It was 10:00 am Saturday morning and Sydney could here the city outside alive. The air conditioning unit in her room was busted and she had a noon check-out time, "Might as well head on out." She gathered her one bag and began to walk the two flights down to the lobby when she neared the final twelve steps she heard a voice she thought she'd never here again. She stopped and tried to think if she remembered seeing another exit available thru the first floor or better her room. She stepped back as quietly as she could and walked as fast as the twins would let her down the hall of first floor of rooms there was a large window at the end of the hall and a fire escape ladder like at her apartment hopefully she would be able to budge the window. "Of all the places in this world you could have landed this was the worst Ms. Fox or should I call you Ms. Bailey? Which one would go best on your tombstone?" Sydney stop struggling with the window and turned to look at a man whose voice she recognized back from when she was being held hostage close a year ago. "What do you want with me?" She knew perfectly well what they wanted her as bait for Nigel or perhaps dead since the ring leader was dead thanks to her either way she needed time while she pulled out her cell phone to call the police. "Now Ms. Fox you wouldn't be trying to call the police would you after all this little piece of heaven does belong to us and the police would not be of much assistance to you." Sydney was at a crossroads, should she or shouldn't try to call the police if they were bluffing they were doing a pretty good job at it 'cause she was convinced and brought her cell phone out and tossed it at them. They began to walk towards her with their hands outward in case she tried to attack them. Sydney contemplated it but she knew that any strenuous activity would only hurt the twins instead of help. She closed her eyes and let her arms fall slack on her sides. Like it or not they had won and she needed to be calm if she was going to survive 'till she was able to free herself from the organization. They grabbed her arms and started walking her to the stairwell so they could exit thru the front lobby where their car was waiting.
Nigel's was running across the plaza to the hotel the cabbie had said he had dropped the woman in the photo last night. The cabbie also told him to hurry 'because someone else had asked about her about 30 minutes ago. Nigel called his partner and told him to bring the car to the east side of the plaza. As Nigel got a better view of the hotel entrance he stopped dead in his tracks there was a black SUV with black tainted windows sitting at the front of the hotel. He saw no other individuals but usually they traveled in packs of five and considering Sydney's reputation he wouldn't be surprised if they doubled it. He ran to the side of the building and up the fire escape he didn't get far when he saw two men holding onto a woman. He didn't think he only reacted; he pulled out his gun and placed the silencer on it. He only had seconds for this to work before all hell broke loose with a quick prayer to whomever was listening Nigel pointed and aimed.
Sydney heard the glass break and she crouched down and covered her stomach with her arms as best as she could. When she opened her eyes a few seconds later the two men were down with blood pouring out of their necks, what she heard next made her jump. Now was not the time to dawdle move and moving quickly was the only way she was going to make it out of this. She saw Nigel at the stairwell with his hands out to her to help her climb out the window. She would think about was happening later right now she was trying to control her breathing between the sounds of the gun shots and seeing Nigel her blood pressure had skyrocketed and that was not good. They made it down to -the ground level and tried walking to the waiting car as calmly as possible considering what had just transpired. Nigel and Sydney climbed into the back seat and Samuel drove off headed for the express way to the airport and out of town before any one was the wiser. Sydney and Nigel held onto each other and cried silently in the back seat the entire way to the airport.