Rex flung the phone to the bed and continued to pace around the room, his heavy but slow breathing was loud enough for deaf to hear in the silent room. His anger towards Tarasha was rising everyday, reason being that she was given him tougher time than other assasins he had previously brought down. In fact, this was his area of specialization in the job and he had always excelled easily. Being an assassin who was brought to the Villary Clan at a very young age, it was easier for the masters to brainwash him and fill his head with their theories than the older ones. He and others who had started the training at the same age with grew up with the mindset of the Clan being their only home, they were made to forget that they had an existence outside the Clan. Therefore, they were more committed to the Clan and had less chances of betraying their masters than those who began the training at older ages. Most of the jobs done by Rex was bringing down other assasins who betrayed their masters. He always did this with all his might as he believed in loyalty to the Clan and strongly hated betrayals. Although, the job to kill Tarasha was quiet different, he was still had more experience in killing other assasins. What frustrated him the most was his seemingly unpredictability of Tarasha. He had been successful in predicting some of her steps before but never got it completely. He had correctly predicted that she would plan attacking the Inspector General but he never thought she would come with a back up which showed later. Right now, he couldn't even predict her next step. But he knew one thing; the man who had come to back her up must have been her very close assistant and another top Assasin to know her plans and whereabouts, if he could capture that assassin, he could get Tarasha.

He had been able to study about Henry from the information Don had sent to him and concluded that Henry must have learnt his hacking skills from another top Assasin organization. Now, he was going to get Henry and at the same time keeping tabs on Tarasha.

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CHAPTER 4 Part 8

Don eyes located the bow tie under the table where it rolled to. He pointed his flashlight downwards as he bent to pick it. He touched the tie with his hand and picked it, but as he was about to rise up, his eyes met with something else, he slowly bent down and pointed the light to the object under the table. He had not yet figured out what it was when the sole of someone's shoe kissed his face and pushed him backwards, he landed painfully on his back with a scream.

'Damn it!' Don cursed as he saw the figure struggle out from under the table. He hadn't seen the face but he automatically knew who it was. He picked his phone which had fallen to the ground and struggled to his feet. With the pain he felt on his back, he still followed after her immediately. He picked his pistol on one of the tables he had left it and pointed it towards her at the door but she was out before he could release two shots.


Aisha jumped down the corridor but unluckily for her, she jumped into the hands of one of Don's parading men. He sent her sprawling to the ground knocking her out with two heavy blows on her face.

Don came out to meet her on the ground, he pointed his gun at her as he moved closer.

'No boss, don't shoot.' his man pleaded with him. 'We've got the vehicles closer and we've settled the Security men, let's leave now from the back without making so much noise.'

Don seemed to think for a while before putting his gun into his pocket hesitatingly. 'Pick her up,' he said. The guy dragged Aisha up and placed her on his big shoulders. 'How much did you bribe the Security men with?' Don asked as he waited for the guy to lead.

'We didn't pay anything, most of the Security men here are Ojo's friends,' the man replied and led the way to a dark and narrow space between two buildings.

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'Hey girl,' Tarasha called in low tones as she walked over the bodies and got closer to the door of the toilet. She opened the door and looked in, there was no sign of Stephanie in the place. She stepped back outside the toilet and looked around to see if Stephanie was hanging around, there was still no sign of her. She hissed angrily and hurried back through the way she had gotten into the place. She took out her phone hurriedly and unlocked it, she clicked on a tracker app and waited a minute for it to load. From the reading on the app, she could tell that Stephanie was still in that building. She got angrier and regretted coming back to get Stephanie, the girl was only a distraction to her main purpose and she wasn't supposed to have allowed the distraction. Stephanie had made matters worse disobeying Tarasha's instruction by leaving the toilet where she was asked to hide. Tarasha decided to return to the couple and leave Stephanie to find her way if she could or die due to her stubbornness.



'Get in,' Tarasha said in a ordering tone to the couples which she led from the building at the back to where the bus was parked. It took them over ten minutes to walk there because of their weak bodies, but Tarasha was patient enough, only hoping in her mind that none of Don's men was going to arrive while they delayed with their sluggishness.

She proceeded to open the gate while the couples got into the car. She also picked the device she had attached to the front of the gate and the explosive mechanism she set up behind the security house. She hurried back to the bus and closed the big passenger's door before turning to the driver's side.

She drove out in less than a minute and dropped again to close the gate, after parking the bus just few metres away from the gate.

She paused on getting halfway in closing the gate and remained still to listen, she thought she had heard something from the building. Even though she was angry that Stephanie had disobeyed her instruction, she still didn't feel alright leaving without her. Her plan was to drop Stephanie and the couples in front of a police station and alert the officers to pick them while she goes on her way.

She closed the gate after waiting for few seconds without hearing anything else and hurried to the bus. She hopped in and turned the vehicle into the free road, she drove slowly towards the U-turn and made a turn to the other carriage way which linked to the road where she parked the car she came with. It took another two minutes to get to the place the car was parked. She stopped the bus there and dropped to take some things from the other vehicle, she put them into the boot of the bus. She turned back and looked towards the warehouse again, she felt a bit guilty for leaving Stephanie behind but couldn't do anything about it since Stephanie was the one disobeyed her instructions. She closed the boot and walked back to the car to lock the doors properly, then she turned to the driver's side of the bus and entered the vehicle.

As she started the vehicle engine and pulled the seatbelt, she felt a slight wave of headache, then she Rikau's face suddenly flashed through her mind again. She closed her eyes to absorb the pain but it seemed to worsen it. She saw herself again as a small kid under Rikau's body using one of his hands to hold her two tiny hands and dipping one into her pant. Then Stephanie's face and the way she struggled flashed through her mind again, she could see the picture of Ojo pants pulled down and him trying to have his way violently.


The bad memories suddenly blacked out, leaving her with a more painful headache. She slammed her two hands on the steering wheel and took off the seatbelt. She opened the door and stepped out of the bus. She closed her eyes and took in a deep breath. She opened her eyes as she heard murmurings from inside the vehicle, she looked towards the couple but couldn't see their faces as the darkness in the bus covered them. She knew they must be wondering who she was and why she was acting all strange. Even she couldn't understand her strange behaviour but she knew the cause of newly developed headache was the thought of leaving Stephanie behind in danger. She felt there was a strong connection between her and Stephanie but she couldn't just explain what it was.

