Defending Raven (Mountain Mercenaries Book 7) by Susan Stoker

Author:Susan Stoker [Stoker, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: to-read
ISBN: 1542018595
Google: VIn_ywEACAAJ
Amazon: B081DQ9M1F
Goodreads: 48881537
Publisher: Montlake
Published: 2020-06-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“Don’t be nervous,” Dave told Raven as he pulled over to the side of the road where he usually dropped her off before watching her walk toward the house where David was living.

“I can’t help it,” she told him, biting her lip. “Every time I come here, I dread walking in and being told he’s gone. That del Rio has taken him again.”

Dave hated that for his wife. He hated the delay in freeing the boy and getting them all back to the States. “I hope the next time we come to this house, it’s to get David and bring him home,” he told her honestly.

“Me too,” Raven whispered.

“Look at me,” Dave ordered gently.

His wife turned her head, and he couldn’t help but be awed all over again that he was really sitting next to her. It was still hard to believe, after all this time. “I’m going to get our son home. Where we’ll teach him to love LEGOs and to laugh when he leaves his toys all over the house for us to trip over. We’ll take him camping . . . show him how to make s’mores. We’re going to have a future together. The three of us.”

He watched as Raven visibly relaxed. “Okay.”

“Okay. Be careful. Don’t do or say anything to David or anyone else that might raise any suspicions.”

“I won’t.”

“Did you get enough to eat this morning? Are you going to be all right until tonight when I come back and pick you up?” Dave asked.

Raven’s lips twitched. “I had plenty,” she told him. “You made me eat that last protein bar, and now I think I might burst.”

“You need the calories. Starving you is just one more black mark on del Rio’s soul.” He held out his hand, and she put hers in his. Dave brought it up to his mouth and kissed her palm. “I love you. This is gonna be over soon.”

“Okay,” she told him, the emotion easy to see in her eyes. She was overwhelmed and scared, but underneath all that, he saw a belief in him that he hoped he’d be able to live up to.

He watched as she reached over and opened the door. She closed it without another word and walked down the sidewalk toward the small house. Dave had wanted to drop her off closer, so she didn’t have to walk as far, but he knew it was safer to stay at least a half mile away so as not to raise any suspicions.

He was still staring at the sidewalk a few moments after Raven had disappeared, thinking about his upcoming appointment at the US embassy to pick up David’s passport and the raid his team was planning for that night—

When the glass in the window next to his head suddenly shattered.

Flinching away from the shards, Dave wasn’t prepared for two men to reach through the window and physically pull him out. They were strong, and Dave fought like a man possessed. He managed to get a few licks in before one of the men shoved a pistol against his head.

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