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Maybe I can make American friends too. It
sounds like you guys have a lot of fun.”
    Okay, I didn’t expect that .
    “ How old are you?” I ask
him.
    “ Fifteen,” he answers.
    “ You look older.”
    He shrugs.
    “ My aunt is the dean of the
school,” I tell him.
    “ I know,” he says. “So you can
make it happen.”
    I nod. “Definitely. You have a
deal.”
    He takes the syringe and pushes all the
medicine out onto the floor. “We will be down here in thirty
minutes to get you guys. You can’t move. They’ll know. You can’t
even flinch or breathe the wrong way.”
    “ How will we escape?” I
ask.
    “ Trust me on that one,” he says,
pushing up on his feet.
    “ How can we trust you?” Damon
asks.
    “ Well, I guess you don’t have any
choice but to,” he says. “Just like I have no choice but to trust
you.”
    He walks up the stairs and out the
door.
    I look at Damon. “I trust him.”
    “ I hope we can.”
    “ He didn’t drug us,” I
say.
    “ True,” he says. “I’m just trying
not to get excited in case he’s lying.”
    I don’t think he is lying.
    For some reason, I trust him
completely.
     
    I’ve heard it
all.
     
    Tristan.
    I get a call on my private phone from a
Russian number. I answer it, hoping that it’s Katerina. Maybe she
found some way to contact me. She’s a smart girl. It wouldn’t
surprise me if she found a way for her and Damon to
escape.
    “ Hello.”
    “ Is this Tristan
Thomas?”
    “ Yes,” I say, hesitantly. “Who is
this?”
    “ Salvador Grishin.”
    Grishin.
    As in Rafael Grishin.
    “ I have a proposition to make,” he
says.
    I have a strong policy on not
negotiating with terrorists, but he has Katerina. I will do
anything to get her back. If this were regarding anything but her,
I would hang up. But I can’t. I will do anything .
    “ I’m listening,” I say.
    “ Katerina and Damon are going to
be moved to a new location tonight. Once they are moved, you don’t
have a chance of getting to them,” he says. “But if you find us
while we’re on the move, you can save them.”
    “ And what do you want from
this?”
    “ Damon and Katerina know exactly
what I want,” he says.
    “ Is she okay?” I ask.
    “ She’s fine,” Salvador says. “So
is the boy.”
    Thank God.
    “ Whenever you come, I know that
you won’t hesitate to kill anybody who stands in the way of their
safety. I’ll be the one in the red shirt. Don’t shoot me,” he says.
“Katerina and Damon know exactly what I want. I’m not a
threat.”
    I don’t know much about Salvador. He’s fifteen
years old and lived with his mom until about a year ago. She died,
so he moved in with Rafael. At that point, he was pulled from
school and pretty much dropped off the map. I want to ask him why
he’s willing to help us, but I don’t want him to change his mind.
I’m desperate. I have to find her. He’s just a kid. It’s not his
fault his dad does what he does.
    “ I can promise your safety as long
as Katerina and Damon are alive and well,” I say.
    “ They are,” he insists.
    “ You have yourself a deal,” I
say.
    “ I can also tell you where the
others are being held,” he says. “Elizabeth Vasin and the other
girl.”
    “ Okay.”
    “ Damon and Katerina made me
promises,” Salvador says. “I need to know that they are able to
keep the promises.”
    “ What promises?” I ask.
    “ First, that I won’t be put into
jail. I have nothing to do with what my father is doing,” he says.
“Damon told me that I wouldn’t get in trouble. He’s the president’s
son, so he can make this happen.”
    “ I don’t think that will be a
problem,” I say, knowing that the person who helps rescue the
president’s son will be give amnesty. Especially if Damon promised
it. He wouldn’t promise it to somebody who was a bad
guy.
    “ Good,” he says. “Katerina also
promised me something. She was telling me about her American
friends, and her school. I want to be enrolled