She took out her phone again and unlocked it, the tracker app was still running and it indicated that Stephanie was still in the building.

'Don't turn on the light,' she said to the couples, pointing her phone's flashlight into the vehicle through the window. 'And , don't make any noise. Don't let anyone discover your presence here. I'll be back, there's still someone in that building I need to get out.'

Aisha could feel the cold chains on her hands and legs as her eyes opened in the darkness, she could also feel the roughness of the ground she laid against the sides of her body. She tried to stretch her legs and arms but she couldn't as her body hit the restriction walls by the sides and pains accompanied the effort. She soon got to realize that she was in the boot of a car which was in motion. She closed her eyes in pain as she tried to remember what happened to her.

'Ouch!' she let out a cry as her head hit the sides of the boot. The vehicle had driven over a road bump impatiently.

'She's awake,' she could hear a male's voice from inside the car and she desisted from making any more sound. She remembered clearly now how she had tried to escape from Don but ran into one of Don's men, she couldn't recall what exactly he did to her. She remained calm and quiet so that she could listen more to the conversation of the men in the car but didn't hear anything else, they had stopped talking only after muttering a few words to each other.

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'What's the situation right now?'

'Under control boss,' Don replied Rex. He was seated tiredly at the front seat in a different car from the one Aisha was.

'You messed up already, there's no way you're going to get that guy called Henry anymore, the girl already warned her boss,' Rex said and there was a brief silence. 'The next thing you should do is make sure your hostages and their parents remain with you. Cut off all communication from them right now until I give you further instructions.'

'Alright boss.'

'Make sure you don't make any more mistakes, you might pay for the next one you make,' Rex concluded with a serious warning.

'Yes boss,' Don said before the call ended. He turned off the phone's backlight and squeezed it in his fist, he was still terribly mad at Aisha but he was grateful to his man for restricting him from killing her, that might have gotten him into another trouble with Rex.

He continued to consider the options in his mind, he needed to find the best way to punish her, she truly deserves to be punished for playing fast with him and the stress she made him go through. Even if it was severe beatings, he was surely going to make her pass through.

In less than ten minutes, they would have gotten back to the warehouse and he'll unleash his fury on her, probably take off one of her hands

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Tarasha navigated through the house carefully, using the compass app installed on her device which was connected to the little device she gave to Stephanie. It took her sometime to locate the object because of unfamiliarity with the building and it's doors. After a total of five minutes, she was able to locate Stephanie where she laid unconscious on the floor, bleeding. Tarasha rushed to her and knelt by her side, trying to find where she was bleeding from. Her phone beeped at the same time, she scrolled down the notification bar and saw the warning notification. It indicated that the device Aisha was using to communicate to her was closer.

She quickly tucked the phone into her pocket and lifted Stephanie easily to her shoulder. She turned and hurried out of the building immediately. Her phone continued to beep aloud as she got out through the gate and crossed the two carriageways. She increased her speed into the straight road as she spotted some vehicles coming from her right hand side. She paused after hiding herself in the shadow formed by an electricity pole to prevent the occupants of the vehicle from seeing them, she took out her phone and silenced it. She continued towards the bus after the two vehicles passed. She got to the bus before they reached the U-turn which led to the carriageway to their gate.

A thought flashed through her mind as she entered the passenger's side of the bus where the couples were. She wanted to go back and attack the cars, so that she could save Aisha at once. But another look at the bleeding Stephanie made her change her mind. For some reasons, the urgency in her heart to save Stephanie was more than the urgency she felt to fulfill the real purpose of her coming which was saving Aisha and Cole with their parents.

She could hear the vehicles horning at the gate before she closed the door to the passenger's side and turned to the driver's side quickly, she started the engine and drove off immediately, having no particular place in mind, all she wanted was to drive to anywhere safe enough to treat Stephanie but she didn't even have the materials to use.

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'Get down and check why that r*tard is not answering,' Don shouted angrily at the person driving the car he was seated in. They had horned severally without anybody responding from the compound.

The driver opened the door and stepped out of the car immediately. He proceeded to the gate and entered the compound through the smaller opening.

'Usman! Usman!' he shouted the name of the person supposed to be at the gate. He looked around the compound to see if anyone was coming forth but there was none. He felt something was missing as he bent down to open the gate passage for vehicles. He opened widely the two arms of the gate and walked back into the car.

'Where the hell is Usman?' Don asked him as he entered the car.

'The small gate was opened and I didn't find him there,' the driver replied and closed the door.

'It's past 12am and the gate is not locked, ' Don looked alarmed and angrier. Everyone and everything seemed to be pissing him off the more. 'Is there nobody else in?'

'I didn't see anyone, they're most likely in their own positions' the driver replied and then drove the car into the compound. The car behind followed closely.

Don stared around the compound with a tiny gaze as the car pulled up at the small garage at the left side of the building. The driver killed the car engine and stepped out of the car immediately, he turned back towards the gate to close it. The other vehicle had also parked behind them. The compound was well lit with the Security lights at the gate and the outer walls at each side of the building.

'What the hell is Ojo doing? Where is the bus that's supposed to be here?' Don shouted angrily, so loud to the amazement of the guys coming out of the other vehicle. 'Did he think I wasn't going to return tonight? Did he go out or send someone with my vehicle?' Don blared on as he marched back towards the front entrance.

He stopped close to the boot of the other car as two men lifted Aisha out. She still looked unconscious to them as they dropped her to the interlocked floor.

'I'll be back to deal with this sl*t,' Don said, tightening his fists as he turned towards the entrance, his anger for Ojo and the urge to unleash his fury on him growing. As he approached the corridor at the front entrance, he looked around the compound again, it looked rough and so disorganized, he wondered what Ojo must have done to disorganize the whole place. He hurried up the corridor and pushed the main entrance door open, shouting out Ojo's name.

