Special Forces: Operation Alpha: Jungle Buck (Kindle Worlds Novella) (Sealed With A Kiss Book 3) by Margaret Madigan

Author:Margaret Madigan [Madigan, Margaret]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2017-11-04T18:30:00+00:00

Back at the village, Buck headed for the lab to find Mindy. They’d need to talk to Pucu and Kaba, but he wanted to prep Mindy first.

“Pedro, you go see Pucu. Tell her what I told you, and that I’ll meet with her and answer her questions after I see Dr. Emerson.”

Pedro nodded and hurried off to Pucu’s home. Buck took a deep breath and squared his shoulders as he walked to the lab. He had the more difficult task of the two.

He found Mindy working with April and Cody, the three of them in a heated discussion over something. Watching her when she didn’t know made him smile. She had such passion for her work, and it seemed anymore like the only time she could be truly relaxed and at peace with herself. It hurt just a little he couldn’t fill that role, but he lived and breathed his job, too, so he understood that she loved her work.

“Mindy,” he said, stepping into the lab.

They all froze and turned to look at him at the same time.

“You’re back,” Mindy said, meeting him partway across the room for a hug. “How did it go?”

“About as well as I expected it to.”

“They said screw off, didn’t they?” April asked.

“Not entirely. It turns out the guy who owns the logging company is an old military buddy,” Buck said.

“Really?” Mindy asked. “That’s good. He listened to you, then.”

“Sort of. He’s working for a local farming consortium to clear some forest so they can grow food. He proposed that if the villages move up over the ridge—and you move your research—they’ll stay on this side of the ridge.”

“But they’re still destroying the rainforest,” Cody said. “Once it’s gone, you can’t replace it. There’s biodiversity here you can’t find anywhere else on the planet, and they just want to slash and burn it like it doesn’t matter. Just to grow some more fucking corn.”

“If you haven’t noticed, Cody, there are seven billion people on the planet, and more being born every day. These people are just trying to stay alive and feed their families. They don’t have the luxury of debating ethics. They just want to eat,” Buck said.

“They’ll be pretty damn sorry when the rain forest is gone and they realize the consequences,” April said.

“I can’t do anything about that,” Buck said. “If Blitz doesn’t do it somebody else will. It’s not something any one of us can stop. It’s too big.”

Mindy’s lips thinned and she crossed her arms in front of her and she fumed. “Absolutely not,” she said. “The villagers shouldn’t have to leave their homes so somebody else can eat.”

Buck shook his head. “I agree. But if they don’t move, the bulldozers will come anyway.”

“And the salamander habitat is here, not over the ridge. If they destroy this part of the forest, they destroy the habitat and the salamanders will be gone. This is where we have to do the research,” she said.

Damn she was stubborn.

“Can’t you capture some of the

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