that black spirit, that darkness. he just points the gun at my forehead. the first thing i started thinking of was my children. at first i was saying what does kidnap mean? my dad was stolen by bad guys. i lost everything that i knew just like that, gone. it was such a mystery, who was behind this. it was just tearing me apart. i was suffering so much. we if it takes everything we have, everything i can humanly do. i saw things that no 12 -year-old should see. i mean just the cruelty of incredible fear and agony. when is this going to end? and all the hell that we went through on all the pain has made us unbreakable. the green and white taxi parallel down the highway, something was wrong. why had the man paid ten times the fair for a simple package delivery? we can didn t pry open the alarm full of. the cabbie pried open the package. their terrifying story, more than a decade in the making was about to come to an astonishing climax. i was 12 years ol
eduardo and jayne valseca, and their three children arrived at the country school not far from the rentals outside of san miguel de allende in mexico. as we pulled into the parking lot, i noticed that there was a small compact car in the far corner of the parking lot. and there was a man at the wheel who had a fisherman s cap on and glasses. the perspective parent, perhaps, for next year s class. we jayne walk the children to their classrooms. she stopped at the school office. and ask the administrator if she knew who the gentleman was and 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 jeep, 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 smiled back. if you are to put the deep in gear, pulled away, the strange car fell