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'Don will most likely execute Aisha today, she played a very dangerous game on him,' Stainless was speaking as he circled round Cole. 'And from the way he's speaking, he won't hesitate to kill your parents if you don't cooperate with us.' He stopped in front of Cole and blew some smoke from his cigar to Cole's face. He tried to speak again but a cough came instead, he wasn't as addicted to and good in smoking as Don was. 'We know you're scared of what Tarasha can do to you but she won't be able to do anything if you deliver her to our hands according to plan.' Stainless continued after he regained his voice.

'Enough of your talks, what exactly do you want me to do?' Cole cut in angrily.

'Sell Tarasha to us dude, deceive her and make her fall into our trap. Once we capture her, you're free to go with your parents.'Stainless replied to him sharply. Stone stood up from where he was seated and smoking heavily, he stood two metres at the front of Cole where he could see his face properly.

'I don't just want my parents alone. After getting them, how do I fend for them?' Cole seemed to gain some strength in his voice, he stared thinly into the four eyeballs fixed on his face. 'I'll help you capture Tarasha if you add a million naira to the prize.'

Stainless and Stone stared at him in surprise for some seconds, then they turned to stare at each other's faces.

'Is that your only condition?' Stone was the one who spoke. He took three steps closer to Cole and stared deep into his eyes.

'Yes, with my parents.'

'We'll fix that when it's daybreak and start work immediately. Deal?' Stone said and turned to look at Stainless. The look on Stainless's face revealed he consented to Stone's proposed deal to Cole.

'Deal,' Cole replied firmly.

Stainless and Stone stared blankly at each other's faces, Stainless plans seemed to be working well. Unknowingly to Stone, Stainless was only doing it out of his selfish purpose of gaining Rex's heart. If Don could fail with Aisha and he succeeds with having Cole work for them, then it would make Rex believe more in him.

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After many weeks I'm back again, nice write up, more ink to ur pen, next update pls

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Thanks Dear, Welcome to NL

My rolemodels in nl ar oyinprince,bibijay,fiyah,donkross,smartestpopqueen,youngtemmy but only of u is guiding me in thd story am writing CROSSROADS it is nt fair o show some luv and read the story bless u all

A story dat is capable of making me sleep at 3am is worth a standing ovation good job oyinprince

so aisha is free but Cole is still hanging Der hum? Der is godu oooo

All I can say is wow. Oyinprince you are one hell of a writer, your descriptive prowess is so captivating. Thumbs up.

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My rolemodels in nl ar oyinprince,bibijay,fiyah,donkross,smartestpopqueen,youngtemmy but only of u is guiding me in thd story am writing CROSSROADS it is nt fair o show some luv and read the story bless u all

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Thanks Precious

'Ojo!' Don kept barking the Yoruba name with his thick Igbo accent. As he proceeded past the first room into the large corridor, he noticed the doors of the rooms which the corridor led to opened carelessly and there were no signs of boys coming forth. He stopped halfway in the first corridor for a moment, he turned briefly around, feeling disgusted about how the whole place was, his anger against Ojo increased. All he thought was that Ojo had gone out to a party with his boys in the bus that was supposed to be parked outside. He took out his phone and dialed Ojo's number, he proceeded towards the corridor exit, unbuckling his belt as he did. He needed to make quick use of the toilet as his bladder was full.

Ojo could hear the sound of a phone ringing as he walked past the rooms whose doors were carelessly opened but he didn't bother to check as he felt his need to use the toilet more urgent. He stopped the call and proceeded faster to the toilet he shared only with Stainless and Stone in the factory. He met the shock of his life as he opened the door whose room enclosed the toilet.

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Tarasha located the City Gate hospital after driving for over fifteen minutes, she had stopped on the road after driving past the Police Headquarters in Ikeja to attend to Stephanie's wound. Stephanie had fallen due to the weakness in her body when she left the toilet instead of obeying Tarasha's instruction. Tarasha had used a cloth to cover the wound on her neck and placed her on Mr Bello's lap to lay in a position which will reduce the bleeding. She also gave some instructions to the couples as they drove on.


She pushed the horn furiously after getting to the front of the gate. The guards and gatemen had gone to bed already. After a minute about a minute of constant horning, two men surfaced behind the gate. He unlocked it and pushed the first wing out while the second man pulled the second in. The first man who was dressed like the security man stopped the bus as it made it's way in, another man was also seeing coming out from the main building of the hospital.

'We have an emergency here,' Tarasha said to the man who stood by the driver's door, looking back towards Stephanie who was held by Mr Bello in the bus.

'Na woman dey drive am,' she could hear the man say as he walked slowly forward, checking inside the bus through the windows.

'Why them con plenty like this inside the bus?' a man at the left side asked.

'It's our grand daughter, she fell while using the toilet.' Mr Bello spoke out shakily. His gaze meeting with Tarasha's.

The first nodded and walked back to the driver's side, he gave a pass ticket to Tarasha and signaled for them to drive in.

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Don pulled out his gun with great fear as he crossed over the first body. He cocked his gun in alertness and pulled out his phone. He dialed Rex' phone number in error, thinking it was Stainless as he moved with slow steps towards the opened door of the toilet.

'Stainless,' Don shouted into the phone.

'Don!' Rex' replied but Don was still too occupied with his thoughts of fear to notice the difference in the voice.

He could hear shouts from the boys outside and his heart shook in fear for the worst. They were certainly under attack, he thought.

'Stain, we're in trouble. I think we are under attack from Tarasha herself...' he stopped talking as he entered the toilet till he stepped out after finding no one there. 'Stain, how many boys do you have with you there?' he asked as he made his way back through the door he entered from.

'No matter who attacks you, don't let the hostages leave your custody,' the thick and angry bass voice came as a shock to Don. He took the phone off his ear for a second and stared at his screen, that was when he realized that the person he called was Rex, but the deed was done already.

'Boss,' he placed the phone back to his ear shakily. Rex stopped talking abruptly. Don noticed that he must have missed some instructions because

'Boss,' he placed the phone back to his ear shakily. Rex stopped talking abruptly. Don noticed that he must have missed some instructions because Rex was still talking when he took the phone off his ears.

'Did you see her?' Rex asked.

'No but some of the men I left here are down.' Don answered, he was now back in the corridor where he heard the phone ringing when he placed a call to Ojo.

