The next day, Alex called Sabina on her cell phone. She picked up on the first ring.
"Good morning Sabina, its Alex."
"Hello Alex, did you sleep well?" she asked.
Alex looked at his sleeping bag that they asked to be brought up that was laying on the floor. "Yes, I slept very well."
"Good, I did also."
"Jack is going to see her friends today; do you want to do something? Maybe we could see a few historic sights," said Alex.
"I would love that. Why don't I come to your hotel at one o'clock?" asked Sabina.
"That would be wonderful," said Alex. "I'm at the hotel by the pier."
"Great, see you at one." She hung up the phone.
"I'm seeing Sabina at one," Alex told Jack at the breakfast buffet.
"Great. That's the time I'm leaving to see some friends," said Jack with her mouth full of pineapple.
"I better meet her in the lobby so she doesn't see the room," said Alex.
Jack laughed. "I think that's a good plan.
Alex stood in the lobby of the hotel waiting for Sabina. It was one twelve so she should arrive any second.
Two minutes later, she walked through the door. She was carrying alligator skin pocket books and had bright red lipstick on.
The first thin she asked Alex was: "Do I have enough foundation on?"
"Yes Sabina, you look beautiful," was Alex's response.
Sabina kissed him on the cheek. "I'm so excited to see you again Alex!" she exclaimed.
"I'm excited about seeing you," said Alex.
"Let's get the historic stuff over with so we can hit the Fanuil Hall shopping center," said Sabina.
They left the hotel and got on a trolley that took them to all the historic sites.
They saw the old north church, the USS Constitution, the Massachusetts state house, and The Battle of Bunker Hill memorial.
The memorial was a huge obelisk that you could walk to the top of. It was two hundred and ninety four steps to the top.
"Let's do it," said Alex. Sabina was a little reluctant but she went anyway.
The inside of the memorial was like a medieval tower. There was a cylindrical shaft in the middle, and had steps winding around it.
The climb was hard. By the time Sabina and Alex made it to the top, their legs ached.
Alex looked out the window and saw the city of Boston spread before him. It was beautiful from that high up. But that all changed when Alex heard Sabina scream.
He turned around and saw a man in black holding Sabina at gunpoint and another man with huge muscles in nothing but a small t-shirt held a knife was coming toward Alex.
The man in black held Sabina over a metal grate which looked down into the cylindrical shaft. He put Sabina down on the grate.
"Robert Clay told you not to come. Now you will pay the price," said the man in the t-shirt.
He nodded his head and the man in black shot the grate at the edge. It tilted and Sabina was knocked to the ground. The man in black fired again and the grate fell off completely and fell down the shaft. Sabina held onto the edge for dear life.
Alex ran toward her and grabbed her hand right before she let go. Both men did nothing to stop Alex. Maybe they knew he wouldn't prevail from saving his girlfriend.
Sabina's hands started to slip until Alex was holding her by his fingertips.
He started to cry and so did Sabina. Her hands slipped off Alex's and she screamed as she fell into the shaft and was silenced when she hit the bottom two hundred twenty one feet below.
Alex lay on the ground and couldn't stop crying. He couldn't believe that Sabina was dead, and that it was his fault. It wouldn't have happened if he and Jack had obeyed Robert Clay and left Boston.
Alex got up. He was furious. He ran at the man with the gun and knocked him down. He started smashing his head against the stone until he was dead. Blood dripped from Alex's hands.
Alex went for the man with the knife, but he was already down the stairs. He would let him go, for now.
Alex sat down, and started to cry, and no matter how hard he tried, the tears kept flowing.