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Chapter twenty seven, Ryan Present.
Ryan jerks the phone away from his ear

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and with shaking fingers, jabbed at
the call end button. Shit shit,

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shit, he says out loud,
staring at the blue wallpaper on his cell

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phone screen. He slams his elbows
on the desk and places his head in

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his hands. He runs his palms
up and down his face, pulling his

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cheeks down towards his chin. Ryan
has been back in d C for only

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two days and was just returning to
his office when Harry called him. Harry

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never calls him only if there's bad
news, and today it is bad news

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the worst. All of the years
Ryan has been going to Peach Springs have

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been in secret. He has never
let Harry or Hannah know that he is

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there. He would have liked to
have seen Harry and Hannah, but he

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found it too awkward to explain his
visits to them. He assumed his brother

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and his wife would think he was
some sort of pervert, or that he

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was putting Nicole in danger by being
there. So Ryan kept out of the

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way, kept quiet, kept to
himself until the other night, when he

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got in the bar fight. He
hoped Nicole hadn't told Hannah and Harry about

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that. But if she had,
Ryan supposed there was nothing he could do

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about it besides get ready to field
some tough questions from his brother and his

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wife. Now none of this matters. The only thing that matters is finding

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Nicole. He knows that son of
a bitch Senator Hernandez is behind this,

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but Ryan had no clue he had
gotten out of jail. His worry turns

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to anger and then to rage,
and he stands up, gripping the partition

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of his cubicle so hard that it
almost topples over. Ryan addresses the whole

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room of agents, but no one
in particular. Who the fuck forgot to

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mention that Senator Wetback is out of
prison. Ryan slams his right fist on

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his desk as he speaks, who
is it? The room goes silent,

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and all the agents turn to look
at him. At the other end of

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the room, Ryan sees Sam spin
around in his chair to face him.

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He looks up at Ryan with a
grimace and a frown. Hey, buddy,

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just relax. Sam starts, but
Ryan slams his fist down again,

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this time on the cubicle wall.
It shakes and wobbles. Buddy, relax,

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he retorts in disbelief. You have
got to be fucking kidding me,

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Sam, you knew about this.
Sam stands up and begins walking toward Ryan,

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arms out in a peacemaking gesture,
but Ryan is already rounding his desk

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and coming at his partner. He
stops just before he reaches Sam in the

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middle of the room, with all
of the agents still staring, Ryan,

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who is a few inches taller than
Sam, looks down at him, their

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noses almost touching. We just found
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him getting out for good behavior,
and one of his contacts must have expedited

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the process. We didn't know anything
until he was already out. Ryan takes

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his palm and places it hard on
Sam's chest pushes him. Sam stumbles back,

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almost crashing into the desk behind him, and no one thought to tell

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me. Ryan glares at Sam.
My case, my fucking case, unbelievable.

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Sam straightens and takes Ryan by the
bicep attempts to lead him into the

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conference room at the back of the
office. Ryan shakes his arm out of

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Sam's grasp, but begins to calm
down. He listens as Sam continues to

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talk. Look, we can either
do this here. You can fight me

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in the middle of the office waste
time, or we can go back there

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and talk it out. Figure out
what needs to be done. Up to

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you. Sam shrugs his shoulders and
crosses his arms over his chest. Ryan

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blows out of breath and runs his
hands over his face again. He needs

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to find out where Nicole is,
so he moves toward the conference room,

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all of the agents watching him.
Go. Let's go, he says impatiently

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to Sam, who takes off at
a jog behind him. Ran pushes through

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the conference room doors and sees two
agents sitting at the table deep in discussion.

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Out. Ran yells at them,
holding the glass door open behind him,

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get the fuck out. The agents
scrambled to collect their papers, stand

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up and round the conference table,
exiting the room with looks of surprise on

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their faces. Ran slams the door
behind them. What happened, Sam,

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Why didn't I know about this,
Ryan says, wasting no time. We

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just found out yesterday. He'd been
out for a few hours before that.

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Who's wee? Cassock and Miller?
They told me? Why didn't they tell

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me? Sam pauses We know you're
very involved in the case. We didn't

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want you to do anything stupid.
We were going to tell you. We

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just wanted to let it simmer for
a while. It was my case,

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Sam. Ryan is exasperated, now, yelling in Sam's face. It was

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our case. Sam replies calmly,
it was our case. And now you

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know now you're up to speed.
Well it's too late, because something has

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happened to Nicole. If I had
known about this, this never would have

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happened. So that's on you,
guys. Ryan clenches and unclenches his fists.

