Chapter 33: RYDER

"You can't!"

"How do you know what I was thinking?" The one named Tyler looked at me with a smirk on his face but didn't answer. How the hell did he know that I was tempted to go to Elena as soon as we landed?

I'm not sure what to make of these two men that Saunders had sent to the mountains to get me.

They weren't the most talkative bunch, and I got the feeling that there was a whole lot more going on than what they'd told me so far. They hadn't shared much, and all Saunders would say is that I would know in due time, but they did say that I was helping them in a big way, whatever that meant.

I'm not sure how, but I get the feeling that it's huge, and it has something to do with the church and Mary, and they were about to use me to get inside. There was an underlying feeling of something dark and sinister about their hushed tones and the way they seemed on high alert even when we were thirty thousand feet in the air.

I know military men when I see them, and these two are most definit