CHAPTER 103
YULIYA WAKE UP, looked at her cell phone, which now had a full battery and was surprised to have slept so much, she needed to recharge her energies, but she thought it was strange that her son did not call her to eat.
— Dan, where are you, honey?
— He's fine — said Cliff.
She typed something into her cell phone and put it back on the nightstand.
— Where's my son, you bastard?
— I told you he's fine — he's in his room at Vauxhall Cross, where he should never have left.
Despair was clear on Yuliya's face, and she tried to get up, but Cliff pointed the pistol in her direction.
— Now it's time to help us find Paul Leaks, Miss Barah.
— He will never join you.
— That is not what I said.
— I know very well what I said.
Two MI6 men entered and handcuffed Yuliya.
— I want to know the names of Cicada's members.
— You know who they are.
— You are one of them, who are the others?
— I only knew Paul, but they never considered me a member, they just paid me to do William Blake's riddles.
— And how did they manage to use Adam Stillton's boat and plane without his permission?
— I have no idea.
— I'm not very pleased with that answer, Miss Barah.
— If you're not satisfied with the truth, I can't do anything, the naked truth is this, I only had one chance to be close to Paul, he had told me that he had irrefutable proof that our son was alive and would like us to help them to rescue him, and that was it.
— And you didn't get to meet other people in there?
She denied with her head.
— You know you're going to be arrested, don't you?
— I do not care.
— Should...
— Should not.
— Why not?
— Because you're the one who's cornered.
Cliff didn't understand.
— My cell phone records everything around it and sends it to a cloud, which only one person has access to, if you don't release my son, tomorrow it will be in all the newspapers that you hold an innocent boy hostage, even worse, that you faked his death and keeps him at Vauxhall Cross without his consent.
One of the men took out his cell phone and confirmed it.
— Unlock the cell phone now.
— I can't, when I use this device, only Paul Leaks has the password.
— Take her and also take your cell phone for caressing, let's hunt this conversation..., finding that, we'll find Paul Leaks.
PAUL'S PHONE vibrated and it was a message on his secret cloud, only he and Yuliya knew that, he heard the conversation and knew what he had to do, but he would have to get out of Selene's car, in the parking lot of the Palace of Westminster.
Paul called Cliff.
— You know what I've got, meet me alone at the Elizabeth Tower bell. — He hung up.
As expected, Cliff didn't respond, but Paul swore he'd be there.
CLIFF HANDERSON TURNED OFF the phone and knew Paul would go all the way. If he didn't do it right, he would be the shortest acting Director MI6 has ever had.
Yuliya looked at him and smiled.
— Apparently someone got cornered.
— It was a smart move Miss Barah, we will release you both if he surrenders peacefully.