Rogue Operator by J Robert Kennedy

Author:J Robert Kennedy
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: General Fiction
ISBN: 9781482785494
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2013-04-29T07:00:00+00:00

Jason Peterson “Residence”, Somewhere in North Korea

Three Days after the Kidnappings

Jason stepped into his ‘new home’ and closed the door. He was exhausted. They had spent the entire day pretty much ignoring each other as much as possible, while making sure all of the equipment was still functional. It wasn’t. But that wasn’t that big a deal, it would be within a matter of days. They had left instructions with their handlers, and apparently an engineering crew would be in that night to get as much done as possible.

He entered the kitchen to find his wife and kids sitting at the table. They all jumped from their chairs at the sight of him, and rushed him, smothering him with hugs as they all cried. He found his own chest tightening, but realized he had to be strong for them, at least for the kids. For his wife, he might indulge the tears he was bottling up inside in the privacy of their bed, but not here, in front of the kids.

“Everything is going to be alright,” he said in as calm a voice as he could. “Let’s just all sit down, and I’ll let you know what’s going on.”

They sat around the table, Darius in his lap, refusing to remove his arms from around Jason’s neck, and Ayla sitting on her mother’s knee. Maggie sat, eyes red, biting her lip as she held out her hand. Jason took it and squeezed.

“Okay, I’ll tell you everything I can. We’re in North Korea.”

A cry erupted from Maggie and she quickly stifled it, but not before Darius began to whimper. Jason patted his head.

“Hey, big guy, what are you worried about? You’ve never even heard of North Korea. There’s nothing to worry about, it’s just a place.” He turned back to Maggie. “There’s a place here called the International Cooperation Center. They’ve got a job for Carl and I…” He paused, then looked at Maggie. “And Phil.”

“I thought he was dead!”

Jason shook his head. “No, in fact, this entire thing is his doing.”

“What?”

Jason could see some of the fear leave his wife’s face, anger pushing it aside.

“Apparently he got wind the project was going to be canned, and we were all going to be fired. He agreed to work for a Chinese company in exchange for a payout of ten million dollars once the job was complete. He told them it would take about a year, and he needed us to complete the work.”

“That mother—” Maggie stopped and took a deep breath. “Why are we here?”

“Leverage.”

“What’s that mean?” asked Darius as fear returned to his mother’s eyes.

“It means they’re going to kill us if Daddy doesn’t do what they say!” cried Ayla, bursting into tears and burying her head in her mother’s chest.

“No, that’s not true. They’re not going to hurt you because I’m going to cooperate with them. You’ve got nothing to worry about,” said Jason, trying to be as reassuring as possible, even though he personally felt the words coming from his mouth were a load of lies.

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