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Diesel whipped his mobile out and dialled, putting his phone on loudspeaker.
“Bear, check Chance and Clio now!”
“They are fine, brother. Nobody’s been near except nurses or doctors,” Bear replied.
“Don’t care. Check them, Bear. I’ll wait,” Diesel yelled. We waited as tension built up.
A startled yell came from Bear and then a bellow of ‘Doctor’.
“Talk!” Diesel demanded.
“They’re both unconscious. A doc is coming,” Bear growled. “What is going on?”
“The cult got to them. They’re threatening Alice with leaving with them, or they will kill Chance, Clio, and Dax. Up the security on Dax. No one goes near the baby. Not even a doc or nurse. Gonna get Doc Gibbons and Paul over to the hospital. They are the only ones allowed to touch Dax and Clio. Understand me?”
Diesel disconnected the phone and slammed it onto the table.
I held a hand over my mouth. That poor baby being threatened by such evil. And Clio, who’d suffered so much, was now drugged against her will. And Chance would feel he failed them.
“I’ll do it,” I whispered. There was no other choice.
“No!” Diesel hissed, spinning so violently I stepped back.
“Are you gonna risk their lives? A baby’s innocent life for mine?” I demanded.
“Alice, you can’t do this,” Magic said as my grandfather stared at me. His colour had drained, and Willoughby looked old.
“Yes, Alice can do this. And we’re going to let her,” Willoughby finally spoke.
Everyone’s heads snapped to him.
“Are you fuckin’ serious? You’re gonna let the cult get their hands on her?” Diesel yelled, looking maddened.
“Can Magic, Alice, Diesel, Willow, and I please move somewhere else, private?”
Willoughby inquired, peering at the bodies in the room.
Willow moved us into a side room, and Willoughby took a deep breath.
“This must remain between us. Any hint of this information and the government will penalise everybody here. I can put a tracker on Alice. No, not an FBI one that they’ll remove. The tracker is virtually unreadable by any equipment and doesn’t cause a problem. We use nanotechnology with them to render them invisible. We’ll insert one straight into Alice’s body. Luckily, I have several with me. We can put one into her arm, and it will attach to her muscle, and they are easy to extract,” Willoughby said as everyone looked shocked.
“Oh, big brother is tracking us,” Magic quipped with a frown.
“No, they are used for the military. To track our soldiers so we can go in and rescue them. The trackers are experimental, but this is an emergency. My company will regulate the use of them. We’ll issue numbers for each one, and the details of the soldiers will be entered into a database. If they get captured, it means the rescue team will find them immediately. They are undergoing trials, and they have been highly successful. We can let Alice go and track her straight to the cult. Agent Ware, could you be ready to deploy tonight?”
“Yes, everyone is in place. Just need to travel there. The planes are on standby,” Willow responded.
“Then we have an answer. I’ll meet them. Let them take me, and you track me. Then spring your operation,” I replied slowly.
Diesel shook his head in denial.
“Alice won’t be alone. I’ll be with her,” Natasha said from the doorway.
“No!” Willoughby snapped. “This isn’t what I hired you for.”
“And you have a child,” I added.
“And I’ll still have a kid when the rescue party arrives. But think. The cult needs leverage against Alice to force her into shit. Yeah, holding Chance, Clio, and Dax over her head is great. But a physical presence they could use? Alice won’t allow anyone to suffer, and they’ll bank on that. If they have a friend hostage, then they’ll leave Chance and his family alone. The cult will use me to make Alice obey,” Natasha rationalised.