'All of your guys?' Rex asked

'I've not checked them behind,' Don replied, entering into the rooms carefully one after the other.

'Confirm and get back to me as soon as possible,' Rex snapped and the line went off before Don could reply.

'Holy shi*t!' Don exclaimed as he met with Ojo's lifeless body in the room. His pants was pulled halfway and several bullet holes were in his body.

He closed back the door and turned out of the door, half running and half walking.

'Don!' one of the boys almost ran into him at the first room.

'What the hell are you running about for?' Don shouted at him angrily, there was a gun in the guy's hand and he was panting heavily.

'Don, the guys at the back...' he paused to control his breath as his voice seemed to be covered with the loudness of his breath.

'Talk to me buffoon!' Don cursed angrily, tightening his grip on his gun.

'The boys at the back are all down and the hostages are gone,' he finally said amidst his heavy intake and release of air.

'Oh! Damn it...' Don went wild with anger. He almost shot at the guy who had reported to him but controlled himself at the last second and made the ceiling the recipient of the bullets on reminding himself that killing another of his men would put him at more loss and he was already down with so many.

'Did you see anyone around?' he barked aloud as he marched out to the balcony.

'No boss, ' the guy replied and followed him closely.

'Get me more loaded guns,' Don ordered.

The other men in the compound were busy, moving about with their guns and scattering everywhere to see if the attackers of their territory were still around. Don observed Aisha on the floor as he passed through the parking space, heading for the building where both Aisha and Cole's parents were kept.

'Don!' another guy called him from the back, carrying a male body on his shoulder. 'Usman is still alive, he was only sedated.' he said to Don who had stopped to listen to him.

'Revive him and get him to talk,' Don said and continued marching towards the back. Usman was placed beside Aisha where was laid and his shirt was taken off.

Aisha opened her eyes narrowly, she noticed that the two guys left at the parking space had their attention on the body placed beside her, she thought of how to trick them but there was still no way she'll make a movement that won't attract their attention.

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'Young lady, where are you going to?' the security man who had given her the pass ticket in stopped her as she drove the bus towards the entrance. 'You drove in only two minutes ago.'

'I need to get home and pick my father's debit card,' she replied boldly with her eyelids squeezed.

'You mean five of you drove here without bringing your debit card for payment?'

'My father and his friends are old people, you don't blame them for not remembering things in such a time of panic.' she replied him.

He stared at her face in confusion, wondering what kind of a family they are. Four old couples have just gotten into a bus without backseats and headed for the hospital with a young girl driving because another young girl was bleeding.

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Rex arranged the guns into the travelling bags neatly. He had put on his light jacket and black pants immediately after the call and was ready to begin the trip to Lagos immediately without waiting for day break. The only challenge was that he had never been to Lagos before and didn't know the route to take or any other thing about the place, the only things he knew about Lagos were the things he read during his first week after arriving in Nigeria. He closed the zip of the bag and placed it on a wooden chair beside the wardrobe. He eyes wandered around the room for a minute, lost in thoughts while looking around to see if he was forgetting anything.

Although he was expecting surprises, he didn't know it would come this quick, but that was also expected, not knowing the time it would come was a part of the surprise.

He lifted the bag and turned back to the bed where he dropped it. Then he opened the travelling bag and put his laptop bag and some other computer accessories and cables in it. Thoughts of how to get to and navigate through Lagos filled his mind again, he couldn't just depend on the map. For him to be able to use the map efficiently, he must be used to the routes already else it'll take him up to five hours to get to places he could get in five minutes.

An idea flashed through his mind as he weighed his options. He took out his cellphone from his pocket and dialed Chief Rikau's number. It rang for the first thirty seconds without being answered. He tried again and the same thing was repeated until the fifth time.

'Damn you Rex, won't you...' Chief Rikau's voice sounded sleepily but Rex interrupted.

'Shhh... Just listen Inspector, I need someone who can drive me to Lagos urgently.'

'Okay, that's no problem. Allow me sleep now, we'll settle that tomo...'

'Inspector!' Rex interrupted again, 'I need the driver and car right now, immediately!'

'Come on, stop troubling me Rex. What do you need someone to drive you to Lagos now for and how do you want me to get someone by this time of the night?'

'I need it urgently, I need to get to Lagos as soon as possible.'

'Forget it Rex, whatever it is should wait till daybreak.' Chief Rikau said in a dismissing tone.

'My men are being attacked by Samantha Osman right now and I need to get there to help them,' Rex insisted.

'You can't get to Lagos to help anyone, she would have finished all of them before you get halfway. Please stop troubling me, I had a very hectic day.' The Chief concluded and ended the call.

'Damn it!' Rex cursed under his breath as he tightened the phone in his fist so hard until he began to feel the phone's case cracking. He released his tightened fist, allowing the phone fall into the bed, the screen and the back cover had been cracked already. The Inspector General had just told him the truth, there was no way he was going to get to Lagos to meet the attack. His anger had beclouded his sense of reasoning and he almost made another error.

Maybe Tarasha's real plan was to deceive them. She had deceived them already by making them think she wasn't interested in helping Aisha and Cole in Lagos, only for her to say she was sending Henry at the last minute. He wondered for a second if Henry E.G could be the one behind the attack in Lagos and not Tarasha herself, she might just want to use it as a distraction for her to make space and attack the Vice President or the Inspector General.

He heaved a sigh as he sank into the bed. He noticed his phone vibrating, he had put it on vibration unknowingly when he squeezed it in his palm. He picked it up and tried to answer the call but the phone's screen calibration had been damaged.

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Don dialed Rex's number for the third time consecutively, it rang for some seconds without being answered again. He kicked one of the wooden chairs using the sole of his shoe angrily. The chair tumbled and fell on the dead body beside it.

Don ran his rubbed his palm over his head in frustration. He had been deceived big time by Tarasha, he wondered how Tarasha could have intelligently played the game with them. Was it that she knew that Aisha was lying all along or was Aisha able to contact her beforehand. He thought of the probability of the latter being the case, it was zero. There was no way Aisha could have spoken with Tarasha before they left the warehouse, Aisha had no phone and was always kept under close watch, so there was no way she could have contacted the outside world without their knowledge.

