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fun,” Donnie said with a little whine to his voice.
    “Yeah, Morph, let us have some fun,” Cassie
added.
    “I need you kids to come inside, just for a
few minutes and Cassie, Morph?”
    “It’s just a nickname. Everyone has one,” she
said as they reluctantly followed him in.
    “Go to the living room, kids. I need to talk
to your mom for a minute,” Morpheus said as he hurried to the
office.
    “Hey,” El said as she looked up at him with a
smile.
    “El, we have no time to waste. The guards
that kept me tied up were outside your house looking around. We
need to get out of here. If they come back, they’ll try to
recapture me. I can’t even guess what they might do to you or the
kids.” She looked as horrified as he imagined.
    She picked up the phone pushing speed dial.
“Slay, the guys that had Morpheus locked up have been seen around
my house. We’re headed your way.”
    “Morpheus? Is that the name of the big guy
you took home?”
    “Yeah.”
    “Get here as quick as you can.”
    “Will do.”
    She hurried out to the living room. “Plan
one, kids. We need to get rolling.”
    Morpheus was shocked as each of them pulled
out an already packed travel bag. They carried them out to the
garage loading them in an old SUV. El shut everything off and
locked all the doors. She packed her laptop quickly and
efficiently. They loaded in less than ten minutes and she used the
garage door opener to provide an exit. He looked but saw no one
hanging around. She closed the door as they took off down the road.
His mind had still not caught up with what had just occurred.
    “What just happened?” he asked.
    “We have an exit strategy in case of an
emergency,” El explained.
    “Our father is a very bad man,” Cassie said
as Donnie nodded solemnly. Morpheus was stunned that the kids would
feel that way. “He has tried to take us from our mom,” Cassie said
in a whisper like she was sharing a secret. “He doesn’t really like
us much but he thinks Mom will pay money to get us back.”
    Morpheus coughed, his throat was parched.
“Why do you think that?”
    “He told me so,” Cassie said. She said it so
matter-of-factly without sadness or any other emotion. El had not
picked well, so he would choose himself for her this time. He felt
okay about what he planned now that he had a good reason to do it.
He would claim them, he would see they were protected and cared
for. He knew he hadn’t known them for long, but he usually made up
his mind quickly. This was no exception and he knew it was the
right decision.
    Twenty minutes later found them at her
brother’s house. “Oh my God, El. What the hell have you gotten
yourself into this time?”
    “A big bunch of trouble, from the look of it.
We’re going to have to hide out for a while until these guys get
caught. We’re going with plan one.”
    “I guess it will work for this as well as it
would have worked to escape that asshole you were married to,” Slay
said.
    “Try to motivate the cops to hunt those
bastards down,” El said.
    Slay smiled. “Such language and in front of
innocent ears.”
    “Uncle Slay, we’re not innocent. I’m six
years old already.” Cassie said indignantly.
    “Sorry, Cass, I forgot. I guess only Donnie
counts then.”
    “Uncle Slay, that’s not fair. I’m a boy!”
    “Oh, you’re right. You two listen to your
mother and do what she says,” Slay instructed.
    “We will,” they chorused.
    “We’d better get out of here before we get
spotted,” El said.
    Morpheus silently agreed. They had no time to
waste. He did have to admit he was impressed with how well trained
they were and how every person that was important to the plan
seemed to know their part in it. El hit back roads, staying away
from highways and she drove for hours. The kids fell asleep in the
back and she didn’t seem to want to talk much. She seemed to know
exactly where she was going. They pulled into a mid sized town and
she went to a shopping center. Until