What did you say? Mills asked.My lord, Stella trembled, your wife is nowhere to be found. Mills stood up from his bed after hearing this news. His demeanor showed confusion.It’s a mansion, Stella, she might have wandered off. Ask the maids and ladies to search for her. Mills commanded.Even though Stella had asked all the maids and a few guards to search all the nook and cranny of the house before coming to mills, she scurried out of the room in other not to annoy Mills by saying she already had.Mills put on a shirt and marched out of his bedroom irritated at the possible childishness of his wife.He got to the main living room and sat down, thinking of all he would say to put her in her place when they found herA few hours later after he had become restless and there was no news as to his wife’s whereabouts and it was becoming obvious that Gabby was not in this large mansion, Mills himself joined in the search.It’s a large house, he kept thinking, she must be somewhere. Mills
The household spent the rest of the day ransacking the mansion. By the end of it, it was obvious the good wife of their beloved boss was definitely missing.They all went to bed on an empty stomach with more work to be done the following day and Olivia was no longer a member of the house.Mills refrained from making any conclusions, he was brewing with anger, if he made any rash decision now, it would be detrimental so he too decided to sleep on it even though what he did all night was pace around and wonder where his little woman had run off to. He knew she was tough, and very stubborn too, but she was far from her parent's home, the way back to them might be dangerous for her without an escort. He believed that if she was gone, then it had to be that she was on her way back to her parent's house.Mills sighed, seemingly satisfied with his speculations, he decided he would send Rolland and another guard to his little woman's parents' house before dawn.……..Back in Billoway, everythi
“How could she do this to me?” Olivia cried.“How did I manage to get fooled?” ““She lied to me, to my face.” “I thought I was her friend Stella, I can not imagine it, wake me up, please wake me up for I must be in a dreadful nightmare, Olivia lamented, feeling sad but above all feeling abandoned.” “Oh child, it is all too real, are you sure you truly have no idea about her whereabouts?” Stella asked.“Noo, for Chris's sake Noo, I do not.” “I am fond of her, I am, and now that I think of it, if the good lady had proposed for me to run away with her, I would have refused and rebuked her, although if she had persisted and I ran out of luck in changing her mind, then I would have run away with her,” Olivia explained.“Hush and say no more, the walls of this mansion sure have human ears, what if someone hears you and tells the boss?” Stella reprimanded.“What does it matter? I have been fired remember?”“I will beg on your behalf to the boss, he should at least let you work in one of
“This is as far as I go today lady, ya have to come down now,” the old fruit truck driver said to Gabby.It was late now, everyone who boarded the truck with them had alighted, with no money and no one to trust, gabby decided to stay with the old man who had given her a free ride.“Where are we?” Gabby asked.“Oh lady, are you running away?” “Where are ya headed to anyway?” The old man asked rubbing his mustache.“Errm, I’m on my way to Oak Townhill.” She replied.“And who is in Oak Townhill for you?”“My au..my aunt leaves there, she expects me,” Gabby replied as cautiously as she could knowing she was vulnerable.“My last supply is at Oaks, young lady, you have somewhere to stay for the night?”Gabby hesitated for a while before faintly nodding a no.The old man seemed lost in thought for a while before he responded.“Alright, I’ll drive us to a nearby hotel, you sleep in the truck while I book a room.” “Is that good enough for ya?”Gabby smiled for the first time. “Yes please, you
Jack came down from his car, embraced his partner Jack and they both walked into the hotel to go straight to business.“How’s your wife mill?” “Fallen in love ye?” Jack asked as they both sat down.“How are the girls?” Mills asked ignoring Jack's question.“Straight to business huh?” Such a bore. “Like I told you on the phone, I have them, wasn’t even hard too, I did the bare minimum, I just need to make sure you cleaned every trace of my involvement, I don’t like public attention.”“That’s not for you to worry about.” Jason replied. He motioned for his guard to drop a suitcase full of dollars to Jack who opened it and gasped even though he knew exactly what was inside the suitcase.“All this for me?” “ Awwwn,” “ mill’s darling you are such a sweetheart,” Jack teased, hoping to get a smile out of his friend whose face was ever stone cold.“Can I see the girls?” Mills asked. “Yeah, they are right upstairs, told your staff to cater for them, so they are in good shape too.” Jack said.T
“Hello Lukas, it’s good to see you.” The young lad greeted, genuinely happy to see Lukas, a friend who had given him a good sum of money to help a beautiful maid in distress.“Where’s your pa?” Lukas asked, going ahead of the boy and looking around at the barn the boy had come out of.“His away to supply his farm produce, and should be on his way back, I believe he should be back by tomorrow.” The lad replied.“Is everything alright?” “You seem so serious.”Lukas faced the young lad with a devilish look on his face. “Thing is.” Lukas began, your aunt suddenly wants to see you, i spoke with your pa already and he sent me to be the one to help him put you on the next ride to her. “Really? The boy seemed excited. “I’ve dreamed of seeing my aunt for the longest time and now she wants me to come over to her?” “Yes boy, as a matter of fact, you have to be on your way now,” Lukas replied.The clueless boy went ahead to gather some fruits and dried meat for the impromptu journey, he trusted
