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The hostages include a father, a hter, and a nine-year-old son If things go south for any reason, the overreaching goal is to protect the kids at all costs, but again… not overly worried about it Everything about this event seems pretty par for the course, and it’s a sad world when that can be said about kidnappings, but they happen all too frequently in Latin America

We’re allacross in a low ruht armed men—three armed hat look like old Soviet AK-47’s and the others with es are intact”

None of us nated clearing where we’d been given coordinates to meet Jackson’s com crackles, and he continues, “Guns are on the kids”

Makes sense They know our highest priority is the kids’ safety, and if they only have three guns, they’re going to keep them on their most prized possessions

Bodie’s voice coroup “Two have pistols in the backs of their waistbands”

“Startthe h, orders us

We all e as we can until we coroup

All of us except Ladd He’s up in a tree somewhere with his sniper rifle, ready to pick off enemies if needed

Kynan, Bodie, Jackson, and I enter the clearing just a few es are accounted for, but despite the dirt and sweat on thele for the last several days, I can see exactly why they got kidnapped They’re all wearing designer clothing, not that I can identify by brand, but I know expensive when I see it I suspect the family has already been alleviated of luxury ite to be kidnapped

All four faht at the back, their skin has turned white along the borders of the cloth They look appropriately terrified, especially the daughter I hope to hell she and the mother haven’t been violated, because absolute safety is never guaranteed

One of the men with aolive-green camo pants withuniforuys are just the roup