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Chapter 36

It was dark as Kala started to come around and her mouth tasted like she had been sucking on cotton balls that had been soaked in something sickly sweet. Her head was pounding and she was bouncing against something hard in a very awkward position and all of a sudden the attack came rushing back and she was truly scared. Reaching out with her mind she screamed his name.

Wolfgang slammed his hands against his head with the others as Kala's terrified scream splintered through their minds. Instantly they were all crammed into whatever small space she was in all together. But it was Wolfgang who wrapped his arms around her, burying his face in her hair, tears streaming down his cheeks. "I thought I lost you for a second time!" He whispered softly.

She was crying too and the fear subsided with everyone being present. "I don't know where I am, or who did this." Kala said with a slight edge of panic to her voice.

Will stepped up quickly with Sun, calming Kala. "You must be in the trunk of a vehicle so let's figure this out." And he mover her around to figure out her surroundings while Sun took note of the sounds and turns so they could work backwards. Will had Kala try to get a tail light out, but there was no good purchase point to pop it out so he opted for figuring out a weapon to defend herself with. Most everything had been cleaned out but they managed to pry loose a small sharp scrap of metal that had lodged down the side crack on the floor and she clung to it like a life line. Will instructed her to hide it somewhere on her person so it wouldn't be taken from her when they came to get her out of the trunk.

"We are slowing." Sun said as Kala slid the shard into the side of the padding of her bra. Will was happy with the placement at it would be decently concealed if she was patted down for some reason. The vehicle slowed and came to a stop, then proceeded again very slowly. "Must be a gate of some sort." Will said. They were all crammed in the small black space waiting and giving Kala strength. Wolfgang clung to her hand with a grip so tight it was almost painful.

The vehicle came to a stop again and she could hear muffled voices arguing. She couldn't make out the words as it seemed whoever was talking had walked away from the car at the moment, but it wasn't long before It stopped and she heard the telltale signs of footsteps approaching. She moved herself to the back of the truck as far as she could from the tell gate and started to shake. "It's ok, we got you." Wolfgang whispered in her ear. "They wouldn't have gone to all this trouble to just kill you now." Will piped up, and Kala shot him a look in the blackness that said, "NOT helping!"

The trunk rattled and opened slowly. The light pouring in, momentarily blinding Kala and causing her abductors figure to be back lit and a black formless silhouette against the sunlight. "Mrs. Rasal. I am terribly sorry for such rude handling. Please, let me assist you." And a hand reached towards her. She automatically recoiled when it hit her that she recognized the voice, her temper spiking, over riding the fear of the situation.

"AJAY KAPOOR!" She spat out at him slapping away his hand, moving to get out of the trunk herself. "You vile piece of filth!" She was positively seething and hissed the words at him climbing out of the trunk. He had a strained smile painted on his face and was dressed in an expensive suit. The cluster held Wolfgang back behind her as he strained to repeatedly smack the grin from his face, but Kala best him to it, hand snaking out with unexpected speed taking Ajay, as well as the whole cluster by surprise as the force of it stung through all of their palms.

Ajay's head snapped to the side, eyes wide and stunned that she would have done such a thing. When he righted himself he started to chuckle soundlessly. "Why Mrs. Rasal…you continue to surprise me. First a lover, now a temper. Tks, tsk, tsk." He chided her with one hand massaging his assaulted cheek and the other waving a finger at her like she was a child.

Kala stepped back, taken by surprise at his mention of her having a lover. He knew about Wolfgang. She looked to the side where he was with the cluster, worry on her face and then started to take note of her surroundings. They were in an enclosed compound that had high cement walls and a solid metal door. Turning her head, she glanced across the courtyard and spotted two men with fire arms and multiple security cameras. Her anger over the discovery that Ajay was behind her abduction was starting to wear off and she was starting to become afraid again.

She noticed that Ajay had picked up on her posture and a snide grin slowly spread across his face. "Now, Mrs. Rasal, if you would kindly follow me." He said directing her towards the house, "We have some things to discuss, you and I."

Her heart rate picked up and her eyes flicked to her cluster. Will and Wolfgang nodded their heads that they thought she should go with him. There was no cover here if shooting started and it would end very badly if they caught here. At least in the house there would be weapons and places to hide. Nomi leaned into her hear, "We have found you and are cracking the feed to all this security. Just stall him a little longer and we will have all we need." She whispered and Kala straightened her posture and walked to the house with confidence.

"You and I have nothing to talk about." She practically growled at him as she walked into the house, taking careful note of her surroundings with her cluster.