Or was it Cole who was able to contact Tarasha, he thought. Maybe Stainless and Stone had been careless with Cole and allowed him gain access to a phone with which he used to inform Tarasha of their situation. But then he remembered that Cole was always firmly tied and blindfolded, so there was no way it could have been him who reached Tarasha. He had to accept that Tarasha must have known through another means, most likely just her intelligent way of reasoning.

'Is he awake now?' Don asked, turning towards the corridor as he squeezed his phone in his palm and grit his teeth. His confusion was gradually transforming into extreme anger.

'Yes but he's not talking, ' one of the boys replied him.

'Bring him here,' Don ordered them with a hand gesture. He moved the body lying in front of him from the wall to create space for them.

He took out his phone again and tried Rex's number, this time it was switched off.

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6 minutes later

'She was here... She was here,' he stammered painfully after being poured water severally and slapped on the face. It was the same man who had released to Tarasha information about Cole's whereabouts. The pin in his neck had been taken out but Don and his men were still trying to wake him up from the deep sleep that had been induced. The pin had been in his body for a longer time now which had made it's effect stronger, so it was not easy for them to revive him like Tarasha had done when she wanted. It had taken them up to fifteen minutes to get him to talk the way he was now.

'Who was here?' Don slapped his face again. He had slept off again. 'I say who was here?' Don shouted, adding another slap.

The guy's eyes popped open again, 'Saman...tha, she ask...asked me to tell you she came here.' he said before his eyes closed again.

Don rose up slowly to his feet from his squatting position, his fears had been confirmed. He didn't know what step to take next, he bent down again to ask another question.

'Where did she say she was going from here?' he shouted but the man's eyes were closed again. He was about to slap the face again when his phone vibrated on the seat he had put it on. He turned back and picked up the phone, the screen displayed the caller's ID, it was Rex.

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**City Gate hospital*"

'Nurse, I heard that the girl who brought those people have left already.'

'Yes, they have.' the nurse replied the young doctor. They both stood outside in front of the ward where Stephanie was carried into and was being attended to by another doctor.

'Don't you think something looks fishy about them?'

'Yes, they look very dirty and unkempt.' the nurse replied.

'Okay, tell the security men to alert the Rapid Response Squad. I think I noticed some bullets in the clothes the patient was putting on.'

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I think the reason why nemesis av not catch up with tarasha is becos she don't kill innocent people

EmpresFIDEL:
I think the reason why nemesis av not catch up with tarasha is becos she don't kill innocent people

and also because she's the instrument karma is using to catch up with the bad guyz.

Tarasha - Chapter 4 Part 10

**City Gate Hospital**

'Hello sir!' a middle aged short Doctor approached the old couples sitting at the reception. They seemed lost and more worried than what their problem was, they also looked unkempt and weak themselves.

'Who are the parents of that girl?' the middle aged doctor stopped in front of them, staring in confusion at the four of them. He had come to tell them the money required for treatment and also ask again what happened to the patient as he and the nurses noticed that her body, especially her thighs and chest had marks and her underwear were also torn badly which was a sign of attempted rape. It was clear that the cloth the patient put on to the place was just changed after the attempted rape, it looked like a security official's uniform for a male.

'Actually, none of us are her parents,' Mr Bello was the one who spoke up. The Doctor stared at them more, already expecting the answer. 'We don't know her,' Mr Bello added, confirming his observation.

'Have you been treating her?' Mr Bello asked while the doctor was still thinking of what next to ask.

'Err... I'm sorry, weren't you the ones who brought the young lady here now.'

'No, we didn't bring her here.' Mr Bello said slowly with his voice sounding shaky. The doctor was more confused. 'We were brought here with her.'

'Ermm... I don't... Hello please,' the doctor beckoned on a nurse who was about to leave the reception through an entrance leading inside.

'Yes sir,' she answered courteously and walked to meet him as he approached.

'Ermm... Nurse, which of them claimed to be the father of that girl?' the doctor asked, nodding slightly towards them.

'The man seated on the first seat. They came with another girl,' the nurse replied.

'I don't think these people are okay,' The doctor flashed a look towards the couples. Mr Bello had already gotten up from his seat.

The nurse sighed, also looking towards them. 'They claimed to be coming from home but they look so dirty,' she remarked.

'The scars on...' the doctor had to stop talking when he realized the man was coming towards them.

'Let's explain ourselves to you doctor, you'll need to help us reach the police immediately.' he continued as the doctor and nurse stared at him with rapt attention. Cole's father had also joined them and the women were looking from where they were seated. 'We are victims of kidnap and we just escaped today, that lady that brought us here helped us out of the place. She also brought the bleeding girl from the same building and asked me to act as her father until she leaves.'

The two listeners had their lips sealed for some minutes, they had to take sometime to comprehend what they just heard.

'You mean you people were kidnapped?' the doctor asked, now running his eyes from the man's head to toe as if to confirm his words by it.

'Yes, the girl that drove us here helped us.'

'Nurse, please call the police right away,' the doctor ordered the nurse and she left immediately. He turned back to the man, 'Are you sure of what you're talking about?' Mr Bello nodded affirmatively. 'And where is the lady that brought you here?'

'She allowed us to ensure she leaves first before telling you this, she does not want to get into trouble with the police.' Mr Bello answered.

'But you should have raised an alarm, she might just a dangerous fellow.'

'I couldn't do that, she helped us.' Mr Bello insisted, getting a supportive nod from Cole's father.

'Please, do have your seats now. I'll have to talk to the head Doctor about this and you people would also need a check up,' the doctor said turning towards the reception desk where two nurses were seated and staring at them intently with sleepy eyes.

'The rapid response squad is here already,' the young doctor who had been treating Stephanie said approaching the reception.

'You called them?' the other doctor turned to ask.

'Yes, I noticed something wrong about them and I asked nurse Titi to call the police.' the young doctor replied.


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Tarasha stopped the bus briefly at the spot where her car was still parked. She came out of the bus and looked towards the warehouse gate. There were no signs of panic seen from outside but she could picture in her mind the panic behind the walls.

