SEAL's Defiance by James Elle

Author:James, Elle [James, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Military, Suspense, SEALs
Publisher: Elle James
Published: 2015-09-08T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

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AFTER HE LEFT Claire in the line, Irish had ducked behind a building. From his vantage point, he could see the border crossing and the road leading up to it from the south. He’d noticed the truckload of rebels as soon as they rolled into the small border town. Their faces were hidden behind red plaid or green scarves.

Meanwhile, the guards at the border crossing played with the items in Claire’s doctor bag.

Thankfully, it was a busy day at the border. The truckload of rebels was forced to slow their approach.

When they all jumped from the truck and advance on the border guards, Claire was waved through.

She didn’t wait around, moving through as soon as she got clearance.

“Smart lass,” Irish whispered beneath his breath. But she wouldn’t be safe for long. Just because she’d crossed the border into another country didn’t mean squat to the rebels. They didn’t respect borders, going after whatever they wanted. If they were after Claire, they wouldn’t stop until they captured her.

Irish ducked into a shop, paid a man for his headscarf, wrapped it around his head and neck and hurried outside again. Slipping a package of matches from his pocket. With all the attention at the border where the guards argued with the rebels, no one saw the man stuffing a wad of fabric into the gas tank of the rebels’ truck. If anyone did, they weren’t saying anything as Irish lit a match, catching the tail of the fabric wad on fire. When he was certain it would stay lit, he backed away, slipping into the crowd, detaching himself when he reached a building and hurried around it, between two more and emerged on the other side of the loosely guarded border. He was angling toward the trucks heading north when the explosion shook the ground beneath him.

On the road, he spied the banana truck he and Claire had hitched a ride on and almost smiled. If he wasn’t mistaken, the woman with the bright turquoise shash glancing out the passenger window was none other than Claire Boyette, amazing doctor and adventurer.

With all the attention on the burning vehicle on the Somali side of the border, no one made a sound when the man dressed in black leaped aboard the back of a banana truck and settled in for the long ride on a dusty road north to Djibouti City.

He leaned back against the stems of bananas and watched the black smoke from the vehicle fire climb into the sky and dissipate. He’d gotten lucky. If a crowd hadn’t been at the border that day, he and Claire might not have made it across.

As long as the rebels didn’t commandeer another vehicle, the banana truck and its occupants would make it safely to the city in less than forty minutes.

Those forty minutes in the back of the banana truck dragged by. The sun traveling toward the western horizon was still hot enough to make him sweat, even with the air stirred up by the vehicle’s movement.

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