for real, you are a good writer but guy, you dont update regularly.
We've spent close to a year on Tarasha.....

dimssy:
for real, you are a good writer but guy, you dont update regularly.
We've spent close to a year on Tarasha.....

u na no go kill me with laugh. updates ain't easy. u must and reshape d whole story.
it is never easy when there is a distraction. in this case, exams.

Even me I'm hosting on my own stories right now and its cos of a distraction

Eze2000:


u na no go kill me with laugh. updates ain't easy. u must and reshape d whole story.
it is never easy when there is a distraction. in this case, exams.

Even me I'm hosting on my own stories right now and its cos of a distraction

Eze2000 I am ur good fan..... But for a very long time now u have denied people like me ur Bokoharam write..... Ur write up that was introduced to me by a friend is Wat make me to visit literature section on Nairaland b4 I discovered Oyin Prince.....

SOPIGO:

Eze2000 I am ur good fan..... But for a very long time now u have denied people like me ur Bokoharam write..... Ur write up that was introduced to me by a friend is Wat make me to visit literature section on Nairaland b4 I discovered Oyin Prince.....

Sorry,
but Boko Haram has only part 1 as free here, the other parts are paid works. I got bills bro. But look out for my Crime Incorporated. Will update it tonight and fairly regularly. That is my olive branch bro, the economy is too damaged for me to give out free works like I used to do.

Sorry again.

Eze2000:


Sorry,
but Boko Haram has only part 1 as free here, the other parts are paid works. I got bills bro. But look out for my Crime Incorporated. Will update it tonight and fairly regularly. That is my olive branch bro, the economy is too damaged for me to give out free works like I used to do.

Sorry again.

mangot to hustle.. i feel you bro.

Tarasha is the real deal

Oyin, I really like the way you describe your fight scenes. I am currently writing a story, I want you to help me with the fight scenes in it. I will pay you for your service. Please contact me at signature if interested.

dimssy:
for real, you are a good writer but guy, you dont update regularly.
We've spent close to a year on Tarasha.....

What's your definition of regular updates? I promised to update twice a week and I do so.
We've not spent up to 6 months on Tarasha 2. I could rush it but it would lose quality.

I stated earlier this week that there may be short or no updates for the next two weeks during my exams. I thought I should remind you again.


CHAPTER 5 Part 1

Don's shooting became more rapid as he got closer to the edge of the wall but his steps became slower. He changed his gun as he reached the edge, he turned swiftly, shooting in differing directions but there was no one there. He looked towards the space where the vehicles were parked but he still didn't see anyone. He began to walk slowly but carefully towards the Jeep, pointing his gun forward in anticipation.

Tarasha could hear him coming towards her from behind the Jeep she was hiding; her legs were hidden behind the tyre while she bent. Don was looking around as he proceeded towards the parking space slowly, just about nine metres to the back of the car where she was. Tarasha readied her gun when she was able to approximate his distance to be four metres closer. Her plan was take him down temporarily and extract some information from him. But just as she was about to move out and shoot at Don, something on her wrist vibrated, the electronic bangle. The signal meant that Aisha was giving her a warning about something. She folded her jacket sleeve and checked the screen displayed on the bangle, it showed the message "Police officers are here".

'Damn it!' she cursed. The police arrival would not give her enough time to drag Don out and do all she wanted to do with him and she didn't want to take the other option which was to attack the police. She had to leave the place as soon as she could.

She stepped back a bit, still conscious of Don's movement, she searched the outer pocket of her bag hurriedly and took out something.

Then she focused on the faded shadow of Don approaching with his gun formed in front, she rolled out the small ball taken out from her bag towards Don and turned back swiftly.

She could hear Don heavy steps as he staggered backwards and shot at the ball which was rolling towards him and emitting blue smoke.


She jumped on the bonnet of the second car and caught the tip of the very high fence, she pulled herself up without much struggles and climbed over the fence, landing inside another compound.

She landed into a small rectangular grass field, there was a short tree at the middle of the field, the small section looked like a relaxation part of the facility. There were two long unmovable concrete seats at each side facing each other under the tree. A bright bulb hung directly at the middle of the tree.

She began to crawl out of the place towards a shadow formed by a building some metres behind. She stopped as she got under the shadow and took sometime to look around the compound but she wasn't able to determine what kind of building it was or even if it was residential or commercial.

She relaxed for a few seconds and took out her device, she unlocked it and began to search Aisha's location with her app.

Soon, sounds of police cars could be heard closely. She rose up from under the shadow and proceeded forward carefully, she stopped at the front of the building behind whose shadow she hid, it had a raised corridor about half a metre above the ground level. The building itself was about nine metres wide and six metres long, it had two doors each at both ends of the width. She took a peep in through the slightly opened first door, she could see a line of urinals for men. That was when she looked up to the inscription at the top of the door, it read "Men's toilet". She looked towards the other door and it had the inscription "Ladies" hanging above. From that observation, she could conclude that the place was a public one which received so many visitors on daily basis. From the sparkling cleanness of the floor tiles in the men's toilet, she also concluded it wasn't a factory or warehouse like the neighboring building.



She paused for a second to listen carefully as she heard the loud noises made by the police officers and their vehicles as they surrounded and entered into the warehouse she had just left. She took a look at the device in her left hand again, the app had picked the exact spot Aisha was and the compass pointing the direction back through the warehouse.

She proceeded forward slowly. The main building in the compound was just three metres spaced from the toilet building. Both ends started at the same point from the back but the main building was ten times longer and wider. The building was a bungalow with a high roof for a public place but not up to the heights of big cathedrals. There was a security building directly opposite the toilet but with the entrance adjacent to the gate, just at the same position the security building at the warehouse was.

Tarasha stopped as she got to the front edge of the main building wall. She took out her gun and rested on the wall. She stared intently towards the security building for some seconds, waiting to see if any security official would show up if any alarm goes off but there was none. She proceeded to the front of the main building, it had a slightly high and large balcony. At the middle top of the roof was a broad rectangular sign board which displayed the name "New Prestige Library" in bold, the address and some other descriptions in smaller fonts below. She continued towards the steps at the middle of the pharmacy and climbed up onto the balcony.

She could hear noise made by the police officers outside the gate of the warehouse but could not hear anything outside. It seemed the officers had come for serious business. She could only hope silently that Aisha was able to hide herself from the police, else that would be a more difficult job for her and she would have to attack the police which she didn't want to.

________________

'Boss, we're moving out already,' Stainless spoke into the phone as he dragged a bag along with him. At his front was Stone and the other men who were at the place with him. Stone had a gun placed to Cole's back as he motioned him forward. Cole had an handcuff binding his hands but his legs were free. He was already deep asleep on the cold floor where he was allowed to lay when one of the boys had barged into room suddenly and commanded him to get up.

'We'll should get a safe location once we are able to get out of this place first,' Stainless answered Rex again.

'Do keep me updated everytime and anytime anything comes up,' Rex voice sounded from the other end of the connection line.

'Okay boss,' Stainless replied and the line went off.

He dipped the key into the hole and turned twice it as quickly. He paused to look around the place again while the others were already halfway down the stairs. He stared at his phone's screen one more time, then he exited the dialer and locked the screen before dipping it into his pocket. He took out his pistol from the other pocket and cleaned the tip, he tucked it into his back pocket after deeply sniffing in the cold air.

