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Chapter 11

The opening of their cell door interrupted their conversation and Wo Fat entered armed with an electric baton, which he used on Steve, causing him to scream in pain. The soldier struggled to catch his breath when he was finally freed from the electric current.

"Tell me about Shelburne," ordered Wo Fat.

"I have no idea what Shelburne is," he replied, realizing that he was really in a bad situation.

He knew nothing at all about Shelburne and had even been scrambling for months to learn anything about it, and still had nothing, but Wo Fat didn't believe him. The electric shock sent Steve reeling backwards, screaming in pain. He gasped painfully once the baton was away from him.

"Your father spent a lot of time researching the meaning of Shelburne," Wo Fat continued, circling his victim. "I'd be surprised if he didn't share his findings with you."

"You're wasting your time," said Steve with difficulty.

"What about Joe White?" asked the Asian, sending a long electric shock back into his prisoner's belly. "What did he say to you?"

"Joe White," said Steve, trying to sound more convinced than he felt. "Joe White knows absolutely nothing about Shelburne. OKAY?"

"You're lying."

Wo Fat put down the electric baton and unleashed several punches at Steve that sent him spinning around while groaning in pain.

"Why is Shelburne so important?" he asked, taking advantage of a pause between shots. "Why are you so interested?"

Wo Fat only responded by using Steve as a punching bag, the soldier's face bloody, barely able to stand on his legs, but when the onslaught stopped, he straightened up, offered his torturer a bloody smile and spat a little blood on the ground before resuming.

"You don't know what Shelburne is, do you?"

A guard interrupted the interrogation by announcing that he had found a satellite phone. His boss immediately went to him and asked where he'd found it. A conversation in Korean ensued between the two men, while Steve was suddenly worried about Jenna. He'd gathered from their exchange that it was her phone.

"It wasn't for nothing," she whispered before tossing a metal rod to Steve, who hid it under his toes.

Wo Fat ordered his man to leave, walked over to Jenna and shot her twice in the stomach. Rage rose in Steve at seeing someone he liked, despite what she'd done to him, die before his very eyes.

"I'm going to kill you. You're a dead man," he snapped.

"We're getting on a plane in an hour, and you're driving me to Shelburne."

Steve watched Wo Fat exit with apprehension, knowing that getting on that plane would be his death warrant. Once the man was out the door, Steve wedged the metal rod Jenna had thrown him between his toes and forced his abused muscles to raise his feet to hand level. Despite the pain, he retrieved the rod, rested his feet on the floor and played the object into the lock of the padlock that imprisoned him. In a few seconds, he had freed himself and was catching his breath with both feet flat on the floor, hands on his knees. His gaze fell on Jenna, and he felt sorry for her, closing his eyes before fleeing down the corridors. He avoided the guards he could, but had no choice but to fight two of them, plunging them into unconsciousness with ease. He retrieved the weapon from one of them before climbing a ladder that led him to the exit. On his guard, Steve pushed open the door to the outside, took a few steps outside and two men appeared in front of him, weapons loaded and before Steve had time to react, a jolt on his shoulders sent him to the ground with a cry of pain.