Chapter 13: We Meet Again
The three days are up. It is now Saturday morning. The day that Zander will take his woman.
Mark has done the preparation for this day to come. Mary and the girls have been briefed on the protocol especially if worst case scenario is to happen to her and the girls. All possibilities has been thought off. This is, of course, what he thought.
In the master bedroom, Mark came out from the shower cleaning himself after a passionate morning love making session with Mary awhile ago. Mary was putting on a pretty sundress, ready to go down to prepare lunch.
Even in her late thirties, Mary still looks radiantly beautiful with wavy brunette hair, hazel eyes and rosy cheeks. She has a beautiful smile showing her perfectly aligned white teeth. Her kissable lips are full and sexy, which Evelyn inherited.
Wearing just a towel covering his lower part to his knees, Mark walked to Mary and hugged her from behind kissing her shoulders, her neck and turned her around gently to kiss her on her lips. She opened her mouth allowing Mark's tongue to enter her mouth exploring. Mary moaned with passion. She placed her hand around Mark's neck.
Mary was pushed to the wall with her front facing the wall. Mark lifted her dress and slowly entered her from behind.
"Aaah.. Mark.. hmmm" Mary's mind was lost with passion. She lost control and her knees trembled.
"I love you Mary.. remember that.. ahhh.. oh god.." Mark could not hold it and turned Mary around. She was lifted to the bed. The two made love like young couple, lost in their desire for each other.
In Mandy's room, Evelyn was brushing Mandy's hair and planning to put some highlights of purple on some strands of Mandy's hair. Seems to be the trend nowadays.
"Eve.. would it look cool with mixed of pink and purple? Or blue and purple?.." Mandy was choosing the colours from a shopping bag that Mark's assistant, Chris, helped to purchase. An image of a pink haired troll doll appeared in Evelyn's mind. She giggled softly.
"What are you laughing at?" Mandy pouted.
"Nothing.. I choose pink and purple? OK?" Evelyn said pinching Mandy's nose softly. Mandy nodded happily. The girls then chat about school, the twins and latest movie reviews.
'Beep.. Beep' A text came in Evelyn's phone. It came from an unkown number to Evelyn.
- Meet me at the lake if you want your sister to live - Evelyn read it and wanted to ignore it. Few minutes later, a red laser dot appeared on Mandy's left shoulder. Evelyn look at this with her head tilted slightly to the right and a puzzled look. She turned her head to the left slowly and trace where the red dot originates. It came from outside the room's window, outside the house, out from the woods. Evelyn stared out of the window of Mandy's room.
'Beep.. Beep' Another message came in.
- Come down to the lake or I'll shoot her pretty head. Do not try to tell anyone. I'm watching you. A target is set on your mother too -
This time Evelyn understood what the red laser dot meant. She gasped and looked at the red dot now placed on the back of Mandy's head.
She quickly took her phone and replied with the text - OK -
Evelyn whispered something to Mandy and walked out of the room. On the way out she took some hairclips and put them in the pocket of her jeans. She wore a grey cardigan as the weather is quite chilly.
Once done, she walked to the lake. Alone.
The V shaped lake, the sight of this place will take your breath away. It is surrounded by tall trees at the sides of the lake. On the way down from the safe house to the edge of the lake, you will pass by a flower garden and a white gazebo. The flowers around the gazebo were rosses mostly. It was such a pretty and calming sight to be in the morning. There were some butterflies and the sound of the birds singing is soothing to the ears. Making your worries go away.
Mark has placed three men to guard the lake. One of the men spot her from far. He walked towards her and asked, "Miss, you should not be here. Let me -"
'Thuck'
The man that stood infront of Evelyn stop talking. He touched his neck and 3 seconds later, his eyes closed half way before he then fell to the sandy ground. 'Thump'.
'Thuck'.. 'Thuck'.. 'Thump, Thump'.
The other 2 men on guard fell to the ground few seconds later.
