it was the morning after fernando made his wish, over his birthday cake, for this very thing to happen. that s some birthday gift? just grateful. best birthday gift of my life. have my dad back. i just sprinted down the hallway, and i saw him in the kitchen kneeling down like this with his arms open. and i gave him a hug, and the first thing that i noticed was touching his bones and he was pale and he looked dead. but conscious. i remember i did not believe that that was my dad. i thought my mom hired an actor to play my dad. the old eduardo crept back into that cadavers body surrounded by his children, his plates of food, and the woman who fought for him every minute of those months. who cried for him, who saved his life. always jane. he followed me around a lot, he wouldn t let me out of his sight, not even to use the
way of sneaking past even the most hermit efforts of official secret keepers. and soon, san miguel de allende true, worley on a story that made around. eduardo valseca, kidnapped. he must have made enemies, what the story. and this was payback. he was probably already did. friends would say things to me, like oh, jane, i m so sorry about eduardo. we liked him so much. and speak about him in the past tense as if he was dead. even on the playground, classmates told jayne s children to give up. all the little kids will go up to my children and say things like, oh, i heard you daddies that that they found him in a plastic bag in the plastic waters. i would say that s around the six month that i would never see my father again. and, even if they did.
you have to know that i will do everything humanly possible to get your father back if it takes everything we have, everything i can humanly do. suddenly, fernando understood the speeding suvs that he d seen that morning. i didn t know how to take it i didn t know whether to cry, whether to be mad with just a shock. fernando flood, then went to his secret, private place we. arise from where he could see the rest of the ranch. i grabbed the key, is there on the helmet and one for a ride. and we started crying and balling my eyes out. women jayne will have one more crucial called to make to her mother, also named we jayne. she lived in her own house, on the ranch most of the year but, that day, she was home in virginia. jane calls and she said mom,
the letter around the campus to show off the progress being made in her absence. while! it looks amazing. how painful that absence had been. their trip back to the ranch coincided with eduardo 65th birthday so it was just wonderful, for all of us it was just 100 percent there p to go back to the place and feel happy about in and feel safe about. it was fantastic. the unease, if that s what it, was that a company jane undaunted back in the rant and send me girl had vanished.
she news who if he needed help. and she looked over and looked across the parking lot and said, i don t know who he, is he must be waiting for someone. eduardo was behind the wheel of the deep, listening to the radio. the stranger s car was beyond it at the back of the lot. as i walked to the jeep, i looked across and made eye contact with him and actually smiled and he smelled back. if you are to put the deep in gear, pulled away, the strange car fell in behind him. a pick up truck comes out of nowhere. it catches up to us and the man driving turns and looks at us. and the look was really scary. you saw him? we both got just a really creepy feeling, just the way the man looked at us. now, that dangerous car in the pick up race to positions beside and in front of the jeep. eduardo said something is definitely not right, what is this guy doing? and then, in moments, it was obvious. jane and edward were being chased, herded like cattle into