American lake.

Then he remembered, the bodies were young Mexican women who had been transporting some type of drug internally and the method had failed. The containers with drugs they had ingested had burst, killing them instantly. Somebody, maybe the drug lord, had dumped the bodies in the lake.

That must be why he was in Central America. He’d been heading here to stop it from happening again. But he couldn’t let Monica realize any of this. Her loyalty to the drug lord was unshakable. He had to play it cool.

“Where are they, Monica? The girls? Is he keeping them here?”

She sat up and angrily brushed her tears away. “Yes. He keeps them here—they have a special princess room on the top floor. They are all so excited. They are giggling and trying on clothes and using makeup and perfume. They think they are so special. They all get to leave here and go to new lives in America, with diamonds and gold and cars.”

Donovan didn’t correct her.

“Why does this upset you, mi querido?”

Without realizing it, he called her his darling. It was what she sometimes called him and it came out automatically. But Monica was still talking and he needed to pay attention if he was going to help those girls.

“He loves them more than me. They are so innocent and sweet and fun and I am just boring old Monica who has to deal with dirty laundry and ...” she closed her mouth abruptly.

“And keeping his prisoner occupied?”

She nodded looking down.

“I need to tell you something,” Donovan said, sitting up and raking his hand through his hair. “You should not be jealous of those girls.”

Monica looked at him with skepticism.

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