Chapter 21: Your Cheating Heart

Henry Wu and Matt Wright stepped out of the plane and into the airport terminal. Neither of them men had spent any time off of the island in over a month. Matt was pleased to see other people besides the same geneticists and Costa Rican construction workers he's seen everyday. Still, the same problem arose. He didn't speak the native language so conversation was bound to be nonexistent.

"Hey," Matt whispered over to the worrisome Dr. Wu. "If I get into a conversation, would you translate for me. I have my eye on that girl over there by the gift shop."

Wu was pretending not to listen. He was busy taking in the sights and sounds of a country he hadn't been to in over twenty years. "I don't speak Mandarin fluently," Wu finally admitted. "My parents emigrated the the United States when I was only four years old. I know only what my parents taught me, and that wasn't much, I can assure you."

"We should have brought your sister, then."

"Her? Please. She knows less than I do, even before the amnesia. She was born in the U.S. And never bothers to learn 'a language she never really needed in the real world,' or so she so quaintly put it." Wu fixed his jacket before beginning to walk. "Come on. We have some Chinese miners to meet up with."

Meanwhile, Michael and Jessica had been driving for almost two hours without any end in sight. Jessica, of course, broke the silence. "I'm not having very good luck with island. England is an island, right?" Michael only nodded before she continued. "Yeah. Did Robbie even tell you what happened to me back on Isla Nublar?"

"Where?"

"Oh. I don't think you're supposed to know about that yet."

"Is Robert involved in something illegal again? He should know how these things end."

"No! Not at all!" Jessica defended. "Mr. Hammond just has a thing about secrecy. Another company, one I apparently briefly worked for, has been trying to steal InGen secrets. InGen has a real moneymaker on their hands and they don't want Biosyn to get their grimy little hands on it. It'll take away from the profits! Oh. I don't think I should have told you any of that, either."

"You might as well finish now."

"Okay!" she replied gleefully. "Honestly, everyone I've met up until know honestly knows more about the island than I do. You don't know how happy I am that I get to spill the beans and it's actually meaningful! So anyways, Mr. Hammond has this great idea to make a theme park on an island in the middle of nowhere. What makes it so exiting? I'm glad you asked. The park has animals, but not regular animals. We're making dinosaurs, Michael! Isn't that exiting?"

"It's funny. You say that like you're still working there. When you and Robert came to my house, I was under the impression that you quit in hopes of starting a new life."

"Yeah, but apparently danger is evident everywhere. Well, at least in England. Maybe I'd have better luck in Belarus... but I digress. If the chances of me dying are equal everywhere, I'd rather die on Jurassic Park."

"Jurassic Park? Catchy name. I'm almost tempted to visit it." Michael finally parked the car in a motel parking lot. Pulling a key from his wallet, Michael exited the vehicle and ignored the front office as he opened the door to the motel room."

"This is—this is—pretty disgusting," Jessica observed as she followed Michael into the room. "I thought you were rich. Aren't you some high-ranking banker or something?"

"Sales manager," he corrected. "And yes, I make good money. I could find somewhere better, but this is the only place I own that neither Robert nor Katherine know about."

"Why?"

"None of your business."

"Why?"

"Because it's my own business."

"Why?"

"Because I like my business kept private from my family."

"Why?"

"Because it wouldn't be good for Katherine to know."

"Why?"

"Because this is where I go when I'm cheating on Katherine with my secretary."

Across town, Robert Muldoon entered the lobby of the Hilton with an ireful look glowing deep within his eyes. Michael was looking for any way to discredit him, Kevin Tourenz was out of jail, and now he had to pull his sister away from her "appointment."

Robert pushed the other guests in the lobby out his way until he reached the man at the front desk. "What room is Trina Townsend staying in?" Robert asked with a snarl.

"I can't just tell you that," the desk clerk explained, trying to seem more confident than he actually was. "We can't give out customer information like that to just anyone."

"She's my sister. I have something important to tell her."

"Miss Townsend informed us that she is an only child."

"Oh whatever!" Robert yelled. "She's lying. Her name is Katherine anyways! Here. Give me that." Robert immediately jumped over the counter and shoved the desk clerk out of the way and began to search through the files on the computer. Every time the desk clerk or another employee tried to pull him away, Robert would easily shove them down. Robert finally found what he was looking for—room 319—and hopped back over the desk and into the elevator. He could hear the desk clerk calling for security as the elevator door closed.

Robert exited on the third floor and , as luck would have it, the security guard exited the stairwell and began to approach Robert. "Excuse me sir. We're you just in the lobby?"

"As a matter of fact, I was. The desk clerk wasn't being very helpful, so I decided to help myself. I found what I was looking for, so the property damage from here on out should be very minor."

"You're going to have to come with me, sir."

"Wait on that for a minute," Robert replied. "I have something important to tell my sister in room 319. But, you see, she's a little 'busy' in there, so I need your master card key to open the door."

"Not going to happen."

"It's important. Also, it'll embarrass her to no end. Haven't you even wanted to embarrass your sister?"

The guard contemplated Robert's words for a few second before pulling the master key card from his back pocket and sliding into the slot for room 319. Robert casually opened the door.

"Hey!" came a male voice from the next room. "Get out of here. We're a little busy right now!"

"Couldn't care less," Robert replied as he walked calmly into the room. "You. Get your pants back on and get the Hell out of here. I have a security guard who's more than willing to chuck you out the window if you don't comply. Katherine please puts some clothes on. It's really hard to talk to my sister when she's half naked.