"On the contrary," he said walking to a side bar and pouring himself a drink. "I believe we have some negotiating to do. Drink?" He offered as if she was a guest.

"Soda water please," she answered eyeing the ice pick handle peaking out the top of the bucket on the trolley. Her eyes flicked back to him and he flashed her that sickening grin and arched an eyebrow at her.

"Now that's not very nice Mrs. Rasal." He looked down at the ice pick to emphasize he knew what she was thinking and then handed her the drink.

Kala decided to take a different tact, "What is it you think we are negotiating?" She asked walking to the couch and having a seat on the edge. Nomi leaned in again updating Kala, "Bug's almost there and we will own his system." And it was Kala's turn to smile.

"We are negotiating how your troublesome husband will accept the blame for the embezzlement charges that he is so diligently attempting to place solely on my shoulders." He said lounging across one of the chairs, drink in his hand.

Kala was having a hard time focusing on what Ajay was saying as Wolfgang was pacing ceaselessly back and forth behind the couch she was perched on like a caged animal. The rest of the cluster was huddled protectively around her and Will was beside her, lending support as all glared at Ajay lounging snuggly across from her. "And how, more importantly, why would he do that?" She asked casually glancing at Nomi who was signalling her to keep stalling.

"Well, to be blunt," he started staring at his drink as he swirled it in the glass, "Because I will kill you if he doesn't." he finished menacingly looking her in the eye.

Will grabbed Wolfgang as he launched at the other man again, "You mother FUCKER!" he roared. And it took all of Kala's control to keep the words from exiting her mouth. She looked at her glass composing herself before looking back up at Ajay, the whole cluster glaring at him with a wicked grin, "You have underestimated me Ajay, and it will be your ruin." She said softly. "How about you let me go, and turn your self in." She countered and tilted her head as Nomi gave her the thumbs up.

He sat up properly at her change in demeanor and laughed at her confidence. "How Rajan got you, I will never understand." He said as the laughter eased off. "But I think he will not have you for long from what I have seen." And he reached over to the side table grabbing an envelope and tossing it on the coffee table in front of her.

Kala set her drink down and picked up the envelop pulling out the contents. A smile broke out across her face at the first picture. "Oh Ajay…." She breath with a note of condescension, "This really is a lovely picture of me." And she flipped through the pictures of her and Wolfgang that looked as if they had been taken from a ways away. "What exactly did you think you were going to do with these?" She said setting them down as Wolfgang looked over her shoulder. She could feel the self condemnation rolling off him for not realizing that they had been found and followed.

"I will give them to Rajan of course." He said with a grin that showed just how clever he thought he was at his plan. "Of course, I could make them go away for the sake of not breaking my friends heart, if you tell him you will wait for him while he is in jail." He added.

Will leaned over to Kala, "Don't let on that Rajan knows about Wolfgang. We can Just this. We need to get you out of here." And Kala smiled with a nearly imperceptible nod.

Kala looked at Ajay, her skin crawling, "I understand. Do I have time to make this decision?" She tried to look defeated as he stood, loading over her.

"We don't have long, so I will give you till the end of the day." He said confident that she would advise Rajan to go to jail. "But to make sure, I think you should remain here as my guest. Why don't I show you to a room?" He said gesturing down a hall.

Kala saw Will nod yes, so she got up and followed Ajay down the hall to the very end where he assured her into a small room with a bed, one small window off to the side of the bed. "You should be comfortable here till dinner and washroom is through there." He said gesturing to a door off to the right. He smiled again looking her over in a greedy manner, then closed the door. Kala heard the tell tail click of a lock before his steppes went back down the hall leaving her alone with the cluster.

Nomi gestured at cameras and gave Kala a "Don't speak" sign before she started, "I need to loop the feed so this will take a little time. No big gestures, and maybe just pace the room a bit." And Kala started walking slowly in the small space.

Wolfgang desperately wanted to wrap his arms around her, but his focus was split at the moment between being with Kala and driving across Paris to the location that Nomi provided him of Ajay's compound. "I am on my way now." He said in a low voice. He was going to get her out and never let her go again.

Sun walked slowly beside Kala, "Do you want me to tell Rajan what's going on?" She asked in a quiet voice. Looking at Kala she saw her eyes widen with shear panic at the thought and she slowly moved her head from one side, then the other indicating no to Sun. "Rajan will be upset after." She stated obviously as a pained looked replaced Kala's panicked one. She carefully indicated no again to Sun regardless.

Will was checking out her surroundings carefully, eyeing the window with suspicion. Nomi looked at him as he did, and voiced his thoughts, "It's alarmed, but we own the system. Problem is, this section of the house is actually two stories up, with nothing but wall on the other side."

