Outside Gus's complex in Marrakesh, Ally pulled up his van to progress his overdue online chat with Mandy the girl from the sex shop back in Wales where he'd purchased the leg cuffs, currently being used to restrain Ingrid against running away from his fortified blockhouse in Algeria.
He tempted his virtuous online friend Mandy with the invite of a drink, tactfully typing his next sentence in preparation of explaining this to be wishful thinking on his behalf as he currently had to work away in Algiers. Once Mandy replied with her acceptance, Ally immediately sent the prewritten response to revoke his invite, quickly followed by an apology, pretending to have being innocently typing at the same time as she. Content with the seed of temptation he'd planted, he closed his phone down and moved his van from the layby, to the threshold of the complex's perimeter gate.
Pressing the intercom buzzed a long nervous silence before and a male voice eventually welcomed him in Arabic.
"Hi, my name is Ally. I'm here to see Gus."
After what seemed like a lengthily moment of non comprehension, the abrupt response finally announced "One minute."
Gus, (The Boss) had honoured his word to Ally and given Tess a little sympathy because, after all, she had only succumbed to the evils of the same woman he had. His financial motive meant nothing other than a difficult sum of money to challenge Ally, a desperate man who Gus assumed would struggle to access such funding. He also realised that Ally would be forever recalling such a debt, hopefully by making Tess work hard to repay him.
Gus had ordered no harm to come to Tess, respecting her as Ally's property, allowing no further abuse, for the agreed period of time he'd allowed Ally to come up with the money before taking her away.
Gus would now concentrate his efforts on a new plan to catch Ingrid, by setting up surveillance of Ingrid's property back in Norway. If she didn't make contact with her husband Kristofer soon, then he would have to bring the man himself in for a little persuasion to recover his money that Kristofer and Ingrid had jointly stolen from him.
He called for Sofia's presence and took her downstairs to visit Tess in the plant-room, directing her over to the cell where he unlocked the door and allowed Sofia inside to comfort his restrained captive.
Tess began to cry in Sofia's arms as she comforted her for the short time before they were interrupted by the noise of rattling metal.
Tess began trembling, watching in horror as Gus approached the open cell door carrying a hand full of chain, with an uninviting open collar attached to one end.
Without giving Tess the chance of wasting her breath pleading, he made his threat clear.
"If you don't want me to add this to your jewellery collection, then you won't give me reason to do so will you." He told her.
"No sir." She whimpered.
"Good." He replied, lowering the chain to his side. "Get her out of here." He ordered Sofia.
Gus had plenty of confidence that he would still be apprehending Ingrid and knowing that Ally intended relieving Tess of all her shackles as soon as he regained possession of his fiancΓ©, Gus favoured not putting the collar to wasteful use, by fixing it around Tess's neck.
The two girls didn't hesitate. Sofia lead the way, taking her boss's captive by the elbow and slowly guiding her out of the cell.
Tess quickly learned the limits of her leg cuffs as she shuffled her feet through the open bared gate, past Gus, shivering at the sight of the solid looking collar he clutched in his hands.
Gus remained in the swimming pool's plant-room, entertained by watching the show of Tess's three-foot belt chain rippling down towards the ground from the back of her waist as she carefully negotiated the steps and eventually disappeared from sight, out into the corridor above.
Although grand in design, Tess had no interest in hanging around to look at the ornate architecture, preferring to get as far away from this building as possible.
With the hem of turned down fur around the rim of her ankle boots serving as a platform to take the weight of the cuffs, she walked swiftly alongside Sofia, back to the spa building where she hoped she might find a little rest-bite.
At the end of the path where the two girls turned towards the spa, the familiar face of the bald headed Omar appeared and greeted the two of them with an inquisitive "Hi?"
Tess still feared this man but could tell that Sofia didn't. Sofia and Omar engaged in conversation with a language Tess assumed to be Arabic. Their exchange of words seemed to be getting heated, with Tess being unable to comment on any cultural mannerism differences she knew nothing about.
Sofia began walking backwards, away from him, giving Tess the indication to follow whilst continuing to shout at Omar. The shouting turned to arms waving and pointing mostly towards Tess's waist belt and attached cuffs, making Tess believe her presence to be the source of the argument.
Omar followed the two ladies into the reception of the spa building where Sofia squared up to him and jabbed her fingers in his chest, hard enough to push him away from her. Omar responded by gently and courteously, removing her aggression from touching him, only to receive an incredibly hard slap across his face from Sofia's other hand.
His reaction to this wasn't physical but calm and controlled. His face turned sour, speaking clearly and quietly before walking out of the reception.
Whatever he'd said had an obvious impact on Sofia's attitude as she turned away without replying or apologising.
"What was that all about?" Tess asked.
"Nothing." Sofia replied. "He is an ass hole who thinks he can order me around, that's all."
"Were you talking about me?"