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What happened? A look of worry
crosses Sam's face. Nicole is missing.

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That's what happened. I am sure
there's an explanation. Isn't she a

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teenager? Teenagers go missing all the
time, run away? Ryan snorts at

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Sam's ignorance. Teenagers don't go missing
or run away all the time. And

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she's not a goddamn teenager. She's
twenty eight. Sam looked surprised that Ryan

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knows her exact age. Ryan takes
a deep breath as he tries to control

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his anger. Nicole is missing.
My brother called me to tell me that

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they found her. Truck on the
side of the road, right by the

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trailer park with the doors wide open. Her purse and cell phone were still

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in the car, and the keys
were in the ignition. Does that scenario

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sound like a twenty eight year old
ran away to you? He pauses,

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letting the words sink in. Or
doesn't. Maybe sound like the psycho who

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has been trying to kill her and
her family for years, who just got

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out of prison, has found her
and abducted her. Which would you say,

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Sam? Sam brings a hand up
to his mouth and nibbles on a

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thumbnail and nervously fiddles with his belt
with the other. After a few seconds

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pass, he claps Ryan on the
shoulder and pushes him out of his way.

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I'm going to get Cassock and Miller
stay right here. Sam returns two

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minutes later with Ethan Cassock and Tate
Miller, their bosses at the agency.

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Ethan carries a sandwich as if he
was in too much of a rush to

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put it down. The two men
look at Ryan. What do we got,

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says Miller. Ryan explains the situation
again, giving the three men what

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little information he knows. Can we
get intel or tracking on the Senator Cassock

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asks, when Ryan finishes, pretty
tough, Sam says, and besides,

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I'm sure some of his guys have
got her. The Senator is not going

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to do that himself. Can we
get a check on the family too,

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Miller says, the wife, the
daughter. I'll get Green on that right

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now. Cassock volunteers leaving the conference
room. Let's get their cell phones tracks

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see where they last paying two.
Miller shouts after Cassock got it. Cassick

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yells, already halfway to Green's desk. The mom, the sister, Martin.

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Sam says to himself, ticking off
his fingers as he says, the

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name you said, Harry found Icole's
phone right. Ryan nodds, so we

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can't trace that. Sam drops off. Suddenly a yell comes from out in

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the office. It is Cassock waving
them over to Green's desk. Matthew Green

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is one of the technology gurus at
the agency. He is one of many,

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but at twenty five years old,
is the youngest, best and brightest.

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Ryan, Sam and Miller are at
the desk in seconds. Matthew points

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at the screen in front of him, where there are four maps on which

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three red dots blink, So these
Green addresses the men that have crowded around

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him. These are Jessica, Martin, and Lisa. While their cell phones

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at least it seems that Nicole's is
maybe off because I can't get a read

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on it. He types a few
quick keystrokes, and one of the dots

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pulses red rays, blinking from it. The other remains still. As you

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can see, they are no longer
blinking. These are Martin, Lisa,

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and Jessica. Green slowly drags his
finger across the screen, indicating which phone

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belongs to whom. What does that
mean? Miller asked, voicing what everyone

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is thinking. That means. Green
pushes a few more buttons as the dots

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get larger. We don't know where
they actually are, because their cell phones

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seem to all be in one place, and I don't believe all of them

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are together. The four of them
look at each other in disbelief. But

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do you think the senator has all
four of them? Green answers, yes,

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I think it's likely he has all
four of them in another location and

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they are not with their cell phones. How likely is it that they all

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just have powered down their phones or
the batteries have died. Not very Green

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admits, spinning around in his chair
to face the four. We've already sent

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out a team in Florida to check
on Martin and the wife, and another

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one in New York to check on
the sister. We'll have their reports in

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minutes. Do we know whether the
Senator is still here in DC? Miller

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asks. Cassock speaks up next.
Our guys have minimal intel that he is.

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Yes, minimal intel, Ryan mocks
him. You have got to be

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joking, Ryan, We're working on
it, Cassock says, folding his arms.

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We've got everyone with any information.
It's not good enough. Ryan says,

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leaning over Green's chair and staring at
the screen, as if the red

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dots can help him solve the case. We've got one girl abducted, possibly

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three more in danger. That's poor, guys, This one is on us.

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Sam looks shaken. Cassock's phone starts
to ring, lighting his pocket.

