Chapter 100

No wonder he hadn’t spoken to me for five days.

“How curious and how horrible what happened to that boy, right?” said my mother, and stood next to me offering me the already peeled apple. “He is kidnapped by a group of terrorists, manages to escape and tries to lead a normal life in secret so that he does not get captured again, only for the guys to discover him and kill his wife… it’s terrible. It seems that they were very stubborn terrorists. They say he has two small children, who narrowly escaped. Who knows how he escaped?”

I frowned. The CNN commentator was talking just about that, in the background.

“Terrorists?” I knew what I said, confused. I took the fruit from her hands, but I didn’t bite it.

“That’s what they’re saying.”

I didn’t know whether to laugh at the implausibility of that, or what. Haydar, Álvaro and their entire team were very stubborn, but… if that was the “wonderful scheme” that Illya Valinchenko and his advisors had devised, it n