“Broken pelvis.He’s in the car.”
Vance stood.“Are you in charge?When are you getting me out of here?”
“Not tonight,” Dobby told him.“You might as well make yourself comfortable.”
“Here?”Vance sounded incredulous.“I’m not sleeping in the jungle.”
Seriously?“I didn’t say you had to sleep, but extraction isn’t likely until daylight.”
“I should have stayed at the house,” Vance grumbled.
“You’d prefer to be with the kidnappers who threatened to kill you?”Dobby asked.
“No, of course not.”He glanced away.
Dobby’s bullshit metre went off the chart.He strode over to Vance and stood right in his face.“Why weren’t you tied to a chair when we arrived?”
Vance stumbled back.“What?”
“In the ransom video your parents received, you were tied to a chair.Why did Agus let you out?”
“Ah…” Vance glanced around as if looking for a solution.
Which meant he didn’t have an honest answer.Dobby’s eyes widened.
“Did you fake the kidnapping?”
Vance’s chest puffed up.Before he said anything, Dobby growled, “No bullshit.I have an injured, immobile soldier to protect.”
“Aren’t you supposed to be protecting me?”
“You are currently safe and uninjured.You are no longer my priority.”He stared into the man’s eyes, daring him to argue further.“Answer the question.”
Vance stepped back.“Yes.No.At first.”
Dobby clenched his teeth.“Explain.”
“I needed money, and my selfish fiancée refused to marry me so I had to come up with something.”
A flash of anger swept through him.“Mila Watkins?”He kept his voice deceptively light.“Yourex-fiancée?”
Vance nodded.“Yeah, well she’ll be regretting turning me down now.”
Dobby gritted his teeth.“You don’t care she was caught in the wave?”
“She chose to be here.”
He clenched his hands.How much trouble would he be in if he punched the man they’d rescued?It would probably be worth it.
“What did you come up with?”Joker asked, getting back to the point.
“When Mila said she wouldn’t marry me, I told Agus my parents would pay crazy ransom money.All he had to do was send them a video of me tied up and when the payment came, he’d take a portion and I’d keep the rest.”
Dobby almost laughed.“You thought he’d let you have anything when he could walk away with several million dollars?”
“He’s rich.He doesn’t need the money, but he wanted to help me.”
Sure he did.“What happened after you sent the video?”