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He reaches for it, shoving it
up to his ear. Yeah, he

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says into the receiver. He is
then quiet for ten seconds. You're sure,

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he asked, looking toward the back
wall, no expression on his face.

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Okay, then yeah, get them
down there as soon as possible.

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I want reports every ten minutes.
Yeah. He presses a button to end

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the call and turns to look at
the group. That was our Florida team.

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They found Lisa Walker in her pool. She's been dead about three days,

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they think from the initial assessment.
Holy shit, Sam says, dead

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from what Ryan asked, sure as
shit wasn't natural causes she was murdered.

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Martin Miller asked, he's not there. The guys haven't found any sign of

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his phone either. The daughter Miller
continues, still waiting for my guys to

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call me. Ryan pauses to look
out the window at the deepening dusk outside

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the station. There's a colorful sunset
on the horizon, but Ryan is too

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distracted to notice. Is there any
other way we can track any of them,

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he asked Green. Not unless they
got a chip in him. Green

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responds, whirling in his chair back
toward his computer. He begins pressing more

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keys. I mean, i'd need
coordinates or ID numbers on some sort of

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microchip, then I could do it. Green keeps playing with the keyboard,

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deftly pressing keys, his fingers working
furiously. Suddenly a thought comes to Ryan.

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He thinks back to when he went
to get Nicole all those years ago

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in the mansion outside of DC,
before he drove her thousands of miles to

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safety, or what he thought was
safety. Ryan shakes his head, trying

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to clear the negative thoughts away,
and focuses on the task at hand.

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Her father had whispered a strange series
of numbers in his ear. Ryan had

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put them out of his mind for
decades, but had never forgotten them.

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He had thought they were some cryptic
code, the murmurings of a man who

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had recently lost it all and may
have been slipping away into depression or madness.

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But what if, after all this
time, what they really were was

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a way to find his daughter,
should she ever be in trouble. Coordinants

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that were a path that led to
Nicole. It's worth a shot, Ryan

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thinks. It's not like any of
them have anything else to go on.

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Fourteen nine three, fifteen twelve five. He whispers, what sam ass nothing?

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Ryan continues, never mind look green
for coordinates for a micro chip or

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a locating device, homing or whatever
to find someone. How many numbers would

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there be? Green, still typing
honest computer answers without looking back for ID

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numbers on like people or animals nine
eleven or fifteen? Damn. Ryan Smacks's

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hand on the back of Green's chair. Why Green ass still looking at his

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computer? Never mind? Ryan is
frustrated and time is running out. The

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longer Nicole is missing, the worse
it could be her biological mother is already

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dead, murdered in her own pool. So much for that, Ryan secretly

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chides himself for being so stupid.
Of course, Martin Walker would never have

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been that smart, never would have
anticipated this happening. The man is a

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complete narcissist, greedfield idiot who cared
nothing for his wife or two daughters.

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Ryan stares at Green's fingers as they
continue to fly across the keyboard. Except

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for, like twenty years ago,
there were five numbers. Ryan stops in

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disbelief at what he just heard.
He cocks his head to the side and

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quietly, hopeful addresses the tech guy. What did you just say, Ryan

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asked. Green spins around in his
chair, looking irritated. I said,

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except for, like twenty years ago, there were only five numbers on ID

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chips. They only needed that many
back then. Ryan feels a surge of

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elation in his chest. He feels
his heart pounding faster, and he lunges

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forward to a scrap of paper on
Green's desk. Picking up a pen,

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Ryan hastily scribbles the five numbers on
the piece of paper. Here, he

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exclaims, proudly, thrusting the piece
of paper into Green's hands. Those numbers,

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He jams a finger at the piece
of paper on the desk, motion

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making a tapping sound on the wood. Could those numbers be coordinates for a

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microchip from twenty years ago? It
would have been about twenty four years ago.

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Actually. Green looks down to peer
at the numbers until his head is

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almost resting on the desk. Suddenly, he snaps his head up triumphantly.

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Sure could, he says, turning
back toward his screen and starting to type.

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Let me just see what comes up
here? What are those cassock ass

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pointing toward the paper? There are
numbers or coordinates that I think will help

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us find. Nicole, Ryan answers, Yeah, makes sense, Nicole Green

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pipes up right, Nicole dumb ass, Sam responds, rolling his eyes.

