Chapter: The Silhouette of a Dangerous ManWhen Benny woke up, it was morning. Light rays had filtered through the blinds and the room was sparingly illuminated. "Not too bad, I thought I was sealed away in some abyss," he grunted as he felt the comfy comforter and scanned the room. His eyes caught the remains of the intravenous fluid that was infused into him. It was discarded already. "What the heck is this place?" He thought. A silhouette fell into his line of vision. It was the back view of a man. "Who are you!? What do you want from me?!" Benny put up a bold front."I put up with you because you seemed to be a good man, but you crossed the line when you threatened me." Cole responded."Mr Clinton Cole?" Benny asked in astonishment. Cole turned around slowly and Benny shook slightly."You caused this?" Benny asked and touched the bandage wound around his head."It was an accident," Cole said and looked away.Benny heaved a sigh. He realized he just got entangled with a dangerous man. He needed to get out of this mess.
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Chapter: Getting ThroughLisa stirred awake. Her head ached badly and her body felt numb. She groaned faintly and opened her eyes slowly.Her eyes fluttered as she took in the seemingly familiar settings."This isn't my hotel room? Where the hell am I?" She thought and sprang up from her sleep.She hugged herself as the feeling of deja vu took over her. "Oh no! This isn't happening! Not again!" She fidgeted and threw the covers open to check herself.She heaved a sigh of relief and rushed off the bed. That was when she scanned the room. She squinted as realization dawned on her. Pieces of the day's events flashed through her head hazily and she groaned."My bedroom? No way!" Lisa yelled in horror. "I can't face Alex now... I haven't caught the culprit... I have to get out of here," she whimpered and dived for the door.The door swung open just as she placed her hand on the lock. She pulled back and Alex emerged. He was holding a cup of freshly prepared oat. "It's my recipe for a hangover," he said casually.
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Chapter: Sentiments"Boss, I have Lisa's whereabouts," Benny said as he knocked at the door.Since Lisa's disappearance, it has become Alex's culture to lock himself in the anteroom attached to his office. Else, he was always out, drinking.Benny wasn't sure Alex heard him. He turned around and picked up his phone only to hear the door open up behind him.The forlorn look Alex had on dissipated. He rushed at Benny and pinned him to the wall."Where is she!?" He roared. Benny scoffed and regarded him, he looked unkempt and rough.Alex returned to his senses and withdrew slowly and said, "I am sorry… I was impulsive," please lead the way.****Jane locked her palms together and stared at the drink she had ordered. Things were clear but she was still uncertain. She was uncertain about her own actions.She'd thought it would be easy just like her mother had advised but she was almost close to tears again.She realized she loved Jeff and her heart still beat for him. Her action might be right but she was sure
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Chapter: A Failed AttemptJane watched Benny leave and shuddered. Her thoughts were jumbled and she threw her hands up in the air weakly. She was going insane and she knew it.She was startled by her own profession earlier but she was more startled when Benny played along."You're a crazy bitch!" She screamed at herself and laughed hard as she sobbed. "Lisa is missing," she said hysterically and brought up her phone. She dialed Lisa's number but the line was not reachable. She stopped after the first trial and threw her phone on the sofa.She climbed up into her bed weakly and drew up the covers to her shoulders. "Jeff is going down tomorrow," she muttered incoherently and wrapped her arms around her pillow as she continued to weep.****"Cheers to a new bonding," Cole said to Benny and raised his glass for a toast."I don't drink," Benny said disgruntledly."A toast is the least... I mean, you interrupted my sleep," Cole said and sipped his drink."Jane said you wanted to talk. I am a busy man. I won't spare
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Chapter: Denial llIt was dusk. Jane's eyes flicked open and she sprang up from her sleep. She sat up as a deafening sound had ended her sleep abruptly. "What the hell do you think you are doing!?" She yelled at the guard who had just kicked her door open. The guard did not bat an eyelid. Rather, he suddenly threw someone into Jane's room. Jane yelled and knelt impulsively on her bed."What the heck!" She muttered and rubbed her palms against each other as she took a look.Her temples burrowed as realization dawned on her. She leapt off the bed carelessly but staggered backwards and fell back on the bed.She lifted up her head in dismay as familiar footsteps approached her room. "Father!" She groaned and fell on her knees."Who is responsible for your pregnancy!?" Cole yelled coldly. Jane refused to respond rather she continued to groan."Unveil him!" Cole ordered.The guards removed Benny's cover and Jane fidgeted. She crawled towards him but one of the guards restrained her. The guards held her in p
