{"id":1258,"date":"2022-12-12T22:35:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T20:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soofch.com\/so\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2022-12-12T22:35:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T20:35:29","slug":"chapter-li-successive-traumas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soofch.com\/so\/2022\/12\/12\/chapter-li-successive-traumas\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter LI. Successive Traumas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Prepare yourselves, I don&#8217;t want him inside that house again, as soon as they enter the alley, I want Ruslan, alive, we are done with these games, he will lead us to him or he will come for him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alex: Are you crazy? The process is still in its infancy, we are close to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hammer ignored her, addressing his team: I want Katrina as well, I want both here, tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turning to Alex: As soon as it is over you take your pet cat and get out of my face, I do not want to see you here again, and until then, do not think of telling him or interfering with anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Approaching her, he whispered in her ear: Do not oppose me again in front of my team, do not try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alex exasperated: Damn you, you are overstepping your bounds here, stupid, I will not let you do anything that might hurt Robert, remember your size and yourself well, you are talking to a CIA officer on official duty, not a mercenary to an unknown agency in Malta. I swear If you do not abide by your size, I will make you pay dearly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was silent, took two steps back, remembering himself, and who she was. Certainly, he could not challenge her like this, and he could not endanger the security of her man, he is in her custody, and this is her right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Well, then what do you suggest?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alex was still pissed off: I suggest you and your staff get off my face and let things take their course, or step aside and I can call another team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; No, we will kidnap them tomorrow, Ruslan and Katrina, this matter is over, I will not wait until I lose their tracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-She calmed down: Well, Robert is not going to the date, there is no need for him, you can kidnap Ruslan when he arrives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; Ok deal, and you and Robert will leave Turkey tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alex: It is none of your business, that is my case, I figured out everything you are working on right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next morning, Katrina did not go down to breakfast as usual, and did not leave her room, everyone began to worry, they checked the tapes of secret cameras around the hotel, and in its courtyard, there was no trace of her, she did not leave it, she is still in her room surely, or the worst nightmares of the hammer have occurred!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At noon, he got impatient, a guest on the same floor, came out of his room and went to hers, knocked on the door, and waited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moments and the door opened, he was confused, stuttered, and said: Excuse me, sir, yesterday my friend was a guest in this room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The man: It is okay, he must have left, I came to the hotel this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hammer went mad, and so does Alex! where did she go!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They reviewed the tapes again, she did not leave the hotel, they had no choice but to ask about her at the reception!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-A girl approached the employee: Hello, my friend is a guest, can you inform her of my presence?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-The employee: What is her name, madam?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Natasha Ivanenko<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; Ah, Ms. Natasha, how sweet she is, unfortunately, madam. she left yesterday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Do you have her phone number?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Sorry, I cannot give customer information to anyone, sorry madam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-But it is an emergency, how am I going to find her?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-She is your friend; you sure have her number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He typed on the computer keyboard in front of him<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-He said: In addition, there is no registered number for her as well<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She withdrew after thanking him, not wanting to arouse his suspicion any further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Well, we will look for her, let us now focus on Ruslan, he is still in our hands, but Robert should go, he should not risk not seeing him and walk away without us noticing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the afternoon, their worst nightmare occurred again, Ruslan did not come, Robert waited for him for half an hour, tried to call him, his phone was switched off, he sent a message, but it did not reach him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not knowing how to act, he decided to go to the house where he met Sheikh Haqqan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Knocking on the door, knocking again, again, no answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the other end of the alley, an old man was sitting on a reed bench in front of a laundry and ironing shop, next to him was a jug, on top of it was a second jug, both on a rectangular base on burning sticks of wood beneath, Turkish tea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-He remembered the waiter in the caf\u00e9, he had not tried it yet, came to him: Do you speak English, sir?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The old man shook his head in denial and began to call out in Turkish and point his hand into the shop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robert understood, someone inside speaks it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He thought to himself, &#8220;Maybe I should consult Alex on the present situation first.&#8221; He gestured to the old man with his hand that there is no need, and he was about to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-A voice called out from within: What do you want, sir?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robert turned, and said: I wanted to ask about the house across from, my friend lives here<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Voice: You can come in<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Where? To the house?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Not the house, you can come in here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Slowly he walked in, looked behind and around the alley, no trace of anyone, advanced into the shop, a silhouette that stood by the wall between the clothes-shelves on his right, turned to him, and froze, not saying a word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is him, with his fat and flesh, just as in the picture, standing right in front of him, with only one meter between them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He did not know what to do! His strength and courage failed in one moment, he wanted to scream at the top of his voice, his throat betrayed him, as well as his feet when he wanted to run away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He spoke, without any preamble<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-I guess the hammer is in the next alley, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added confidently: What a fool, he has not learned anything yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His voice roared at the hammer&#8217;s ear through the spying device, he rose up in the car in the back alley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He grabbed his phone and started screaming like crazy: It is him; it is him, Baibars, he is with Baibars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prepare yourselves, I don&#8217;t want him inside that house again, as soon as they enter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zero-moment-english-online"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe7qS3-ki","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soofch.com\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soofch.com\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soofch.com\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soofch.com\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soofch.com\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soofch.com\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soofch.com\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soofch.com\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soofch.com\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}