him, squeezed him, trembled and then lifted her head to look into his eyes. "Clayton… I…" A heavy boot kicked the door in before she could say another word.
Chapter Six Ruben holstered his weapon and with Dale, set to untying the bewildered couple with. They began filling them in on the sequence of events since their blackout. "You were drugged using scopolamine - a narcotic from Colombia. It doesn't knock you out but it makes you lose your will power and forget everything that's happened to you." Nadia's stomach tightened and her mind reeled with fear. What had they done together? What had they been forced to do? What had they been forced to say? The feeling of dread was unlike anything she had ever imagined. Four years of her life devoted to covering ever track, every footprint - digital or otherwise - and now she had been reduced to a helpless shell, her mind, her past, all of her secrets an open book to her worst enemies. A pair of strong hands took her head gently and drew her gaze down. She was still lying on top of Clayton but they were free now. His gaze was unwavering. He didn't say a word but his look spoke volumes. They would be okay. This was nothing. Everything would be made good again. "We have everything up until you told him where all the tracking and surveillance devices were on you and Nadia." Dale said. Clayton looked up at him, shocked, still holding Nadia's head in his hands. "I told them all of that?" "Of course you did." Ruben reassured him. "It's the drug, you'll say or do anything you're asked to do." He looked back at Nadia and a scant moment of absolute understanding passed between them - they were in this together and they would overcome it together. Without each other this could be too hard to bear. He released her and they pushed themselves up from the bed. "What happened after that?" Nadia asked. "How did you find us?" Ruben tapped his nose knowingly. "You didn't tell him about all the tracking devices because you didn't know about all of them. I put an extra one on each of you just to make sure and then another on the chopper before it took off. Those idiots never had a chance of getting away with you guys." "And it was our chopper." Dale added. "We could have taken control of it at any time but we needed to find out where Boyevik was holed up." "How long have we been here for?" She asked. "Don’t worry. Not long. We caught up with you inside of an hour and when Boyevik contacted us with his demands we had our own list of demands for him in return." An hour. Nadia thought. A whole God damn hour. A girl could spill a whole lot of her guts in the space of sixty minutes, but would she ever know what she had said? "What were the demands?" Clayton asked. Ruben winked in that arch way of his. He was back in control now. "My people have been busy Clay. We found out a whole lot about Boyevik while he's been waiting for us to cave." "Did you find out where he is?" Nadia asked. Something was missing. Her head still wasn't clear from the drug but something huge was missing. "Your old boss is not a popular man Nadia and yes we did find him. He was here." Nadia's heart lurched in her chest. She had been face to face with him but had no memory of it, not even a trace of a recollection. "He didn't expect to be located so quickly." Ruben continued. "They never do. We threatened to sic the Feds and his current enemies in the crime world on him unless he vacated the premises without you. When he saw how many choppers we had closing in on him he backed down. There was no way in hell he would have gotten out of here in one piece, even without the government behind us, and even if he did he would have the Ukrainian Mafia salivating for him and his family not far behind. We left him a corridor of escape and he took it. He said he left you two drugged up and playing cards together. " He looked over to a table with two chairs and two hands of cards laying face down on the table. "So how