Dining room, Susan’s and Sasha’s Mansion:
Gracie, Robyn, Emily, Bunnie, Sandy, Rose, Susan, Kayla, and Sasha were sitting around the dining room table listening and looking towards the front of the table. Standing at the front of the table were Sasha’s older brother Jason and his adopted daughter Tullia. She was acting as his assistant tonight and was around Gracie’s age.

Jason looks at his baby sister's family as he prepares himself to give Sasha the bad news. He knew she wasn’t going to like what he was about to tell her.

“Stop stalling, Jason, and tell me what you and Andy found out?” Sasha looks at her older brother.

“You asked for it, Sasha.” Andy managed to trace who put the hit out on Sasha and her family.

“Well, Jason?” Susan wanted to know who was trying to kill her family.

Tullia looks at her adopted father. She knew he didn’t want to tell her aunt who was out to kill her and her family.

“Do you remember Adam Ludlum and Greg Hallaway?” Jason couldn’t believe they had escaped from the prison they had been sent to. The place was a black site.

“Yeah, I remember them. I captured them. Mom and dad tortured them afterward for what they did to Janius. They were supposed to have been sent to one of Aunt Janet’s black sites.”

“They were, because Andy and I escorted them to the black site, ourselves.” Jason knew him and his cousin Andy escorted them to the black site themselves. They took every precaution they could.

Sasha looks at her older brother “you don’t mean they escape, do you?”

“Unfortunately, yes. A team of highly trained mercs managed to find the black site and broke them and several others out. According to the records Andy managed to recover from the site. This team was a six-man crew and two of those members had unique abilities.” Jason nods to his daughter.

Tullia plays the footage from the breakout. She was using the holographic projector built into the special unit connected to her tablet.

“How long ago was this?” Susan wanted to know, why they didn’t know about this sooner.

“This happened three months ago. The investigation into what happened to your children was only a small part of this.” Andy had uncovered several links to what happened to all of Sasha’s and Susan’s children.

“You mean that armor car that rammed into me was meant to?” Rose looks at her uncle.

“Yes, it was a very clever plot to cause pain to your mother. Mr. Ludlum knows how much you kids mean to your mother.” Jason had looked at the psychological evaluation that had been done of Adam Ludlum and Greg Hallaway when they had been imprisoned.

“Even me and Sandy, uncle?” Bunnie looks at her uncle.

“Yes, sweetie. The guy who originally paid for you before Emily and Robyn rescued you. He wanted his property and uses to be a client of Greg Hallaway.”

“Uncle Jason, how did you and uncle Andy find this out?” Robyn was curious.

“Remember that cellphone you recovered from those men who attacked?” Jason looks at Robyn to answer him.

“Yes sir, there had been a picture of us and a million-dollar under it.”

“Well, your aunt Ivy managed to track down who sent the hit out. The person who sent it was a broker. After some convincing, he gave us the name of the person responsible for the hit.”

“Let me yes, it was Adam and Greg?” Sasha looks at her brother with anger on her face.

“Not exactly sis. The person responsible for breaking Mr. Ludlum and Mr. Hallaway out of the black site is responsible. They want revenge on
you and the whole family. An attack has already happened against Iris and her twin Chamomile. Brandy and her husband Mark, Troy and his family, Carol and her family.”

“And don’t forget about me.” A short black hair woman dressed in a full black bodysuit comes walking out of the kitchen area.

“Aunt Dotty.” Gracie jumps out of her chair and runs over to her aunt.

Gracie wraps her arms around her favorite aunt. She liked her aunt a lot.

Dotty returns Gracie’s hug. She has missed the little munchkin while she was gone.

“It’s good to see you again, sis. I heard you were in Syria.” Sasha looks at her older sister.

“I was until some assassins came after me. One nearly blew me up.” Dotty couldn’t believe how lucky she had been.

“How did they know where to find you? Only aunt Janet and dad knew where you were.” Sasha knew Dotty had been set along with her team to Syria to help out.

“I don’t know, but I do know the assassin I interrogated had been sent along with several others to kill me.” Dotty looked at her little sister.

“So, whoever helped Ludlum and Hallaway wants to declare war against the family. Don’t they know that is a losing battle?” Susan looks at Dotty and Jason.

“I wouldn’t say that. They got Kristy and her husband Lee. Also, they put Leslie and her girlfriend in the hospital.”

“But aunt Leslie is a highly trained police officer and Jessie is a secret service agent.” Robyn couldn’t believe her aunt was in the hospital.

“How is mom handling this?” Sasha knew her mother and father wouldn’t take this laying down.

“How do you think, Sasha? Mom and dad are pissed. The rest of the family has been put on alert. Aunt Janet is putting the full resources of Blake industries on this.” Jason spoke to his aunt a few hours ago.

“That means there's no place Ludlum and Hallaway can hide.” Susan knew what resources were available to the family.

“That may not be enough, big brother.” Dotty was still holding onto Gracie.

“Why do you say that, Dotty?” Sasha looks at her older sister.

“Because Ludlum and Hallaway might not be still here in the United States. Remember, Adam Ludlum has friends in the intelligence field and
Mr. Hallaway has connections overseas.” Dotty saw the file her brother had on them when they drove to Sasha’s house.

“That won’t help them. I know someone who use to be a DSS agent. She’s a high school teacher now, but she uses to be a DSS agent.” Sasha was thinking about Nora Midnight.

She researched Mrs. Midnight after working with her to protect Nora’s daughter Carol. Carol was the daughter of a DEA agent that had been killed by a highly trained operative.

“Who is she, sis?” Dotty has spent a lot of time overseas.

“Her name is Nora Midnight and lives in Memphis, Tennessee.”

“I’ve never heard of her.” Dotty has spent half her career in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

“Until we find out where Mr. Ludlum, Mr. Hallaway, and who their mysterious benefactor is. Everyone needs to be alert and careful.” Jason knew the whole family was going to be looking for them.

“Oh, just let them come after me. I want to see how fireproof they are.” Emily causes a flame to appear in her palm.

Sasha just looks at her pupil. She knew Emily was happy that she could start fires, but she needs to be careful.

“Hey sis, do you still have your apartment?” Dotty figures she could crash at Sasha’s place while she was in California.

“Yeah, I also own the apartment next to mine as well. You’re welcome to use it or you can stay here with us. We have plenty of room.”

“Thanks, I’ll just use your apartment.” Dotty wanted to get used to being around people she cared about again. She normally, worked alone when she was overseas.

“Well, if you change your mind. I know the girls will be happy to have you here, sis.” Sasha knew Gracie loved her aunt a lot.