Chapter 19
“Are you sure you don’t want to stay for dinner, Bell? Lexa should be here any second.”
“No, really, Clarke. I gotta go. I promised Raven we’d watch this stupid show she likes. The one with the zombies? She said you’d lend us the second season?”
Clarke laughed.
“Sure. Even though you don’t look so enthusiastic about it.”
He grinned.
“Yeah, you got me. I think zombies are boring.”
He took out his phone.
“I better call her and tell her I’m on my way.”
He pressed a button and his display came to life.
“Damn, I forgot to turn the ringtone on. I missed a few calls.”
He pressed the speed dial for his mailbox and listened to his messages. Clarke saw his face darken.
“What is wrong, Bell?”
“Work. Sorry, I have to go.”
Clarke stepped in his way.
“Work means Lexa. What happened?”
Bellamy frowned. He knew she wouldn’t believe him if he told her everything was fine. Clarke had always been able to read him like a book.
“Anya and Monty are missing and Lexa has gone after them alone.”
Clarke already had her jacket on.
“Let’s go.”
“Clarke …”
“If you think I’ll stay here if they are in danger you don’t know me very well, Mister.”
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The building was huge and as far as Lexa could tell also very empty. She silently moved around the next corner. There was a door to her left. She waited in front of it for any sign of movement, but couldn’t hear anything. She opened the door, but the room behind it was empty as well. Maybe she was in the wrong building. She moved on.
At the end of the hallway there was a staircase to the basement. She went down and saw light. It came from the right. She checked her weapon again and moved into the direction the light came from. Now she heard voices.
“Do you get why the boss didn’t just kill the bitch?”
“Nope. And I didn’t ask. I learned not to question his decisions the hard way.”
The man chuckled.
“I guess he wants to find out how much the sister knows first. If he just blows all of them up the police will start to snoop around. He wants to keep a low profile.”
“And the Asian guy?”
“I guess, he’s still out. I put him with the girls. Roan thinks he might have a few clients who’d be interested in him.”
“Always trying to make a profit, this one.”
Another chuckle, this time from the other guy.
Lexa stood in the hallway and contemplated her options. If Roan was with Anya then waiting for the cavalry wasn’t an option, but first she would have to get past these two goons. She needed a distraction. She looked around. There was another door at the end of the hall. It had an iron bar in front of it. She was pretty sure that she would find the missing women behind it and it gave her an idea.
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“Did you hear that?”
“What?”
The man looked at his friend.
“Those bitches are screaming at the top of their lungs.”
“Well, let them.”
“Oh, come on, you know Roan will get mad. Let’s just slap a few of them and they’ll be quiet.”
The other one hesitated for a second and sighed.
“Yeah, you’re right. I’ll go.”
He left and walked down the corridor where he removed the iron bar.
“What’s with the noise? Shut the fuck up! Don’t you remember what I told you?”
He opened the door and was hit by a fist. He didn’t see it coming and it caught him completely by surprise. He held his nose, sure that it was broken, and wanted to scream when a knee connected with his groin, leaving him breathless. The next hit came from behind and knocked him out. Lexa looked at Monty.
“Lead them out of here. Be as silent as possible. Bell and Lincoln should be here any minute. Make sure they find me.”
She turned around and took her position next to the guards’ room. When the first woman ran past the door the other guard stormed out only to be greeted by the barrel of Lexa’s gun. She waited for Monty and the women to be out of harms way before she made her way into the depths of the building to find her sister.