SIX MONTHS LATER
Ms. Parker stood with Mr. Cox, and other Triumverate personnel, as their young Pretender, Maddie Peckinbridge, helped demonstrate the new and approved 'BodySnatcher'.
Now, one did not need to go back to the original body that he, or she, had come from. All they had to do was press a button on the device, and one was automatically returned to their normal body.
Hopefully, their normal body was not someplace undesirable...but Ms. Parker didn't feel that that kink could be helped, or worked out. Besides, her father had waited long enough. She just hoped her father could work out that snag.
He, Lyle and Raines had been convicted and given life sentences. Lyle was given additional time, for Kyle's murder...and the murders of a few of his Asian victims.
To be honest, Ms. Parker didn't care anything about Lyle or Raines. But it killed her that her father was in an actual prison! He was too old for that.
Jarod had helped Broots and Sidney get off with just probation. Ms. Parker wished she could contact them...but she couldn't. She wanted them both to live their lives free of the Centre and the Triumverate.
Maddie walked up to Ms. Parker.
"Are we going now?" she asked, her eyes shiny with excitement. Ms. Parker ignored Mr. Cox, and Mr. Niswonga's, looks of disapproval. Ms. Parker had been quietly shocked to discover that the Parker name still carried a lot of weight within the Triumverate.
To be blunt, Ms. Parker was Mr. Cox's boss.
Once she realized what her position was, Ms. Parker decided to change a few things. Specifically, she changed Maddie's living accomodations. The child lived with her in her apartment.
Ms. Parker knew that many people did not approve. She could give a damn.
"Yes, in a bit. I just have to make sure that your invention gets to the right people...and then it will be over." Ms. Parker said in a low voice.
Maddie's voice lowered as well.
"Meaning we'll leave?"
Ms. Parker nodded slightly, trying not to give herself away to Cox and Niswonga. She looked down at the Pretender.
"Wait right here. I just have a few things to tell Mr. Cox."
"I don't like him." Maddie said quietly.
"I don't either." Ms. Parker smiled patting her shoulder. "I'll be right back."
Maddie nodded, as Ms. Parker walked over to the two men.
"I'm going to take charge of the 'Bodysnatcher' personally."
Mr. Cox gave her a cold smile.
"I can't wait to see your father again. He is an icon around here."
"Hmmm, I'm sure." Ms. Parker replied, taking the device and handing it off to a Triumverate Courier. She gave him instructions and the corporate credit card, to overnight it, and the name of whom, and where, it was going to.
Mr. Niswonga cleared his throat.
"I am surprised that Maddie was able to do anything at all. I don't approve of your methods, Ms. Parker. You took the child to the zoo the other day."
Ms. Parker turned cold eyes on Niswonga.
"And?"
"And, I think you're being foolish. Her attention will not be on her work."
Ms. Parker walked up to him.
"Would you like for me to call your wife? Huh, Mr. Niswonga? Or does she know that your sexual interests run...oh, I don't know, the 'besital route'?"
Mr. Cox coughed! Niswonga took a deep breath.
"There is no need to be like that. I was just making an observation."
"Keep it to yourself then." Ms. Parker grinned, then watched as he slithered away. Mr. Cox looked at her.
"You know, we have been working together for six months..."
"You've been working FOR me, yes. What? What is it you're trying to say now?"
"Ms. Parker...I find you quite desirable."
"I'm sorry for you. Use your hand or date a giraffe, because nothing is happening here. Why don't you take the afternoon off, okay?"
Ms. Parker walked away from Cox and over to Maddie. Mr. Cox took a deep, shaky breath. The erection he always got, whenever he just looked at Ms. Parker, was painful. But it would be worth it, for when he finally made Ms. Parker his.
For what she did not know was, Cox had been in touch with Mr. Parker, who had already given his blessing for an 'arranged marriage'. They would be quite happy here in Africa, married.
PRISON BREAK
The prison guard had gotten his money. Now it was time to deliver the package.
The guard walked into the crowded cafeteria. Those were his instructions. He saw the table that Lyle, Mr. Parker and the ever wheezing, Raines, were sitting at. A few Aryans were at the table as well.
The guard surreptitiously handed Mr. Parker the device. Mr. Parker gave Lyle and Raines a look, before standing up with his tray. Lyle and Raines did as well.
Mr. Parker headed for one of the guards standing at an exit. He set his tray on top of a trashcan, walked up to a guard, activated the device, then reached for the guard's arm!