Wolfgang piped up to her comment, "I'm not in a position to get a two story ladder here guys." As Kala hopped to a visit realizing he had stolen a two seat sports car to get to her. He shrugged with a slight grin at her condemning look. "What? It was the closest car." He said as a weak defence and she rolled her eyes at him.

Nomi stopped Kala in her tracks, bring her back to the room, "We are looped. Free to talk and get away from this psycho."

Kala through her arms around the woman in a crushing bear hug. "Thank you for being positively magic at what you do and finding me!" She said then turned to the rest of the group, "All of you, thank you! Now, how do we get out of this mess?" She said going straight to the window.

Although it was the most private option, the window just wasn't going to work as they talked things through quietly as to not raise suspicion. As Nomi had complete eyes on the villa, it was decided that they would talk Kala through sneaking out to a better location in which to slip out. Preferred choice after looking through the blue prints Nomi provided, being the back door of the garage that lead to a pathway out between Ajay's villa and the one beside it. Wolfgang who was just a couple blocks away at this point, could park unseen at the end and they could leave from there.

Everyone held their collective breath as Nomi unlocked the electronic padlock on the door remotely. Kala heard the soft click and quietly slid the door open a hair. "On my count, a guard is going out of view….three, two, one, now!" And Kala slipped out, shoes in hand so she made no noise on the tile floor. She slipped into the room down and across the hall as instructed and had a brief look around. It was a lavishly decorated office with an ornate desk at the end of it. Sitting on the desk was a computer to which Kala made a bee line spontaneously, rounding the corner of the desk and touched the mouse, causing the screen to light up. Nomi immediately took over, grabbing a usb stick out of the drawer in the desk. Within a few seconds she had blown passed the locked wall and was into the system, copying files to the drive, and then exiting telling Kala to hide it.

Kala grabbed the drive and slipped it into the other side of her bra padding then tiptoed quickly back to the door. She waited on Nomi's signal and slipped out again down the hall to the corner. This was the tricky part, she needed to get through the kitchen to the side door that lead to the garage. If she could manage that she would be free.

Nomi waved her through to the entrance of the kitchen and stopped her there. She was trapped as a service staff was in the kitchen and Ajay was coming back through the living room towards his office. If he mad it to the edge of the hall she would be totally exposed if she couldn't get into the kitchen. Kala's pulse was pounding in her ears as she froze in position holding her breath with the whole cluster with her when Ajay stopped in the living room. He turned back and walked over to the coffee table where the pictures of Kala and Wolfgang lay on the coffee table.

Kala eyed him as he picked up the pictures obviously smug with himself. "Oh Rajan, my friend, you thought you had it all….." he said chuckling as her flipped through the pictures. "You're beautiful flower, doesn't seem to have such a discerning bloom, now does she?"

Kala cringed at the way he stroked his finger down the picture. He started to turn as Nomi whispered, "Go, go, go!" in her ear. She slipped through the kitchen door shutting it soundlessly and quickly flitted to the door leading to the garage. She was almost there, 30 more feet and she would be at Wolfgang who was nearly jumping out of his skin waiting for her. Turning the knob and squeezing through she turned, face to face with one of the guards hiding in a corner having a smoke.

Time froze as Kala and the guard locked eyes for one brief moment, his cigarette hanging from his lips mouth slightly open. Kala felt like it was almost in slow motion as she watched the smoke fall out of his mouth as he raised his gun. Will seamlessly took over, side stepping against the wall grabbing the guards wrist with the gun. He used Kala's hand to roll the wrist back hard across the body using the angle to snap the wrist, breaking the guards grip on the gun. His face crumpled in pain as Will swung the heal of the gun back connecting with the jaw with a sickening thud, as he dropped, driving her knee in his groin twice for good measure and automatically checked the gun.

Kala held the gun, back in control, shaking slightly, staring at it in wonder until Will barked at her, "Go!" And she sprinted to the door leading out to the pathway and to freedom. Wolfgang was waiting for her as she turned the corner full force into his arms.

"I got you! Thank God!" He said gripping her tight for a moment. They both heard yelling and commotion echoing down the length of the stone walkway and Wolfgang turned, opening the door for Kala before sprinting around the front of the car, getting in and squealing away before anyone spotted his car. He reached across the center console, taking her hand as he steered them to safety.

Hopefully you all like this one. I am trying to bring things to a conclusion soon, but might be a bit before I post again as I am going on vacation. Please stick with me! As always, I LOVE to hear your thoughts. I have been blessed with some awesome comments that have me striving to write the best story possible! Please take a few moments and review!