She turned to the boot of the bus and took out her backpack with the other bag she had transferred into it from her car.

She hurried back to the front of the bus and entered in through the driver's side, she dropped the bags on the seat beside her and closed the door. She then opened the backpack first, she took out the pistol she had hidden in it. She took out another short gun and a long one from the second bag and began to fill them with bullets.

After three minutes of filling to her satisfaction, she kept the guns on the chair and brought out a tablet device from the backpack. She turned on the screen and clicked on the menu bar, then she selected icon for surveillance. A blank screen appeared, few seconds later a rolling sign appeared and disappeared immediately. Then a multiple video selection interface appeared, showing the several parts of the warehouse she had placed cameras.

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Don answered the call heaving a deep sigh as he did, finally hoping he could get instructions to take him out of his confusion. 'Boss...' he said into the phone. At the same time, there was a loud bang heard from inside the compound.

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'Don, my phone got spoilt. What's the update now?' Rex asked immediately after hearing Don's voice. He had transferred the sim card from the phone he destroyed due to his anger into another phone.

There was no response heard for some seconds, then he Don's voice sounded. 'What the f**k is that? Go check it now!' he could hear Don screaming and he knew it wasn't to him.

'What's happening?' he quickly asked.

'There was a noise from the compound, I don't know what it was.' Don's shaky voice showed that he was on a very fast motion.

'Damn it! I should have warned you earlier if the cellphone didn't get spoilt. I know she'll still be around that place. How about the hostages? You should do everything to keep them from her,' Rex ordered in a strong tone, running his hand into his hair gently as he drew in a deep breath.

Rex could notice the hesitation in Don's voice as he stammered his first set of words before being able to communicate fluently. 'We can't find any...' The line went dead.

Rex took the phone off his ears slowly, he felt so defeated but maintained his calmness, refusing to get worked up like he did when Don told him about the attack. Tarasha was winning him slowly and he had now been quick to notice it. Even as he wasn't sure she was aware of his presence, he believed some of her actions were directed towards weakening the master planner of the game, that is , the person who strategized and ordered all Don and his men were playing out. Never in his years as an assassins' assassin has anyone been able to frustrate him enough and get down to control his emotion of anger like she did. Also he had never missed his first chance of killing them, that was why he was highly sought for. But Tarasha had made him fail the first time when the guy with the vehicle showed up to help her unexpectedly.

Few minutes of thinking while trying to change his phone had enabled him to fix his mind in the normal pattern. Like the mindless person he was built to be, he wasn't going to be moved by any news anymore.

He walked to the wall and turned off the room's light from the switch. He was able to trace his way back to the chair without struggles even in the darkness as his mind had already captured the positions of everything in the room. He sat on his chair to meditate for some minutes. Tarasha had won this first game, it was time for him to come up with a new strategy, one he would personally monitor and ensure the success. He knew there was very little he could do to help Don and the team Don had gathered, he counted them as lost already, he had to start up with his new strategy so fast.

Another thought struck his mind after few seconds of deep thinking, there could still be something to do about Don and his team. He took out his phone and dialed Stainless's number.

Having already seen Don and his men's movements in the facility, Tarasha drove to the warehouse in the bus. Her speed was constant after the U-turn until she got some few metres closer to the gate. She changed the gear and turned the wheel in direction of the gate.

She caught unawares the two men with Aisha in the main compound who had given up on trying to revive the first guy she sedated. They were still in the same position behind the parked vehicle they occupied when she viewed them in her device. She would have driven straight to them and crush them if not for Aisha who laid down there. She swerved the bus towards the right side into the space between the side of the security building and the main house of the security building. She released one shot each immediately to the men before they could make any reasonable movement. She didn't wait to park properly before she opened the door and jumped out of the bus. Without turning off the engine and closing back the door, she strapped the backpack to her back and she proceeded towards the parking space at the left of the building. One of the men she shot was not completely dead yet. She walked fast towards him and finished him with a butt of her gun.

She turned back immediately in order to move Aisha's body to safety but she met a surprise. Aisha had risen up already.

'Boss!' Aisha stared at her boss' face in unbelief and extreme joy.

'You're awake,' Tarasha said flatly without making any expression on her face. She turned back and looked towards the building at the back, she could hear sounds of movement already but she could not see because the walls of the main building covered the main entrance to the building behind. 'Here, have it.' Tarasha tossed a gun she picked from one of the dead men to Aisha. She rose up to her feet and took out a device from the outer pocket of her backpack and tossed it too to Aisha. It was the same device she had given to Stephanie earlier. 'Stay and watch the gate, you know what to do with the buttons, send me a message.' She said without looking back and began to proceed to the back leaning her body closely to the cars to protect herself in case anyone shows up from the back suddenly.

One of Don's men showed from behind the main building just as she got to the front of the Jeep, she sent a bullet into his chest before he could even raise his gun at her. Another guy came shooting sporadically but she was on the floor rolling forward and before he could direct his gun towards her, she had a bullet into his belly.

She sprang up to a squatting position after rolling close to the wall at the left side of the building. She could now see the entrance of the smaller building from where she was. Just as she rose up to her feet, a figure appeared at the entrance with a gun in his right hand and was making a call with the other hand. She directed her shot to his chest region immediately but he was lucky to have seen her at the same time, he was also fast enough to hide behind the wall and run back into the building.

Tarasha ran to the edge left wall of the main building where she could see the entrance of the smaller building from. From her calculation, it was only one person left for her to kill, she had seen five conscious people in her bug streaming and killed four already. She guessed the last person to be Don, she had not seen his face well as he backed the bug all through the few minutes she watched. She exchanged the gun in her hand with another in her side pocket, it had more bullets in it, in case another person who did not stay in the area covered by the bug was around.

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Don had a pistol in his right hand and his phone to his ear on the left, still talking with Rex as he walked out through the door. 'We can't find any... F**k it!' the phone fell off his hand as he scrambled back in on seeing a gun pointed towards his side and a bullet following it. He hadn't seen the shooter's face properly but he recognized the figure. was Samantha. He rushed back to the place where he was previously questioning the sedated guy to pick an extra gun. He ensured there were bullets in it before he made his way back.