__________

Rex took in a deep breath as he dropped the phone on the table, he adjusted his seat and tapped the keyboard, the monitor's light came on and he entered the password. It unlocked and it displayed the Henry's full portrait picture on the left side, on the right it displayed the portrait image reproduced with only black dots.


He clicked on a crop tool on the side bar and began to use it to cut out the image on the left. His phone vibrated twice before he got halfway. He wanted to finish with his cropping before attending to the message but the sender's ID caught his attention. He abandoned the mouse and picked the phone.

'Tarasha has gotten away and I'm also trying to escape. Someone has contacted the authorities and members of the Rapid Response Squad are here.' the message read.

Rex shifted his chair backwards to create space for him to type on his phone. He slid his finger round the popped up keyboard, inputting a short message in few seconds, 'Where exactly are you now?'

He stared at the screen in silence for some seconds, expecting a prompt reply. He wasn't disappointed as the reply came in less than thirty seconds.

'I'm hiding in the roof of the building behind the warehouse,' the reply read.

'Stay safe and avoid being caught, leave only when the place is clear.' Rex sent in reply. He placed the phone back on his table and adjusted his seat to the table properly.

___________

Tarasha rolled the flattened tiny metal into the keyhole and the door gave way easily. She held back the door with the handle and carefully drew out the metal, then she pushed the door in slowly and entered. She was welcomed into the library by the total darkness due to the absence of light and closed windows. She closed the door carefully and walked some steps away from the door, then she took off her backpack and dropped it on the floor, squatting before it. She turned on her device flashlight and then opened the bag, she took out a material which look like a face cap and closed the bag again. The material could be attached to the head just like a face cap but it had no top covering. She wore it on her head and pressed something by the left side of the material. A bright source from which light diverges like light from a torch appeared at the middle of the material on her forehead. She turned off her device' flashlight and strapped the bag to her back as she rose up, she then walked towards the window which were covered with fancy library curtains and peeped through to see if there was anything or anybody in the compound, she covered the light from her forehead before bending to peep. After that, she returned back to the door and pulled the handle to make sure it was properly locked, it was.

She turned to look around the library, her little source of light limited her view of the facility but she didn't want to take the risk of having the place more brightened. She wasn't really interested in the content of the library but only wanted to hide herself in until she thought it was safe enough to go out and pick Aisha. The officers would still be flooding everywhere now that they just arrived, it would take them some time before they narrowed their search or scrutinization to the warehouse alone.

She located the short shelf just few metres away from her standing point and proceeded to the place. She could see an inscription at the top of the shelf which read, 'Drop your bags here and other objects not allowed in the library'. Under that was another inscription, 'Your properties are safe with our security'.

She raised her head up after reading the inscriptions and her light revealed a seat behind the shelf. She was about turning round the shelf to the seat when she raised her head and her light met with a very short round table and a chair behind it, there were neatly arranged newspapers on the left side of the table, two different colours of pen, a red and blue one laid on the arranged newspaper. She moved her head slightly and the light revealed a long desk which was behind the short round table, there were four chairs well spaced behind the desk. It looked like the reception point of the library and the desk for the librarians and maybe other staffs. Instead of turning round the shelf, she turned to the other side instead and settled into one one of the chairs behind the reception desk after putting her backpack on the desk.

She placed her device on the desk and exited the flashlight app. She navigated back to the tracker and refreshed the dashboard to see if Aisha was still in the same location as she was before. It refreshed and displayed the same location as it did previously. That enabled Tarasha to make a conclusion that she (Aisha) was hiding somewhere and was in a stationary position, unseen by the police.

She dropped the device on the table, her eyes met with a pile of record books as she attempted to relax her back. She sat back upright and picked the first record book, she adjusted the torch on her head as she flipped the cover. She closed partly to check the title of the book on the cover. The first page on the register was dated 1st of January, 2031. There was a table of twelve columns and several rows numbered from the top of the page to the end and continuing on the other pages. The first column was titled 'S/N' , the second 'Name of User' , third 'library number' , fourth 'book borrowed', fifth 'name of author', sixth 'category'. The other columns contained other information like section, return date and signature of user.

Her eyes scrolled down the page, just to while away time, she particularly focused on the names of the books borrowed. She scanned through the first page casually, the second and the third, stopping briefly anytime she saw a book title that caught her attention. She skipped some of the pages after the third page and landed at a page dated 30th of January, 2031. She scanned through a page, making no stop as she found no title of interest. Then the next page and three more pages before she dropped the book and picked her device, she turned on the screen and refreshed the tracker again, Aisha was still at the same position. Her eyes drifted to the time, it was 2:47am, she had used up to forty five minutes already in the library facility; about twenty five minutes walking in the compound and twenty minutes in the library itself. In the next ten minutes, she would be moving out of the place to get Aisha even if it means confronting the officers. She knew their alertness must have reduced since they had come for forty five minutes without seeing anyone or probably seeing Don and the dead bodies alone. A thought struck her mind, what if the position Aisha was stationed was in a police van, maybe she had been caught by them. She tapped her screen on again and clicked on a icon at the top bar of the app. A loading circle showed and it began to roll slowly, it got faster with time and the circle got bigger. In a minute time, it loaded complete and a line image of a human appeared. The person appeared to be squatting in something like a hole with her hands holding the top for support. It gave Tarasha an idea of where Aisha was hiding and eliminated the thought of Aisha having been captured. Staring at the picture again, she wondered where Aisha could be hiding in such a position. The only option that carne to her mind was the drainage which ran through the front of the warehouse.

She dropped the device on the table to wait for five more minutes, she decided to go through the register once more. She flipped a page and scanned through as usual, something caught her attention as she was about to flip to the next page. It was on the twentieth and twenty first row. The books on both rows were borrowed by the same person and was written by the same author. The title of the books were 'Doctors in Love' and 'That Village Girl', both in literature category. But that was not what caught her attention, it was the name of the author. Dr Tom Danjuma.


Read chapter 5 Parts 2-6 here: http://www.youngicee.com/search/label/Tarasha%20Season%202?m=1

Eze2000:


u na no go kill me with laugh. updates ain't easy. u must and reshape d whole story.
it is never easy when there is a distraction. in this case, exams.

Even me I'm hosting on my own stories right now and its cos of a distraction

Thanks jare, most of them never really know what it takes to do an update of 3000+ words, especially when using mobile like I do. Sometimes, I have to go back to previous episodes to read and be sure of some facts or even names. Other times, you have to make research on weapons, tools etc. Typing the updates alone takes up to 4 hours, and that's without adding time for research, recalling, plotting and even proofreading.

KaBabs1:
Oyin, I really like the way you describe your fight scenes. I am currently writing a story, I want you to help me with the fight scenes in it. I will pay you for your service. Please contact me at signature if interested.

Okay

I'm enjoying the story so much

Oyinprince:
I stated earlier this week that there may be short or no updates for the next two weeks during my exams. I thought I should remind you again.


CHAPTER 5 Part 1

Don's shooting became more rapid as he got closer to the edge of the wall but his steps became slower. He changed his gun as he reached the edge, he turned swiftly, shooting in differing directions but there was no one there. He looked towards the space where the vehicles were parked but he still didn't see anyone. He began to walk slowly but carefully towards the Jeep, pointing his gun forward in anticipation.