"Hey, Parker! What the he..." the guard hissed, reaching for his gun.
Mr. Parker, soon found he was in the body of the guard. He threw the device to Lyle, who then touched another guard, and switched bodies with him!
A few prisoners, and guards, ran over, as 'Lyle' and 'Mr. Parker' suddenly fell over! Mr. Parker, nodded at the original guard, who had given them the device. He was in charge of making sure that their original bodies, got smuggled out of here as well.
Raines soon realized, that he was being doublecrossed, as 'Lyle' put the device in his pocket, pulled the guard's gun, and shot Raines dead! A melee erupted, as a few prisoners, clearly saw, that Raines had been shot in cold blood. This began to cause a riot...
JAROD AND ZOE'S HOME
Jarod sat next to the fireplace. In two days, he and Zoe would be married.
They were living together now, in the home they would share their lives in. Hopefully, there would be children as well.
Things should have been good for him. His father was back in his life, though his mother's whereabouts were still unknown. The boy, or the clone of himself, was at a friend's house overnight. Sidney was teaching and back together with Nicholas's mother. Broots had taken Debbie and left town. Mr. Parker, Lyle and Raines were behind bars, where they belonged.
That only left Ms. Parker.
Major Charles sat next to him. Zoe and Jarod's sister, Emily, were in the kitchen talking. He touched his son's arm.
"What is it, Jarod?"
"It's nothing."
"Jarod, I think Zoe senses something. You should look much happier for a man that's going to be married in two days."
Jarod looked around his father at the kitchen entrance. He then lowered his voice.
"Ms. Parker is the final...piece...thing... that I need, to make my life complete. I feel as if everything is unfinished..."
"Meaning she needs to be caught? Jarod, she won't get away..."
"I feel as if I left her behind." Jarod said quietly. Major Charles shook his head adamantly.
"No! No, you did not."
"She didn't choose to leave with Cox. She had no choice. I could see it in her eyes."
Major Charles cleared his throat.
"You saw the report the FBI gave us. I saw it as well. Now they have people on the inside of the Triumverate's headquarters. Ms. Parker is practically running the whole show."
Jarod sensed his father was trying to say something.
"Dad? What is it?"
"Well do I really have to spell it out for you, Jarod? I mean, Ms. Parker isn't suffering one day here! And they've kidnapped another child, a girl no less. When they finally decide to take them down..."
"Dad...there is no way you could truly understand what it was like living in that world. Ms. Parker doesn't want to be there. She's surviving, can't you see that? You knew her mother some, didn't you?"
Major Charles blinked.
"Yes. Catherine Parker was a lovely woman."
"Ms. Parker has much of her mother in her. You told me that Ms. Parker has been protecting the child."
"I shouldn't have said anything."
"Why?"
"Because you're getting married, son. You owe it to yourself, and Zoe, to leave that horrible life behind. And that means you leave catching Ms. Parker, and the taking down of the Triumverate, to the authorities."
The doorbell rang. Jarod stood up and walked over to the door, trying to keep in mind the advice his father had just given him.
Leo Betz was on his porch.
"Leo? What is it? News about the Triumverate?"
Major Charles sighed inwardly. Jarod's mind needed to be on his new life, not this stuff! He stepped forward, just as Zoe and Emily came out of the kitchen.
"I need to speak to you." Leo said, looking at Major Charles. "I found out you were here and..."
"Does this concern the Triumverate?" Jarod interrupted. Emily glanced at Zoe. He could see she was tense.
Major Charles coughed!
"Leo, why don't we talk out in the kitchen?"
"Why don't you stop trying to hide things from me?" Jarod asked coolly. "This obviously has to to with the Triumverate...and Ms. Parker."
Suddenly, Zoe slammed a wine glass onto the floor, shattering it! She turned and flounced back into the kitchen! Emily looked at her brother.
"Jarod, go after her!"
But Jarod wanted to hear what Leo Betz had to say. He looked at Emily.
"Tell her I'll be in in a minute, okay?"
No, it would not be okay, Emily thought. For she and Zoe had become close in the past few months. She was even going to be Zoe's Matron of Honor in the wedding. And Zoe was still very insecure about Jarod, and his feelings for Ms. Parker. Specifically since Zoe heard Jarod calling for Ms. Parker in his sleep recently...
