Chapter Five
It was a strange gray morning when we took the girl. Sloan ran a final check to make sure that everything was ready before we got in the truck and headed out. Manny stationed himself in his vantage spot behind the fence until he saw the girl come out of the house. Then he joined us in the truck. We had already picked our ambush site, anticipating her usual route. It was a long flat stretch with no houses nearby. We parked there to wait. A few cars went by, but nobody paid any attention to us. We timed it right. After about ten minutes we saw her round the turn and come loping toward us. Manny got out and spread the road map over the hood. When she was close enough to hear him, he called out to her.
“Excuse me, Ma’am. Can you tell me how to get to Chandler Road?”
The girl wa