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No, dumb ass, Green retorts, stopping typing to give Sam an exasperated

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look. Nicole n I O l
E. He holds up the scrap of

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paper, waving it in Sam's face. The letters to numbers thing oldest code

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in the book. Sam gives him
a blank look. Ryan thinks about what

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Green is saying, and then it
hits him. The numbers, when matched

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up to the corresponding letters of the
alphabet spell Nicole. Ryan gives a start

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wondering how he could have been so
stupid. That's it. Ryan feels a

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rush of adrenaline. Isn't that a
really long time for a microchip to ping?

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I mean, twenty four years with
the thing still work? Miller asks

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it could Green answers, especially if
it was never used that much. These

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things are powerful. We're built to
last over the years. Plus our technology

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is so much better now. If
this thing stood the test of time,

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we could be pinging in just a
minute. Green trails off and pushes a

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few more keys on the keyboard.
He sits back, his fingers steepled,

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waiting. All of the men wait, crowding around the computer screen. Suddenly,

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a little red dot appears on the
screen, its bright red rays beaming

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and circles around it. The dot
remains in one place, hovering over what

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looks like miles of expansive lawn.
We got it, Green exclaims, putting

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his hands under his head and pulling
himself forward to again furiously clack away at

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the keyboard. She's where is she? Miller asks, phone already to his

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ear, ready to get a team
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Green stops talking and moves closer,
zooming in on the green lawn. On

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the green. On the map in
front of them is what looks like an

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old warehouse, now dilapidated. Yeah, it's Green continues, Oh I know

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what this is. Miller yells to
him, phone to his ear, coordinates.

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Give me the latitude and longitude so
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Green gives him the numbers. Sam, Miller and Cassocks scramble around, heading

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for the doors, beckoning to Ryan, Hey, Ryan, you coming man,

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Sam asked, We gotta get out
there. Yeah, I'll be there,

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Ryan responds quickly. He turns to
Green. Where are we going?

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Looks like a huge lawn. That's
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the building that used to be the
old clubhouse at the way far end of

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the course. It's all run down
now, perfect place to hide something or

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someone. It's where they keep the
old golf carts creepy? But where is

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she? Where's Nicole? Ryan yells
over his shoulder as he takes off toward

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the door, following Sam just off
River road Way far back in the woods

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the Old Congressional Country Club, Chapter
twenty eight. Freedom present. When she

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wakes up, she feels an incessant
pounding radiating from the top of her head

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all the way down to her jawbone. Freedom rolls her neck and tries to

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focus on what she sees in front
of her. She blinks three times until

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her eye is clear and she can
remember where she is. It is dark,

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but Freedom can still make out forms
and shapes. To her right is

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Jessica, tied to a chair with
duct tape over her mouth. Freedom catches

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her eye and sees the fear as
her sister's head shakes back and forth.

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Jessica then cocks her head in front
of her, signaling Freedom to look at

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what she is seeing. Freedom turns
to the left and lets out a muffled

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scream. A tall man with silver
hair is standing over a body. As

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Freedom looks closer, she sees the
bodie is that of our father Martin.

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He is crumpled twisted into himself in
a heap on the ground. Freedom cannot

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see his face. It is against
the floor and turned the other way.

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She is glad because by the amount
of blood she can see coming out of

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the top of his head. Freedom
doesn't think it would be good. The

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pool of blood widens. The red
goose slowly creeping toward the line of golf

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carts. Her real father is dead, Freedom thinks with horror, and she

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is probably next. At the horrific
thought, Freedom screams again at the sound.

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The man with the silver hair turns
toward her. Out of the corner

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of her eye, Freedom can see
Jessica wiggling in her chair, eyes wide

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with fear, her screams muted by
the tape around her mouth. The man

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with the silver hair smiles, hands
his gun to one of the men,

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whose face is still covered by the
bandana, and slowly walks towards Freedom.

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Freedom stopped screaming and writhing. She
closes her mouth and sits still in the

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chair. She looks up at him
defiantly. The man laughs louder, this

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time, throwing his head back.
You look just like your father with that

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face, he exclaims, almost jubilantly. Taking his forefinger and tucking it under

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Freedom's chin. With the force of
his finger, he lifts Freedom's face up

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until the back of her head almost
touches her back. The man leans down

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to look into her face. Do
you know, he begins his Spanish accent,

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thick. Do you know? I
knew you when you were a little

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girl, just a little nina.
You were so pretty back then. What

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the hell happened? He flicks his
finger up towards his own face, causing

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Freedom's neck to snap farther back.
I had heard you were living in the

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desert on some Indian reservation. Do
you know that I also used to live

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in the desert in California? And
before that, my father and mother lived

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in the desert in Mexico. The
man pauses, as if to collect his

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thoughts. It is almost a minute
before he continues, a faraway look in

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his eyes. And up until three
days ago, I lived in a little

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tiny cell in a jail, a
federal prison, with a toilet and a

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hard bed, with no mattress and
nothing else, nothing at all, for

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two decades, two decades, He
yells, looking from Jessica to Freedom,

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as if to elicit sympathy from them. Jessica looks away from him, but

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Freedom stares. Do you know what
it is like living in this federal prison?

