Yeager's Mission by Scott Bell

Author:Scott Bell
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Red Adept Publishing
Published: 2016-06-29T00:00:00+00:00

Cristian Guzman—a former truck driver who was about to return to his old vocation—came through the side door of the garage and paused, letting his eyes adjust to the dim interior. An arc welder crackled, and sparks dazzled from the front of the Dodge Ram pickup in the middle of the garage. Herman crouched at the grill, a welding hood over his face.

Cristian closed the door behind him, shutting off the midmorning sounds from the village of Rascón. “Como ’sta?”

His son looked up from his welding and tilted the mask up. “Almost done. Another couple of spots, and it will be done.”

“Bueno.” Cristian inspected the new feature on the Ram, thinking about how appropriate that name was. Herman had affixed to the front of the dual-wheeled pickup a lattice of black iron bars, welded to struts sticking out from the frame. The struts, in turn, were welded to the unibody frame of the industrial-duty truck. He had also beefed up the springs and added knobby tires.

In the bed, twenty bags of concrete added mass and weight.

“Bueno,” Cristian repeated. “You must hurry, though. Trevino needs his welder back. The truck is damaged.”

“The truck?” Herman glanced at the pickup in front of him, puzzlement creasing his brow under the hood.

“Not that truck. The truck.” Cristian pointed toward the mission. “The big one.”

“Ah. Damaged? Damaged how?”

Cristian shrugged. “I think the radiator.”

“Can it be fixed?”

“We can only hope.”

Herman’s face took on the look of a brewing storm. “It has to be fixed. I will not give up everything at this point. What did the priest say?”

“He said to be patient, that God will provide.” Cristian shrugged again. “As if he can speak on God’s behalf anymore after what he plans to do.”

“How long? I mean, when we know?”

“We have all day today, so perhaps Trevino can fix the radiator and the truck would be ready to go tonight. We have to go at night anyway, so maybe tonight.”

“What about the fighting men at the mission? Has the priest accounted for them?”

Cristian was wearing out his shoulders shrugging. He did it again anyway. “He says the open fighting with Grupo Verdugo complicates things, but he’d planned to… how did he say it? It sounded so nice. Ah. He said he planned to make sure they did not interfere.” Cristian waggled his hand. “Whatever that means.”

“And if the Verdugo men come back while we’re loading? Or before?”

Cristian forced himself not to shrug. “That, my son, is something else that is in God’s hands.”

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