But, Emily turned and went back into the kitchen to see to Zoe. Major Charles's jaw tightened at the tension in the room. Now with Zoe and Emily gone from the room, they could talk here.
Leo didn't beat around the bush.
"Raines and Lyle are dead. There was a riot at the Maryland State Correctional Facility. One that was started by Mr. Parker, Lyle and Raines."
Jarod listened in stunned disbelief, as Leo told him and Major Charles, that someone had smuggled in the same body switching device, that Ms. Parker had used to escape six months before. Mr. Parker and Lyle switched bodies with guards, then Lyle shot Raines dead. The prisoners thought that a guard had just shot an unarmed, old man, and started to riot.
Somehow, someone got 'Mr. Parker' and 'Lyle' out of the prison, so that they could get back into their own bodies.
The guards corpses were found in a prison van. They had both been shot in the head, execution style.
The bodies of a young couple were found in the Men's room in a Rest Area. Mr. Parker and Lyle stole their car.
Lyle's body was found in the stolen car, in the underground garage at the airport.
Jarod shook his head!
"Mr. Parker killed his own son? That doesn't fit somehow..."
"Well, we have some evidence that shows that he may have been defending himself, against an attack from Lyle." Leo told him.
Major Charles shook his head. God, he couldn't imagine it himself. Killing one of his children or HAVING to.
"The point is, we've decided to wait until Mr. Parker gets to Africa to meet up with his daughter. Then we can catch them both. I just thought I would update you." Leo said.
Jarod rubbed his chin.
"The point here is that we don't know anything. Is Mr. Parker capable of anything, yes. But I would theorize that he was forced kill Lyle, for whatever reason. Still..."
Leo nodded.
"Ms. Parker could face the same fate. Then Mr. Parker could take her place within the Triumverate."
Jarod realized he could not sit around here and speculate as to what Mr. Parker would, or would not do, to Ms. Parker.
He would have to go to Africa. That would mean postponing the wedding. Major Charles could see just by Jarod's expression, that that was going to be his course of action. This would not be good.
"Tell me I heard you wrong, Jarod!" Zoe yelled. Emily and Major Charles had made a discreet exit.
"Zoe," Jarod began, "I can't expect you to understand the connection that Ms. Parker and I have..."
"You're right, Jarod! I don't! You know why? Because I don't get the feeling that the 'two of you' are connected!"
"Meaning?"
"Meaning you're connected to her, but she could give a damn about you! Jarod, open your eyes to that woman! I mean I know you said the two of you grew up together, and that she's like a sister, but you're really not acting like she IS a sister!"
Jarod said nothing. He turned away slightly. Zoe peered at him.
"Are you telling me everything here? Or is there something else?"
Jarod turned back to her. He was not going to lie.
"When Ms. Parker and I were in the Centre...trapped there, something did happen."
"Oh my God!" Zoe snapped. "She screws you and now you have a taste for it! That's what this is all about, isn't it!"
"That is not what happened!" Jarod snapped, feeling surprisingly angry. The way she had just phrased that...it made what he and Ms. Parker had together seem cheap.
Zoe put up a hand, then hurried out of the kitchen. Jarod leaned against the counter. Nothing in his years in the Centre, or on the outside, had prepared him on how to deal with this. He did love Zoe, really, but their life wouldn't be worth salt, if he didn't put Ms. Parker behind him for good. And knowing that she was out there somewhere, trapped by her past...he couldn't sleep thinking about it. Thinking about her.
Jarod didn't presume to think that he could have a life with Ms. Parker. But...she felt something when they had made love in his room at the Centre. And right after, she had pushed him away, because what she had felt for him had scared her.
Zoe whipped back into the kitchen. Jarod turned to look at her, then sucked in a breath!
Zoe was wearing a dark wig! A wig that looked suspiciously like Ms. Parker's hair.
"Zoe," Jarod whispered, hating the fact that he had hurt her like this, "don't do this."
"Is this what you want, Jarod? I can put this on if being with me isn't enough! She will eat you up and spit you out! Why can't you see that?"
Jarod walked over to Zoe and placed his hands on both sides of her face.
"I'm going to Africa to bring Ms. Parker back here. If you still will have me, then we will be married as soon as I return. We'll go to a Justice of the Peace. If not, I'll understand."
Zoe wrenched his hands off of her, and tore off the wig! Jarod stared at it on the floor for a bit, before leaving the kitchen. He would pack light for Africa. This would not take long.
