“Like I said get them here or this is the last you will hear from me. I will not be a prisoner of Xendra not for you nor any other! Get them here no...!” The male growled out at Conrad.“On the way! We have a reception committee if they get past.” Conrad said through clenched teeth. This assassin was seriously pissing him off!“Good! Then prepare I should have her to you very soon,” the male said looking over at the unconscious form of Adina. She wasn’t well trained though he could see that she had. “There has to be something we can do to find Audra,” Gunnar says as Eisley finishes packing away the last of the documents in a brown satchel. “We can’t just leave here without at least performing a search.”“There is nothing we can do, Gunnar,” the general says, sighing heavily. “I have a responsibility for those that are left. I cannot in good conscious remain here, putting their lives in danger because of one person.”“And what if that person was you?” Gunnar asks bitterly before realizing his. A six-foot-three, lean and wiry Black man with dark brown skin stares back at me. I inspect myself. I don’t think I look bad for forty-five. I’ve still got all my hair and all my teeth. I don’t have a beer gut. I stay in shape. And my light brown eyes haven’t lost their spark. They stare back at me in the mirror. Unflinching. It’s times like these that I wonder where the time went. I brush my teeth, then step into the shower. The burning water cascades all over my body, and I close my eyes. I. God help them if they try to call her ‘inexperienced’.”Jeryl laughed. The week she had been on the show had really highlighted the breadth of her experience, both business wise and her legal background. “I bet we have more lawyers apply for next year’s show after that episode airs.”“And if they win the election, all of our budding politicians will apply as well.”Jeryl shook her head. “I don’t think most potential politicians would pass our other screening,” Jeryl teased.“I hope that’s true.”We.