After breakfast we came back to our room to talk a bit and make some concrete plans for the day. We also brought back some food for Kat and Jennifer who had stayed behind to protect Kristina. They shared their food with Kristina who actually ate more than I thought she would. Then Kristina wanted to talk a bit more, this time telling us a little about the other women in the prison.

She said that two of them, both in the same cell, are being held for ransom. Apparently they have very wealthy parents. “They talked about kidnapping your wife, Steve,” she said, “but they mentioned the name Misty, not Jennifer, and they would kidnap her once you get past the village below us.” “I understand that one Kristina,” I said, “we will take care of that.”

Then she said that there were 3 friends that had been kidnapped while on vacation traveling across Europe, and none of them have any close relatives, so no one will likely miss them. They are all very beautiful women and have been sold to some gangster in Germany and he is going to use them as sex slaves for his most special customers.

She said they are just terrified of what is going to happen to them. The last woman is undergoing the same experimentation that she has had, but it is slowly killing her. Kat said the process won’t work for everyone, there are many things that have to be just right, or it just will not work, and that woman was alive when she was brought in.

Apparently that gangster will be coming today to pick up his new sex slaves. We will make sure that he doesn’t get them. Right then I got a call from Jazzy. “Guess what Steve?” she asked, “I found out who owns that fancy place out there. I didn’t know they had 5 pools and 4 saunas at that place, and a huge exercise room. Have you checked out everything yet?”

“No, we’re kind of busy with other things at the moment,” I answered, “now, about the owner.” “Right, remember Christopher?” she asked, “Well, apparently he has a cousin who comes from a wealthy family. She was given this place as a birthday present when she turned 25, which was last year. She knew about Jennifer and she wanted some ghosts of her own, so she hired Wilbert.

Her name is Helen, but she prefers to be called Helene. She says it sounds more wealthy, whatever that means. She is a totally cold woman, she has no feelings whatsoever, she doesn’t care who she hurts, as long as she gets what she wants.” “She is going to find out that people don’t always get what they want,” I said, “and sometimes they get what they don’t want. We are going to shut this place down, totally.”

“Just remember that there are 3 of you who can be killed rather easily,” said Jazzy, “so don’t take chances please. Oh, I’m not far away, just in the city, so I can be there in an hour if you would like some help.” “Thank you Jazzy,” I said, “we have discovered that they plan to kidnap Misty once we leave the village below us.

So, I had the Wildcats come to the city and they will help escort us out of here when it comes time for us to leave. However, they do have a day pass here if you and some of your friends would like to join us for lunch. It might be a good distraction for the executing of our plan.” “We shall be there just before noon, Steve,” she said.

“Oh, bring Catalina and Aoife with you too,” I said, “I will have them get in touch with you.” “Okay Steve,” she said, “this should be interesting, especially since you are bringing in your best bomb expert.” “Might be a fireworks display,” I told her. “Well, this is certainly getting interesting,” I said to everyone. Then I told them what Jazzy had said to me.

Then Cristy called me right after Jazzy and asked me if I remembered a man named Koffman. “Yep, he controls drugs and sex trafficking over a fairly large area,” I said, “he also has nightclubs in several locations. Still, he’s more of a medium size player in that sort of business.”

“Well, he seems to be expanding,” she said, “he has bought 3 women from that place and is planning to pick them up this afternoon. I take it this means he knows you too? That might not be good.” “Hmm, yes, he knows us very well,” I said, “we will have to stay out of sight while he is here.” “That resort doesn’t sound too exciting,” she added, “I mean, there are not many attractions like most resorts.”

“No, it’s kind of a health type resort for people to come and breathe fresh mountain air, and not much else,” I said, “except for weird shaped pools and saunas. But there is a tanning room, massage room, exercise room, oh, and rooms for trying to make people look 10 years younger by lying to them.” Cristy giggled at that one.

“They do have an escort service too,” I said, “for both men and women, plus 8 very overpriced clothing stores, 7 for women, 1 for men.” She giggled again. “You didn’t mention the casinos,” she said, “they have two, behind closed doors, one for men and one for women. Apparently if your annual income is less than $10,000,000, they won’t let you in.

Unfortunately my employer doesn’t pay me that much, so I would never get in, sniff, sniff.” “Ever tried gambling?” I asked. “Yep, once,” she said, “I saved up $3,000 and went to a casino. I won $5,000. Then I lost everything. Sigh.” “Good thing you don’t have more money to spend,” I told her. Now, we have to speed up our plans a bit.

I contacted Jazzy, but she has never met Koffman, so that is good. But, we will have to eat in our room since Koffman knows me, as well as Kat, Sky and Angel. Then I told Sky we need to get those other girls out of there quickly, before Koffman arrives to pick up his ‘merchandise’. So, off she went with Angel. Sky will bring the women back, two at a time, while Angel stays behind to make sure the others are safe.

Sky was soon back with the first two. These are the girls being held for ransom. The next two are from the 3 friends, and she was soon back with the third friend. All of the women were terrified being rescued in this manner, they just didn’t understand what was happening. However, we soon had them all calmed down.

Sky said the last woman, that had been undergoing treatment like Kristina, was dead. She then went back to rejoin Angel so they could look for Wilbert, and anyone else that might be with him. They ran down the other tunnel that they found before which lead them to a large room full of various types of equipment, drugs to use on the women he was working on, several computers and external drives, and surprisingly, lots of note books full of instructions that Dr. W. had written down.

I had given them orders to destroy absolutely everything they found. No one must be able to use this information again, it is much too dangerous. “Someone is coming Sky,” said Angel, “there are 11 men on the way.” Angel has incredible hearing, which seems to be getting better all the time.

“You stay here Wilbert,” said Raoul, “I’ll bring you that other woman. Then we’ll take those other women out for Koffman.” “I hope you didn’t beat her as bad as the last woman,” said Wilbert, “I don’t want her dead.” “Don’t worry so much,” said Raoul, “you’ll soon have those 2 ransomed women to work on too.” Just then…

To Be Continued.

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