I told her what I was looking for. We bargained over the fee. She accepted. Calls to acquaintances in Switzerland solved another part of my plan.And, ...t six-thirty in the morning, Friday, I called the White House.Lucas Smith answered the phone.“The terms have changed and are non-negotiable,” I informed him without introducing myself.He recognized my voice. “To what?”“This morning, before noon, you will have five million dollars wired into Callie Hollister’s account in the Cayman Islands. The. He ran his hand up her leg to grip her arse tightly, squeezing and pulling her closer until she could feel the bulge in his trousers resting against that spot in between her legs.Wriggling her hips slightly she moaned against his mouth, her hand moving from beneath his tshirt to curl into the hair at the nape of his neck, her thumb stroking over his cheek as her kisses became harder, mashing his lips almost painfully against his teeth.Shivering again, she curled her bare foot around the back of. ." Yeah. So you owed Spook a lot more than even you realized. And you got to know him better than anybody, and to you he was just your friend. To me, though..."He paused for a moment. I simply waited, still shakily adjusting to the idea that some people in my government had wanted to kill me."Jack, that day you told me, at your house, I was flat scared. Sure, he blew me off when I said it. I remember every word, 'if I wished to do this'—he meant set off the nukes—'I would have done it already.'. I tried to get up but soon realized it was hopeless, I felt a thick leather strap against the back of my head stopping me from pulling my face out of the hole by keeping my chin and forehead tightly against the cushion. Ropes were tied to straps attached to my wrists and ankles which in turn were attached to the legs of the table to stop me from getting up and running away, finally there were two other straps running horizontally across my thighs and the small of my back to stop me from moving.