Jarod was allowed to go along with the agents from Interpol, and the FBI, on the raid on the Triumverate. He pushed Zoe from his mind, as his thoughts turned to Mr. Parker.
None of the inside men within the Triumverate complex, had seen him. They were now holded up in a hotel, near the Triumverate complex, listening in to conversations, none of them having Ms. Parker's voice on them.
Suddenly, they heard gunshots over the wires! Jarod sat up and listened, along with others, as it became clear, that two of their inside men had been discovered. Jarod recognized Cox's voice give directions to 'burn everything'.
He also told someone he was going to Ms. Parker's, so that they could meet Mr. Parker together. Instructions were given by the lead agent, and Jarod was told to stay behind in the hotel room. He of course, did not listen...
Mr. Cox lost the various tails that had been on his jeep, in just the past 20 minutes. It was clear that Mr. Parker had botched his escape and now, the authorities were closing in...all because he apparently, didn't know how to be discreet.
He would pick up Mr. Parker alright! He would pick up Ms. Parker and Maddie, then take them to Mr. Parker, where he would then kill the Parkers, and keep little Maddie, as a bargaining chip.
All thoughts of marriage to Ms. Parker, had left his head. Escape from the authorities, and having some leverage, with whomever the vestigages from the Triumverate, chose to send after him, were first and foremost in his mind.
But Mr. Cox had been so busy with his dark thoughts, especially those of having sex with Ms. Parker's dead body, that he failed to notice a tail.
Jarod.
Jarod pulled to the side of the road, when Mr. Cox was stopped at a light. Jarod then ran like hell, and jumped into the passenger side of the jeep, just as the light turned green.
Mr. Cox flinched, as Jarod stuck his gun in his ribs.
"Take me to Ms. Parker, Mr. Cox."
"Jarod...you know, the Triumverate would be delighted to let you run things...maybe you could even have the top office..."
"Just drive." Jarod told him curtly.
Nothing more was said between the two men, until they got to Ms. Parker's apartment building. Mr. Cox pulled into a spot and turned off the ignition.
"So, Mr. Cox. What were your REAL plans for Ms. Parker and her father?"
"To welcome them to the Triumverate family, of course."
"Somehow I doubt that. Now..."
Suddenly, sniper fire erupted, hitting Mr. Cox twice! Jarod jumped out of the jeep and hid behind other cars, as Mr. Cox managed to turn on the ignition and speed off! Damn!
But, now he knew where Ms. Parker lived, Jarod thought. He smiled.
Ms. Parker pulled into a parking space and got out...alone. She was wearing a powder blue, halter dress and her hair was up. She was carrying some shopping bags. Jarod scrutinized her for a moment. She looked much better without all of that leather...not that the leather had looked bad or anything but she just looked... carefree. How could that be? And where was Maddie, the Pretender the Triumverate was using? Surely, Ms. Parker hadn't left her alone inside apartment complex?
Ms. Parker's hands were full, as she thought about her meeting with her father. Mr. Cox had asked if they wanted to go together, but she had declined. He really was a true perv! He practically licked his lips everytime he looked at her. The man must crave pain...
Suddenly, Jarod was standing in front of her! Christ and she had no gun...and she was in heels and a dress! Ms. Parker dropped her shopping bags and turned to run, but Jarod grabbed her by the arm and pulled her back to him!
"There are people watching, Ms. Parker. So you are going to 'pretend' that you know me. Then we're going to go inside. But first, I want you to tell me where Maddie is?"
"Probably on her way back to her real parents! Let go of me, Jarod! I mean it!" Ms. Parker hissed between gritted teeth.
"You sent her back to her parents? You knew who they were?" Jarod asked, somewhat disbelieving.
"Yes," Ms. Parker replied, looking Jarod in the eye. "Look, Jarod, Maddie is with her real parents, and it won't be long until the Triumverate discovers that I've betrayed them. I have to get of here, okay?"
Jarod looked her over. He then looked at the shopping bags.
"You don't look as if you're in a hurry."
"Well, that's not my way. I don't plan to tell them that I just let Maddie go. I wouldn't want to be looking over my shoulder for the rest of my life."
"You would have to look for me, if I let you get away, Ms. Parker."
Ms. Parker grinned!
"You don't scare me, Jarod. Now, how about letting me by. I have to meet Daddy, which you probably already know..."
