For a smile as wide as a country sunrise
We certainly did not expect to see what we encountered in our room. Kristina was cowering in a corner and had obviously been beaten. Annelie was on her knees between two men with large guns, and she had been whipped. There was a fat man with a whip in hand standing there. “Well, hello,” he said almost cheerfully, “I’m just here to pick up my property. And your woman tried to stop us so I needed to teach her some manners.” And he walked over to us. Jennifer ran over to Annelie but was stopped by the two men.
“Drop your guns and get out of the way!”, I yelled to them. But they failed to do anything. “Oh, my men only take orders from me,” said the fat man. “That’s what you think,” I said angrily, “okay Jennifer.” She can move amazingly fast and kicked both of them hard in the stomach before they had a chance to do anything. “Meow,” I said. “Thwock!, Thwock!”, and both men were down. Then Kat kicked the fat man in the stomach knocking him against the wall and to the floor. I relieved him of his whip, not a typical whip, it was rather short, but left large red stripes on a person’s back.
I then ripped his shirt off and rolled him onto his stomach. “How many Jennifer?”, I asked. “She has 4,” she answered. “Well, you are a big strong man,” I said, “so you should be able to handle double that.” Amazingly he didn’t utter a sound and I was tempted to keep going but decided not to. “Get up,” I said to him. “You have made a grave mistake my friend,” he said, “you have tangled with the wrong man.” “First of all, I am not your friend,” I replied, “second, you are the one that made the mistake. I would suggest that you stay away from us from now on or next time you will not be walking away. Now take your two men and go.”
“How do you expect me to get them out of here,” he said indignantly, “you killed them, you deal with them. Now, I will take my whip and my property and go.” It was hard to believe I was hearing this. Muffin had the same thoughts, she growled and sprang from a nearby chair onto the man’s sore back with all 18 claws scratching away! That got him screaming. Then Kat took over and Muffin jumped off. “He will have more men in his van,” said Kristina. I called the police and informed them of the situation. It did not take long for several cars and well armed officers to show up. There were 3 other men in the van, plus the 3 bodies up here. And more questions. I think we will need to go back home to relax from our vacation.
Meanwhile in another part of the world…”The big man is working at one of Baldwin’s resorts, not far from where he lives,” said the man, “but there seems to be no other connection with Baldwin.” “Kill that man soon,” said the General, “and destroy the other chateau, that may bring the others out of hiding.” “Done”, said the man, “and I may have a lead on the whereabouts of the PI team. It seems a man from London, known as Whip, has gone to look for a woman that belonged to him. She apparently was freed by a group, a man and 3 women who were on vacation.” “Good, look into that,” said the General. “Being done as we speak,” said the man.
Now back to us…”How did this man find Kristina so easily?”, I asked. “Maybe because Gordon was working for him and Gordon was killed here,” said Kristina. “That is possible,” said Kat, “though he certainly got here fast.” “I think someone told him Kristina was still here,” said Jennifer. “A good thought,” I agreed, “and my thinking is that Marik informed him. The reason this town does not have crime is because the criminals are keeping it crime free so they can use this as some sort of getaway at times.” “And Beth knew,” said Annelie, “and she went to the ruins so she could talk to you when you got there.”
“Yes, that I also agree with,” I said, “but who did it? Those two men or perhaps that young couple?” “Too bad we don’t know what those men were talking about in the dining room,” said Kat. “Not much of anything,” said Kristina, “just talking about their fishing, vacation, jobs back home, telling jokes, just normal stuff.” “You understood them?”, I asked. “Yep, they were speaking Russian,” she said, “I can speak 10 languages fluently, plus another 6 that I am still working on.” “Now that is a good talent to have,” said Kat smiling at her. Just then I got a call from Baldwin saying our chateau was in ruins from explosions and a fire, it was totally destroyed.
To Be Continued.
Β©2021 Steve McLeod.
