Somewhere Between Love and Revenge

Infiltration

It took almost two days for Luther to find out the location of Bono's family.
After hacking into Jones' work and house servers he got the list of properties he owns, and one by one checked them until he found the two storey vacation home in a remote area, in which the hostages were kept.

Mia and Anton sat at the sitting room to discuss their next move of action.

"What if we anonymously report it to the police, then Jones can be implicated and..."

"If the police gets involved everything would become messy. I take it that you don't want Mr Bono behind bars, right?"

He ran his fingers through his hair with a quiet groan which Mia took as a yes.

She continued, "If we go by the law, Mr Bono will get implicated somehow; that's a surety"

"What do you have in mind?"

She looked at him directly in the pupils, ignoring the uneasy feeling in her stomach as a response to what she was about to say.

"I'll infiltrate the location myself"

"What do you mean by that?" Anton asked with wide eyes as he abruptly sat up.

"I can do it, I just need a few things and my source confirmed a small number of security guards. Six was the number" Mia couldn't believe how desperately she needed his approval.

"Natasha you will do no such thing" he said as he uneasily ran both hands through his hair.

"I can hire professionals instead" he suggested, looking at her; his eyes almost pleading with her to give in.

"I can't trust anyone but myself to get them out safely. I can do it" she said convincingly but Anton wasn't convinced.

"Nat this is my problem, I'll settle it myself" In his tone was no space for negotiation but Mia wasn't ready to succumb.

"I'm doing this for myself not you sir. It turns out that Bono's wife, was my high school teacher"

Mia reminisced how loving and kind she was; she was one of the pure souls in this polluted world and she knew that she would hate herself if anything happened to her, so no matter what Anton said she was going to save her by herself.

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She came out from the back seat immediately the  car came to a halt, two kilometers from the location.  In the car was Anton, Bono and a security agent. It was a risky plan but no one could talk her out of it, Luther had tried but failed, Anton also.
She checked her tranquilizer guns to make sure they were loaded, and checked the knives in her boots before proceeding.

Anton rushed out of the car to her. Looking deeply in her eyes, he sighed, then covered his face with his hands before looking at her again. "Don't forget your promise"

She remembered the promise she made to him in order to get his consent to her plan; that she won't get hurt and that if it was too much for her, she would back out, but she knew she would not back out even if things became tough – her favorite high school teacher, that made life seem not so bad was a hostage!

"I won't"

Sighing again he said "please" almost in a whisper.

Mia nodded confidently even though she was nervous. This was a first time thing for her but she trusted herself to pull it off.

Swimming through the bushes and thin trees, she saw the house in the close range, aiming at the two guards out front, she fired two tranquilizer darts. One was hit at the thigh, the other at the shoulder, and within seconds they slumped to the ground; immobilized.