Please use it.”Ant thanked Mark for his concern and ended the call. Mark sat there stunned for a while. He had lost a teammate. Fortunately, it was ...ot in the way that he had feared, but Ant was gone nonetheless. There was also the guilt of having hooked-up with Justin. Plus, what Ant had just said felt like it applied to Mark’s recent encounter with Zach.Eventually, he slowly got up and wandered back into the building and to the basketball court. The game was just past halftime. Mark staggered. He was lugging a backpack that contained all sorts of PI goodies. Climbing that formidable wall was our fallback, our Plan B. I fervently hoped that our Plan A went off as intended. The wall was, as mentioned, ten feet high, made of solid rock – and topped with coil upon coil of electric barbed wire.I sure hope you know what you're doing, Michael, I thought, wisely keeping my skepticism to myself. The less paranoid portion of my brain let me know that I was worrying for nothing. Aside from. Johnson. Nicole asked several times if I needed a refresher, and seemed very grateful to deliver it the one time I agreed. We were all three looking forward to getting back to our routine, in and out of bed.On the seventh day The Judge turned up. He seemed extremely grateful to find me alive. For a very long time he beat around the bush, then admitted, "Noah, we may have mistakenly set you up down in Key West. It was always our intention to carefully leak your location, and then take down. Retrieving the drinks, I pushed the door open with my foot and listened as its hinges whined briefly, finally breaking the silence. A cluster of three spotlights sat within a decorative ceiling rose and scattered a soft light about the large room, giving it a sense of warmth and intimacy. To my right, an ornate wooden headboard rested against the far wall as if in charge of a large, immaculately made, double bed. It stretched prominently towards the middle of the room whilst, to its left, a.