Page 168 of One Eye Open (The BlackWater)

They crept along, Maddie moving as stealthily as her damn leg would allow and she flattened herself against a car peering round.

She could hear voices, shuffling now. Where the fuck was Max? And then a sickening thought came to her head, what if Max was dead, what if the team was? But they couldn’t be, they’d had over twenty Agents in total, all armed, all wearing Kevlar. No way could they all be killed.

Someone started shooting again and they ducked, her behind one vehicle and Tony behind another.

She glanced around and her eyes widened as she saw an Agent lying barely feet from her. Fuck.

“Come out to play Maddie.” Someone shouted and she bit her lip so hard not to gasp. She looked back around as her heart literally stopped.

She knew that voice. She knew that voice damn well.

Talk about blast from the past but what the fuck was he doing here? And why the fuck was he working for them when he was meant to be with BlackWater?

She took in the bodies, some of them were moving, they were clearly still alive.

She looked up knowing then that the whole damn thing had been set up. That they’d been lying in wait, knowing they were going to be there. Gritting her teeth she braced herself and made a run for it, back to the van, back away.

She ran as fast as her damn leg would go, convinced she’d feel bullets hitting her at any second but all she could hear was the thumping of her heart and her leg screaming in protest.

Only someone was chasing her.

“Where are you going Maddie?” He shouted racing after her and she saw movement by the van, their van, the BlackWater van. They’d surrounded it. She had to hide somewhere else, to get somewhere else, she froze looking around and saw the shipping containers, if she could get there, if she could hide there, it might be enough to save her.

“You can’t out run me.” He shouted, he felt right on top of her then and she slammed her feet harder into the concrete, forcing her body on, running on sheer determination and adrenaline alone.

“You can’t escape me. Give in already and accept you’re beat.”

She raced through what felt like a corridor of steel where the containers were placed high above one another. Her footsteps echoed giving her away but she kept going. She couldn’t stop now, not yet, not until she knew he was no longer behind her and as she cut across and out the side she froze seeing a different man ahead.

Footsteps echoed then stopped behind her and she glanced back at the two men standing barely metres away. She was surrounded.

“Hello Maddison.” A different man said in front of her, smiling as he stepped closer, and her stomach twisted. She knew who he was, she knew from the second she saw him though she’d never seen his face before. Her hair stood on end, her body pumped with adrenaline. It felt like she was back, in that darkness, in that space they had kept her, the disused train station. And before her was the man that had tortured her, broken her bones, and raped her too.

“It’s been a while.” He said.

She snarled and kicked out as the two men behind her made their move bringing her down onto the tarmac.

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