He stopped at the wall beside the door and peeped out carefully before stepping out to the corridor. He leaned on the wall and raised his gun in anticipation as he dragged his back against the wall to the edge of the wall. He peeped and couldn't find Tarasha where he had seen her before. He drew back and looked around again to see if he'll get signs that she had passed to the other side of the building but didn't. He shot towards the wall twice and there was still no movement.



He needed to call Stainless and Stone to inform them of the development. He could see the phone that fell from his hand to the ground beneath the pavement, it wasn't far but it would require him to step down from the corridor thereby leaving the wall which was his cover and exposing himself to a gunshot. He sniffed in and shook his head as he thought of the possibility of his success in picking the phone. He finally decided not to try it yet as it could be the mistake that would cause him his life.

'Don Daniel,' he was startled at the call of his name. His eyes danced to and fro, searching everywhere and even the ceiling to know if the voice came from there. 'I know you're behind the wall there and you can hear me. Both of us could decide to stay behind walls all day, I think it'll we better if we come out to face each other."

Don was now sure about the direction from which the voice came now and he was careful not to poke out his head beyond the wall even as he tried to peep. 'F*** you! Who the hell do you think you are?' he shouted out in anger.

'Hey! This is no time to ask unnecessary questions, it's better we come out of hiding and settle the matter face.' Tarasha replied him in a loud voice but still calmly.

'Definitely, I'm gonna kill you today. It's better you say your last prayers now,' Don said. He came out briefly and began to fire shots to the wall where her voice was coming from.

Even though she was still behind the wall, she had to bend down to avoid the effect of the bullet on building. She didn't peep as his shots became continuous but she could calculate the next step he was going to take.

Don decided to end it once and for all, even if his life was going to be taken, it wasn't going to end without him giving Tarasha a good fight. He stepped down from the balcony carefully, he picked his phone and began to move towards the direction of the voice, shooting anytime he felt or noticed a shadow behind the wall.


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Oyinprince:
CHAPTER 4 Part 8

Don eyes located the bow tie under the table where it rolled to. He pointed his flashlight downwards as he bent to pick it. He touched the tie with his hand and picked it, but as he was about to rise up, his eyes met with something else, he slowly bent down and pointed the light to the object under the table. He had not yet figured out what it was when the sole of someone's shoe kissed his face and pushed him backwards, he landed painfully on his back with a scream.

'Damn it!' Don cursed as he saw the figure struggle out from under the table. He hadn't seen the face but he automatically knew who it was. He picked his phone which had fallen to the ground and struggled to his feet. With the pain he felt on his back, he still followed after her immediately. He picked his pistol on one of the tables he had left it and pointed it towards her at the door but she was out before he could release two shots.


Aisha jumped down the corridor but unluckily for her, she jumped into the hands of one of Don's parading men. He sent her sprawling to the ground knocking her out with two heavy blows on her face.

Don came out to meet her on the ground, he pointed his gun at her as he moved closer.

'No boss, don't shoot.' his man pleaded with him. 'We've got the vehicles closer and we've settled the Security men, let's leave now from the back without making so much noise.'

Don seemed to think for a while before putting his gun into his pocket hesitatingly. 'Pick her up,' he said. The guy dragged Aisha up and placed her on his big shoulders. 'How much did you bribe the Security men with?' Don asked as he waited for the guy to lead.

'We didn't pay anything, most of the Security men here are Ojo's friends,' the man replied and led the way to a dark and narrow space between two buildings.

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'Hey girl,' Tarasha called in low tones as she walked over the bodies and got closer to the door of the toilet. She opened the door and looked in, there was no sign of Stephanie in the place. She stepped back outside the toilet and looked around to see if Stephanie was hanging around, there was still no sign of her. She hissed angrily and hurried back through the way she had gotten into the place. She took out her phone hurriedly and unlocked it, she clicked on a tracker app and waited a minute for it to load. From the reading on the app, she could tell that Stephanie was still in that building. She got angrier and regretted coming back to get Stephanie, the girl was only a distraction to her main purpose and she wasn't supposed to have allowed the distraction. Stephanie had made matters worse disobeying Tarasha's instruction by leaving the toilet where she was asked to hide. Tarasha decided to return to the couple and leave Stephanie to find her way if she could or die due to her stubbornness.



'Get in,' Tarasha said in a ordering tone to the couples which she led from the building at the back to where the bus was parked. It took them over ten minutes to walk there because of their weak bodies, but Tarasha was patient enough, only hoping in her mind that none of Don's men was going to arrive while they delayed with their sluggishness.

She proceeded to open the gate while the couples got into the car. She also picked the device she had attached to the front of the gate and the explosive mechanism she set up behind the security house. She hurried back to the bus and closed the big passenger's door before turning to the driver's side.

She drove out in less than a minute and dropped again to close the gate, after parking the bus just few metres away from the gate.

She paused on getting halfway in closing the gate and remained still to listen, she thought she had heard something from the building. Even though she was angry that Stephanie had disobeyed her instruction, she still didn't feel alright leaving without her. Her plan was to drop Stephanie and the couples in front of a police station and alert the officers to pick them while she goes on her way.

She closed the gate after waiting for few seconds without hearing anything else and hurried to the bus. She hopped in and turned the vehicle into the free road, she drove slowly towards the U-turn and made a turn to the other carriage way which linked to the road where she parked the car she came with. It took another two minutes to get to the place the car was parked. She stopped the bus there and dropped to take some things from the other vehicle, she put them into the boot of the bus. She turned back and looked towards the warehouse again, she felt a bit guilty for leaving Stephanie behind but couldn't do anything about it since Stephanie was the one disobeyed her instructions. She closed the boot and walked back to the car to lock the doors properly, then she turned to the driver's side of the bus and entered the vehicle.

As she started the vehicle engine and pulled the seatbelt, she felt a slight wave of headache, then she Rikau's face suddenly flashed through her mind again. She closed her eyes to absorb the pain but it seemed to worsen it. She saw herself again as a small kid under Rikau's body using one of his hands to hold her two tiny hands and dipping one into her pant. Then Stephanie's face and the way she struggled flashed through her mind again, she could see the picture of Ojo pants pulled down and him trying to have his way violently.


