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Deneaux.
    “We’re both alive right now at this very moment, Mr. Hawes. That is really the best I can offer. Are you in or are you out? It’s going to be much more difficult if you’re dead, but I’ll still try.”
    ‘ Mr. T?’
    “Oh, shit!” I spun, putting my left hand to my head.
    “Are you okay?” Dennis asked, placing his hand on my shoulder.
    “What? Did I say something out loud?”
    “How long did you hang out with that Trip guy?” Dennis asked nervously.
    ‘ Mr. T?’
    ‘ Tommy, are you close? I’m in a bit of trouble.’
    “Mike?”
    “Hold on, man. Just thinking.” I didn’t want him to know I was communicating telepathically with Tommy; first off, because he might not believe me. Shit, I wouldn’t if the roles were reversed. And secondly, I didn’t want Dixon to know anything.
    ‘ When aren’t you in trouble?’
    ‘ You sound like BT.’ He was silent, waiting for me to elaborate on my predicament. ‘That not funny to you? Fine, I’m in a stand-off with a hundred or so armed men and Mrs. Deneaux at the helm.’
    ‘How are you still alive?’
    ‘I have one very important card-slash-hostage.’
    ‘Important to Deneaux? Are you sure?’
    ‘Not her, the facility.’
    ‘That makes more sense.’
    ‘Are you close to the building?’
    ‘I’m inside.’
    “Holy shit.”
    “What?” Dennis was looking around for some new sign of trouble.
    “I said that out loud, too?”
    “Mike, what the fuck, man?”
    ‘ Do you know where I am?’
    ‘Not yet, but I’m sure I could follow the steady stream of people heading your way.’
    ‘Screw me, Tommy! Find my family…our family. Find them and get them the fuck out of here.’
    There was hesitation on his side. ‘She’ll kill you, Mr. T.’
    ‘ I know that, you know that, she knows that, my hostage knows that. We’re most likely a lost cause, but if you can get them out of here, I would consider it worth it.’
    Again with more hesitation. I was going to force his decision . ‘They are OUR family, Tommy. You have to do everything in your power to get them to safety.’
    ‘I KNOW that,” he stressed. ‘I’m just trying to figure out a way to do both.’
    ‘Don’t! The longer you delay, the more opportunity Deneaux has to play this out however she wants. Tommy?’
    ‘Okay, okay…I’ll get them out of here, and I’ll come back.’
    I was going to tell him no, that it would then be his job to get them back to safety —all the way to Maine safety. I had a feeling he wouldn’t listen to me.
    ‘Alright then, works for me.’ Best guess was that Deneaux was going to have someone throw about ten or twelve grenades down here long before he ever got the chance for a return visit.
    “We’re good. I mean, I’m good,” I said to Dennis.
    “You sure? Looked like you checked out for a few minutes.”
    “Yeah, yeah, I’m good. Come on; let’s get back in the cell before someone tries to see if they can shoot through that glass.”
    “Damn, didn’t even think of that.”
    “It’s alright, buddy. I’ve had way more people trying to kill me than you have. Lead the way, Mr. Hawes.”
    “You want me in there?”
    “You’re a politician—you should have been in one years ago.” I shoved his shoulder.
    “Now what?” he asked as I sat down next to him on the bunk.
    “You tell me.”
    “You don’t have a plan?”
    “Oh, how little we know about each other. A plan? No, not so much, plus, Deneaux sort of throws a wrinkle in the whole thing, don’t you think? I was merely going to march your ass around with a gun to your head until I got my family a safe distance from here. Then, more than likely, I would have let your ass go where you then would have relentlessly pursued me until I had to forcibly remove you from the planet’s ecosystem at a later date.”
    “You would have never gotten away with it.”
    “You seem pretty sure of yourself.”
    “We have control over satellites. It would have been nothing to have tracked you