Love Triangle 2: After the End by Brenda Barrett

Author:Brenda Barrett [Barrett, Brenda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, United States, African American, Christian, Women's Fiction
Amazon: B00P766ONY
Publisher: Jamaica Treasures
Published: 2014-11-03T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Isaiah cracked his knuckles one after another as he sat in the back of a government car heading to Whitehouse. He and Greg had just walked through a media circus, as everybody wanted their story on how they went missing for four years. The news cameramen had been pretty intrusive, pushing the cameras in their face and hollering question after question at them.

Several ministers of government had met them at the airport and had taken charge—they had had an official press conference at the airport. It had been a big deal that they were back and no doubt it would be the topic of conversation for weeks to come.

Hopefully now the media furor would die down and they could get on with the business of reconciling with their families. They had told Jamaica everything about their missing five years, their malfunctioning boat, the ship that had seemed like a godsend but had turned out to be pirates brandishing guns. How the men had carried them to an island plantation called Diablos, near Colombia, where they forced them to work to plant and maintain acres and acres of the coca plant. They also had a factory where they extracted cocaine from the plant. Thousands of pounds of the drug were created every month and shipped around the world.

It had been tough when they were first captured but both he and Greg had learned quickly that once they did not try to run away and minded their own business, they would be okay. They hadn't even been treated that roughly except for the first couple of days. They had shared huts with two Bolivian fishermen who had been captured as well and had quickly learned the lay of the land and the farming routine.

Their capturers had treated them relatively well, even going as far as bringing them women, prostitutes from the Colombian mainland. It was one of those prostitutes that had alerted the Colombian government to what was happening on Diablos and resulted in them being free.

Isaiah forced himself to relax, closing his eyes and exhaling loudly. Greg had not moved from his side of the car. He was motionless, as if all feeling had gone from him. He was staring out the window of the car in a daze.

He understood the feeling, except that he wasn't just dazed, he was anxious and nervous. What would going home be like now? Would Colleen have watched him on TV and be waiting for him?

Five years, three months and six days was a long time to be away. He closed his eyes and envisioned her face. He had done that every day since he was away. At first, he hadn't been interested in the women that their capturers had supplied; he had just wanted to come home to Colleen.

He had never given up hope, never lost hope that one day he would come home. He had spent quite a bit of time praying about just that. In a roundabout way he was beginning to think that God had allowed them to be found because he had badgered Him so much about it.

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