Hatch by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Military, Romance
ISBN: 9781773365350
Publisher: Valley Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2021-10-30T00:00:00+00:00

Hatch tried to keep her calm and to feed her, then gave her another cup of coffee. He was waiting for Corbin to return. Hatch needed to ask her more questions about her ordeal. He wanted to make sure they understood it all a bit better. He also needed to confirm that she wasn’t holding back any information. She had been kept under lock and key, and that had to make things muddy. So far, watching her eat and getting her some time to unwind seemed like a necessary step. When she finally took a break from the food, he asked, “Is that better?”

She smiled at him. “Yes, thank you. So I presume the US government sent you.”

He nodded. “Yes, and, as I told you, I’m part of a special division.”

She nodded. “So I presume that my father managed to get the word out.”

“Well, somebody did. That is information I don’t have.” He shrugged. “We get orders, and we act on them.”

“Of course,” she replied, “and it doesn’t really matter. It was just in the back of my mind, wondering how any of this came to be.”

“More to the point,” he continued, “let’s figure out how the kidnappers knew where you were and how they decided that this was a good idea. I’d like to figure out what it was that they really wanted from your father.”

“I’m not even so much concerned about that,” she admitted. “All I want is to make sure that they don’t think that they can come back after me again because that is definitely not what I want to deal with.”

“Good point,” he murmured. “So it sounds like they were looking for information on a dig.”

“Right.” She nodded. “And I didn’t know anything about it,” she immediately clarified.

“Got it. Nobody here is accusing you.”

She reached up, scrubbed her face. “You’re not accusing me. I get that. But I feel like I’m responsible for something here, and I don’t even know what that could be.”

“You’re not responsible for anything,” he declared. “Keep that in mind. This has been a shit show from the beginning, and you were caught up in somebody else’s anger and somebody else’s machinations. Let’s just make sure that we get as much information as we can, so we can solve it.”

“And I don’t even know what it means to solve it now,” she replied. “I just want to go home.”

“What about the dig?”

“I don’t even know what happened there either, but, according to the Egyptian government, I’m not allowed to continue, with or without my father,” she murmured. “And, now that he’s gone, I doubt I’ll be allowed to continue at all.”

“You were only here for a few months though, right?”

She nodded. “Yes.”

“What can you tell me about your father’s foreman?” he asked.

“I don’t know him. My knowledge is next to nothing.”

“Did you ever see him there with the kidnappers?”

She shook her head, thinking for a minute. “No, I didn’t.”

“You never heard his name mentioned?”

She shook her head again. “No, why would I? I don’t understand what you’re getting at.

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