Evelyn trembled and knelt down slowly. With her shaky hands, she checked on the pulse of the man that fell down infront of her. 'He is still breathing' she was relief that this man is still alive. She turned him around and saw a small dart on his neck. 'Sleeping darts?' She questioned to herself.
'Thuck'
Evelyn touched her neck on the spot she felt a needle prick sensation. Her sight became blurry, her eyelids became heavy.. then darkness covered her vision. 'Thump'
"Eve.. Eveeeee.. Eve.." Mandy went out of her room looking for her sister. "Come on Eve.. not funny. You only highlight one colour. And it looks so weird.. Eve" Mandy shouted outside Evelyn's room knocking the closed door.
Mark was downstairs when he heard the noise and walked up the stairs to Mandy. "What's the matter honey?" He stood behind Mandy looking at Mandy with her purple highlighted hair. He frowned at the sight of the colour. It was odd looking.
"Dad.. Eve said she will finish my highlights. I waited for almost half an hour for her to come back.. look, it is so ugly.. it needs the pink shades to blend" she pouted while showing Mark her highlighted hair.
"Maybe she is in her room. Eve? You in there sweetheart?" Mark knocked on her door. No response. He turned the door knob and open the door slowly. "Eve?" No sight of her.
'Sir.. Sir.. buzzzzz.. buzzzz.. Man down.. I repeat.. Man down" the sound of Mark's communicator was heard. Mark froze for few seconds. Then he turned to face Mandy.
"Mandy.. go find your mom. Tell her Code BLUE" Mark rushed towards the stairs and ran down. He shouted at the communicator "STATUS?!", while rushing out of Evelyn's room.
After hearing the brief report from Chris, Mark ran to the lake where it was reported 3 of his men were unconscious. His mind was full of possibilities of what happened.
At that moment, he can only think of Evelyn. Once he reached the location of where his men suspected Evelyn may have been last seen, he closed his eyes and knelt to the ground feeling defeated. A hair pin was seen on the ground. 'Evelyn, where are you baby girl' he said in his mind.
After a few seconds, Chris informed Mark "Marcus.. the alarm triggered. He is here! Get yourself together. We need to act fast!" Chris said to Mark and turned around giving orders from his communicator to the other guards hidden within the woods. He looked down and saw Mark's face turned fiery red.
"I will kill that B*****D!!" He got up and stormed towards the house with four of his men behind him, including Chris.
Before reaching the back entrance of the safe house, few gunshots were heard. Followed by the sound of women screaming. 'How did he bypass the security?' Mark questioned and think of all possibilities. It was just impossible. Unless.. there is an inside job. A mole. 'I will deal with that later' Mark thought.
At the same time, Chris hand signaled the two men with him to enter the safe house from the side. The other man followed behind. As Mark was running to the safe house thoughtlessly, Chris had to take lead of this mission. He was Mark's trusted right hand man after all. His best friend.
Once Mark entered the safe house, he shouted "Zander.. you B*****D!!".
Zander turned around and saw Mark with Chris behind me. He sneered and pointed a gun towards them "You think you can fool me a*****e? Now tell me before I blow your brains out. WHERE IS MY WIFE.. AND DAUGHTER?!" Zander roared spitting out those words in anger.
Three men came out from the corner and pointed their gun to Mark and Chris as well. Mark and Chris both put their gun down and their hands up slowly. Mark asked "What nonsense are you saying Zander? I thought she is with you" he looked puzzle. "Where is Evelyn?!!" he asked angrily.
At that same moment, the front door was wide open."Zander stop! It is me that you want. Let them go.. please, I beg you" Mary said pleading with teary eyes while standing at the front door of the safe house walking slowly to Zander.
She came alone. Mandy is safe with Lucy somewhere in the woods, she thought. She could not go through fully with CODE BLUE, as planned.
"Mary! What are you doing here?" Mark asked with worried eyes. He could not believe what he is seeing now. The plan failed.
Zander laughed wickedly and said with evil eyes, "My dear wife. We meet again".