There goes that π πππ‘ππͺ΄π Not to bright of them…ππ now you have no place to go home to!! Where as they could have just watched and waited for you to come back!! I guess if they are Russians that could explain it!π€π€ But who knows right now??π€π€
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Always seems to happen wherever we go. Very strange. Maybe they were getting impatient and just wanted to do something to us. I never said they were Russians, just the 4 men at the hotel were Russians. But they likely are not mixed up with this other group or they would be trying to kill us.π€π±ββοΈπΎπΎπ±ββοΈπ©π©π΅οΈββοΈ
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Maybe? Maybe Not?π€
What if they are just supposed to keep tabs on you??πππ€π€
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Kind of hard to do when they are out fishing every day.π€π
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Part of the disguise π₯Έ π
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Good disguise, not very good for info.π€ππ
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Maybe it was their weekend??π€π€πππ€π€π€
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In the middle of the week? I think they might be watching Marik. Probably CiA
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π³π² don’t say that π€«π€«
You’re not supposed to recognize them!π
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How could I recognize them? I didn’t even understand them.π€π³
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They do that to throw other off their trail!!ππ€«π
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Ooooooo, it didn’t work, just got my attention.
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Yeah, but it made me think they were Russians!! See?? π€
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Just because they were speaking Russian, doesn’t mean they were Russian.
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Exactly! But it made me assume that! Which could or could not be true π€
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Exactly what it was meant to do!
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See it worked! Those CIA guys are a tricky lot!!π¬π¬ Say… you’re kinda tricky yourselfπ€π€ your not CIA are you??π³π²
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I’m not allowed to tell.
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π²π³π€―No way!!
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Shh, I don’t want to blow my cover as a sleepy town bird watcher.
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Got it!! π€«π€«π€« I won’t tell the birds you’re watching them!! Are they smuggling things over the border??π²π³π€
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This is BW077, there’s a guy in MN asking a lot of questions. Right.
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Hey…. wait a second!! It wasn’t me!! It’s the squirrels here! I heard them mention it!!πππππ
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This is BW077 again. Now he’s making excuses. Right.
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Stop that!! Your making me nervous!π¬π¬
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It’s even worse, I just got an answer.π³π³
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It’s the squirrels!! I told you!! You gotta becareful of them…. they’re a dangerous critter!! Oh sure they look innocent enough… but they can’t be trusted!!π€¨π€¨π€¨
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Now he’s pretending to be a squirrel. A sign that he’s nuts? Right.
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I could’ve told you that!! You just didn’t ask me!!π€ͺπ€ͺπ€ͺπ€ͺπ€ͺπ€ͺπ€ͺπ€ͺ
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We don’t ask, we tell.
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Oh….π¬π¬π¬ sorry π you’re not gonna send to Canada are you?π³π² A person could freeze to death up there!π₯Άπ₯Άπ₯Άπ¬π¬π³π³π³
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We stopped doing that, the polar bears kept complaining of stomach aches.
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Ouch!!ππ£
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Ya know what’s weird? Don’t answer that!
I keep having dreams with two of my previous boss’s from my 20’s and 30’s! I end up working for both of them at the same time and they both get made at me and make me work more for each of them!! Ain’t that weird?π€π€ππ
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Yep, it’s weird you can remember your bosses that far back.ππ
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Ha!ππ Yes!! One I liked, he recruited me to work for him. Which is how I ended up in the town I’m in. The other was just a jerk!! Not a nice person at all!1π
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If you liked him, how come you’re not still working for him?π€π€
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I couldn’t afford to raise kids, save money and pay the bills with what he was paying me. I managed a couple of his three auto parts stores..
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This is upsetting ! Why did you let that fat guy go ? Hmmm…the cats are at their best ! π₯π΅οΈββοΈπ©π©π©πΎπΎ
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There really wasn’t much we could do with the fat guy, so we handed him over to the police, though he likely won’t stay there long. But he wasn’t fighting so we couldn’t kill him, or it would be murder. Strange though it might seem. But he better not show up again. The cats are doing very well indeed!π€π±ββοΈπΎπΎπ±ββοΈπ©π©π΅οΈββοΈ
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Whew! An action-packed chapter, Steve! And the trouble is still brewing. π±
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Yes, we still don’t really know what is going on yet. Will we ever be safe now that some country is after us?π³π±ββοΈπΎπΎπ±ββοΈπ©π©π΅οΈββοΈ
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