LOVE AND TREASURE | ❝I still love you, Ben after all this time apart.❞
━ IN WHICH Clara Bass is pulled back into the world of treasure hunting through her ex-boyfriend and this a new love grows between them.
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▌Chapter 23 ─ Kidnapping The President ▌
━━━━━ BEN AND CLARA Gates sat in the office of an old friend. He looked at the picture they had given him. "The eagle with the scroll." He took his glasses off and turned away from them, grabbing a book. "Conspiracy theorists like to believe that it's the symbol for the president's secret book." Clara looked at the book that he placed on the table.
"You bought Riley's book." Ben said, while he and Clara smiled at Sadusky.
"Ha-ha. Your friend writes a book about government conspiracies, and you don't think we know about it?"
"But is it true? Does the president have a secret book?" Ben asked him.
Sadusky put his glasses back on and grabbed Riley's book, opening it up. He then pulled them off and looked at Ben and Clara.
"Do you like ducks?" He asked the two.
They moved outside and away from the building. Clara held onto Ben's hand as they walked with Sadusky. He looked at the couple as ducks landed on the water that was near there.
"There is a book." Sadusky told the couple.
"Why are you telling us out here?" Ben asked him.
"Cause inside, I'm a federal agent. Out here, I'm talking to you as a friend, Ben."
"Where's the president's book kept?"
"Only the current president knows. The book is passed from president to president, each one chooses his own hiding place."
"You're the FBI. Can't you get it for me?"
"The only way you'll ever see that book is if you get elected for president."
"Well, you never know."
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The couple had made it back to Patrick's house. Ben sat in a chair explaining what they had found out to the others. Clara sat on the couch, her eyes on Ben. Abigail sat next to her, and Riley sat across from them, meanwhile Patrick was pacing around.
"All I need is a few minutes with him." Ben told the three.
"A few minutes. Really? Ben, even if you were married to the president, you wouldn't be able to get a few minutes with him." Riley explained, leaning forward.
"Not when he's surrounded by his handlers, but if I can get him alone..."
"How do you expect to get the president alone?"
"Before the Civil War, the states were all separate. People used to say, 'United States are.' Wasn't until the war ended people started saying 'United States is.' Under Lincoln, we became one nation."