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It is hell? No money,
no women, no good food.

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The man pauses again, thinking and
then gestures towards the first kidnapper. At

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his signal, the man brings back
the gun and places it in the man's

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hands. The man plays with it
absent mindedly, spinning it around and around

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on his finger. He continues,
there is nothing, he spats angrily,

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no family, no friends, no
drugs. At the word drugs, he

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takes off toward the kidnappers, who
have spread out lines of cocaine on the

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bench of one of the golf carts. Leaning down into a squatting position,

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he takes a straw from one of
the kidnapper's hands and does two lines,

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sniffing and shaking his head. He
suddenly stands up again, presses his nostrils

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between his thumb and forefinger. He
begins pacing up and down next to the

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golf carts, talking to himself.
The man stops and turns to Freedom,

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who still does not move. And
do you know he is almost yelling?

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Now, do you know that it
was your father, your father who let

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me rot in jail for two decades. I was a United States Senator,

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and I went to jail because of
your scum sucking Ejo de puta father.

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The man stops pacing and looks up
to the ceiling. He is sweating now,

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his skin glistening in the ever darkening
room. To her left, Freedom

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catches sight of a flash. It
looks to her like a movement someone running

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past the door at the far end
of the warehouse. The door is only

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open a crack, so Freedom cannot
see much, but a second later there

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is another flash. This time it
is black, like a CoP's uniform.

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Freedom strains to listen for any sounds
by the door, but anything she might

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be able to hear is drowned out
by the senator's rantings. As he continues

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to talk, he moves closer and
closer to Freedom, still holding the gun.

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When he gets to her, he
stops and smiles again. The man

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cocks the gun and holds it against
Freedom's head, tilting it downward so that

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it is flush against the crown of
her head. Freedom winces, whimpering as

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she feels the cold metal brush against
her skull. Jessica cries out through her

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duct tape in a flash. The
Senator pulls the gun away from Freedom's head,

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laughing again, and walks toward Jessica. Silly girl, I am not

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going to kill you, he says
to Freedom over his shoulder. I still

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need you because the money your father
hit is in your name. It is

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she that I do not need.
The Senator whips the gun out from behind

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his back and this time presses it
against Jessica's skull. Don't, Freedom cries

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out, She is my sister,
please. She trails off as she hears

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it. The sound of the door
at the back of the warehouse flinging wide

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open. Late evening daylight floods into
the room, brightening it until Freedom can

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make out a dozen men in uniform, shields up, guns drawn, and

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are all yelling at once. Freedom
squints against the sudden light in the room.

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Sounds are coming from all directions,
a garbled mess of different words.

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As the men gesture and yell,
forming a semicircle around Jessica, Freedom and

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the senator. The two kidnappers draw
their guns, shouting to each other and

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the senator. The officer closest to
her, takes a step in her direction

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until he is Flushed with Freedom,
he speaks, yelling at the Senator,

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his guns steady in his hand,
hands up. He yells, his jaw

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clenching and unclenching, the muscles in
his lower face, straining get down on

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the ground. Freedom recognizes his voice. She looks up. It is Glasses.

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Drop the gun. Another man yells, we have you surrounded. The

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senator looks to the uniformed officers in
front of him, and then to the

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back where the kidnappers stand, guns
still drawn swelta tous armas the men look

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at each other confused and slowly dropped
their guns on the warehouse floor. Two

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of the uniformed officers run toward them
and wrestle them to the ground, pinning

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their arms back around. Jessica,
still squirming, looks at Freedom. She

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mouths stay still. Jessica nods and
stops moving. The officers approached Jessica and

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the Senator, still yelling, and
the senator cocks his gun. In a

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split second, Glasses is moving,
pulling his gun arm up and shoots the

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reverberation, causing Freedom to duck in
terror, her head moving toward her lap.

