Invisible Goodbye by Tierney James

Author:Tierney James [James, Tierney]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Thrillers, Suspense
ISBN: 9781951772369
Google: -_DBzQEACAAJ
Amazon: B08DM5FF7D
Publisher: Paperback Press
Published: 2020-08-22T04:00:00+00:00

The president moved to sit down on a leather couch. He spread one arm along the back. “My source is reliable. Even as we speak, they are being taken to an airport to begin their journey home.”

“They are unharmed?”

“But of course. We are not the monsters your news media makes us out to be. I put one of my top men in charge. General Oblonsky.”

Darya came alive at that moment and jerked his head toward the president. “General Oblonsky?”

“Yes. Why do you ask, Roman?”

He leaned closer to the president and spoke in a quiet voice to keep the ambassador from hearing. “Dr. Scott insisted on talking to her friends after being detained near your quarters. I left all three of the Americans in the care of one of my men, not the general. Given his reputation with…”

“Yes. Yes. I know. He relieved them of the Americans and took them for a brief interrogation. I thought it wise to keep you out of it. My instructions were to leave Dr. Scott in your care and no one else. I’m sure there is nothing to worry about.”

“Sir, if I may go check on Dr. Scott.”

“Of course. I know you’ve made plans for the evening with her. Please let me know how that turns out.” A mischievous smile toyed with the corners of his mouth. “But you’ll take care of the Americans, too, I trust. I wouldn’t want anything to go wrong.”

Darya nodded and excused himself with the grating sound of Ambassador Finley’s voice continuing to ask pointless questions about loose ends and plans. The thought of the general being in charge of Tessa and Samantha gave him serious concerns. The man was a sadist when it came to women. The idea that Darya had started to nudge him out of favor also posed a number of questions about whether his plans had been compromised.

It took only minutes to discover where the prisoners had been taken. A security guard assigned to him ran up and paled when speaking. “I could not disobey General Oblonsky, sir. It would have meant being sent to an outpost at the Arctic Circle.”

Darya nodded. “I know. Where are they now?”

“I followed them,” he said, leading Darya down a series of stairs. “He had them thrown in a horrible place. I watched them leave about an hour ago with several of the general’s men. But Dr. Scott was not with them.”

“Where is Dr. Scott now?” The darkness swam up to meet them, split periodically with the pale flickering of an outdated lighting system.

“I don’t know, Colonel.”

Once on the level where prisoners had been kept, Darya began opening and shutting doors to cells. At the end of a corridor he heard voices and rushed to find one iron-clad door propped open. The familiar voice of General Oblonsky echoed down the damp corridor.

“Perhaps I should take you to my quarters, Dr. Scott, where you will be more comfortable.”

Tessa cowered in the corner with General Oblonsky looming over her. She ducked under the general’s arm, ran to Darya, and buried her face in his collarbone.

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