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CHAPTER TWENTY

Jade Lynn West

We drove to New Haven, Connecticut in a tense silence. According to Beck's plan, the new recruits Aniq and Connor were sent to find an aircraft that could fit us all and take us all the way to Italy. "Jade. I figured out why he chose this place to be the meeting point." I looked over at him interested just for a second. "Go on then. Tell me why?" I said and he began explaining immediately. "We're about to arrive in New Haven and our final destination is The Haven in Italy."

I nodded slowly to Robbie's explanation but then looked over at him realizing that he didn't even see me nod. His face was strained, something he only done when he was on to something. "Spit it out, Rob. What's on your mind?" He hesitated before speaking up, confirming little details in his mind. "Well…I was thinking how we are going to find them in New Haven, Connecticut. It could take us hours to look everywhere for them and by then they could have left in the aircraft. But then…"

He stopped again for a moment before speaking up again. "I remembered how Tori once told me she loved lighthouses. That they were beautiful. There's a lighthouse here in New Haven called Five Mile Point High or something like that. We should make our way there." I smiled in surprise at how Robbie had figured out the possible location where Beck, Tori and Andre could be. "Sounds like a plan." We drove through the streets of New Haven but off in the distance I saw something that made my heart stop.

The sex traffickers we had escaped from the night Cat got bitten were here on our trail. I could have recognized the tall bald muscly man who now seemed to be shouting orders to his surviving subordinates. I noticed a brutal claw mark on the man's face as he turned his head to the side and I knew undoubtedly that the Zowls had done this to him. If he found us, he would take his revenge and it would be more than just pain we'd have to deal with.

"Jade? What's wrong, why'd you stop the car?" I reversed the car slowly my eyes on the men to see if they'd spotted me and as soon as the street to my right was available I turned and went through another route. "Rob. The traffickers are here and they've followed Beck's trail. So we're taking a detour to the lighthouse." Robbie nodded gulping. He too knew this was bad news. Not only did we have the Zowls to worry about now we were also at the mercy of these slave traders.

After driving for a little while I spotted another truck coming my way in the distance. My heart stopped thinking that we had been spotted but then I realized soon enough that it was Beck driving down the empty road. I stopped in front of the truck as did Beck when he saw it was me. He ran out of his truck and hugged me with all his might lifting me into the air. "Jade! You're alive. How'd you…?" He held onto me until he saw Robbie who stood just outside the car listening to Beck's excited voice.

Beck spotted him and was almost teary at the fact that we were both still alive. He pulled Robbie into an embrace saying "It's a good thing Andre didn't pull the trigger or we would have lost you too." Robbie laughed lightly but then Beck looked at Robbie's face. Noticed the way Robbie's eyes never met his own and then he knew. "Robbie can't you see me buddy?" He said tears welling up in his eyes. "No Becky, but I'm sure you're still a pretty little gal." Beck laughed at the old joke they shared as tears fell down his cheeks.

I pulled out my gun as Beck was occupied with Robbie and hit him on the back of the head with the butt of the gun. Beck fell forward unconscious and Robbie shook with fear. "What happened? Jade? Where are you? Beck?" he yelled.

"Shh Rob! We don't want to be heard by the traffickers. All I did was knock out Beck." Robbie stuttered slightly as he spoke thinking that I was about to hurt him. "Why-y did you do that?" he asked. "He was about to sacrifice himself Robbie. He was going to go it alone, hold off the Zowls while Andre and Tori cuddled up safely in the lighthouse." Robbie stayed quiet and as I asked him to he helped me lift Beck and throw him into his truck. We drove back the way he had come and we were soon at the lighthouse dragging Beck up the steps.

As we arrived in the small room at the top of the lighthouse we found Andre sitting their generally worrying about anything from Tori lying on the ground huddled in a blanket sleeping and Beck who I was sure he realized had gone to play hero. "Jade? Robbie?" Andre said almost unbelieving said as I laid down Beck against the wall of the lighthouse. He pulled Robbie into a ferocious hug and then he grabbed me and kissed me right on the forehead before hugging me closely. "Alright that's enough you sensitive wuss." I said as Andre laughed before looking back at Robbie.

"Robbie?" Robbie looked over at us with a little difficulty trying to pinpoint the sounds of Andre's voice to a certain location. "Yeah buddy what's up?" Andre walked towards him whilst looking down. "I'm sorry Rob. I couldn't do it. I know you wanted me to but I just couldn't. We've been best friends since we were 12. I just…" Robbie held out his arms and Andre hugged him tightly trying not to cry. "No need to apologize Dre. If you had done it, I wouldn't be here with you."

Andre nodded and turned around as we heard Tori awaken again. Andre took Robbie with him to Tori as she opened her eyes and whispered to her slowly. I knelt beside them on the other side of Tori. "Hey. Look who I found." Tori blinked a few times before realizing it was Robbie. "Robbie is that you?" She said before pulling him into her chest and holding his curly black hair in her hands. "I'm so sorry we left you, Rob. I cried when I saw you look up. I saw you look at me but not see me. It scared me."

Robbie looked up and put his hand against her cheek. "I'm here now, Tori. I'm safe and I've got company too." Tori looked over at me and smiled. "Jade. You're here too. Thank God you're both alive." With her right hand she held Robbie's and she extended her left hand to me which I took with a smile. Tori smiled back at me. "See. Jade you should smile more often. You have a beautiful smile." Tori looked over at Robbie whose head was to the side listening to them talk.

"You saved him didn't you? You helped Robbie and you came back to us. Thank you, Jade. Thank you." She said. "No problems, Vega." She gave me a look as if I ruined the moment and then I laughed lightly. "Tori." I added and she smiled her 24 carat Gold smile. I looked over at Andre who stood watching us talk. "Andre. You got a pen." He nodded passing me one and I pulled out an old receipt from my pocket. Andre walked towards Beck who was still slumped on the floor.

I handed Andre back the pen just as he began to speak. "You found Beck on the way here?" I nodded. "Yeah. He was about to go on some kamikaze death mission. I knocked him out while he was with Rob." Andre held his chin in his right hand and thought deeply before I asked Robbie thought aloud as he spoke to Tori behind us. "How did you get hurt? Was it the traffickers?" Tori's blood froze at the thought of them and I remembered what we had witnessed just as Andre spoke up.

"Beck and I got into a fight and he pulled his gun on me. The gun went off and Tori got hit. Luckily Beck saved her before leaving to sacrifice himself." I shook my head. "You two have got to kick it down a notch on the testosterone levels because the traffickers are here and their looking for us." I said just as I heard the distinct sound of a plane in the distance. Aniq and Connor had arrived.