Tarasha could hear him coming towards her from behind the Jeep she was hiding; her legs were hidden behind the tyre while she bent. Don was looking around as he proceeded towards the parking space slowly, just about nine metres to the back of the car where she was. Tarasha readied her gun when she was able to approximate his distance to be four metres closer. Her plan was take him down temporarily and extract some information from him. But just as she was about to move out and shoot at Don, something on her wrist vibrated, the electronic bangle. The signal meant that Aisha was giving her a warning about something. She folded her jacket sleeve and checked the screen displayed on the bangle, it showed the message "Police officers are here".

'Damn it!' she cursed. The police arrival would not give her enough time to drag Don out and do all she wanted to do with him and she didn't want to take the other option which was to attack the police. She had to leave the place as soon as she could.

She stepped back a bit, still conscious of Don's movement, she searched the outer pocket of her bag hurriedly and took out something.

Then she focused on the faded shadow of Don approaching with his gun formed in front, she rolled out the small ball taken out from her bag towards Don and turned back swiftly.

She could hear Don heavy steps as he staggered backwards and shot at the ball which was rolling towards him and emitting blue smoke.


She jumped on the bonnet of the second car and caught the tip of the very high fence, she pulled herself up without much struggles and climbed over the fence, landing inside another compound.

She landed into a small rectangular grass field, there was a short tree at the middle of the field, the small section looked like a relaxation part of the facility. There were two long unmovable concrete seats at each side facing each other under the tree. A bright bulb hung directly at the middle of the tree.

She began to crawl out of the place towards a shadow formed by a building some metres behind. She stopped as she got under the shadow and took sometime to look around the compound but she wasn't able to determine what kind of building it was or even if it was residential or commercial.

She relaxed for a few seconds and took out her device, she unlocked it and began to search Aisha's location with her app.

Soon, sounds of police cars could be heard closely. She rose up from under the shadow and proceeded forward carefully, she stopped at the front of the building behind whose shadow she hid, it had a raised corridor about half a metre above the ground level. The building itself was about nine metres wide and six metres long, it had two doors each at both ends of the width. She took a peep in through the slightly opened first door, she could see a line of urinals for men. That was when she looked up to the inscription at the top of the door, it read "Men's toilet". She looked towards the other door and it had the inscription "Ladies" hanging above. From that observation, she could conclude that the place was a public one which received so many visitors on daily basis. From the sparkling cleanness of the floor tiles in the men's toilet, she also concluded it wasn't a factory or warehouse like the neighboring building.



She paused for a second to listen carefully as she heard the loud noises made by the police officers and their vehicles as they surrounded and entered into the warehouse she had just left. She took a look at the device in her left hand again, the app had picked the exact spot Aisha was and the compass pointing the direction back through the warehouse.

She proceeded forward slowly. The main building in the compound was just three metres spaced from the toilet building. Both ends started at the same point from the back but the main building was ten times longer and wider. The building was a bungalow with a high roof for a public place but not up to the heights of big cathedrals. There was a security building directly opposite the toilet but with the entrance adjacent to the gate, just at the same position the security building at the warehouse was.

Tarasha stopped as she got to the front edge of the main building wall. She took out her gun and rested on the wall. She stared intently towards the security building for some seconds, waiting to see if any security official would show up if any alarm goes off but there was none. She proceeded to the front of the main building, it had a slightly high and large balcony. At the middle top of the roof was a broad rectangular sign board which displayed the name "New Prestige Library" in bold, the address and some other descriptions in smaller fonts below. She continued towards the steps at the middle of the pharmacy and climbed up onto the balcony.

She could hear noise made by the police officers outside the gate of the warehouse but could not hear anything outside. It seemed the officers had come for serious business. She could only hope silently that Aisha was able to hide herself from the police, else that would be a more difficult job for her and she would have to attack the police which she didn't want to.

________________

'Boss, we're moving out already,' Stainless spoke into the phone as he dragged a bag along with him. At his front was Stone and the other men who were at the place with him. Stone had a gun placed to Cole's back as he motioned him forward. Cole had an handcuff binding his hands but his legs were free. He was already deep asleep on the cold floor where he was allowed to lay when one of the boys had barged into room suddenly and commanded him to get up.

'We'll should get a safe location once we are able to get out of this place first,' Stainless answered Rex again.

'Do keep me updated everytime and anytime anything comes up,' Rex voice sounded from the other end of the connection line.

'Okay boss,' Stainless replied and the line went off.

He dipped the key into the hole and turned twice it as quickly. He paused to look around the place again while the others were already halfway down the stairs. He stared at his phone's screen one more time, then he exited the dialer and locked the screen before dipping it into his pocket. He took out his pistol from the other pocket and cleaned the tip, he tucked it into his back pocket after deeply sniffing in the cold air.

__________

Rex took in a deep breath as he dropped the phone on the table, he adjusted his seat and tapped the keyboard, the monitor's light came on and he entered the password. It unlocked and it displayed the Henry's full portrait picture on the left side, on the right it displayed the portrait image reproduced with only black dots.


He clicked on a crop tool on the side bar and began to use it to cut out the image on the left. His phone vibrated twice before he got halfway. He wanted to finish with his cropping before attending to the message but the sender's ID caught his attention. He abandoned the mouse and picked the phone.

'Tarasha has gotten away and I'm also trying to escape. Someone has contacted the authorities and members of the Rapid Response Squad are here.' the message read.

Rex shifted his chair backwards to create space for him to type on his phone. He slid his finger round the popped up keyboard, inputting a short message in few seconds, 'Where exactly are you now?'

He stared at the screen in silence for some seconds, expecting a prompt reply. He wasn't disappointed as the reply came in less than thirty seconds.

'I'm hiding in the roof of the building behind the warehouse,' the reply read.

'Stay safe and avoid being caught, leave only when the place is clear.' Rex sent in reply. He placed the phone back on his table and adjusted his seat to the table properly.

___________

Tarasha rolled the flattened tiny metal into the keyhole and the door gave way easily. She held back the door with the handle and carefully drew out the metal, then she pushed the door in slowly and entered. She was welcomed into the library by the total darkness due to the absence of light and closed windows. She closed the door carefully and walked some steps away from the door, then she took off her backpack and dropped it on the floor, squatting before it. She turned on her device flashlight and then opened the bag, she took out a material which look like a face cap and closed the bag again. The material could be attached to the head just like a face cap but it had no top covering. She wore it on her head and pressed something by the left side of the material. A bright source from which light diverges like light from a torch appeared at the middle of the material on her forehead. She turned off her device' flashlight and strapped the bag to her back as she rose up, she then walked towards the window which were covered with fancy library curtains and peeped through to see if there was anything or anybody in the compound, she covered the light from her forehead before bending to peep. After that, she returned back to the door and pulled the handle to make sure it was properly locked, it was.

She turned to look around the library, her little source of light limited her view of the facility but she didn't want to take the risk of having the place more brightened. She wasn't really interested in the content of the library but only wanted to hide herself in until she thought it was safe enough to go out and pick Aisha. The officers would still be flooding everywhere now that they just arrived, it would take them some time before they narrowed their search or scrutinization to the warehouse alone.

She located the short shelf just few metres away from her standing point and proceeded to the place. She could see an inscription at the top of the shelf which read, 'Drop your bags here and other objects not allowed in the library'. Under that was another inscription, 'Your properties are safe with our security'.

She raised her head up after reading the inscriptions and her light revealed a seat behind the shelf. She was about turning round the shelf to the seat when she raised her head and her light met with a very short round table and a chair behind it, there were neatly arranged newspapers on the left side of the table, two different colours of pen, a red and blue one laid on the arranged newspaper. She moved her head slightly and the light revealed a long desk which was behind the short round table, there were four chairs well spaced behind the desk. It looked like the reception point of the library and the desk for the librarians and maybe other staffs. Instead of turning round the shelf, she turned to the other side instead and settled into one one of the chairs behind the reception desk after putting her backpack on the desk.

