Seized by the Sheik by Peterson Ann Voss

Author:Peterson, Ann Voss [Peterson, Ann Voss]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: suspense
ISBN: 9781426885037
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-02-01T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Callie thought she’d been upset by the ugly spectacle of the mob protest before. Now, looking up at her oldest brother, she felt more than a little sick. “How can you be a part of something like this, Brent? What are you doing here?”

“What are you doing here with him?” Brent asked.

She let out an exasperated breath. He must have seen her with Efraim before they returned to the truck. “I work for the Office of Foreign Affairs.”

“You can’t tell me that’s business.”

“No, it’s also about finding a murderer.”

“Murderer? Suddenly protecting your own is murder?” He glared at her out of the corner of his eye and took a swig of beer. “That sheik, he and his friends are no good, Callie. You have to see that.”

“I see a brother I’d hoped was better than this.” She shot a look at the T-shirt.

“Give me a break. This was a peaceful town until they got here. No explosions. No murders. Your royal friends have turned Dumont into a war zone. We just want our town back, our peaceful way of life.”

“I’d love to believe that you want peace, but if that’s really the case, threatening and violence isn’t a way to get there.”

“Who’s threatening? Who’s committing violence?”

“Whoever set off that car bomb. Whoever shot Fahad Bahir.”

“What makes you think it was someone from Dumont?”

She would like to believe it wasn’t. She was desperate to believe that. But she couldn’t close her eyes and avoid what was right in front of her. “Oh, I don’t know. Maybe because there’s enough hate in the air around here to choke a horse.”

“If your royal pals don’t like that, they should go home. They’re in our country. They don’t belong here.”

“And it’s exactly that type of attitude that might lead someone to start shooting.”

“Are you accusing me of murder, little sis?”

Was she? She had to admit that of all her brothers, Brent was the one who was bitter. Brent was the one struggling to control his anger. Brent’s life had changed in the Middle East and it would never be the same again. But with all of Brent’s challenges, she still couldn’t accept the thought of him shooting Fahad in cold blood and attacking Efraim. Maybe she was just closing her eyes to reality, but she couldn’t believe her brother was a murderer. “Of course not.”

“Good. Because if I’d wanted these foreigners dead, not only would this Fahad be in the morgue, your friend in the truck would be with him.”

She’d always been able to handle Brent when they were growing up. She knew her brother was having trouble adjusting to the unexpected turn his life had taken. She knew he’d seen horrible things in Afghanistan, and those things had changed him. But she couldn’t stand here and listen to him talk of killing Efraim.

She pushed past him.

“Cal.”

She kept going, wading farther into the crowd. She needed to get away from Brent before she belted him. Before she lost all hope that the decent streak he used to possess had been killed right along with his military career.

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