Alex was unaware of how long she had been asleep, but suddenly she felt the atmosphere change, dramatically. Her eyes popped wide as she sprung out of her seat, instinctively blocking Ethan’s path to Vladimir. In that instant, Ethan struck out, hitting her in her injured stomach and knocking her into the wall.
“La tierra o morir.” Ethan’s voice was a rough whisper, deadly and unforgiving. The words “land or die” were said in Spanish, in a Colombian accent, and had Alex’s heart racing, when she realized her baby brother was not awake. Dodger moved to defend her, but she stayed him with a hand, even as she pressed her other hand to her bleeding wound. Man, that was going to hurt like a son of a b***h, but right now, she had to stop her brother.
“La misión es mas de soldado.” The mission is