She placed her device on the desk and exited the flashlight app. She navigated back to the tracker and refreshed the dashboard to see if Aisha was still in the same location as she was before. It refreshed and displayed the same location as it did previously. That enabled Tarasha to make a conclusion that she (Aisha) was hiding somewhere and was in a stationary position, unseen by the police.

She dropped the device on the table, her eyes met with a pile of record books as she attempted to relax her back. She sat back upright and picked the first record book, she adjusted the torch on her head as she flipped the cover. She closed partly to check the title of the book on the cover. The first page on the register was dated 1st of January, 2031. There was a table of twelve columns and several rows numbered from the top of the page to the end and continuing on the other pages. The first column was titled 'S/N' , the second 'Name of User' , third 'library number' , fourth 'book borrowed', fifth 'name of author', sixth 'category'. The other columns contained other information like section, return date and signature of user.

Her eyes scrolled down the page, just to while away time, she particularly focused on the names of the books borrowed. She scanned through the first page casually, the second and the third, stopping briefly anytime she saw a book title that caught her attention. She skipped some of the pages after the third page and landed at a page dated 30th of January, 2031. She scanned through a page, making no stop as she found no title of interest. Then the next page and three more pages before she dropped the book and picked her device, she turned on the screen and refreshed the tracker again, Aisha was still at the same position. Her eyes drifted to the time, it was 2:47am, she had used up to forty five minutes already in the library facility; about twenty five minutes walking in the compound and twenty minutes in the library itself. In the next ten minutes, she would be moving out of the place to get Aisha even if it means confronting the officers. She knew their alertness must have reduced since they had come for forty five minutes without seeing anyone or probably seeing Don and the dead bodies alone. A thought struck her mind, what if the position Aisha was stationed was in a police van, maybe she had been caught by them. She tapped her screen on again and clicked on a icon at the top bar of the app. A loading circle showed and it began to roll slowly, it got faster with time and the circle got bigger. In a minute time, it loaded complete and a line image of a human appeared. The person appeared to be squatting in something like a hole with her hands holding the top for support. It gave Tarasha an idea of where Aisha was hiding and eliminated the thought of Aisha having been captured. Staring at the picture again, she wondered where Aisha could be hiding in such a position. The only option that carne to her mind was the drainage which ran through the front of the warehouse.

She dropped the device on the table to wait for five more minutes, she decided to go through the register once more. She flipped a page and scanned through as usual, something caught her attention as she was about to flip to the next page. It was on the twentieth and twenty first row. The books on both rows were borrowed by the same person and was written by the same author. The title of the books were 'Doctors in Love' and 'That Village Girl', both in literature category. But that was not what caught her attention, it was the name of the author. Dr Tom Danjuma.


Read chapter 5 Parts 2-6 here: http://www.youngicee.com/search/label/Tarasha%20Season%202?m=1

hmmm

Oyinprince:
Chapter 1 Part 7




'I've searched all the footages around the place, the only thing I keep identifying is the car stopping in front of the house but the cameras did not capture their faces.' Cole said to Tarasha who was still visibly angry that she had been disturbed. 


'Do you still find only three people in the car?' Tarasha asked, walking away from Henry to follow Cole. Henry let out a deep breath and sank into one of the sofas, he knew what they were doing is  trying to identify some people with footages from the street cameras. 



*


'Could this be your boss?' Tarasha asked Cole as she stared into the laptop screen. She stood behind the upright chair Cole was previously occupying and her hands were rested on the backrest. Aisha was still seated on the next seat. The clip being played was one captured at night, three men were outside the gate of the house where tarasha lived previously, the same one in which her brother was killed. 


'I don't know, the clothes all these men put on are far bigger than the ones Don Daniel uses.' Cole replied.


'He's probably disguising with those clothes,' Tarasha said thoughtfully. 'I saw him that day with the Inspector General, the other two must be some of his new boys.'


'One of them could be Stainless, his friend here in Abuja, the one whose warehouse was ransacked by the police when Don met you at Henry E.G's house.' Cole suggested.


'You're right, that must be one of the other guys.' Tarashaagreed. They maintained a brief silence. 'Where has the car been located again?'


'Going out of town, we couldn't ascertain where because of the absence of cameras around those areas but the transmission suddenly cuts sometimes when they are going to other places in asokoro.'


'Hmm, I think we need to visit Gwagalada today, that must be where they were heading to out of town.' she suggested. 'And I think we can guess who the third man is now,' Tarasha said thoughtfully, rubbing a finger on her lower lip. 


'Who do you think it is?'


'If you observe well, Don has been acting more intelligent than he is. How else can you explain the cut in transmission of the security cameras? He can't do that except someone had thought him how recently and the only persons capable of teaching him are those at the NSCC or anyone who has previously been with us.'


'Ermm..' A frown appeared on Cole's face as he tried to comprehend. 'Do you think Benny is the third person?'


'Most likely he is...' She said. Their discussion paused as the door opened softly and Henry walked in.


Their eyes moved towards him as he proceeded towards them, from the look on his face, they could deduce that he had been forced to come in after waiting without seeing Tarasha for long. 


'Is there anything I can help with?' Henry blurted out, having nothing else to say. 


'Not for now,' Tarasha replied him and turned back to face the laptop. 'Anybody else apart from the NSCC officials found at the house?' She asked Cole. 


'Non yet except for one chubby guy that lives in the next building.' Cole answered. 


 _______


'Good afternoon Sir,' James saluted Agent Tim. 


'Afternoon James,' Agent Tim offered him a handshake and motioned him to the seat behind the table.


'I can see you're already getting yourself to know the new environment.' Agent Tim said, adjusting his eyeglasses as he focused on a document. 


'Yes sir, I'm trying. I also met with Agent Dakolo earlier,' James replied, purposely trying to bring in a discussion about Dakolo. 


'Inspector Dakolo,' Agent Tim corrected consciously. 'His case is such a pathetic one, he destroyed his reputation with his carelessness.'


'But it could have happened to anyb...'


Agent Tim raised his hand to hush him, 'Forget about Dakolo and let's discuss the reason you're here,' he adjusted his eyeglasses again and rested his back in the chair, fixing his gaze on James face. 'Inspector Dakolo actually recommended you in a meeting several weeks ago, that was when he was still handling the case.' Agent Tim continued. 'I read up your file and found it interesting, I also discovered that you have been previously involved in the case.'


'Yes sir, I was the first to handle it in Lagos.' James replied.


'But you weren't able to do much also, the only reason I think you're still much qualified for this is because you had an encounter with Samantha Osman and I read about that gun battle.' He paused and sat up right, resting his hands on the table. 'How were you able to escape the same woman who killed Robin Kahn?' He asked, looking straight into James' eyes. 


'Sir, I didn't do anything special. There was a gun battle between her and my team that day. My shots actually hit her body that day but she was well proofed.' 


'That's encouraging, no other police officer or even Robin Kahn came so close to her.' Agent Tim commended. He took a pause to note down some things in a jotter. 'I know you should have read about the progres of the case...' He paused and chuckled. 'That's if I  can call it progress but I think you still need to hear it from me. So listen carefully as...'


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'Have you installed the features of the woman?' Mr Sylvester asked as he entered into Frank and Shola's office. 