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Chapter: DenialDespite the pain in her face and mouth, Lisa devoured her dinner like a hungry lion. She needed strength to carry out her enterprise. The pity party has ended and it was payback time.She checked through her purse and brought out an old phone she had picked up from her chest.She brought out the SIM card that she had taken from her broken phone. She inserted it into the old phone and reboot the phone.The phone rang almost immediately when the light came up, it was Alex.Lisa shuddered and ignored the call. She opened her Gmail account and viewed all the mails again."It's all over, who cares if they went viral? The most important person I wanted to protect is wounded already... who cares whatever?" Lisa muttered as she reset her password.She cleaned the tears burning in her eyes with a single swipe of her palm as she composed a new message to her blackmailer."This can't go viral please. How much do you need this time? Reply with the amount, location, date and time.""You have just
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Chapter: Leia's Abduction IIJericho POV, Few minutes has passed since Leia and her nurse maid left for the rest room. I have been technically bouncing on my toes, never had I been this impatient and aggravated all my life. Time was tucking away, yet there was no trace of Leia. My head had literally turned into a standing fan, spinning back and forth for a sign of her but there was no trace. Fed up of the shit, I decided to make a move but just as I made two steps away from my standing position, I felt a hand grab my arm making me twirl back to see it was Alex. My eyes instantly turned to inferno. “What?!” I gritted my teeth, my whole being burning with rage. Alex squirmed his face before sighing and said; “Tell me you aren’t fucking going to meet Leia in the restroom. You’ve to calm down! Give them some privacy, man! It's the ladies not your personal closet.Calm down? Really? Is that a joke or sort?How can I? when I am literally angry with entirely everything right now. Starting with Alfonso; the nerve of
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Chapter: Leia's AbductionAlex POVI have been avoiding Alfonso because I have nothing to say to him. After the search on Tyler's car's number led us no where, we are yet to have a concrete information.We have been checking the footage of cameras just like he had ordered but we are yet to get anything concrete.While I was at it, a summon propped up from Alfonso. It was meant for Jericho, he was summoned to come alongside Leia. Yeah, that is big boss for you, he takes the bull by the horn. I informed Jericho and soon he was down in Alfonso's chambers with his wife. I was also present."Given the fact that you were just informed about Russo's death, I had thought I will receive your visitation but it never come," Alfonso said to Leia as soon as we walked in.Leia said nothing. She bowed in greetings without responding."What can you say about your friend. I mean Tyler," Alfonso went straight to the point and showed Leia a seat.Leia looked surprised and looked questioningly at Jericho."Did you report me to …
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Chapter: Lucita's intentionsLucita POVI am obsessed about Jericho and knew it. Well you wouldn't blame me, he was my first love and my betrothed. When I walked through the shadows of death, he was the only substance that kept me fighting for my life. I am back on my feet and there is no way I can live on without him.Since l'd left the Bandas' mansion, I could not but think about him. Apparently, I might have lost him but I can't lose him for real. We can't remain under the same sky and he would be locked up in another woman's bosom.No! It can never be. The thought alone is infuriating. I will rather have him taken out. Yes, if I can't have him, no one would. Neither Leia nor some other women.At this point I could not help but think that Andro's intervention made me lose Jericho. If I had returned to him earlier, he wouldn't have met that bitch. And when I returned, Jericho couldn't feel my sincerity. I had grown past the naive and gentle lady he knew.Well, I won't cry over spoilt milk. I have lost Jericho
