105. The Abandoned Mine.

[Luke]
"Smart." Liam nodded and tried to take the grenade from me but I held him back.
"I think you should wait for backup." I told him seriously.
"The fuck is wrong with you, I'm not letting you go in alone." He said.
"It's dangerous Liam, I can't bear it if something happens to you." I told him.
"And you think I can bear it if something happens to you, you're the heir for crying out loud, if any life should be endangered, it shouldn't be yours."
"No, this is my responsibility, mine, it's my woman and child that are in there." I yelled a bit louder than I would have intended and I winced slightly when he flinched.
"I don't give a fuck, I'm going and it's final." He recovered quickly and snatched the grenade from my hand.
"Liam."
"You can stand there but I'm going, there's no time to waste." He said and started walking forward.
"Fine, but if anything happens, you have to promise to save yourself." I walked up to him and stopped him from taking another step.
"Luke, let's not—"
"Liam, you have to think of Megan, please promise me." I pleaded with him.
"Fine, I'll save myself, but after saving you because we're both going to walk out of here alive and well with Claire and the baby in her stomach." He said and I nodded my head.
"Promise." I said and we both hugged each other.
After a short while, we realized that the tunnel led to some kind of underground abandoned factory or warehouse, it was hard to tell what used to be done here.
"Time for the distraction." I said and Liam nodded then we stopped a few meters from the mouth of the factory.
"Fire in the hole." Liam yelled and then dislodged the pin and flung the grenade towards the factory.
The bomb exploded with a loud noise, shaking the earth and even causing rocks, stone and earth to break and scatter everywhere, there was a lot of dust we could barely see for miles.
"Lie down." Liam yelled suddenly and pulled me down with him.
I lay still on the ground and a few seconds later, the explosion passed over us.
"How did you know?" I asked him after we got up and dusted our clothing.
"I learned some things in a military camp." He grinned.
"Stay back." I told him and held my gun in front of me. "You don't have a gun, let me stay in front." I told him and he nodded.
A group of men charged towards us but I was quick to see them and I shot a couple of them down. Liam found a gun and also joined me in shooting the men.
We kept advancing into the factory, watching around us, the military joined us and soon we rounded up all the other men and they dropped all their arms and surrendered.
"Where is Claire?" I asked them impatiently and before they could respond, the man that I had only seen in pictures manifested before my eyes.
He rushed out with some men beside him.
"It's all over, surrender." Liam told him and he laughed evilly.
"Maybe from where you're standing because from where I'm standing, it looks like the woman is still with me and it's not over, just beginning." He said.
"Where is she? Give her to me and we'll let you go."
"Oh, you think you can threaten me."
"Sir, I'd advise you to let the woman go and give up, this place is all surrounded." The army commandant said.
"Oh is that so, then I have something that's surrounded too." He said and brought out a small device from his pocket.
"Calm down." He said and showed us the phone-like device as all the guns were pointed at him.
"What is that?" I asked him.
"You want to know where she is right, I'll tell you." Another person, a woman, came out of the area where he had come out from and I recognized her as Claire's father's ex-wife.
After he landed in Denmark, he had told me the whole story and I knew that she had a personal vendetta against him and she wanted to take it out on Claire.
"Where is she?" I demanded harshly.
"First I want to see Mr Hamilton." She said, her toke mocking.
"He's not here." I responded.
"Oh but he is." She chuckled. "I have his only child and grandchild on the way, of course he's here and from what I gathered, your girlfriend and mother of your child, so do you honestly want to argue with me."
I couldn't tell who was more of a psychopath, Sir George or the ex-wife.
"Fine, I'll get him here." I said and nodded at the army commandant.
"Whole you're at it, get the boxes of money you wanted to give that bitch and tell the helicopter to be on standby, we'll be taking them both when we leave her." She said,
"Fine, it's all fine, you can take it all, please just let me see Claire."
"All in good time, all in good time, just fulfill my request first."
***
"Eve." Mr Hamilton said as he was brought in.
She looked at him for a while before she swallowed and spoke.
"It's been too long, Cam." She grinned.
"What are you doing, Eve, this is not you." He tried to reason with her.
"This is me, Cam, this is what you turned me into." She replied.
"But I gave you everything you ever asked for, Eve, I never missed a payment." He argued.
"Yes, but you kept me in the dark, Cam, you killed me and made me desolate, did you even know that my family disowned me, you never once came to check up on me and see how I was doing."
"We had a deal, Eve." His voice wavered as he spoke.
"Of course, a deal." That seemed to make her crazy as she charged towards him and slapped him hard across the face.
"You went back on the deal when you got that bitch pregnant and she had that child." She yelled angrily.
"Eve, please calm down, let's talk about this."
"No, I'm calm, look I'm doing this for both of us, I love you, Cam, I always did and I still do, we can be together, it can work for us but we need to get rid of the bad eggs first, first we take out the child and then the mother." Her body shook as she spoke and her eyes looked dark and crazy.
"Eve, we can be together, we don't have to do all of that, just come with me now and we'll go, we'll go somewhere just the two of us." He lied and held her hand in his.
"Too bad I don't care about your promises anymore." She said and snatched her hands from his. "You don't know how to keep to your word but baby I'll help you." She said and turned to Sir George.
"I don't care about what you two do to the woman but the child is mine." He said and I felt very angry and sad as they talked about sharing Claire and the baby.
"Nobody is touching Claire or the baby." I thundered and they both turned to me.
"I think we ought to make this interesting." He said and turned to Eve.
"Of course, there's nothing better than a lover's tears for his beloved and there's also a child." She said,
"As I was saying before, I have loads of explosives surrounding the woman right now, she's tied to a bed of explosives." He said and began to laugh as he waved the detonator in the air.
"Careful." I screamed at him as my blood turned cold with fear.
"Just one tap to this red button and she'll explode, first the child of course because the first bomb is directly under her belly, I would have loved to watch her explode but I guess the footage will have to do." He said tossing the detonator to Eve.
"No." I screamed loudly and I couldn't hold it again as tears streamed down my face. "Please don't do that, please don't press the button please, Claire and I never did anything to you, why would we pay for our parent's sins."
"Eve, please don't do this, take me instead, kill me, do whatever you want, please don't hurt my child."
"You know they say revenge is best served cold, there's just something about punishing someone by hurting those they love." Eve said.
"What is your plan then, if Claire dies then you can say goodbye to the money and leaving here because before you can even push that button we would light you up like a Christmas tree." Liam seethed.
"Okay then, do you want to test that theory?" She laughed. "We weren't planning on getting out of here before." She said and brought out another detonator from her pocket and passed it to Sir George.
"We'll all be buried here." She said and before we could stop her, she pushed the button.
"No!"