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She hears a scream come from the
Senator. Freedom looks up, one

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eye open and sees him crumpled to
the ground, blood spilling out of his

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head. Five men move up to
surround the senator, and they move to

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the ground and Freedom loose the sight
of the man. Glasses reaches for his

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walkie talkie that is clipped to his
side. He needs a bust to their

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location. She can hear him talk
into it quiet but forcefully. He places

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the walkie talkie back at his side
and looks down to Freedom, staring into

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her eyes. You okay, he
asked her, squatting down to untie her

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hands, Yeah, I think so, Freedom answers her hands. Finally free,

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She can hear Jessica crying thankfully as
other officers move to untie her.

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Freedom gives her a smile across the
warehouse. Jessica catches her eye and mouths

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thank you. Freedom looks up to
Glasses back in action on the walkie talkie,

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barking orders into the mouthpiece. She
jerks her head toward Jessica, a

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blanket around her, clutching a cup
of what Freedom assumes must be water.

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That's my sister, she says proudly
to Glasses and everyone else, and to

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no one in particular. That's my
sister, she says, quietly, this

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time mostly to herself. I know, lucky girl, Glasses says, handing

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Freedom her own water. Freedom gulps
at the water running down her chin.

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You saved me, she says,
taking one more gulp, looking up at

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Glasses again and smiling. Glasses looks
down at her as chaos ensues in the

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warehouse. The next moment, he
is sitting beside her, the walkie talkie

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still blaring out of his left hip. He holds out his right hand straight

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as an arrow and looks into her
eyes. I'm Ryan, he says,

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grasping Freedom's hand and holding it in
a grip. Freedom gives a small laugh

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before responding, tucking the cup in
between her legs. I'm Nicole, she

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answers. Nice to meet you.
Finally, Glasses gives a nod of recognition.

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Yes you are. You save me, Freedom tries once more, as

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Ryan begins to help her up from
the chair, securing her under his arm.

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Thank you, she whispers as they
head toward the exit, walking slowly

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toward the light outside the door.
It's my job, Ryan answers, pulling

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her safely against him. Chapter twenty
nine, Nicole present. She points the

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white truck west, watching as the
puffy clowns gather in the sky in front

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of her. The air is heavy
and damp, and it feels like it

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might rain, but for now it
is still clear and the sun is out

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dropping slowly on the horizon. She
rolls down the window and sticks her hand

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out, feeling the rush of air
against her arm. The truck was the

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only thing she kept that reminds her
of Peach Springs. Harry and Han had

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offered to chip in some money to
buy her a new car, but Nicole

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had chosen to keep the truck.
Harry and Hannah had bought a new one.

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They all have some more money now. Most of the money that was

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in the bank account under Nicole's name
had gone to payback some of Martin's investors

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in restitution that Ryan had arranged it
so that Nicole and Jessica received a small

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sum enough to live on for a
while. At least. Jessica had gone

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back to New York after countless interrogations
and after giving testimony at the trial.

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Martin, Lisa, and the Senator
were dead, but the Senator's two henchmen

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had been put away for life.
Nicole had stayed with Ryan and DC for

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a few months after the kidnapping,
but had finally made her way back to

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Peach Springs to say goodbye to the
kids and Harry and Hannah. They were

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sad to see her go, but
understood that she needed to. It was

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time or a fresh start. Ryan
had gone back to work, and so

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had Jessica back to finish law school. When she left, she promised them

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both she would stay in touch and
let them know her plans. In fact,

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Jessica is calling her now. Nicole
sees her phone light up and her

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sister's name on the screen. Nicole
swipes at the ignore call button and places

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both hands back on the wheel.
She will call her back when she crosses

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the state line. She doesn't know
where she is going. Maybe California is

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her end destination, maybe Oregon or
Washington State. Nicole is not sure,

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but she is going to see the
country that month, she knows, probably

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take a waitressing job somewhere in nowhere, USA, rent a little place,

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makes some friends, live life.
That is as far as she's gotten,

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and she is okay with that.
She is looking forward to being on her

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own. As the first drops of
rain begin to fall, Nicole smiles and

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turns on her windshield wipers. The
road stretches out in front of her,

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the trunks wheels steady and straight.
She pulls out her cigarettes and lighter and

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lights one, letting the rain into
the car. As she blows smoke out

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the open window. She adjusts the
rear view mirror and then looks ahead out

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the windshield, thinking how strange it
is that what is behind her and what

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is in front of her is one
and the same. Freedom