"There are some things you should know about your father and Lyle. Their 'escape' didn't go as smoothly as you anticipated."
Ms. Parker frowned. Jarod wouldn't lie about something like that. She nodded and didn't resist, when he slipped an arm around her waist, and lead her inside the building.
By the time they were inside, Jarod had told her that Raines had been killed and that it looked as if her father had killed her brother in self defense.
"But we don't know that for sure, Ms. Parker. Now I know you trust your father but..."
Ms. Parker had walked over to a drawer and pulled out a gun! Her eyes flashed!
"Sit down and make yourself comfortable, Jarod."
Jarod raised his hands, then sat down on a sofa. Ms. Parker shook her head.
"So you're saying that my father murdered Lyle in cold blood? And what? That's he's coming for me now?"
"I don't think he'd kill you...but you never know."
"I do know, Jarod! And we both know Lyle was a psycho! We were never close, but Daddy loved him! He would never have just killed Lyle."
Jarod could see this news was more upsetting than he himself had anticipated. He looked her over.
"Ms. Parker...let me help you. Sidney and Broots got probation."
"Well goody for them! And I'm not leaving here with you! And Daddy is all I have left now! I can't just believe that about him!"
"He is NOT all you have! You have me, but you refuse to even accept the possibility of an 'us'!"
"Jarod, what happened between us was nice. And I have given it some thought, from time to time, but you can't just decide to make a life with every woman that you sleep with. There is a such a thing as 'casual sex'."
"Not for me. And it wasn't for you either. I'm a Pretender, remember. I can get inside people and feel what they feel."
"Shut up!" Ms. Parker snapped, as her phone rang. She wasn't about to pick up the phone, thus leaving one of her hands tied up with something. She needed all her free hands, and wits about her, when it came to Jarod. Ms. Parker hit the speaker phone, all the while, pointing the gun on Jarod.
"What!"
"Angel, it's me."
Ms. Parker took her eyes off Jarod for a moment to look down at the phone. Jarod took the opportunity to jump up and grab the gun from her hands! Ms. Parker just glared at him hatefully, before answering her father. Jarod set the gun on a table.
"Daddy? Tell me you're here in Africa!"
"I am, Angel. Though there was some trouble. Raines killed Lyle at the prison, and then the guards shot Raines! I know it's a bit much to process, honey, but I'll tell you everything when I get to the meeting place."
Ms. Parker looked from the phone, to Jarod. If her father mentioned the meeting place on the phone, then Daddy was done for! And...Raines killed Lyle? And not Daddy?
But Mr. Parker was not stupid enough to give anything away over the phone. One never knew who could be listening in.
"Angel, I've gotten word that Jarod could be in Africa looking for us. Watch your back, okay? The man is so obsessed with revenge, that he skipped out on his own wedding to hunt us down!"
Ms. Parker gave Jarod a startled look. Jarod smiled softly at her. She couldn't stand it! She couldn't stand any of this any longer! She turned her back to Jarod and looked down at the phone.
"Daddy, I heard that...that Lyle died with you."
"You heard that from who? Angel, Jarod isn't with you, is he?"
"No! No of course not! It's just the talk around the complex."
"The only person you need to trust is me, Angel. Always remember that."
Jarod had heard enough! He could see that Ms. Parker was falling under her father's spell again, falling for every disgusting lie that came out of his mouth! The only way Ms. Parker would ever be able to break away from him, was if she was forced to choose.
"Daddy, I want to but..."
Suddenly, Ms. Parker felt herself being whirled around and pulled into Jarod's arms! His lips met hers in a hungry, ravaging kiss, that barely left her with any breath to answer her father!
"Now Angel, I hear that you've been coddling the Pretender... Angel?"
"Daddy!" Ms. Parker almost cried out between Jarod's kisses. She found the will to push him away and turn back to the phone.
"Angel? What's wrong? I want you to answer me about the Pretender!"
Jarod turned Ms. Parker around and pulled her towards him as he sat down in a chair. She pulled away from him, and stood up, just as Jarod reached up and ripped the hook of her halter dress, from around her neck! He yanked it down to her waist!
"Angel!"
"Daddy...I...uh...her room looked so...so dungeon like..." was all Ms. Parker could get out, as Jarod grabbed her around the waist and pulled her forward, until his parted lips covered the tip of one of her breasts.