The bad memories suddenly blacked out, leaving her with a more painful headache. She slammed her two hands on the steering wheel and took off the seatbelt. She opened the door and stepped out of the bus. She closed her eyes and took in a deep breath. She opened her eyes as she heard murmurings from inside the vehicle, she looked towards the couple but couldn't see their faces as the darkness in the bus covered them. She knew they must be wondering who she was and why she was acting all strange. Even she couldn't understand her strange behaviour but she knew the cause of newly developed headache was the thought of leaving Stephanie behind in danger. She felt there was a strong connection between her and Stephanie but she couldn't just explain what it was.

She took out her phone again and unlocked it, the tracker app was still running and it indicated that Stephanie was still in the building.

'Don't turn on the light,' she said to the couples, pointing her phone's flashlight into the vehicle through the window. 'And , don't make any noise. Don't let anyone discover your presence here. I'll be back, there's still someone in that building I need to get out.'

Oyinprince:
CHAPTER 4 Part 8

Don eyes located the bow tie under the table where it rolled to. He pointed his flashlight downwards as he bent to pick it. He touched the tie with his hand and picked it, but as he was about to rise up, his eyes met with something else, he slowly bent down and pointed the light to the object under the table. He had not yet figured out what it was when the sole of someone's shoe kissed his face and pushed him backwards, he landed painfully on his back with a scream.

'Damn it!' Don cursed as he saw the figure struggle out from under the table. He hadn't seen the face but he automatically knew who it was. He picked his phone which had fallen to the ground and struggled to his feet. With the pain he felt on his back, he still followed after her immediately. He picked his pistol on one of the tables he had left it and pointed it towards her at the door but she was out before he could release two shots.


Aisha jumped down the corridor but unluckily for her, she jumped into the hands of one of Don's parading men. He sent her sprawling to the ground knocking her out with two heavy blows on her face.

Don came out to meet her on the ground, he pointed his gun at her as he moved closer.

'No boss, don't shoot.' his man pleaded with him. 'We've got the vehicles closer and we've settled the Security men, let's leave now from the back without making so much noise.'

Don seemed to think for a while before putting his gun into his pocket hesitatingly. 'Pick her up,' he said. The guy dragged Aisha up and placed her on his big shoulders. 'How much did you bribe the Security men with?' Don asked as he waited for the guy to lead.

'We didn't pay anything, most of the Security men here are Ojo's friends,' the man replied and led the way to a dark and narrow space between two buildings.

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'Hey girl,' Tarasha called in low tones as she walked over the bodies and got closer to the door of the toilet. She opened the door and looked in, there was no sign of Stephanie in the place. She stepped back outside the toilet and looked around to see if Stephanie was hanging around, there was still no sign of her. She hissed angrily and hurried back through the way she had gotten into the place. She took out her phone hurriedly and unlocked it, she clicked on a tracker app and waited a minute for it to load. From the reading on the app, she could tell that Stephanie was still in that building. She got angrier and regretted coming back to get Stephanie, the girl was only a distraction to her main purpose and she wasn't supposed to have allowed the distraction. Stephanie had made matters worse disobeying Tarasha's instruction by leaving the toilet where she was asked to hide. Tarasha decided to return to the couple and leave Stephanie to find her way if she could or die due to her stubbornness.



'Get in,' Tarasha said in a ordering tone to the couples which she led from the building at the back to where the bus was parked. It took them over ten minutes to walk there because of their weak bodies, but Tarasha was patient enough, only hoping in her mind that none of Don's men was going to arrive while they delayed with their sluggishness.

She proceeded to open the gate while the couples got into the car. She also picked the device she had attached to the front of the gate and the explosive mechanism she set up behind the security house. She hurried back to the bus and closed the big passenger's door before turning to the driver's side.

She drove out in less than a minute and dropped again to close the gate, after parking the bus just few metres away from the gate.

She paused on getting halfway in closing the gate and remained still to listen, she thought she had heard something from the building. Even though she was angry that Stephanie had disobeyed her instruction, she still didn't feel alright leaving without her. Her plan was to drop Stephanie and the couples in front of a police station and alert the officers to pick them while she goes on her way.

She closed the gate after waiting for few seconds without hearing anything else and hurried to the bus. She hopped in and turned the vehicle into the free road, she drove slowly towards the U-turn and made a turn to the other carriage way which linked to the road where she parked the car she came with. It took another two minutes to get to the place the car was parked. She stopped the bus there and dropped to take some things from the other vehicle, she put them into the boot of the bus. She turned back and looked towards the warehouse again, she felt a bit guilty for leaving Stephanie behind but couldn't do anything about it since Stephanie was the one disobeyed her instructions. She closed the boot and walked back to the car to lock the doors properly, then she turned to the driver's side of the bus and entered the vehicle.

As she started the vehicle engine and pulled the seatbelt, she felt a slight wave of headache, then she Rikau's face suddenly flashed through her mind again. She closed her eyes to absorb the pain but it seemed to worsen it. She saw herself again as a small kid under Rikau's body using one of his hands to hold her two tiny hands and dipping one into her pant. Then Stephanie's face and the way she struggled flashed through her mind again, she could see the picture of Ojo pants pulled down and him trying to have his way violently.


The bad memories suddenly blacked out, leaving her with a more painful headache. She slammed her two hands on the steering wheel and took off the seatbelt. She opened the door and stepped out of the bus. She closed her eyes and took in a deep breath. She opened her eyes as she heard murmurings from inside the vehicle, she looked towards the couple but couldn't see their faces as the darkness in the bus covered them. She knew they must be wondering who she was and why she was acting all strange. Even she couldn't understand her strange behaviour but she knew the cause of newly developed headache was the thought of leaving Stephanie behind in danger. She felt there was a strong connection between her and Stephanie but she couldn't just explain what it was.

She took out her phone again and unlocked it, the tracker app was still running and it indicated that Stephanie was still in the building.

'Don't turn on the light,' she said to the couples, pointing her phone's flashlight into the vehicle through the window. 'And , don't make any noise. Don't let anyone discover your presence here. I'll be back, there's still someone in that building I need to get out.'

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