Cut for Life by Lucinda E Clarke

Author:Lucinda E Clarke [Clarke, Lucinda E]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Umhlanga Press
Published: 2017-09-29T22:00:00+00:00

18 ARRIVAL IN TAMARA

“Which one? Who else did they kill?” Amie was horrified.

Jean Pierre looked sad. “It was the miserable looking one with the smart jacket.”

“Oh, no! Poor Nigel.” A wave of sadness washed over Amie. Dear Nigel! His only ambition had been to cook before he was packed off to Africa and an early death. “Fazia and Linda told me there were lots of other children in the village. What happened to them?”

“They take them all away in the vans and they say they are going to take them to a place near Atari. We stop to give them food and water and then I have the good idea. I pretend that I have left something important back in the village.”

“And just what could you have left behind?” Amie’s voice was as frosty as the look on her face.

“You, ma cherie. I was going to go back to let you out of the hut, but I pretend that I left the papers in one of the huts, papers with the names of the children and the people who had taken them. So I go to look for you and maybe the children who had run away but when I go back, poof! You had all gone.”

“And then?” Amie prompted.

“Now I don’t know where you are, or the kidnappers and the children. I cannot find them in the city. Then I see you and I call to you, but I do not have the chance to talk to you.” He glanced down and Amie was tempted to chuckle.

“Yeah, well I’m sorry about that but how was I to know?”

She would trust this Frenchman. Her instincts had been wrong before and she’d been betrayed in the past, but like it or not she needed his help. The Land Rover didn’t have enough fuel to get to Apatu, and even if it did, she would not be able to move around freely. She lowered the gun and for an instant she thought Jean-Pierre was going to try and grab it, but he made no move.

“You keep it.” He nodded at the little Glock, so snug and comforting in her hand. “I think you know how to use it, yes?”

She nodded. “So, what’s your connection with Maddy?”

“But, of course, I know about her. I tell you our governments are working together so they tell me all about you. You see, we are on the same side? We work together. So, we can become friends now, yes?”

“Friends? I’m not so sure about that, but maybe not enemies. How can they have told you about me?” Amie raised the gun again.

“En bien.” Jean-Pierre smiled nodding his head in such a French way Amie was tempted to think him attractive.

“La Maddy, she send me a description of how you look, blond and very beautiful. I have the photograph.”

Amie frowned at this unexpected colleague, was he telling the truth? “What else did she say?”

Jean-Pierre rubbed his face, he was sweating as the heat was mounting. “It did not make all the sense.

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