Undercover Target by Frank Holdaway

Author:Frank Holdaway
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LDS, supense, clean, fictional, novel, scout, danger, mountains, Utah, mercenaries
Publisher: Covenant Communications, Inc.
Published: 2016-07-29T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

Peng's Confession

While Ron slept, I sat by the fire trying to keep the chill wind from finding the seams in my clothes, trying not to think about the spiders that seemed to inhabit every corner of this little valley, trying to figure out what to do next.

My first thought was that with the wet team out of the picture and both Ron and me free, we could tag team the mercenaries, drawing them away from the boys and picking them off one at a time. But Ron looked awfully pale, and it was clear he had lost a lot of blood. Ex-Delta Force or not, he wasn’t in shape for a battle.

He’d said we needed to come up with a good plan, but for all I knew he could be out for days and I would be no closer to freeing the boys or finding Hope.

I wondered briefly if I should be watching the entrance to the canyon rather than sitting by the fire. But there was no reason for anyone to come back here. They thought Ron was dead, and they thought I had fled the mountains.

The wind blew harder. I could understand why nobody would want to stay in this spot.

I should be trying to get some sleep while I had the chance. I told myself that tomorrow Ron would awaken, and together we could come up with a plan to rescue the boys and then go after Hope.

Just when I had settled into a semisoft, semiwarm position in between the rocks, I heard a noise. At first I thought it was a small animal or a really large spider moving through the bushes, circling our camp. I reached for a gun and remembered I had stuck both Ron’s and Woolhead’s weapons back inside the pack, which was leaning against a rock several feet away. I tried to move quietly as I raised myself up and began to inch my way toward the pack.

A face suddenly appeared in the firelight, and I almost screamed like a girl.

“It’s just me,” Peng said as he moved fully into the light of the fire.

I let out a breath but kept moving toward the pack. I pulled out one of the guns and scanned the dark landscape behind where Peng had appeared.

“I’m alone,” Peng said.

“But how did you . . . ?” I stopped before finishing the sentence. Peng was good at escaping into the dark.

“Where are the other boys?” I asked quickly. I was almost afraid to hear the answer.

“Sleeping.”

I breathed out a sigh of relief.

“How is Ron?” Peng looked at him as if trying to work out a puzzle.

“He’s sleeping too. He’s lost some blood, but he’s okay.”

“I saw him die.” Peng’s voice was expressionless. Watching a beloved leader murdered in front of his eyes must have been a traumatic experience, one that would burn a deep and lasting scar, yet Peng’s face revealed nothing about what was going on beneath the surface.

“He was wearing a vest,” I said. “The bullets to his chest hurt him but didn’t penetrate the skin.

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