looking for anyone who might be willing to serve as a guide. “Anyone?”
Murmurs rippled through the group as they each turned to one another. Then they motioned a young man to come forward.
“We need a guide to get us back to a city with an airport,” Hope said, offering a friendly smile. “We can compensate anyone who offers to help.”
J.T. shot Hope a quelling look that warned, Don’t go mentioning money in a place where 80 percent of the population live well beneath the poverty line and eat dirt cookies for breakfast, but she knew offering something of value was the only way they’d get them to budge.
A young teen with an oily shock of black hair hanging in his face spoke up. “I speak English,” he said, pushing his hair from his dark eyes. “There’s an airport in Comitán, about a four-hour drive from here.”
“What village is this?” J.T. asked.
“Lacanjá.”
“Lacanjá,” Hope murmured, looking to J.T. “So we are on the southern edge of Mexico, near Guatemala?”
“Fair assumption.”
“What’s your name?” Hope asked the young man.
“Juan,” the teen answered. “Welcome to our village. Are you hungry or thirsty?”
“Starved,” Hope answered, her stomach grumbling. “Is there someplace we could get something to eat?”
“Sí, Campamento Vicente Paniagua—you will like.”
“Sounds good to me,” Hope said, looking for confirmation from J.T. When he gave her a short nod, she fell in line behind Juan, so grateful to be heading someplace somewhat civilized.
Maybe if they were lucky, they could be back in the air and back on schedule by tomorrow morning.
And then she could shelve these intrusive thoughts of hard pecs, solid thighs and the feeling of J.T.’s arms wrapped around her.
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