5:34 p.m. Passion Ministry

As the news helicopters throbbed overhead, Rachel noticed Oscar shouting to his men to protect the gates, currently under siege by dozens of reporters. Oscar furiously waved the four rumbling ‘copters away. They continued to hover and pitch, delicately avoiding one another.

 

Rachel watched silently, running her nightmarish experiences through her mind. In three days, she had brought a potentially dangerous man into the Passion Ministry, found her mother and what? Somehow induced Jimmy’s attack? Her thoughts whirled, like the blades flashing overhead.

Half a dozen Passionates scurried for shelter from the swirling dirt eddies. “What’s going on?” one man shouted as Oscar pushed him toward the main building.

“Get inside,” Oscar bawled. “Just get inside!”