His protection program

Information seeking

"What do you mean she is gone?" I stare at Stefano as he comes back holding a piece of the sweater she was wearing. "I found this torn into the window frame of the woman's bathroom." My head is spinning. How could anyone come in here and take her? Dax is on his way from home to look at all the security cameras so we can work out where she is. Stefano has lined up all the staff and he is personally running interviews to see if they know anything, Stefano is like a human lie detector a skill of his that I appreciate right now.

Dax arrives and within minutes we are going over the security cameras. We can see a van drive in to the staff parking lot, that is only open by staff cards, then two men got out in dark clothes and masks over their faces before going down the alley where the girls bathroom is but unfortunately I don't have cameras down that way. Then after a couple of minutes they come walking back to their car with Emily unconscious in their arms. My arms are shaking with rage as I watch her being placed in the car before they drive off with my heart.

"These three people are hiding something. I'm not sure what but their answers on my questions showed signs of lying." I look at the people Darren, our dishwasher, he has worked here for a very short time and I really don't know him that well. Joseph, a server who has been with us for three years but comes from a rough background and the one person I hoped not to see here Carol.

I drag Carol into my office and start demanding answers. "What do you know?" I stare at her eyes. "Nothing." She says fast but I saw her eyes twitch so I know she is lying. "Carol I'm giving you one fucking chance. Tell me what you fucking know or I will kill you I swear to god don't test me on this." Carol bursts into tears but right now I don't give a fuck. To find Emily I would kill anyone in my way. "I don't know anything, someone came in and asked me if delivery can park in the staff parking as the front is full so I agree and gave him my card and now seeing her gone and the guy has not brought me my card I'm guessing that's how they got in." My gut says she's telling the truth but honestly my minds in to many places to tell right now.

I grab the other two and Stefano helps me interrogate them. What shocks us the most is to figure out both of them work for the Russians and neither are willing to talk. We split them and drag them to interrogation rooms. As I pass Dax he signs me pointing at his teeth and I light up as I remember that Emily had never removed the tracker. Dax goes back to my office to see if he can find her.

I tie Darren to a chair with some handcuffs I had. He keeps telling me that nothing I do can make him talk and I know this is just making my smile grow as I love proving people wrong. I grab my pocket knife and ask him slowly "where is Emily?" He laughs so I plunge the knife into his arms fast but leaving the knife there. "I'll ask you again, where is Emily?" He is biting his lip but still not answering so I take the knife that is already inside him and turn it.

This game goes on for a while and both his arms now look like he is way to into cutting himself but I give the guy credit, he hasn't talked. Since I really don't have time for this even if I do enjoy torturing someone I go for the worst thing I can think of. I tear open his pants and ask one more time before losing my knife straight at his penis. He screams stop and I tell him to answer me.

"They are running events from the holiday inn on the south side of town." I nod holding the blade edge right against his shaft "and what did you have to do with Emily's taking?" He hesitates but as he feels me start to push forward he starts talking "I had to tell them about her schedule and yours and I had to hand her over from the bathroom." My blood boils this is the son of a bitch that grabbed her and gave her to the Russians. I plunge the knife deep into him before exiting the room without a second glance. I need to get her back.

Dax says that the tracker shows no signal so he thinks they have the room bugged to not transmit anything. We look at surveillance around the Holiday Inn and both smile when we see the truck in question. This time we can't go in guns blazing. There will be many civilians. Stefano, Dax and I start talking strategy. I look at Emily's photo on my phone one more time, it's a photo I took one morning while she was still fast asleep on my chest, I have the hugest smile on my face and she looks like she is holding onto me for dear life, I kiss the photo making a silent promise to get her back before I start the drive to the hotel.