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Chapter: A Failed MissionAlex POVTwo cars rode out of the property right after Leia's car. We followed in close proximity but Leia did not suspect a thing. This made me agree to Alfonso's delusions, Leia has indeed become docile. Well, I am happy that my friend and boss is soon becoming a father but above all I wish for his happiness and his wife's as well.It was hard to gather the men and follow them out without answering to Jericho. He only asked casually and he stopped pestering me after I snubbed him.I decided to go with our men because I did not want any flop. This was sir Alfonso's biddings it has to be done clean and perfect. Moreover I needed to see things for myself.Something did not sit down well with me. It was Sandra's disposition. She was alert and sensitive and there was no doubt that she would have caught on.I expected her to greet us or inform Leia but she didn't. Rather she feigned ignorance and maintained her position right beside Leia.Few of my men waited around the parking lot while
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Chapter: Assignments Alex POVWork was choking me up but I had to do it all alone. Jericho was busy with Leia and the task was not something I could give out to our subordinates.It was the end of the month and I had enough on my plate. Reports had rolled in from every one of our facilities around the world. I had to audit the whole thing and ascertain that each facility is doing well. This task is usually handled by Jericho or me.Jericho has been hanging around Leia since things started to fall apart between them, leaving me to face the heavy workloads.I knew this was going to happen when he kept such big intimation from Leia. Yeah, he did it with a good intention. He did it to protect her but hey, he should have known that Leia isn't a weakling, she won't welcome such an excuse.Thinking about it all aroused my curiosity. I am more curious about the source of the whole malady. Isn't it strange that a man from nowhere was the one who broke the news to Leia? A fucking childhood friend or whatever. I s
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Chapter: The Grand PlanAlfonso POV, As I stood on the rooftop of my apartment, all that claded my mind was Lucita and whoever was behind her. This time around I was navigating ways on how to deal with them ruthlessly as soon as I got my hands on them. Fucking hell, I can’t beleive that the investigation on just one woman...One damn woman is suddenly becoming like a wild goose chase. The fact that the men I sent to tail her got killed, still gets me boiling. They were my elite men. Clenching my fist around the shot glass that I was holding, I took another sip from it. Impatience turns to rage as I waited for the fucker Luca to gave arrived already.And In a few hours, which felt like eternity, Luca finally arrived along with the other men. With a smirk, I watched as their cars zoomed in furiously and they all alighted. I nodded sideways toward one of the guards standing at the rare end of the rooftop and he knew what to do. He bowed and in a few minutes time, he led Luca up all the way. “If you don’t h
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Chapter: Trevor's BurialTwo Months LaterIt was late in the afternoon. Shane was busy with some files when the intercom beeped. He went for it and realized it was the chief."Come to my office," the chief commanded.Shane made his way down and presented himself before the chief."It's Trevor's burial today… Daniel invited me, I want you to go with me," the chief said."Oh, really!?" Shane asked in astonishment"Yeah," the chief responded."I thought he had been buried earlier.. Alright, I will get prepared," Shane said and made his way out.Men of timbre and caliber attended Trevor's burial. Daniel had invited all and sundry. At first he, pretended like he wanted a quiet assemblage and a solemn burial for his son but it was all a camouflage. He actually wanted the news that his only son was murdered by his wife to travel far and wide. Public sentiment was one of his tools.He received condolences from friends and family as they trooped in in their kinds and numbers.As they all sat to feast, different factio
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Chapter: LeverageIt was late in the night. A famous bar downtown roared with life as the homicide squad celebrated. The police chief, Roy, investigator Jang, Shane and a few boys in the squad were all present. The chief had taken them all to party. The just concluded homicide case marked a milestone in the division's history. This was because the case shook the country as those who were involved were children of the big wigs.Above all, just within 24 hours, the squad was able to come up with convincing evidence that substantiated the fact that Nicole indeed murdered her husband."That damn dirty liar, I never knew she could be the culprit," Roy said."You did it again, Shane! You untangled the lies and unravelled the truth," investigator Jang applauded."Isn't it absurd? She murdered her own husband just like one of her novel characters…holy crap! Thinking about it gives me goosebumps," Roy said and sipped a shot from his drink."You achieved a feat, Shane. I think I can trust you with great works.