"Darling, this is a business! Now Mr. Cox has asked for your hand in marriage."
By now, Ms. Parker was trying to push Jarod away, but he just tightened his grip on her waist in response. He continued nibbling softly on her breasts, moving his mouth from one to the other, until Ms. Parker thought she would die from pleasure...WHO WANTED TO MARRY HER?
"Who, Daddy? Say that again?" Ms. Parker asked breathlessly, feeling the room spin slightly.
"Mr. Cox," Jarod whispered, standing up and letting go of her. He began to remove his own clothing. Ms. Parker looked at the phone, then back at Jarod, as he became more and more naked...
"Daddy, we'll talk when I see you." Ms. Parker said weakly, stumbling over to the phone and disconnecting. She cut him off before he could say goodbye. She then turned back to Jarod and found that he was already naked. He walked towards her, but she put her hands on his bare chest.
"What are we doing, Jarod?" Ms. Parker whispered. "This can't go anywhere...you didn't get married, to hunt me down, did you? What are we doing here?"
"I couldn't marry Zoe without making sure you were alright." he whispered back. Ms. Parker shook her head.
"We can't do this again." she whispered, as she grabbed the back of his head, and began to kiss him, unable to help herself. She would be late to meet Daddy now. Ms. Parker did not know if she would have the strength to run from Jarod again, this time anyway.
Jarod and Ms. Parker's torrid lovemaking, on her living room couch, was borne out of six months of living off of the memories, of their first time together, back in Jarod's Centre room.
Ms. Parker licked Jarod's chest, and nibbled at his neck. Her legs were wrapped around his waist, with her heels resting gently against his buttocks. Jarod rode her with short, sharp thrusts, causing Ms. Parker to emit cries, in cadence with his rhythm.
Jarod finally exploded inside of her, causing Ms. Parker not to cry out or moan, but inhale deeply, as she held onto him even tighter. The room, which had been spinning before, had now stilled itself. They laid on her couch, quietly for a moment, before Jarod eased himself off of her, and sat up. Ms. Parker slowly sat up as well.
Jarod quietly scrutinized her for a moment, before he began to speak.
"Ms. Parker..."
But she put a hand up.
"I'm not going to try and get away this time. Just let me get myself together, and we can leave."
Jarod hadn't heard her correctly.
"You're not going to fight it? You'll come with me?"
Ms. Parker looked at him.
"Yes, Jarod. I'll surrender myself to the authorities."
"And to me?"
Ms. Parker reached out and touched his cheek.
"Jarod, you're not the love em' and leave em' type. You couldn't hurt anyone's feelings if you tried. You belong with Zoe. I'm going to take a shower, then I'll be ready to leave." she said, standing up. She didn't want to talk about it any further. She was going to prison. There was no future for her and Jarod.
Jarod said nothing, as Ms. Parker passed by him and walked down a small hallway and into a bathroom. He looked over where he had set her gun.
TEN MINUTES LATER
Jarod was dressed and waiting for Ms. Parker, when the agents that had left him at that hotel room, burst into the apartment! Jarod put up his hands, as Leo, who was one of the agents, recognized him!
"Holy Christ, Jarod! What are you doing here! Where is Ms. Parker?"
"Put all of that away!" Jarod hissed, sharply. "She's not a common criminal. She just needed a little time to herself!"
Leo Betz's eyes roamed over Jarod. He had that same sort of look on his face, that he had had when they woke him up in the Centre.
"Where is she, Jarod!" Leo snapped, looking around. He and two other agents began to hurry down the hallway where the bedrooms, and the bathroom were. Jarod took a shaky breath. She couldn't...she wouldn't have...
Jarod ran after the agents, just as they kicked in the bathroom door! A window was open. It looked as if Ms. Parker had climbed down two balconies, then jumped to the ground! Damn! Why did she keep running from him? And Jarod was convinced now, that it was HIM, and her feeling for him, and not the law, Ms. Parker was afraid of.
Leo holstered his gun and looked at Jarod.
"One of our sources told us, that Mr. Parker already knows about our raid on the Triumverate complex, AND that he's already back at the airport, waiting to take a private plane out of Africa."
"He wouldn't leave without somehow letting Ms. Parker know that." Jarod said grimly. "Let's get to the airport and stop them both."
Everyone rushed out, with Jarod following behind them. He had an odd feeling about how this was going to end up for himself and Ms. Parker. And none of it was good.