The man scurried over to the other end of the room and began to rapidly to his clothes back and before hopping out of the room and passed the security guard with his parts still partially around his ankles. "I better makes sure he doesn't hurt himself," the guard said. "Oh, and you need an alibi." The guard took out his radio and said, "All guard units. I had him cornered on the third floor, but he escaped into the stairwell. I believe I saw his exit on the sixth floor. I'll meet you guys there."

Muldoon nodded as a means of saying thank you. The guard returned the gesture before leaving the room. Meanwhile, Katherine had finished putting all of her clothes back on. "Any specific reason why you're here? Trying to ruin my life?"

"You seem to be doing a good enough job of that yourself. No. Kevin Tourenz is out of jail. I don't know how, but he was apparently released. He's taken steps to enact his revenge. He planted a bomb in your house. Michael and Jessica just barely got out of there with their lives. Michael took her somewhere safe. I assume this place is safe since neither Jessica nor Michael know about it."

"What are we going to do about Tourenz?"

"He's a mob boss. I'm not planning on going toe-to-toe with him. I have to run. England isn't safe for me. At this point, it would probably be best if I returned to Isla Nublar."

"Where?"

"The island where I worked before I came here. I'm not supposed to tell you any of it, but I really don't care anymore. John Hammond and the guys at InGen are planning to make a theme park on the island called Jurassic Park. Why the catchy name? It'll feature real, flesh and bones dinosaurs. Hammond wants secrecy because we've had problems with a rival company named Biosyn sneaking onto the island trying to steal InGen's information. Actually, Jessica used the work for Biosyn before her amnesia. Another man named Howard King also works for the company."

"Is that all?"

"As long as I stay here in England, I'm putting you and Michael in danger. First things first, we meet up with Jessica and Michael. Jessica and I leave the country before Tourenz finds out that I'm still alive."

Robert picked the phone and dialed Michael's cell phone. "Come to the Hilton Hotel. Room 319. What you and Katherine do after this is up to you guys. Jessica and I are going leaving."

"Good riddance," Michael replied as he hung up the phone."

"They're coming."

"Good," came a male voice from behind them. Katherine and Robert turned around to see the bane of their existence, Kevin Tourenz, standing at the doorway. "You wouldn't believe the helpfulness of Americans. First, she releases me from prison. Then, she practically orders me to eliminate you. Finally, she gives me an army of people to help me in my mission. I've never had this many people working for me before. I have the whole lobby under my control! Everyone in this building is my hostage!"

"Let them go! It's me you want!"

"Not just you. Your sister is on my list of targets as well. Oh, and your brother-in-law has tailed me and my men more than I can count. He's been a bother. And to add insult to injury, that nice American woman told me to eliminate Jessica Wu at the same time."

"Leave her alone!"

"No can do," Kevin replied. "I don't know why, but the American woman wants all InGen employees that are currently or have ever been employed on an island called Isla Nublar dead. She told me she hired someone to kill John Hammond and he failed. Kennedy was a punk. I'm a professional. Come on. Let's wait for the others in the lobby."

The La Gracia Corporation building stood like a monolith amongst the other office buildings in the downtown area. All the other businesses paled in comparison to the pristine building Ed Regis and Miranda Sanchez entered through the front lobby of. Regis wasn't going to waste any more time than he had already as he approached the front desk clerk. "I need to speak with whoever is in charge right now." the clerk stared at him silently until Miranda caught up and translated."

"Perdoname," she said as she stood up and entered the doors behind her. After a few second, she returned with a mustachioed man in a blue business suit. "You in charge? If so, I have a lot of questions for you and I expect a lot of answers."

Miranda began to translate, but the mustachioed man put his hand up for her to stop. "I know exactly what you want, Mr. Regis," he explained. "Ever since you said you worked for Biosyn at the airport, we've been expecting your arrival. Plain and simple, Lewis Dodgson's experiment on our cattle has hurt the country's economy. If I knew what he was doing, I would never have given him my mercenaries. Here is all the evidence you need against him." The man handed Regis a manila folder filled to the brink with papers.

"You're just going to give them to us?"

"Lewis Dodgson is an enemy to all Chilean citizens. The employees of La Gracia are no exception. Please. Take the information, but speak nothing of its origin. Our reputation would be tarnished if our competitors found out we turned the tables on one of our own clients."

"My lips are sealed," Regis assured. "This will get me what I need."

"Chile thanks you Edward Regis."

"You're welcome." Regis and Miranda left the building in a surprisingly gleeful state. Meanwhile, the mustachioed man left the front desk and walked back through the double door from where he came. He walked up the stairs and exited onto the third floor. Walking into a room at the end of the hallway, he stood at the edge of the desk until the person sitting in the chair spun around. It was the same who man who hired Kennedy and Tourenz to kill the InGen employees.

"Ed Regis was here?" she asked with a crooked smile.

"Yes," the man replied. "He was here with a woman. I don't think she works for InGen and all our intelligence says that Ed Regis has not been to the island as of yet."

"Are you lobbying me for their lives?" she asked. The man remained silent. "Your concern for humans that you've never met before astounds me. What have they ever done for you? Why shouldn't I killed Ed Regis?"

"He hasn't been to the island. He didn't say anything that implied that he knew anything about the island and what their doing there. He isn't a priority."

"Fine," she replied. "Regis can live. What about the others?"

"Sebastian Kennedy failed to kill John Hammond. He will have his punishment. Kevin Tourenz is eliminating Robert Muldoon and Jessica Wu as we speak. Henry Wu and Matthew Wright are in China. Everyone else is still on the island out of reach."

"Good. Keep in touch with Tourenz. I want to know how that ends up. Oh. Do we have an agent in China or are we going to have to let Wu and Wright escape out grasps?"

"I'll look into it, ma'am."

"Thank you. And please. Call me Ashley."