redxcanary- I try so hard to continue writing at rapid pace, but I fall behind, and I apologize! But, here is the next chapter. :)

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As soon as Jackson flung his phone into the passenger seat, he crossed the median in the highway and turned back to head to Florida. After learning that Joe was alive, he knew they were in Florida. He just knew.

The fact that Joe thought that he could keep Jackson away from Lisa was laughable. She was his wife for crying out loud. No one was going to keep him away from her. She was his, and his alone. Even if he had to kill her father to get to her, he would do it. Sure, Lisa would be upset, but she would get over it. She would have to.

Jackson heard Joes words in his head playing over and over again. "I'm going to make sure that your marriage is annulled. I'm going to make sure you have no contact with her at all." Fury spread throughout Jacksons body. "I'm going to make sure you get fired." Who the hell did Joe think he was? Jackson slammed his fist on the steering wheel as he sped down the highway. He looked into his rear view mirror, checking to see if the car he thought was following him was still there. It wasn't.

That's when everything went to shit. A bullet zipped right by his nose, causing the glass on his window to break. When he looked over, he saw one of his old friends from the agency. Jackson saw Deion's hand on the trigger, and he swerved into the next lane. Deion swerved at the same time, causing his car to side swipe Jacksons. The wheel jerked in Jacksons hand, and he let out an angry sound that sounded like a cat getting stuck in an engine. "There is no way this is going to stop me from finding Lisa." He growled to himself.

Jackson himself pulled out a gun. Sure, he was a lousy shot, but he didn't hesitate to use a gun when needed, and right now it was needed. Waiting until Deion was beside him again, Jackson raised the gun and pulled the trigger. He thought he had missed when the car Deion was driving kept going straight, but hadn't missed. The bullet had gone right through Deions head and blew his window out. Jackson threw his gun down into the passenger seat and looked around him to make sure no one else was following him. When he didn't see anyone, he sped up and got away from Deions car just before it smashed into another car. Jackson didn't see who was in the other car, and at the moment, he didn't care. He just had to find Lisa.

She was his main priority.

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Lisa woke up in the same bedroom as before. Her head hurt. She didn't know if it was from whatever Alec had pumped into her system, or if it was from the stress she was under. She groaned when she saw Alec standing in the doorway. "What?" She asked him with an attitude. "What do you want from me?"

He shook his head and turned around, standing guard in front of her room. Lisa couldn't deny that he was attractive. Tall, sandy brown hair, blue eyes that were almost as piercing as Jackson's. He certainly was attractive, but she missed seeing Jackson. Missed being by his side, and she had only been away from him for about a day. At least she hoped it was only for about a day. With them sticking her with a needle and knocking her out, she didn't know exactly how much time had passed. "Alec, right?" She knew that was his name, but she was trying to get him to talk to her. "So, do you work for the agency too, or did my dad just hire you off of the street?"

Again, Alec didn't answer her. "I can't handle this. I can't handle having no one to talk to. Can you please just answer one thing?" He looked back at her. "Where is my father?"

"Out." So much for conversation. If she was only going to get one word answers, she would just stay to herself. This was going to be a lonely stay. She watched as another guard came and handed Alec something. He turned around and brought it over to her. "Sign this."

She scoffed. "Not unless I know what it's for."

"Annulment papers." Alec handed them to her. "Sign them."

She pushed them away. "Nope. Sorry. Not happening." She didn't understand why she didn't sign them. Maybe it was because she didn't want to be told what to do by her father anymore. Especially since she was an adult. Maybe sticking it to her father was the reason. It didn't make any sense. If she could be free of the marriage, why didn't she want to be? Of course she loved him, but his life was too complicated for her. It just wasn't in her nature to live a life married to a hit-man.. Even if that hit-man only set up the hit, and didn't actually do the killing. Did that actually make him a hit-man? Lisa wasn't sure, and she didn't care what the technical term was.

"Ms. Reisert, now is not the time to become difficult." She laughed. Personally, she thought she had been difficult since they grabbed her and shoved her in the car. "Once you sign this paper, things will get easier."

"Easier for who? My father?" Alec didn't answer. He didn't nod. He didn't shake his head no. "You work for the agency, right?" Again, he didn't answer. "Well, regardless of if you do or not, I'm going to tell you one of the rules of the agency. You don't get to mess with the spouse or children." When that didn't affect Alec, Lisa continued on. "That means that I'm untouchable if I stay married to Jackson."

A hint of a smile played on Alec's lips. "Only if he's still working for the agency."

Lisa scoffed at the idea of Jackson not working for the agency. "I feel like He'll be working for the agency for the rest of his life. Maybe even one day being the owner."

Alec looked Lisa dead in the eyes. "Not if your father has any say about that."

Not blinking, or backing down, Lisa replied, "My father has no say about who I can and can not share my life with."

He placed the papers on the bed and walked back to the door. "I really shouldn't be telling you this, but your father has your whole life planned out for you."

She narrowed her eyes at him. She knew he couldn't see her angry face, but she made it anyways. Who the hell did her father think he was? He was not the one who could decide her fate. She was. But, hadn't she already failed at that? If it wasn't Jackson deciding her fate, it was her father. It was time for her take her life back. Make her own decisions. No more letting anyone control her life but herself. "That's what he thinks." She muttered under her breath.

"No. That's what he did. Everything is planned out for you."

She hadn't thought that he would hear her. "What exactly does he have planned for me?" Lisa waited for a few minutes without an answer. "Alec, what the hell does he have planned for me?" If she looked in a mirror, she thought she would be able to see smoke coming from her ears. That's how mad she was.