After they had buried old Papa and the heavy rain had subsided, they both began to walk back to the car in silence.“He had it coming, Lukas's accomplice says, he could have shot you, you should be grateful I took him out before he did.”“You fucking bastard, we weren’t supposed to kill him, what am I to tell the boss?” Huh? Lukas barked from behind his accomplice. He was furious.“I had a gun with me, but I didn’t use it, the old man would have never been able to pull the trigger,” Lukas continued, am so pissed right now.“I guess you have to come up with a story for the boss,” the accomplice replied.” “Yeah, I guess I have to come up with a story,” Lukas responded, retrieved his gun, and fired twice into his accomplice's head. The guy fell face flat on the ground, and as though the weather was on cue, thunder rumbled and it once again began to rain.Lukas cussed out the weather again and began to drag the dead body into the woods to bury it not so far from old Papa’s grave.He coll
It’s been a whole long week since Gabby went missing, Mills had to assign his men to look for his wife while he attended to urgent meetings that could not be disregarded because the woman he had married for less than two months had decided to run away. It pained Mills that his grandfather had made him take on this role of a husband, but even his grandfather would agree that work was more important than women.Mills had only gotten back to the mansion yesterday and was now preparing to go see his grandfather who had demanded to see him more than three days ago, Lukas was yet to report the incident that took place with the lad's father but had made it clear that they could not get anything out of the boy nor the old man, mills was irritant about the whole situation. Rolland had continued to search for her after it was obvious that she was not back to her parent's house, and Lukas had given him nothing.“I am more displeased with you than I imagined I would have been,” Mills said. “Am
“You need to rest sir,” Stella said in worry to her boss who was in a frenzy anger. “Please for my sake, nothing good comes off making decisions when one is angry.”“Stella! I order you to leave me be, go attend yourself with a ther chores, I will not have you down my neck, not today. Please excuse me.”“Yes sir,” Stella replied feeling defeated.The mansion was as silent as a graveyard, thief master had just been back from his business trip and had escaped yet another assassination attempt, they were scared but happy that atleast this time, he had gotten away unscarred. Except from one of the guards who last his life and a car they had to leave behind as a result of damage, all was well.“I’ve had it, I think it time I took some action. I can fight to kill too. Right Lukas? He asked Lukas who was in the living room with him among other guards. “Yes boss,” Lukas replied. We can’t just sit and watch, if they want a fight. We give them a good fight.”“I want everything you can get on
It's Andrew, open up”, Andrew whispered from behind the door. Gabby walked over to the door smoothly and opened it swiftly. What's going on?” she asked wide-eyed at him.Andrew was fidgeting and unstable, he looked scared.“I have to get you out of here, if he finds you here, you're as good as dead. Come on,” a panicking Andrew said, trying to keep a bold demeanor.He grabbed her on her wrist and just as they were about to run down the stairs, the fast racing footsteps coming towards them on the stairs stopped them in their tracks. There was no way to bypass them. It was just a long hallway that led directly to the stairs.“Go, go, go back inside, hide but don't lock the door,” he said, shoving her back into the room.Gabby frantically removed everything in the room that may be a giveaway that she was in the room into the wardrobe before thinking of where to hide. She could hear arguments going on in the hallway and the voice of a crying girl. She heard the door next to hers open and
It was late by the time Walter decided he had soothed his inner child enough and was ready to stop torturing everyone and go back to the mansion.Gabby was a mess, she was famished, tired, dirty, and hungry but she had just had the very best day of her entire life. On their way back to the mansion, she walked closer to Walter. As a person who could count the number of times she had smiled in her life, Walter had made her not just smile but laugh till her ribs hurt. Even now while they walked home with nothing but their torch to light the narrow way back to the mansion, he was still making dry jokes in the hopes of getting a chuckle or giggle out of her.“You have been so silent Andrew, are my jokes that dry? Why can't you be like the good lady Gabby over here and fake a smile or two, doctors say it is good for your health. Sometimes I think you should pay me for bringing some kind of color into your life,” Walter said to Andrew who held the torch ahead of Gabby while he followed car
