She was gagged and led from the room.Claire was placed in the van and secured in the same way she had been when she arrived, except this time she was ...naked. After a trip which seemed similar in length to the previous one, the van stopped. Claire was unstrapped and her ankles freed. She was helped from the van and stood quietly on what felt like pavement while her wrists were freed and then locked in front of her. A light chain was threaded through the center link of the handcuffs and locked. " She replied. Helen looked down to her trousers. "Damn I seem to have picked up something the cows left behind. Oh yuck, I seem to have some on my leg. Do you mind if I wash it off?" Of course not." I replied. "Use the en suite in my room, the towels are clean. I'll put your jeans through on a quick wash then the dryer, won't take long to do. Grab something out of my wardrobe to put on." Thanks for that, I will."I put the coffee in the lounge then went through to the laundry room. Helen had. “But I’ll do them from upstairs. I guess you can come up.”We walked to the elevators and went up to the eighth floor and into my room. I went to the desk and made a call to the house. Elyse answered and I asked for Jessica.“Hi, Babe,” I said.“Tiger? This is a surprise. Isn’t it really late?”“I had two near-syncopal events today, just over twelve hours apart. I just got off the phone with Al Barton. He’s concerned, but said I should be OK. He advised I have a friend stay with me.”“Two? That. She looked at me with a stunned look on her face and finally asked if I was teasing her? Would I let her join the family? I looked Teri in the eye and told her that we would start with choice 2 until she showed us that she was ready to move to choice 3 but I also told her that choice 1 was not a threat but a fact if she did anything to harm or put someone of the family in danger! I told her that I would make sure that would be how she would die! Everyone looked at me like I had lost my mind or.