'The features are not new ones sir, Its exactly like one of the ladies out of the two we already have, even the face is only slightly different.' 


'So you mean we have the features already?' 


'Yes, we do.' Frank replied briefly. 


'Okay, ' Mr Sylvester proceeded to take a seat behind Frank's table. 'I've been thinking about your suggestion and I think we should employ someone else. It's very possible we get a good or even one who is better than Kimberly.' 


'Nice decision sir,' Frank replied with a smile. 


'Yea,' Mr Sylvester heaved a sigh. 'I'll draft out the vacancyannouncement later.'


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'Omotara, how do you intend to get back to the killers of your brother?' Henry asked, adjusting his face cap as he took a quick glance at her face. He was seated at the front seat with her while she drove the car.


'Cover your face with the cap properly, anyone could see you through the window.' She replied, consciously ignoring his question. 


'You didn't answer my question,' Henry said as he adjusted his cap. 


'You really want to know?' She replied. There was no answer. 'I plan to let them die the same way he died.'


'No, I think we shouldn't kill them ourselves. Let's hand them over to the police.'


'I knew this is where were we'll disagree,' Tarasha said in a sad tone.


'But I just said what is right,' Henry replied, giving her a surprise stare.


'How can we hand over the police to the police? I already told you that the person who led them is the Inspector General himself.'


'But there are still legal ways to handle it,' Henry replied. 'I'm sure Inspector Dakolo would help us if we explain things to him. That way, our revenge on them will happen legally.'


'Legally?' She chuckled mockingly. 'You still talking about legality when everything about you, everything about us is illegal already.'


'No Tara, I'll make things right after this.'


'What do you mean?' She glanced at him with a frown.


'I mean I won't keep running from the police forever,' he replied.


'Hmm, so you still keep this crazy idea of you submitting yourself to the law?'


'It's the right thing to do, when we do things the right way, God can help us.' 


'Damn it!' Henry had pushed a wrong button with his last words. Tarasha cursed in anger as she pushed the brakes all of a sudden. The car screeched and Henry hit his head against the airbag . The vehicle following behind would have hit them from if not for the experience of the driver. He quickly pulled his brakes and swerved the car to the pedestrian lane. A mini traffic jam was caused as cars began to line up behind them.


Henry turned to look at her face in a questioning manner but she looked less disturbed by what had happened, there was a terrible angry look on her face as she stared blankly through the windscreen. 'What did you do that for?'


'Where was that God when he was killed?' Tarasha asked with a voice filled of rage, she stared thinly outside the car. 'Those two bullet holes I saw on his forehead would be on the foreheads of all those that killed him, I'll present their bodies as sacrifices to God with my hands.'


Some motorists had come out of their cars to see what was happening. One of the was already knocking the glass at the driver's side. Without paying attention to the man knocking, Tarasha reversed the car and drove off




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Oyinprince:
Thanks jare, most of them never really know what it takes to do an update of 3000+ words, especially when using mobile like I do. Sometimes, I have to go back to previous episodes to read and be sure of some facts or even names. Other times, you have to make research on weapons, tools etc. Typing the updates alone takes up to 4 hours, and that's without adding time for research, recalling, plotting and even proofreading.

You dey use a phone? I doff my hat to you. I can't even type well on phone and I use a tab.

Well done, bro.

Oyinprince:
What's your definition of regular updates? I promised to update twice a week and I do so.
We've not spent up to 6 months on Tarasha 2. I could rush it but it would lose quality.

It's...no vex... thanks for the tangible quality

please do prepare for your exams and I wish u good luck

Cc............ oyinprince

CHAPTER 5 Part 2

'Please thread carefully, be careful when you make public speeches...' a voice kept echoing in Stephanie's head as she restlessly stretched and turned in the bed.

'Be careful miss,' she could hear an unknown male's voice as she felt two hands hold her down at each side.

Her eyes finally opened but her vision was blurred, she could feel the pains in her neck and a sharp pain in her hand as she tried to move it.

'Be careful miss,' she heard the man talk again. She could see his face far above hers but not clearly, he was putting on a white coth and had a rope hanging around his neck.

'Thank God you're awake now,' a female's voice at the opposite side sounded. Stephanie turned her head to look at the woman, her vision was now clearer. The nurse kept a kind smile as she brushed with her fingers Stephanie's hair away from her eyes.

'How did I get here?' Stephanie asked in low tones, turning her face back to the Doctor.

The Doctor smiled and took a step back instead of answering her. 'You're Stephanie George right, leader of the SWAD group in Rael University?' the Doctor asked with a smile.

'Yes,' Stephanie replied without much life in her voice.

'Nice to meet you Stephie, I've heard a lot about you. I was also a member of SWAD when I was in school,' the doctor said, flashing his whole set of teeth at her.

'How did I get here?' Stephanie asked again, ignoring his compliments and remarks.

'You were brought here by your pa...' the doctor paused to cough. '

'My what?' Stephanie asked impatiently. She tried to sit up but she was stopped by the pain she felt at her back and neck, the doctor and nurse also helped restrain her from attempting further. 'How did I get here doctor?' she asked again, even though she was feeling pains as the doctor helped her place her head on the pillow. For the first time since she woke, she noticed the bandage on her neck and the intravenous fluid line connected to the vein in her right hand.

'You don't remember anything?' the doctor asked, looking surprised.

'Of course I do,' Stephanie said, inhaling air deeply with her mouth as she placed the face of her palm not connected to the IV line on her forehead.

'How are you feeling? Is your head aching you?"

'No doctor,' Stephanie tried to pretend but the doctor could tell she was lying. 'I remember falling down and hitting my neck against something, but I don't know who brought me here, did she?' Stephanie asked, staring blankly at the ceiling as she tried to recall Tarasha's face from her memory. She looked at the doctor when no answer to her question seemed to be coming forth, the Doctor looked like he hadn't heard her question, he was giving some instructions to the nurse in a low voice.

Soon, the nurse curtsied and left the ward, leaving Stephanie and the doctor.

'Be calm, you'll take some drugs now to relieve you of the pain.' the doctor said, feeling her forehead with the front of his palm and then widening her eyes with his fingers to look in.

'Doctor, did she bring me here?' Stephanie asked.

'Ermm... Who's the she you're talking about?'

Stephanie stared blankly at the ceiling for sometime before looking at the doctor's face again, 'Who brought me here?' she asked again, this time in very soft and low tones.

'Don't give yourselves troubles Steph, ' the doctor placed a hand on her shoulder. 'You need to rest well, we still have to do a lot of check ups on you,' he added, turning back to look at the nurse who just entered.

'But...' Stephanie tried to speak.

'Shhh...' the doctor hushed her. 'Save your strength now, you'll ask the questions later.'

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'Dr Tom Danjuma,' Tarasha repeated severally under her breath. She looked up and stared straight into the darkness for some seconds, wondering if the author could be her father or the name was just a coincidence. She had seen her father writing on sheets several times but it was only medical reports she saw. Maybe there were some other things he wrote that she wasn't aware of. The guilt of Jefa's death engulfed her again, at this moment, Jefa would have been the best person to ask questions.

She looked back into the register and noted the category and genre the books were selected from, the first 'Doctors in love' was a romance fiction while the second book addressed political issues. She got up from the seat and adjusted the torch on her head, searching around the library to locate the sections and see how they were categorized. Just as she was about to step out from behind the table to check if she could get an extra copy of the book on locating the romance fiction section, her alarm went off indicating it was time to check Aisha. She heaved a sigh and sat back reluctantly. She quickly arranged the register to where it was positioned previously, she unlocked her device to check Aisha's location again, the position still remained the same. She got up from the seat and began to walk back towards the door with the device in her hands.

