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Not Without Her
Jana’s eyes opened from the blackness into a wet, scorching pain. Her head throbbed. She could tell men were towering above her but all she could hear was a bright stinging ring. Since she was facedown, she could not see which one of them had grabbed her by the hair and dragged her into the room. As her hearing began to return, she could hear gunfire coming from several directions.
She heard Rojas’s voice. “Roll that f*****g panocha over. I want her to look me in the eye when I kill her.” Someone grabbed her again and rolled her onto her back. The man standing directly above her was Gustavo Moreno, Rojas’s intelligence officer. He stood with a polished chrome pistol in his hand.
Jana reached to the back of her head and winced against the pain. Her hair was wet and wh
