Chapter Four

Lucy couldn't believe it. She had been wrong about everything. She thought that Wyatt loved her. That he would always be by her side. But apparently that wasn't the case. Maybe Noah was right. Maybe she didn't really have anyone to love or be loved by.

As if cued to interrupt her thoughts, Lucy's phone rang. She had hoped that it was Wyatt, but to her surprise it was Mason Industries. Lucy quickly picked up the phoneand answered the incoming call.

"Hello?" she asked. "Lucy, we need you to come down here as soon as possible!" Agent Christopher began. "Wyatt and Rufus have stolen the Lifeboat." Lucy stood there in silencefor a few seconds, processing just what the older woman had told her.

"Hello? Lucy, are you there?" Christopher asked. Lucy responds, waking up from the silence. "Yeah, I'm on my way." Lucy quickly grabs her keys and jumps in the car. She arrived at Mason Industries about half an hour later.

As she walks in, Agent Christopher begins to brief her on the situation. "Based on the security cameras, it appears that Wyatt was holding Rufus hostage." she explained. "Do you have any idea why Wyatt would steal the Lifeboat?" Lucy pondered the question a bit before answering.

"His wife. Wyatt went back to save Jessica." The agent nodded in agreement. "But that still doesn't explain why Rufus was being held hostage." Christopher didn't understand that part of the situation. Suddenly, Lucy remembered. "About 45 minutes before you called me , Wyatt left the house saying that he was going to meet Rufus at some bar."

Almost immediately, Agent Christopher was intrigued. "You were with Wyatt?" she asked. "At his house?" she raised her brow when speaking. Lucy didn't realize how complicated and uncomfortable this conversation would be. So she endedit by simply telling her that it was a long story.

Suddenly, one of the phones began to ring. Jiya went and answered it. "Hello?" she asked. "Where's Rufus?" the stranger's deep mysterious voice asked. "Um, he's not available at the moment." The stranger's voice tensed up and became more irritated by the response. "Well make him available!" The stranger replied anger rising in his voice. "I'm not sure how to respond to that."

Connor Mason enters the room. "Jiya who's on the phone?" she turns to her boss and mouthes, I don't know. "May I ask who this is?" Jiya inquires. She hears an annoyed sigh from the other end of the line. "Jiya it's me, Anthony." he tells her.

A gasp escapes Jiya's lips. "Anthony? What do you want with Rufus?" Anthony had had enough with this back-and-forth stuff. "To talk with him! Now can you get him for me, please?!" Jiya didn't know what to do. "I told you, he's not here right now." Jiya answered. Anthony sighed. He paused for a minute trying to gather his thoughts.

"Then bring Lucy to me. I'll send you my location, but I trust that you won't do anything you might regret." Anthony says before hanging up. Jiya puts down the phone, with everyone staring at her waiting for answers. "That was Anthony." she said finally.

Everyone looks at her with amazement in their eyes. Anthony Bruhl had been working with Flynn. So, inadvertently became suspicious of the conversation Jiya had had with him. "Anthony?! What did he want?" Mason and Christopher asked in unison.

Jiya took her eyes off of them for a moment, directing her gaze at Lucy. "He wants to meet with Lucy." she responded. All three pairs of eyes went wide. "Why Lucy?" Christopher finally spoke up, looking intently at the tech girl. But Jiya continued to keep her eyes on Lucy. "Well, he initially wanted to talk to Rufus, but since he's not here . . ."

Lucy completed her friend's sentence. "So he wants to speak with me instead." Mason and Christopher look over to her as the words leave her lips. "I'm sorry, but you're too valuable to us. Right now you're our biggest asset and I can allow you to take the risk." Christopher says. Trying to stop the thought from even forming.

"It's our only shot in figuring out what Anthony wants. It could be about Flynn." Lucy retorts. She was right of course and they all knew it. If Anthony had intel on Flynn, they had to find out what it was. "Alright, but I have a few conditions that you must follow through with."

A few? They were never ending. Lucy had to whwre a tracker behind her ear during the meet. And there were also Homeland Security agents positioned near her at all times. All of just stressed Lucy out even more.

Finally, when she was ready, Lucy headed out into the streets of San Francisco. As she walker down the pavement, Lucy saw guards along the other side of the road. She became nervous. Maube this was more dangerous than she'd thought it would be.

As she turned the corner, she continued to think about what she'd gotten herself into. But her thoughts were interrupted when someone pulled her clean off the street into an abandoned building.

The security officers couldn't see her anymore. The only thithing they had was her tracker. And that was soon to be lost as well.