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Aisha covered with her palm the light produced by the device in her hands, she released it from time to time to check the reading even though she wasn't sure if she should expect Tarasha to come out for her while the police were still around. Only eight of them had come and with only two cars which were parked outside before the gate. Only three of the of the officers were outside the gate watching.

Things had changed in the country. About fifteen years ago, a reverse would have been the case when the police were summoned for something as urgent as this. They would have showed up twenty four hours later putting blames on logistics.

Aisha could see and hear the officers from time to time pass over the permeable covering placed over the drainage for the passage of vehicles. She remained still under, hoping that a chance for her to leave the place would come quick.

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**12 minutes later**

'Shhh...' Tarasha hushed the man with a finger on her lips, she had a pistol to his side with the other hand. He was the security man on duty whom she had met sleeping on a mat beside the security building close to the gate. He had a long gun close to him on the mat and the keys to the gate beside it.

The man sat up slowly and cautiously as directed by Tarasha, his eyes was on his gun and his mind searching for a way to pick the gun without Tarasha shooting him first.

'Don't bother to pick the gun,' Tarasha said in low tones, putting an eye on the security building to ensure no one else comes out of the place without her seeing. 'I don't want to hurt you, I only need something from you,' she continued, still motioning for him to stand with her fingers.

'What do you want young lady?' the man asked as he got to his feet, raising up his two hands.

Tarasha felt angered by his confidence and cocked the gun to make him see her seriousness. He probably was taking her for a girl who couldn't handle him like her stature depicts.

'Calm down,' the security man said, now staring at the gun intently and her finger which was close to the trigger. 'Just tell me exactly what you want.'

'Move this way,' Tarasha said, directing him with her gun towards the main library building.

'Okay,' he said and began to move towards the direction slowly without taking off his eyes from her.

'Stop,' she commanded after they had taken some steps forward, now on the same line the back wall of the security building. The man halted, with his body towards the building but his face turned towards her at the back.

'Look there, what do you see?' she stopped beside him, pointing towards something at the veranda of the library.

The man squinted to see but saw nothing except a red blinking light. He turned his face back to her with a questioning look.

'Here's it,' she took out a small control box from the outer pocket of her bag and pressed a button on it. Then she motioned him to look towards the building again, the light had turned green. He looked back to her for an explanation, his hands still up in the sky but lower.

She tapped another button on the box and the light turned blinking red again. 'The whole of this building and it's surrounding will go up in flames in the next fifteen minutes, whether it will or not lies in your hands.' she said to him and watched the look on his face gradually change to a confused one. 'Who else is with you here?' she asked, taking a quick glance towards the security building.

'My colleague,' he answered briefly.

'He's sleeping inside?'

'I don't know, we do take turns to watch but he has a visitor with him inside.' he replied.

'Fourteen minutes, seventeen seconds left.' she announced after taking out her smaller phone. 'Your task is to distract the police officers in the next building...' Tarasha stopped and gave him a thin look, she wanted to ask him how it was possible for him to continue sleeping with all the gun shots that was coming from the building next to the library but she didn't because of lack of time. She also realized that the last sound she heard of the police was their cars outside the gate of the warehouse, she had not heard any sound since they entered, meaning that the fence walls must be coated with additional sound proof materials and the gunshots would even if it was heard, would have sounded like it came from a very far distance.

'Distract the police officers from the next building, tell them you saw some people here and also discovered a bomb. Distract as many of them as possible from the entrance of that building and bring them into this place,' she concluded with her instructions.

The man stared at her for some minutes, he seemed not to agree with her task. 'I don't know what the police are doing there, how do I distract them?' he questioned.

'You have thirteen minutes and forty five seconds left,' Tarasha said in a threatening voice and ordered him with her hands to get to work. She put her gun into her pocket and placed her hands on her waist.

The man turned back slowly and proceeded towards the place he kept the keys to the gate.

Tarasha didn't turn back to look at him but remained in her position, waiting to hear the sound of the gate opening. Her thoughts drifted to what she had seen in the library, her father's name in the author's column, that was a reason she couldn't possibly bomb the place, she wasn't sure if she would get the book from another library and she felt a strong need to confirm the authorship.

'Don't move,' she heard the man talk from behind her instead of the gate opening sound she was expecting, the security man had decided to play a fast one on her. Since his gun was at the same place with the keys, he decided to pick the gun first.

'Don't be foolish,' Tarasha said as she turned back to him. 'That gun is empty,' she added as she dipped her hand into the side pocket of her bag and took out a very small paper bag and dropped it on the floor, three bullets rolled out of it.

The security man confirmed her words as he tried to shoot at her and nothing came forth. The gun dropped from his hands in fear as he stared at her frozen to a spot. His superstitious mind had made him conclude that she was a witch and had made his three bullets disappear from the gun into the paper bag as there was no other way he thought that she could have removed the bullets from the gun without him knowing when she did.

'You have thirteen minutes and ten seconds left,' Tarasha announced to bring him back to consciousness.

He turned back shakily and hurried to the mat, he picked the keys and proceeded to open the gate immediately. In less than thirty seconds, he was on his way to the warehouse building to report her, not out of obedience to her instructions but fear for his own life.

'Hey! Stop there,' an officer dressed in all black shouted, pointing his gun at the security man at the gate from the police car parked at the gate of the warehouse.

'I know where she... Where they are,' he said as he raised up his hand and approached the police car.

'Who are you?'the police officer asked, coming out from behind in the car with his gun still pointed at the man. Two other officers showed up from the other car parked outside. The two bright gate lights of the library facility went off with the wires sparking at the moment. The security man ran forward to the police man with his both hand raised in the sky.

'She got into our building and they've installed a time bomb,' he said as he got to the police man pointing a gun at him. The police man searched his body quickly to check if he was armed.

'Who is she?' the police man asked, his two colleagues were already coming closer to them, one of them trying to connect with his communication device.

'I don't know her but she's still there, she said she came with some others.' the Security man replied.

'I think they permeated into the neighboring buildings,' the policeman said to a colleague over the phone.

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Alennsar:
please do prepare for your exams and I wish u good luck


Cc............ oyinprince

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Oyinprince:
Thanks

Bro success in ur exams... U have satisfied me for today.. ..

kingofcasting:
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Are u new here?

If yes, you are pardoned!

If No, don't you ever, I repeat..dont u ever do that again.

success in ur exam.. Tank God am don with mine

My first post on Nairaland, been a ghost reader for a while now, thanks for this lovely piece Oyin..success in your exams.

kingofcasting:
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haba mana! u for just click on reply button instead now. quoting the whole story just to type *smiles*. na wa o.

It feels good to see the reply button on this story again.


I had to start this part 2 from the begining in other to remember who Chief Rikau, Chief Elvis and others were.


My prediction is that Rex might turn out to be Tara's remaining brother and henry was once tutored by an assasin and turned a new leaf before the death of his sister.


Oyinprince, thanks for making me stay glued to Tarasha

Thanks SOPIGO, Fidek, Wiz0isaac

Slimeesha:
My first post on Nairaland, been a ghost reader for a while now, thanks for this lovely piece Oyin..success in your exams.

