Stepbrother X3 by Stephanie Brother EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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Eighteen months later
Bangui, Central African Republic
It was still dangerous to venture out on the streets of Bangui despite the
peacekeepers’ presence, especially in the evening. That didn’t stop Anya
and the other two aid workers from their organization when the young boy
came for help. He was bleeding copiously from a gash on his face that he
allowed Anya to tend to while telling them about his mother’s suffering in
halting French interspersed with Sango.
She had been in the country for seven months, but still knew only a
smattering of Sango. Thanks to nightly sessions with Rosetta Stone, at least
her French was conversant-level now, so she was able to follow most of the
boy’s plea for help.
His mother was in childbirth and had been struggling for two days. He
had finally defied her edict not to venture onto the streets to find help at the
aid station. Along the way, he had run into a group of Anti-Balaka. They
had tried to detain him and ascertain whether he was Muslim or Christian.
The boy had escaped, but not without the machete cut down his face.
When he was stitched up, he insisted they go to his mother right then.
Anya ignored the protests of the other aid workers, knowing the mother was
probably the only person left in the young boy’s life, and she couldn’t leave
the woman and her baby to die in childbirth if they could be saved.
Tom and Etienne had shared her conviction, so the three of them
headed out on foot. Vehicles might actually attract more attention as they
ventured into a part of the city still strongly under the control of AntiBalaka forces despite public claims by the peacekeepers to the contrary.
She was almost surprised to find their progress unimpeded. Perhaps the
white uniforms they wore, all bearing the medical logo of their
organization, bought them safe passage. The scrubs had gotten her out of
trouble a few times before—as had the silver cross she wore prominently
around her neck on the advice of Etienne, who had been in the country
since almost the start of the fighting between Séléka and Anti-Balaka.
The boy led them to a modest house at the end of a street. Several of
the surrounding homes had toppled over or bore signs of the heavy fighting
that had taken place before French and Rwandan peacekeepers intervened,
later followed by the current U.N. peacekeeping force.
She should be inured to such sights by now, since the country was
nowhere close to recovering from the devastating civil war instigated by
outside influences and fueled by religious differences. It still shook her to
imagine the terrible life this child must endure, and she had to fight back a
wave of pity for the baby soon to enter the world in such circumstances—if
she could do anything to prevent its and its mother’s deaths.
The physician in their group had left Bangui weeks ago, declaring his
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