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My strained neck started killing rabbed the

ladder In the distance by the house, there was still gunfire, but it was beco sporadic

I looked to ht as I heard a bomblike splash of water It was the horse It had somehow made its way to the surface I watched as it splashed to the shallow end and leaped out, clicking over the tiles before it disappeared into the darkness

CHAPTER 95

THE SPECIAL FORCES MEDIC assigned to our team patched e bandage to my face and put me in a neck brace

The entire fight had taken twenty minutes We’d killed or captured forty-three cartelassholes in attendance We listened to the radio as the Special Forces secured the mansion and the rest of the compound I waited breathlessly to be told that my family had been found, but it didn’t happen

Where the hell were they?

After a few minutes, Emily heard fro to join the party It was to rantly invaded Mexican airspace and conducted a covert raid without even so much as a phone call to the new Mexican president’s office

It pissed overn right out in the open, that very high-up people in the Mexican government were quite obviously on Perrine’s payroll Back to political-bullshit business as usual, I thought The same old lies, the same old situation

With the scene e rescue team decided topulled fro, but his blood pressure was becoht, with his head trau into shock

I insisted on helping with his stretcher I desperately needed hih consciousness to tellGardens of Babylon, through the back of the round-floor office

As the et hin of my family The inside was as opulent as the outside, if that were possible Twenty-foot coffered ceilings, wedding-cake , ballrooemstone

So around a bottle of Douy handcuffed to a chair

“Who’s this?” I asked them

“He says he’s the butler,” said one of the comlés, but look at hiuy’s a Brit if I ever saw one”