Thanks, Welcome to NL

CHAPTER 5 Part 3


The three cars drove into the compound one after the other raising heaps of dust behind. The back door of the first car opened and Stainless stepped out with his phone to his ears.

'We just got there boss,' he said as he walked towards the main building with a cigarette in his mouth.

'Are you sure it's safer than where you were before?'

'Yes, even Don does not know this place.' Stainless replied.

'Talking about Don, you have to send some boys to watch the place and tell him when it is safe to leave his hiding spot.' Rex said.

'Okay boss, I'll tell Stone right away.'

'Good, I'll be leaving here as early as 5am today and would also require you to provide transport arrangement to your location for me. Get to work as quick as possible.'

'That's nothing much, it's done already.'

'That other guy who promised to work with you for money and to get back his parents, don't start anything with him yet. Also make sure he doesn't find out that his parents have been taken out by Tarasha already. I will tell you what to do with him when I get there,' Rex said slowly in a concluding tone.

'Alright boss.'

'Now, send men immediately to watch for Don or...' Rex stopped abruptly, he seemed to have gotten a new idea. 'This is what you should do; order your men to take note of the number of police officers there, attack them if they're a number you can attack and rescue Don. If they are more than you can beat, let them report and you get back to me as soon as possible.'

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'We can't all just leave this place now,' Inspector Sandra who led the team said. 'In fact, I don't think any of us should go in, this man might have just called to pull us into a trap.' she added, looking suspiciously towards the security man.

'I swear, the bomb is at the front of the library and it was reading, there'll be about five minutes left now.' the security man defended himself with a shaky voice, his hand raised high as one of the officers had his gun tip to his back.

'Lead us in,' Inspector Sandra finally said, leaving the back of the car to come and stand behind the security man. She pointed her gun at him as she directed him towards their gate. She signalled for three of her men to follow her and for other three to stay in front of the library gate.

Three men stood at different directions of the library gate while four people including Inspector Sandra went in, the remaining one officer was left at the car in front of the warehouse gate where he stood at alert with his gun pointed towards the library gate. The three men standing outside the Library gate spaced themselves and pointed their guns towards the gate.

Just as Inspector Sandra and the rest three entered into the gate with the security man, the bulbs at the gate of the warehouse went off, adding more darkness to the place which was already made dark with the lights at the library gate off. The men turned their guns towards the gate and shot sporadically but they didn't see anyone or anything else move. Inspector Sandra rushed back outside immediately with the three she entered with.

'What's that?' Inspector Sandra asked charging carefully towards the gate with her long gun pointed.

'The lights went off,' one of the men standing outside replied her as both of them moved slowly towards the widely opened gate with their guns readied.

'But how can that be? We met no one inside,' Inspector Sandra sounded confused. 'Do the gates have the same control for the lights?' she asked, looking towards the Security man who was standing outside the Library gate.

'We have less than five minutes to stop the Bomb,' the security man answered, totally unconcerned about her own question.

'We don't have any of the anti-bomb squad members here, we've called for reinforcement from the office, we can only hope they answer fast.' she replied him. Taking out a torch light from her pocket to point towards the now dark widely opened gate.

'But we're all going to die if that bomb goes off,' the Security man implied in a fearful tone.

'We're not all going to die,' Inspector Sandra replied in a confident tone. 'The person who placed the bomb is still around and would not ignite it now.'

With the tiny torch between her lips, she marched slowly into the warehouse compound again, two of her men following while the rest stood at alert outside the facility.

She turned her head sideways as she walked past the opened arm of the gate. As she attempted to turn to check behind the opened arm, a strong hand gripped the fists in which she held the gun. She gasped and tried to shoot but her hands were twisted before she could make any move, the gun dropped from her hands and she fell to her knees weakly giving out a loud scream, the pain from her twisted arms speedily transferring through her whole body.

'Get up,' Tarasha pulled her up and turned her body, making her back lean on her chest. She placed an arm around her neck tightly and a gun to the side of her head.

'Move back or I blow off her brains,' she threatened as she marched out holding the female Inspector as an hostage. The officers all stood at alert, pointing their guns towards Tarasha but none could pull the trigger at the sight of their boss.

'Drop your guns,' Tarasha shouted at them. They remained firm with their guns, most of them having their torchlights in their mouths while Tarasha had the light on her forehead. She cocked the gun placed at the side of the Inspector's neck and stopped at the middle of the entrance.

'Drop your guns,' Inspector Sandra squealed out in pains. The officers obeyed slowly and one after the other. Tarasha waited until the last one obeyed the order before taking two steps forward.

'Now everybody move back, ' Tarasha ordered again. The men were hesitant for a while until she tightened her arm around inspector Sandra's neck again. They move back slowly until they all got to the spot she directed them with her head to, far away from their vehicles and where they dropped their guns to the middle of the road. She looked downwards and whispered something. The permeable iron cover placed over the drainage to allow for vehicles passage in through the gate was pushed up noisily and Aisha got out of the place, dusting off her body.

'Get in and drive out that bus,' Tarasha ordered Aisha, pointing back into the compound.

Aisha walked past Tarasha into the compound without saying anything. She turned to the place the bus was parked and entered into the driver's side which was still opened as Tarasha had left it when she drove in with it. The engine had automatically gone off after some minutes. Aisha started the vehicle and began to drive out the bus in reverse motion. Tarasha moved to the side of the fence to allow the bus pass.

It took close to three minutes for Aisha to drive to a free space because of the police vehicles parked in front. Then Tarasha joined her in the bus still holding Inspector Sandra hostage.

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'Are we closer now?' Stone rubbed his eyes and yawned as he asked.

'Yes, just about twenty five minutes drive to the place.' the driver of the bus replied him.

'Okay... Remember that we are not getting to the place, we will stop far away and walk there to check.' Stone reminded him.

'Yes, I remember that but I'm still doubting the possibility of we not coming across any police officer or security man around the area if we walk,' the driver replied.

'I doubt that too,' one of the other guys from the passenger's seat behind supported. The number of boys in the boys totaled up to to nine.

'Are you students of Rael University also?' Stone asked, glancing at the face of the guy who joined the conversation.

'No, I'm not but some of us here are.'

'Except for the police officers that are at the place, we won't meet any other because Don with the help of Ojo has settled all the security officials around the Rael University area.' Rex said and chuckled. 'Your forces are better now but not totally free from corruption. I hear that's how Ojo pays them everytime he wants to operate. He only tells the bosses that he has a silent job to do and the bosses call off every other officers on duty and ask them to avoid the whole area.'

'Wow! I understand now why we haven't been accosted by any Security Official with our driving around for the past one hour.'

'Shh... Stop the vehicle,' Rex said, placing a finger on his lips. He was looking through the front glass at something coming from afar.

The driver dimmed the front lights first before gradually bringing the vehicle to a halt. He turned off the engine totally.

'Are you seeing that too?' Stone asked as he glanced at the driver who was also staring towards the same direction.

They could see from afar the headlights of a bus coming towards their direction from the other carriageway, the headlights became brighter and brighter as the bus came closer.

'Could we be wrong? Are police officers on patrol?'

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'Boss. I can see a vehicle coming this way,' Aisha called onto Tarasha.

Tarasha rose up slowly from the ground behind the driver's seat where she sat near the hostage and looked out through the front glass. 'Could that be officers on patrol?' she asked.

'I don't know,' Aisha answered, reducing the speed of the vehicle. 'But I think they're also slowing down.'

'Take that turn,' Tarasha said, pointing Aisha towards the turn into another straight road.