He looked back at her. "That isn't my place to tell you."

Lisa scrambled off of the bed and made her way over to Alec, who instinctively blocked the door from her. "You started this conversation, so now you need to finish it! What does he have planned?" He didn't answer, which made her even madder. She pushed him out of anger. "Tell me, god damn it! Tell me!"

"If you just sign the papers, your father will tell you when he gets back."

Lisa let out a sigh of aggravation. Realizing that Alec wasn't going to tell her anything, she went back to the bed and sat down. She needed a plan, and she needed one now. There was no way that she was going to be stuck in this hell hole. At least when she was locked in the hotel room with Jackson, she had TV to keep her busy. Here, she didn't even have a book to read. All she could do was sit and stare at the wall. Considering no one would talk to her, obviously on her fathers orders, being with Jackson seemed like the better option of the two. If she had to choose between the two guys, Jackson was clearly in the winning column right now.

"Ms. Reisert, please just sign the papers."

Knowing this would drive her father crazy, she tore the papers up. "It's Mrs. Rippner now. Stop with the Reisert shit." It actually felt nice to say that she was Mrs. Rippner now. It felt right.

Alec shook his head and turned back around. "I wish you hadn't done that."

What did it matter to him if she signed the papers or not? It's not like he had any stake in her relationship with Jackson. Whether Lisa was with Jackson or not, it shouldn't have mattered to Alec. Or anyone else in this house. "Done what?" Lisa asked as Alec walked over to her and smacked her in the face. She grabbed her cheek and screamed for Jackson. Who she knew wasn't going to be there, but she hoped he would be soon.

"Jackson isn't here. He isn't going to save you." He pulled out another set of papers. "Sign these."

Again, she pushed the papers away. "Does my father know you hit women?"

A chuckle escaped from Alec's mouth. "Your father told me to do so if you didn't cooperate." He threw the papers on the bed. "I told you to sign the papers, you didn't listen. You ripped them up. Why can't you just do what you're supposed to do?"

"Technically, I should be in Miami planning my fathers funeral."

Alec walked to the bedroom again and stood guard. "You're going to learn real quick that you should always listen to your father."

Lisa grabbed the papers and asked for a pen. Alec happily obliged and threw her one. A fond memory of stabbing Jackson in the throat with a pen came to her. She smiled, wishing she could stab Alec in his throat with his own pen. She pulled off the cap and sent him another smile as she wrote on the paper. "It's done." Lisa said as she threw the pen back at him. "Now you can call my father and tell him that he can let me go. I signed the damn papers like he wanted."

"That's not how this works Ms. Reisert." She almost corrected him again, but thought better of it. "You only leave when your father says so. I don't call him and tell him to let you go. I work for him, not the other way around. Whatever he pays me to do, I do."

She knew there was a hidden meaning to the "Whatever he pays me to do, I do." she just didn't know what it was. She hoped she wouldn't find out. Unless she already had. Him hitting her could have been what he meant. That's what Lisa chose to believe. Maybe him hitting her was the whatever he was talking about. "Great, you do whatever he pays you to do." Slipping off the bed, she began walking to him again. "Does that include calling him and telling him that I have in fact signed the papers? Does it include you letting me call him so I can talk to him?"

"No. I only talk to him when he calls me. We're not to disturb him while he's on his mission."

Thinking back to the Red Eye, she remembered Jackson saying he watched her for eight weeks. There was no way she could be cooped up in this house for eight weeks. "How long is he on this mission for?" He hesitated, and she spoke up again. "Tell me how long he's going to be gone for!"

Alec rolled his eyes. He definitely was not used to his jobs being this complicated. The women he usually watched after were always scared and willing to do whatever he told them to do. The same for the men he usually watched. Alec was always surrounded by fear. He may not have been a big guy, but he was certainly scary in the eyes. "Not my call to make. When he calls, you can talk to him and ask him this yourself."

Losing her cool, Lisa began pushing on Alec. Trying to get him to leave her alone. "Get out! Get out! Get out! I don't want you here! I want to be alone."

"I have strict orders to stay right here and watch you."

Lisa looked around the room. "Where the hell am I going to go?" Of course there was the window, but she was on the second floor and there wasn't a tree outside of the window to climb down. Even if she did, there were probably more guards on the property. "I just want to lie down on the bed and be by myself. Do you think you can handle that?"

"I can handle anything, Ms. Reisert." He glanced at the window. "My orders are to stay here and watch you, and that's what I'll do."

Lisa let out a little screech and turned around, heading to the bed. "Fine. If you want it that, at least turn off the light." And just like that, the lights went out. "Thank you."

She heard him shuffle a bit. "I didn't do that. Someone must have cut the power."

Lisa gasped as the realization hit. Jackson was here! Jackson was going to save her from this prison. But at what cost? Did she really want to go from one prison to another? "I knew he would come for me."

"Jackson isn't here. Last we checked, he was on his way to Texas. He has no clue that you're here in Florida." That's when Alec cursed under his breath. He wasn't supposed to tell her where she was. He didn't know how, but Joe was worried that she might be able to use this knowledge to get away from the safe house. Even though it was in the middle of nowhere.

"It's Jackson, alright. And he's going to kill you. He's going to save me and kill you." The morning light was starting to shine in from the window. "Are you ready to die, Alec?" Alec didn't answer. "Well, you should be, because that's what is going to happen to you."