Jack Andrews

He fumbled around his face while watching at the rear mirror and observed how Amber panicked in the back seats.

"I must say that your face looks cute when you're asleep"

The driver turned around and in front of her was now sitting the young man she ran over. In his right hand was a fake plastic nose and the cap he was wearing.

"Y... you were sitting next to me on the plane?! But how? Aren't you wanted by the police? And what's with this shit show??"

"Ahahah, calm down for a bit would you?"

"How can I calm down in this situation! What is going on?"

"You are forgetting that the officers are only corrupt that doesn't give them the authority to cause a huge ruckus around a person who didn't commit any crimes. After all, they can't be identified as corrupt therefore they themselves need to look out for the internal affair department, so it was pretty easy to sneak on a plane without being discovered."

"So, in short, they only bribed some officers which obviously don't have enough authority to whatever they want correct?"

"Yes, exactly"

"Then why the whole disguise thing?" She pointed towards the fake nose in his hand.

"Well to put it simply, I saw that you picked up my wallet and tried to find me so I thought why not surprise her, hahaha. Oh and by the way you really need to work on your disguise, how can you say you are Jack Andrews wife when you don't even have a wedding ring on your finger? Not to mention that you didn't have any proof on you that would show that you are his wife, haha."

He put out a small box of one of his pockets.

"Here with this you are now officially Jack Andrews wife, so would you put it on please?"

She accepted the box out of reflex and opened it. In it was a simple golden ring without many embellishments. Written on it was the name 'Jack Andrews'. When she looked up to say something she saw how he started changing his shabby clothes to a business suite.

"And why would I do that? I mean I brought you back the wallet with that I've don... wait a minute." A crushing silence came after her unfinished sentence as even the young men stopped rustling with his clothes for a brief moment.

"You planned this from the very beginning, didn't you? Did you let yourself run over on purpose by me just to involve me in this whole situation?"

"Not exactly, I definitely didn't plan to be hit by a car, even if it was that of such a beautiful young woman. I would say that the planning started the moment you opened my wallet and looked at the pamphlet in your apartment. "

"Aha and now you want me to help you? What do you even want to do and who are the people chasing you?"

"Well, let me tell you the whole story. It was around four days ago when I came home from work as I always did but this time a brutal surprise awaited me. I heard some strange sounds and thinking that it might be a robber I sneaked towards the room with a baseball bat in my hands. What I found was not a burglar but my father tied to a chair being tortured by four men. They apparently were underlings from the Cosa Nostra family." His voice was trembling while he told his story.

"The Cosa Nostra family!!! What do you have to do with them?!" Amber was utterly shocked by the fact that she got just involved with one of the biggest Mafia families in the USA if not even of the whole world.

"If you would let me finish the story, please. So, I just came home right, I hid in front of the door and listened to what they were talking about. I didn't fully understand everything but apparently, my father borrowed or stole money from them and now they want it back, or so I presume. They also spoke about a treasure but I'm not sure if they just referred to the stolen money as treasure. Accordingly to what my father told them the key in finding it lies on this collar around my neck. After eavesdropping on them for a while they noticed my presence, so I quickly fled from home as fast as I could. I started researching this pendant my father gave me as soon as I was safe from my pursuers. That's when I found out that the director of this museum here in LA found it and my father then bought it at an auction until he gifted it to me. And since he apparently was going to be interviewed for a new archaeological discovery by a man called Jack Andrews."

"And what did happen to him? Since you are here in his place you must have done something to him."

"I beg you I'm not a criminal or at least not a killer or kidnapper. I simply made sure that he never got informed that he had said interview. So will you help me?"

"With what exactly do you even need my help? It seems to me that you have everything perfectly under control."

"While I will make the 'interview' I need you, 'my wife', to look through his archives and find the information about this medallion that apparently is called Ababinili. So will you do it or not the choice is yours." By now he was dressed up and had put on glasses and a good smelling perfume to cover the smell of smoke from the previous clothes.

"I brought you the wallet like I wanted to do, so I won't get deeper into this mess, especially given the fact that the Cosa Nostra family is involved." She gave him back the wallet and the box.

"Well, as I said your choice. Keep the ring as thanks for bringing back my wallet."

With these last words, he went out of the car to the back where he put out a camera and a microphone and walked away leaving Amber behind.