Tarasha looked back when she heard sounds of slight movement, she saw the police officer dragging herself on the floor towards her slowly and trying not to make any noise, she was trying to get up silently and possibly disarm Tarasha.

Their eyes met and the Inspector paused in shock and intense fear.

Tarasha smiled wryly. 'Calm down bae, we're going to drop you off soon,' she said as she squatted before her. She touched the Inspector's fingers which was placed on the floor but the Inspector withdrew quickly and shot a furious look at her. Tarasha smiled again. 'If you do anything stupid, I'll send you to hell,' she threatened with a devilish chuckle.


Tarasha rose up and turned as the vehicle turned into another direction. 'Are they still coming?' she asked, peering through the glass.

'They halted already,' Aisha replied, increasing the speed of the car.

'Drive faster, and let's drop this officer somewhere soon.' Tarasha said. She turned and squatted before the Inspector again, 'I have an assignment for you,' she said in low tones.

The Inspector stared deeply into her eyes.

'That girl Stephanie,' Tarasha continued. 'Make sure you fish out all others who have a hand in her kidnap.'

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'Isn't that one of our buses?' the driver asked, his eyes following the bus as it turned.

'I was about to say the same thing,' the guy at the immediate back seat joined. 'It's the same as this one. '

'A girl is the one driving it,' Stone said.

'Could that be her?' the guy behind Stone asked, directing his question to no one in particular. They watch the bus turned at a far distance and took a straight road with led to a bridge.

'Could it be who?' Stone asked, glancing back at him. Every other person's eyes also turned to him.

'I mean Samantha Osman,' he replied, stuttering.

'Don said she took out all the boys already, I believe she's the one escaping,' Stone replied, still peering towards the direction taken by the bus.

'Should we go after the bus?' the driver asked.

'Huh? Go after what?' Stone replied in such a way that panic was revealed.

'I mean the bus...'

'That's not the instruction we were given,' Stone said in defense as he could feel the eyes of all the boys on him and their minds accusing him of being fearful. 'We have to follow instructions. We were asked to help Don, not to pursue Samantha Osman.' he added, taking out his phone from his pocket. 'Start the car and continue driving,' he ordered the driver as he opened the dial pad on his phone.

'I should drive after her?' the driver asked a stupid question as he turned the key.

'F**k you! Continue in the same direction we were going before,' Stone barked at him in rage. He could hear suppressed giggles and whispers from the guys at the back, not that they also wished to go after Tarasha but watching a supposed leader scared was funny.

Stone shot a furious look at them as he placed the phone to his ear, they maintained silence immediately. The driver turned the vehicle into the road and continued in a straight direction.

'Stainless, we just saw Samantha Osman drive by...' Stone said into the phone.

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'You saw who?' Stainless exclaimed, getting up from the bench he was sitting on outside the building.

'Samantha, she drove past us in one of our buses.' Stone's voice sounded from the other end.

'And what did you do?' Stainless asked in an excited tone.

'What should we have done? Attack her or go after saving Don according to what we were sent?'

'Oh!' Stainless sounded somewhat disappointed and added a sigh. 'So what are you doing now?'

'Doing what we were sent, I just thought I should inform you about it,' Stone said in a concluding tone.

'Okay...' Stainless said, not knowing what else to say. He was about to end the call when a question popped up in his mind. 'How did you...' he tried to speak but the line went off already.

He quickly opened the call records and dialled back Stone, his call was answered almost immediately. 'Hey, how did you know she was the one?' he asked immediately the call was answered. 'I don't think you've seen her before, have you?'

'We saw a girl at the driver's side of the bus, didn't Don say she attacked the warehouse?'

'Yes, he said so. How close were you to her?' Stainless asked again.

'We were...' Stone began but his voice faded away slowly.

'You were what?' Stainless asked but the immediate reply he got was silence.

'Shit! We just ran into the police officers now,' he heard Stone's voice before the line went off.

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Eight minutes ago

'Pick your guns and let's go after them right now,' one of the senior officers in the team barked at the rest.

'We must be careful, we still need those men breathing inside.' another officer of the same rank countered him, not ready to move.

The officer who gave the first order paused to think for a second. 'But we have to save Inspector Sandra, we can't let them go with her.'

'She said she was not going to hurt her except we disobeyed,' the second officer recounted Tarasha's words.

'Are you going to believe the words of a criminal?' the first officer retorted.

'We have no choice, she threatened to kill her if she finds out we're following.'

'So do we just sit and watch?'

'No, we will get those guys who are alive, they could have some information for us, if we all leave here now, she might have gotten away already or kill Inspector Sandra like she threatened. We have a better chance of getting the criminal if we can extract information from the sedated guys we found inside but if we all leave now, the sedated guys would have escaped before we return or before another group comes here.' His phone rang out loud, stopping his co-debater from giving a counter-argument. 'Hey you... On your way? Where exactly are you?' he said into the phone. 'Drive faster...' he concluded the call. 'A six man backup team is on the way,' he said to the waiting ears of the remaining officers.

'What do we do now?' the other debating Officer asked.

The other smiled, feeling victorious that his co-debater was now asking what to do from him.

'Some of us could go after that bus while only one or two of us should stay here,' he said. 'The backup team is only two minutes far from here.'

'Who's going and who's staying?' the officer asked, already making his way into the car.

'I will stay with him,' he replied, looking towards the library security man. 'You can go with the others.'

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**Present**

'Boss,' Stainless said into the phone, after inhaling from his cigarette. 'The boys just ran into the police.

'Right now?' Rex's voice sounded.

'Yes,' Stainless replied. He took in another drag, 'And they also claimed to have seen Tarasha from afar.'

There was a longer silence from Rex than expected. 'Was she the only one they saw?'

'Yes, she was driving away with one of our buses.'

'Did she attack them?' Rex asked.

'No, I don't think she saw them, they didn't go after her.'

'She would have killed them all if they did,' Rex said. There was silence for few seconds. 'Can your boys handle the police?'

'It depends on the number of police officers, we paid the usual ones working around the area already, the ones they meet can only be from the emergency squad and they can't be so many at this time of the day but they can increase as the day matures.'

'I'll call you back in two minutes,' Rex said, his tone suggesting he needed to attend to something urgently.

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'I'll call you back in two minutes,' Rex said and quickly cut the call to receive the other incoming call. 'Don, where are you now?'

'I'm out of the place, I got out through the back fence immediately I noticed that the officers were far away.'

'Cool, some guys are out to pick you already, call Stainless now.'

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**Meanwhile, Stone and the boys immediately after his call with stainless**

'Stop right there,' The boys in the bus could hear the officers shout from the other carriageway. Luckily, the median strip separated their vehicles and there was no close contact.

'Keep driving,' Stone instructed the driver who increased the speed drastically. The only options they had were to face the officers or keep running away in the forward direction. They had passed the only close turn which route Tarasha's bus had taken, so there was no turning or going back as that would mean entering into the police hands.



The police vehicles at the other carriageway made a U-turn on the same road and sped crazily back. The resemblance of the bus they saw to the one Aisha and Tarasha drove away with had made them think it was the same bus. The way they turned the vehicles could have caused an accident on a normal day as their new direction was opposite of what the carriageway was meant for but because of the hour of the day, the roads were free of cars and pedestrians.




'I think those are the officers we're on our way to check,' Stone said as he read the inscription of the police vehicles "Rapid Response Squad". 'They're not much,' he continued. 'We may have to face them.'

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