Last Chapter! Enjoy and review!
I woke up with a start. Everything came flooding back from last night. Eunice was sitting on the couch next to me wide awake.
"Thank god your awake. I thought I was going to have to call Duffy and ask him to come by and use his medical training on your ass." Eunice said.
"Have they called yet?" I asked, she nodded.
"And?" I asked anxious.
"They are being held at Hoag Maximum Security prison. Romeo is in a coma but is still there under medical care. Noah MacManus is no longer with us." she said as fast as she could. My heart broke. Da was dead. A tear fell from my eye.
"Whats the plan?" I asked.
"Were getting the hell out of here." she said and with that we packed up the little we have and left.
…...
Eunice and I drove and drove and drove. Until we came to the point where we were instructed to by none other than Father Sibeal.
"It's a non-extradition country. Passport under your name. Money, contacts, and a map to your final destination." Father Sibeal said as we walked to the dock. Eunice was chewing a big wad of gum.
"Which is?" I asked.
"The monastery at Saint Escazu."
"A monastery?" Eunice asked.
"Monasteries enjoy the protection of the Holy See. They're not even subject to local laws, searches, et cetera. A sanctuary within a sanctuary. He's going to take you by boat to a private airstrip down the shore, where we have arranged for your travel. Off the books, of course."
"Father, I ain't one to look a gift horse, but you still haven't told us how you're involved in all this. And second, we need to disappear, you show up with plans and paperwork in hand. It's like you knew before we did." Eunice said. I nodded my head, I was still in shock from recent events.
"The Lord works in mysterious ways, my dear." Sibeal said. "We want you two to know that you're not alone. We have many resources."
"You keep saying 'we.' Now, who's 'we'?" I asked finally talking.
"You ready to go?" the man that was sitting on the dock said. Eunice and I looked at each other then at Sibeal. We then glanced over at the man.
"I hear they party pretty hard at that monastery." The man said. Eunice and I walked over to where he was sitting. We looked at him like he was a ghost. Technically he was. It was Paul Smecker. We both stood there and stared at him. He stared back looking us both up and down.
"Oh, I'm not sure I'm in love with that new look there Betty Boop. Caprice darling you look the same." he said to us. I had to hold back a snicker for the Betty Boop comment.
"I attended your funeral, you son of a bitch!" Eunice blurted out.
"I know. Loved your shoes." he said. I finally let the snicker out. He smiled at me. "The skirt was a little risque for a funeral, but, hey, who am I to begrudge someone their sense of individuality."
"Aye, aye." I said.
"What is this?" Eunice said, she was upset and I kind of couldn't blame her.
"Keep it down. You don't want to scare away my little fishes." he said. Eunice spit her gum out into the water.
"Fuck your fish! What the hell is going on here?" she yelled, Smecker sighed and got up. He faced us both.
"You are exposed, young lady!" he said to her. "You I don't know about you but all is well." he said to me and turned back to Eunice.
"You're a very clever little girl, Eunice. That's why I chose you. Now its time for you to put your thinking cap on. We got all the financial backing and protection of the biggest corporation in the world." he said and pointed to Father Sibeal. "And two CEO's worthy of the public trust. Now, what do you think is going on here?"
"You want to get them out." I said as Eunice was about to open her mouth to say the exact thing.
"I want to get them out, get them back to work, take this thing to a whole new level. Where're they being held?" he asked this made my day better.
"They're being held at Hoag." Eunice said.
"How are we planning to get them out? Its a maximum security prison. That is somewhat difficult, especially with you being dead, you being in hiding and myself being pregnant." I said. Smecker looked at me and smiled.
"Pregnant, eh? I thought of you as the Virgin Mary." he said.
"Well this Virgin Mary has some knots on her belt and a husband." I said, his eyes widened.
"I'd ask why I wasn't invited then I remembered I'm apparently dead." Smecker said.
"Anyway, the Hoag just ain't any prison." Eunice said.
"Wrong. That's exactly what it is, just a prison. Run by men. Men, as we all know, are fallible." Smecker said.
"Well, whatever we do, we gotta do it quick. My boys aren't safe in there." I said.
"Oh, I don't know." Smecker said. "I think they will do just fine."