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Chapter: The ReplicaNicole remained mute. She cleaned her teary eyes and dropped her head."Yeah it's my book. I wrote it but I have no hand in my husband's death… I don't even know how he died," Nicole muttered."I will put it straight to you. Your husband was poisoned by potassium cyanide and he was stabbed brutally after he had died. Did that ring a bell?" Shane said coldly.Slowly, Nicole raised up her head and trembled. Her eyes radiated fear and she groaned repeatedly."Oh, the deity must have answered your prayers when your father in law refused to go along with an autopsy. Are you scared now?" Shane blurted out."Yes I wrote 'The Cliff' but I did not kill my husband!" Nicole yelled painfully."Do not delay your confession, it could be used against you in court," Shane said and looked towards the screen.The door to the Interrogation room opened up. The chief led atty Lewis and Ruthie in.He signaled to Shane to continue reading and everyone listened.*Brian jumped and turned around swiftly at the
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Chapter: Shane Reads7am Nicole was led into the interrogation room at Shane's order. She gasped as she met Shane already seated. She took her seat in trepidation and Shane began."I was really surprised when I realized that you are Sandy Mills. Do you know why? It's because Sandy Mills is my favorite author of mystery novels. You always got me hooked even from the first sentence.Guess what? I have a copy of your latest mystery novel 'The Cliff'. I like everything about it, it's a great piece of art but little did I know that the brain behind this mastery is a psycho!" Shane yelled."You wanna listen to an interesting story?" Shane asked and brought up the novel."I read this all through the night and I am not mistaken," he said and opened up the novel. He stopped at the page where a peculiar murder took place and he began to read out loud and clear.All those watching in the screen room paid rapt attention.*Brian pulled into the parking lot and made his way into Anita's apartment. He checked his wri
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Chapter: Nicole Is Sandy Mills3pmShane drove down to the National Forensic Service building. He pulled over and made his way down to the anatomy department.He called Dr Kurz who was in charge of all autopsies that are related to the precinct. Shane made his way to Dr Kurz's office. He knocked at the door and let himself in. Both exchanged pleasantries and discussion began. "I am sorry, Shane, we got no order to carry out the autopsy. Daniel Sawyer refused it outrightly. Well, your chief called in. He told me to stall for time while he tries to convince Mr Daniel but I have yet to hear from him... Daniel Sawyer would be here at any moment to claim the body," Dr Kurz said."Fuck!" Shane yelled and rubbed his hands through his hair in desperation."Can I relate some of my speculations? I mean my deductions," Dr Kurz chipped in."Why not," Shane said and followed after him.Dr Kurz fixed on his gears. He got Shane a nose cover and a pair of gloves and took him into the morgue.Trevor's body was brought out and ins
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Chapter: A Dead End1:00 pm"Boss, we are being tailed," Roy said to Shane."You're sure?" Shane asked."Yes, the black SUV behind…it has been on our tail since we hit the road," Roy responded.Shane looked into the mirror and noticed the car. At a closer look he realized that the car was filled up with goons."Let's try to get the plate number," he said and Roy slowed down. Just as Roy did, the SUV rammed into them from behind.The car swayed out of control and veered into the bush.Mrs Zealot cried out in fear and Roy grunted in pain.Shane pulled himself up. He displaced Roy and jumped into the driver's seat.Few men from the SUV bolted out of the car and made their way towards the trio.Shane took control of the car. He maneuvered it out of the ruins and hit the road before the men could get to them. "Secure the woman! They are after her… we're outnumbered!" Shane yelled."Copy," Roy responded."What is going on?" Mrs Zealot asked agitatedly.Shane put on the siren and bursted into full speed. The
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