’ Hayden didn’t know what to say. All he wanted to do was pull Natalie close and kiss her. At the moment, he didn’t think she’d be too recepti...e. He mimicked her pose, pushing his hands into his pockets. ‘I’m sorry, Natalie.’ He looked up to see the same closed expression on her face. ‘I should have spent more time with you tonight.’ ‘You should have.’ They stared at each other. Hayden sighed and reached for her, deciding he wanted to risk it. She let him touch her and Hayden moved closer. She. Nothing to be seen. I cautiously passed the area and nothing happened apart from asshole’s distorted voice laughing at me over the speakers.“Good girl.”He knew my fear and fed on it. Sick bastard. I was feeling like a lab rat once again. Like a dog that was being conditioned. This whole thing was so degrading. I was being consistently dehumanized and was powerless to do anything about it.Having passed the hated yellow door, I reached the T-junction without any incidents. The left side had. For an answer, Tina sat down on the bench, placing the roses on one side of her, along with her small purse. Randall sat on the other side, turned toward her as much as he could. There was an awkward pause as neither of them knew where to begin, though Tina was much more at ease, knowing that Randall would eventually say something. ‘I still love you,’ Randall said. ‘I know,’ was all Tina said in response. Randall had hoped for more, and was crushed because her answer revealed that she had. "Bobby said, "Oh shit."I quickly told Bobby, "Call the house car and tell them that we will be moving slow and to come up on us quick. Tell the chase car to set up a roadblock so we can pinch them in."Bobby was giving the directions I asked her to give, while I was stuffing rounds in the other two magazines for the MP5. The people in the car following us couldn't see me watching them as we were in a vehicle with absolutely black one way windows. It was obvious they didn't have our radio.