Raptor 6 by Ronie Kendig

Author:Ronie Kendig [KENDIG, RONIE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-63058-057-5
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2014-10-04T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 25

Somewhere in Afghanistan

17 June—0800 Hours

Twenty-four hours and nobody is talking about your disappearance.”

Zahrah tried to peer between the fibers of the hood where light shone through, but she could not see anything but shapes and blurs.

“Perhaps you are not as important as you thought.”

“I’m not important. I’m a teacher.”

Thud!

Her head knocked sideways. The world tilted. She felt herself falling. Hands tied behind her, she could not break her fall. Her shoulder thudded against the ground. Warmth slid down her lip. Since they’d removed her from her apartment, she remembered little. A pinch in her arm—probably a drug. Then traveling in a vehicle. And now this. It could’ve been days for all she knew.

And with Fekiria shutting her out … it was possible her cousin would not miss her right away.

Footsteps approached. Zahrah braced herself for another hit. Or kick. Instead, hands gripped her arms and shoulders, righting her.

“Please,” she whispered, “I don’t know what you—”

Shouts and thuds garbled her words.

Through the fibers, a vague shape burst into the room. He rattled in Arabic, “We need to leave. Americans are coming—they’re searching the buildings.”

Zahrah’s heart thudded. Thank You, God! Her father or Captain Watters had found out. They were looking for her!

“Get her ready.”

Someone approached and reached toward her.

Zahrah cringed. Get her ready. That meant they wouldn’t kill her yet. Right?

The person grabbed at the hood and yanked—along with a fistful of her hair. Fiery darts tingled along her scalp. Before she could do anything, someone grabbed her head. Jerked it so she looked to the ceiling. The other wrapped silver tape around her mouth—around her neck and head, too! Then he dropped a blue mound of material around her. The suffocating silk covered her, head to toe. She blinked. A small rectangular opening had a netlike barrier. A burqa?

Still tied and now robed in anonymity, two of her captors herded her down a hall. Pulling and pushing her. The material coiled around her legs. She stumbled.

They yanked her onward. Into a dark room then another. Right into—

She gasped. The old gym. They were back at the old school?

They shoved her into the backseat of a van, and someone, also draped in blue, moved in next to her. Another captive? Her heart surged at the thought of an ally.

The person jabbed something into her ribs. “Say nothing and do nothing, and you will live,” came a man’s voice.

Only then did Zahrah identify what was poking her—a gun!

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