” We made small talk as we made our way to the main entrance, a concierge waiting in the lobby to show us to the private lift. Once in the lift I pr...essed the one and only button on the panel, and the lift doors closed. With barely a whisper the lift began to rise. I turned to the couple; Mia was draped around Michael, whispering to him, her hand twisted in his soft brown hair. She looked somehow familiar, but I couldn’t place where I’d seen her. He smiled at her, gently caressing her back and. She put her hand on her distended belly. “Right ... I’ll stick to,” she sighed at her bubbling flute, “the sparkling cider.”“Missing out on the old habits, eh?” My dad teased her. “Do you remember that weekend in Montreal? We’d lost Brian three times that Saturday night.”“I think it was more Brian trying to lose us.” She laughed. “I was so mad at him for wanting to take me along to the strip club.”“I wanted to take Larry and to a lesser extent dad.” I smiled. “I wasn’t going to leave you. We passed through a door marked “Ward B” and the décor changed immediately. I realised that the area for the inmates was quite different to that where the staff worked. The wallpaper was peeling, the floor chipped and stained and I could hear moans and screams coming from the cells. “In here,” the nurse said, shoving me through a door identical to others along either side of the corridor. By the time I spun round the door had clanged shut and I was alone in a cell. I looked around me. There. I turned and started walking as I put my weapons away. I made a call and two blocks later our back up vehicle pulled up. I put the old man in back and followed as the vehicle pulled away.I glanced at the old man, "you never mentioned an army was after you."He shook his head, "I did not think they would try this."I looked at the two men in front of the vehicle, "the rest of the detail is down and probably dead."An hour later I watched the old man board the private shuttle and turned to leave..
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