“When are we going to get there? Is it still a long way?”Gabby asked in a Walter who was matching effortlessly in front of her.“If you want, I can carry you on my shoulder or I’ll make Andrew do it,” Walter stopped in his tracks and turned to Gabby to tease her with a smile.“No thank you, I can walk very well on my own,” Gabby replied squinting her eyebrow at Walter and folding her arms across her bosom as a barrier to deter Walter from making do with his threat.“Hmm, I see you don’t like to be carried, but don’t ever say I didn’t do anything for you.” He said before he turned around and resumed on his way with Gabby behind him and Andrew following behind Gabby. They walked through a hilly path covered by tall green trees and bushes, birds could be heard chirping away on each of their sides, and the sun was beginning to sneak its way out of the sky but even Andrew began to grumble despite the serenity of their surroundings.“Ahh, look, we are here! Walter exclaimed, pointing down
You must be starving,” Walter said as he noticed the way Gabby was downing the food.Gabby was embarrassed by his comment, thinking she must have been eating ravenously because that was how she normally ate until the whole etiquette thing with Mr Shepherd's maids started.“Am sorry, was I chewing loudly?”She asked, wiping her mouth with a tissue paper.It was just the both of them on the dining, Andrew was eating on one of the large chairs in the sitting room.“I mean, it’s not ladylike to chew like that, I get that you might be hungry so it okay,” Walter said chewing his food and smiling.Gabby became nervous and conscious of how she ate the remaining food and wondered why these rich men always wanted everything to be so controlled.“Am done eating, I feel heavy-eyed and would like to go to bed,” Gabby announced after she was done with her food.“So soon? Walter protested. “Come on stay a little while longer, I promise not to bore you at all, there’s this scary movie I like to watch
BACK TO THE DAY OF THE ESCAPE AT THE BAR.“Don’t worry, the scary man will never find you, you are safe with me now,” Walter said to Gabby who was frantically looking behind her back to see if there was any car following behind them . She was seated at the passenger’s seat with Walter while Android was at the steering driving like crazy.They have been driving for more than an hour now and there was no suspicious car behind them, soon gabby’s worry began to subside.“Thank you for helping,” she said to Walter. “It’s no problem at-all, I am very delighted to help. Do you want to tell me about the man you are running away from?”“I can’t tell you, am sorry, at-least not now, please try and understand,” gabby pleaded.“It okay my lady, you can take your time. Is there anywhere in particular where you can hide from this man?” Walter asked and Andre shot him a daring stare through the rearview mirror which Walter ignored.“I have no where to go,” she replied, but I will sort it out as soo
“Mrs Wright?” A young nurse called out to Cherry as she entered the ward where she and her husband were.“Yes,” she answered.“The police are here to see you and your husband, should I send them in?”The young nurse asked.“Erm, yes please, they can come in,” Cherry agreed.Two hefty men with potbellies who looked too bored and tired of their work to have a care in the world strolled into the room. “Hello ma’am, I am Officer Amos Ojo, and this is my colleague Russell Oldwire. How are you today?” He asked after introducing himself and his colleague. “Am doing great officer,” Cherry forced a smile, trying to be calm. Do I need to wake my husband, he is sleeping as you can see. Cherry informed the officers.“Never mind about waking him, we will take your statement, it should do just fine,” Russell replied while scratching his head.“The hospital called us about the state of your husband, they say he was very battered when you brought him. Would you like to tell us what exactly happened
“I don’t think they know anything, boss,” Lukas said to Mills as they stood outside the carbon where Marcus had been under torture for two days it was late in the day. “Do I have your permission to silence him?”Lukas asked.“It would be my pleasure, but don’t kill him, he is worth nothing, if we kill him, little woman may never forgive me.” We will let them go, but have men monitor their every move and report any suspicious activities,” Mills added.“Yes sir,” Lukas replied.“And the man who was seen talking with her at the bar, is there any trace of him?”Mills queried.“Not yet boss, but I have my men looking into it, so far he is a person of importance, we have eyewitnesses saying they saw a man and a redhead drive off right before the rampage we carried out at the bar, it has to be him,” Lukas replied.“Any names yet?”“Just Walter sir, nothing else, but my men are in it.”“Be done with whatever you have going on here as soon as possible, it’s obvious the couple are clueless, litt
Boss, we can get her now, no need to waste time”, Lukas said.“No, I don’t want to cause a scene, if we must do it now, it has to be discrete,” Mills replied.“Who are her employers?”Mills asked.“I have no idea about their last names, but the bar is owned by them, they are a Christian couple.”“A Christian couple who sell liquor? Mills asked, then I must be a saint.” “Do you think they know about my wife?”“I have no idea boss, but when we take her, I and my men will do the necessary investigation .”“Good, make sure there are no loopholes,” Mills replied, sipping his ale, it tasted good surprisingly, no wonder the men here drank it to stupor.He scanned the area, the man talking to his wife had gone back to his seat, the store was crowded and this made it possible for mills to blend in without notice. The customers did not seem to be reducing, instead, more and more haggard men and women swam into the bar and Mills began to get impatient. Just then, gabby moved from behind the counte