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will you get into if I bleed out right here on the floor?” She watched them, her jaw set.
    “Child, let’s talk about this,” Turbac said.
    “Oh? You mean like how much we’ve talked since you kidnapped me from my home? Should we talk about how much trouble you’re going to be in when Chevalier gets here? Hmm?” She held the scalpel precariously over her carotid artery.
    Turbac winced as she pressed the blade into her skin, not yet cutting into it.
    “Please, Child, don’t do anything rash,” he begged.
    “Aww, does your life depend on it?” she asked with mocking concern.
    “We’re just following orders. You don’t want to harm yourself… let me have the scalpel.” He reached out for it, and she sliced ever so slightly into her neck.
    The two heku by the door gasped and stepped back.
    “Don’t!” Turbac screamed.
    “What exactly are your orders then? Tell me. Do you wait until I deliver and then kill me and take the baby?” She watched their eyes, and her insides turned when she saw their reaction.
    “Child…” Turbac said.
    “Oh that’s it then? You wait until I deliver and then kill the baby? What kind of sick orders are those?” Her eyes flared, the green swimming angrily.
    “We wouldn’t do that,” Turbac tried to assure her, and his hand came out again for the scalpel.
    “Whose orders? Ulrich?” She noticed how they flinched at his name, and she knew she was right.
    “You don’t know who you are dealing with.” Turbac looked at the horrified heku by the door.
    “Oh I think I do. What you don’t know is that Chevalier won’t stop looking until he’s found me, if I’m still alive that is.” She felt herself stand taller as she spoke.
    “Put the scalpel down, we can discuss matters. Is it the exams you don’t like? The blood draws maybe? We can discuss keeping your baby alive after you deliver, too.” Turbac thought that would convince her, and he relaxed until she cut a hair deeper into her neck.
    “Stop!” he screamed.
    She glared at Turbac, “What do you need the blood for?”
    “Just for testing. We need to discover how strong the baby will be, that’s all.” He sounded pleading.
    ***
    Chevalier growled and Kyle’s eyes fell on him, “What’s happening?”
    Chevalier hissed, “She’s losing. She’s backed into a corner now, and she’s starting to panic.”
    Kyle turned to the first team and ordered them to begin their preparations.
    ***
    Emily felt the weight of the wall behind her as it caved in, knocking her to the ground as strong arms wrapped around her. She screamed when Turbac took the scalpel from her and brushed the ruble off of himself.
    “Return her,” he said sternly, and Emily was whisked back down the long tunnel to the rooms where she was being held.
    Tim stood when the door opened, and Emily was thrown into the room. He grabbed her just before she hit the floor.
    “Are you ok?” he asked, watching as the heku slammed the door and locked it.
    She sat up and glared at the door, “Yes, I’m ok.”
    “Where did you go? I thought you were hurt,” he said, looking at the cuts on her neck. “What did they do to you?”
    “I did that… got some answers too,” she said proudly.
    “About what?” he asked, and pressed a tissue to the drops of blood on her neck.
    “About our captures, about whose idea all of this is.” She watched him.
    “Please tell me. I have a right to know!” He was now watching her eyes.
    “It’s a baron of some sort, named Korin. You didn’t tell me you worked for the Government, why didn’t you tell me that? That would have helped!” She glared at him.
    She was inwardly pleased when he fell for it, “I didn’t know it mattered.”
    “Everything matters, now we know it’s a government operation.” She watched him as he nodded.
    “Yeah, I think I can see that now,” he said, and her eyes narrowed.
    Suddenly, she was in his arms as they wrapped tightly around her waist, “I was so afraid they would take you