Chapter 59 - Hostage Taking (2)

December 28, Streets of City K

The first hit from behind, startled Lexi, who peered the rear-view mirror, however before either of them knew anything, the car was hit from behind a second time. This time the hit was harder and caused Lexi to start to lose control of the vehicle. Matthew immediately reached over and grabbed the wheel to steady the car, while saying to Lexi "Do not push your foot in the breaks until I tell you but lock the car doors immediately."

There was something about the situation that concerned him, and as much as he could he wanted to ensure that Lexi was safe. As he started to gain some control over the car, it was hit from behind a third time, but it was pushing it forward. A sense of foreboding came over Matthew who wondered who found out that he. More importantly that made him realise that he was under surveillance.

However, before he could think of anything else the car behind them hit Lexi car for a fourth time, again pushing it forward. This time however he immediately felt the vehicle run over spikes on the road puncturing all four tires. They now had no option but to stop, as travelling too far could see them in an accident. "Lexi slowly put your foot on the brake pedal. We have no option but to stop or we will have an accident. Take back control of the vehicle."

As Lexi did what he asked, Matthew slowly removed his hands from the wheel, and carefully slipped them into his back pocket pulling out his wallet without Lexi knowing. He needed to hide his secondary military identity doc.u.ments, so that is someone cane across the vehicle and found them it would trigger an investigation. The ones left in his wallet, confirmed his rank but that he was administration, not anything that was a total lie. He carefully used his credit card knife to make a small slit in the seat and slipped them inside it along with the credit card knife. As he was slipping his wallet back into his back-pocket Lexi finally had the vehicle under control.

He just wished he had his gun, but hopefully the knives hidden in his shoes and the garrotte in his watch would become useful. He was tempted to turn on the tracking hidden in the remade talisman that Lexi had given him when he joined. But he was worried that it would be overkill and cause more problems than it was worth. He needed to see what was happening before doing anything.

Lexi soon had the vehicle slowed down and brought to a stop. Less than 20 seconds after the car was brought to a stop, he noticed that they were being surrounded by men with guns. How in the world did anyone know he was here, and damn it was his job was putting Lexi at risk?

Then a voice was heard "Miss Yao, you and your companion need to get out of the car now. If you do not, the team outside your family home will kill your nephew within two minutes."

While it was clear that they were targeting Lexi, which infuriated Matthew they were not targeting him, he was simply caught up in the events. The concern was, given what John and he had discussed was that this was the second time in less than a year that the Yao family had been targeted.

He called out "We are coming" and raised both hands. Lexi followed his lead and did the same. He reached down with one hand and undid Lexi's seatbelt, quietly saying "Do not say anything about me being military, I will tell them. However, I will be claiming that I am your boyfriend."

Lexi quietly responded "OK." Lexi was terrified with what was happening but could see that Matthew had a level of control over his emotions. She knew, from their past experiences that he would ensure that she was protected. If letting him for a short space of time claim that he was her boyfriend was necessary she would let it, but there was no hope that it was the truth.

Matthew brought his hand back up in sight of the men surrounding the vehicle, so they could see he did not have a weapon, before he undid his belt.

He then called out "We are getting out", and undid his side door, climbing out of Lexi's car while at the same time Lexi did the same.

Matthew put his hands up, and as he and Lexi at gun point were moved to the rear of the vehicle he was told clearly "Down on your knees." Matthew, complied, knowing resistance at this time would have Lexi killed, so he dropped to his knees.