This was a bald-faced lie, but Chartreuse was impressed by her colleague’s persuasive charm. Hunter could look like he genuinely liked people. He had their captor in his t****l and trained the torch at his head. Olive pressed the button on her phone. The drone’s bullet hit the old soldier right in the face. Like a tree chopped at its root, he fell into the sand and lay perfectly still. His men froze.
“Now you guys listen. My little drone has just two more bullets. We can’t kill all of you, but we can kill some of you. Your commanding officer is dead. Let us go the way we came, and we will take the drone with us.”
Silence. Chartreuse wasn’t sure the guards understood a word she said.
Hunter slowly bent down and retrieved his weapon. Chartreuse and Olive followed suit. The men remained fr
