Chapter Thirty-Four

Ryan's POV

Dad called me to the house immediately and I left the hospital and drove to the Mansion.

"You called for me Dad" I said as I walked up to him in the sitting room.

"The Prime Minister just announced on the news, Alexander Sanchez and his surgery team are going to Afghanistan tomorrow" Dad said and I almost laughed.

"Good! This is good news!" I exclaimed. "At least now I'll finally be able to rid myself of that son of a gun."

"You'll be going with them" Dad said and my jaw dropped.

"What the heck?! I don't think I heard you well Dad."

"You heard me right, you are going with them tomorrow" Dad repeated sternly.

"Afghanistan is a war zone Dad, how could you ask me to go with them and why would I?"

"You've always been so shallow minded Ryan, don't you see? Now that the Prime Minister has announced that Alexander Sanchez is going off with his surgery team to Afghanistan, the world is gonna love and respect him cause he volunteered to risk his life just to treat others and if he happens to survive that one month there and he returns, just gimme one reason he won't be named the best Neurosurgeon in the world" Dad explained.

"I understand what you're trying to say but Alex will definitely not survive cause that place is like a freaking slaughter house and there's no way I am risking my life going near that country."

"You still don't understand do you?" Dad said. "There is a high possibility of them surviving Ryan, it's not like they are being recruited as soldiers, they are going there as doctors and they are totally under the Afghanistanian president protection."

"But....but...."

"You will volunteer to go with your surgery team too and you will make sure Alex doesn't return with you" Dad said and I looked at him wide-eyed.

"You.....you want me to kill him" I stuttered.

"I don't care how you'll do it but it has to be done. If you succeed, I'll no longer have to worry about the buried secret that he's trying to dig out and you'll automatically be announced as the world best Neurosurgeon" Dad said.

"Wait a minute, what secret is Alex trying to dig out?" I asked.

"It's none of your concern, now leave and prepare your team for tomorrow's journey" Dad said and I sighed.

He has made up his mind, there's no way I'll be able to convince him.

I guess I'll really be going to Afghanistan then.

Oh God protect me from that war zone.

Jasmine's POV

Alex asked Susan, Andrew and I to meet him in the office and we all weren't to his office together.

We met him with Emma in the office, then we greeted and sat on the couch.

"I have something to tell you all and I am pretty sure you aren't gonna like it" Alex said. "We'll be going on a one month trip to Afghanistan."

"What!" We all exclaimed.

"Did you just say Afghanistan?" I asked and Alex nodded.

"Why will we go to that war zone, even a blind man avoids that place and you want us to march there?" Andrew said.

"The Prime Minister just completed a deal with the Afghanistanian president to get arms and ammunitions and in return, they requested for a month service from the country's best surgery team and we were chosen" Alex explained.

"It's a sucide mission, I mean people are being killed in that country like chickens" Susan said.

"We've got no choice, this is an order from the director and the Prime Minister. This is important for our country, perhaps, we'll be taken to a safe place and we'll be under the soldiers protection so I think we'll be just fine" Emma said and I looked at her.

"We? Are you coming with us?" I asked.

"Yeah, so you guys should go back home for today and we'll meet at the airport tomorrow by 10, there will be a private airplane to take us to Afghanistan tomorrow" Emma said.

We had no choice but to agree.

It hasn't even been up to a week that I almost died at Brazil and now what? I am going off to a country that is currently at war.

We stood up from the couch and left Alex's office.

"This is insane" Susan said.

"It's as if the government hates us, I mean why can't Ryan and his team go, why must we be the one to go" Andrew said.

"I know right, I wonder what's the real reason behind them sending us to that execution zone" I said.

Andrew offered to take me home and I agreed.