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ere a dozen, several fros were, obviously before the abduction A couple were fro me to call her as soon as I could and let her hoas My dad called and lefthe kneas innocent and that I'd be out soon The rest were frowith the clubs

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"Hunter I want to meet at my club as soon as you're out We have unfinished business to discuss By the way, your little bird is very delicate I would hate to see any of her feathers plucked or her spirit crushed by captivity Call e a time and place suitable to us both"

Like hell

I was going in with as big an army as I could I called up my contact in Romanov's business

"What have you heard about Sergei abducting Celia Parker?"

There was a pause on the line, as if he were deciding to whom he should be loyal

"I'll pay you very, very well if you give me her location"

"He's keeping her at one of his safe houses I can give you a couple of addresses but I don’t knohich one for sure You'll have to monitor activity to decide which one"

I called a few security experts I knew and asked thereed to set up a couple of sentries to watch the two properties iven me We'd find out sooner rather than later where she was, based on the kind of movement into and out of the locations These security experts were skilled in surveillance and I knew I'd get usable intel, and fast

Then I drove to Mass General to see how George was doing

George was still in ICU recovering He was being cared for by a pretty young nurse when I entered the room She turned and seenize e of the e on the hand and left quickly, skirting beside me like she was afraid I'd hurt her while she passed

"How are you, you old bastard?" I went to George and leaned over, giving hi his cheek

"What? You kissing now? So glad to be out of jail and see old Russian?"