BitmapStudios:
I can't remember the exact point I was. I think the part where Henry had lost his memory, Rex desperately after Tarasha and Tarasha finding out her brother is probably still alive.
Who can help with the chapter?
CC: OyinPrince.

That should be season 1

Lotel:
Loool.. Tarasha that I've read and re-read season 1 and 2 completely since 2017.. Those looking for the complete story should Google it, there are links to the original writer's page, youngicee or so where you can find it..

I'm the original writer, you can follow my new story on www.youngicee.com/stories/restless

Iyke3522:
Well since u asked for it.. just type tarasha/coolval22 on google.. and read d full story.. it was posted over 3 years ago. how come dix human he's saying is the author is what is beyond me.. this kind of attitude is why this country is not moving forward.. peace bruv

Lol, just type Tarasha and you'll find the complete story on my blog. I gave permission for it to be posted on coolval and it ended this year. I'm wondering where you read it completely 3 years ago

Iyke3522:
I hate it when people steal other people intellectual works.. I read this piece of literature about 2 years ago.

Lol, what is this guy talking about here?

Restless - Episode 67

® 18+ SNVL
© Oyinloye Oluwatosin Emmanuel

Bexford International Airport,
Bexford, Bethanna.

11:49AM

Both dressed in black suits, they walked side by side slowly and confidently towards the garage area of the airport. Three men, also dressed the same way followed behind them carrying their luggages.

Hutton's face looked tough and determined with the dark sunshades covering his eyes. His neatly shaven head shone like a mirror under the sun and his well kept shiny black coloured beards and moustache glowed from the sun's reflection. All these together gave him a handsome appearance. Coupled with that, he had good heights with a well built chest, something more moderate and attractive compared to that of a usual weight lifter.

Kahn on the other hand was of average height. He kept a neat low cut hair on his head and clean shaved beards. His body was also well built and hefty but his chest was a little less broader than Hutton's.

Two vehicles were waiting for them in the garage. Kahn and Hutton got into the backseat of the Jeep together. One of the men that was following behind them joined the driver at the front seat while the two others joined the other men at the car.

"Have you called to confirm if records of Antonio and Vincent have been wiped out already?" Hutton asked as soon as they settled in the car.

"I called few minutes ago, they're almost done." Kahn answered. "I'll get a word from the man as soon as they're done."

"We need to clear all traces of them immediately and also revoke every access they have to our systems and networks."


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13:02PM

Osmos Estate,
Ostio, Bethanna.

"I'm there already and I can't find you around?" Henry said into the mouthpiece of the phone, looking around from the window of the driver's seat where he sat.

Samantha was sitting at the passenger's side calmly, wondering what Henry had brought her to do there. He had said they were there to get more funds for their mission and she was confused by the kind of movements they had been making and he was yet to make any explanation.

It was an estate which consisted of very beautiful buildings which one could easily tell that were expensive. As a newly developing estate, most of the houses there were not inhabited by anyone, so the population was low.

"I can't find see you also, are you sure you are at the yellow building?" The voice asked Henry from the other end.

"Yeah, I just parked there in a blue Honda." Henry replied.

"Okay, I can see you now. I'll meet you in two minutes."

Henry raised his face to look at the storey building at the other side of the road. His eyes scanned the windows and openings quickly and he concluded that the person he was talking to must have been watching him from one of the openings there.

Two minutes later, a man stepped out through the gate of the building in focus and looked in their direction. The road was as usual not busy, so he crossed immediately to the median and then the other side.

Henry opened the door to step out and talk to the man but he closed it back after a second thought. He glanced at Samantha, "Please, move to the backseat so I can speak with him in the car. I want you to be a part of our conversation."

"Okay boss," Samantha replied and quickly stepped out of the car. She greeted the man and pointed him in as she moved the backseat.

"Good afternoon Mr Dominic," Henry greeted without taking a look at the man who entered.

"Good afternoon Mr Henry," the young man answered.

Dominic was a dark complexioned young man of petite stature, he looked more like a person in his early thirties.

"I'm sorry about your Dad's death, I was only trying to reach him when I heard about it." Henry commiserated.

"Thanks," Dominic shrugged. "He died a good man, at least we're happy about that."

"Yeah, that's true, he was a good man." Henry said with a very brief smile, finally casting a glance on Dominic.

There was a few seconds silence. Henry's gaze fell on the documents in Dominic's hands and he squinted.

"Are you here with the documents?"

"These are photocopies, I thought you may need them since you said you lost some of the copies with you." Dominic answered, handing him one of the two files.

"Oh! That's so considerate of you," Henry smiled, a little longer this time. He documents and scanned through them quickly. "So," he looked again at Dominic as he arranged the documents. "I'll like for you to get the payment done, but like I said, it would have to be into a separate account, not the one I registered with."

Dominic raised his brows. "I was trying to explain something to you while we spoke on phone, I talked about some changes my father made before his death."

"Yeah," Henry frowned. "I didn't really understand you."

"Currently, we have only the past five months proceeds from the estate with us and I can send them to you right now. It's a total of about three hundred million"

"Five months? How come?" Henry frowned harder.

"Here," Dominic opened the second file in his hand and took out a paper. "My Dad died six months ago and before he died, the agreement of paying every seven months was signed with him." He stopped trying to explain as he saw Henry already engrossed with the document.

"What agreement are you talking about and who did he sign it with?" Henry looked away from the document and looked at Dominic's face. He looked distraught. He had left the estate in care of Dominic's father in December 2014 and the man had been running it since then. The agreement made was for payments to be made annually but since Henry had experienced the calamity of his family's death and survived, he had not made any contact with the man, only to have tried to do so weeks earlier and discover that the man had died already. He expected to still have the proceeds from the last year intact as he wasn't available to sign the payment. The man was only allowed to take his commission in his absence.

"Please read that page carefully, my father signed there." Dominic said as he took out another document and stretched it forth to Henry. "On this page, you have your own signature."

Henry decided to finish with the page in his hand before collecting the other page. Revealed in the first page was the man's statement of agreement that he accepted to change the previous agreement which was paying annually to paying every seven months.

Henry finally took the second page and scanned through it quickly, it contained his own statement of agreement. He held his breath and his eyes widened in shock as he saw the signature at the end of the page.

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14:35PM

Osmos Estate,
Benuit, Bethanna.

"Mum, some men are here to see us," a boy in his teenage years said to the woman sitting in the couch as he entered into the living room.

"Who are they?" She raised her brows at the boy who came to settle in the seat adjacent hers.

"They are security agents, they introduced themselves as FOX officials." the boy answered her question.

"So, why have they not been allowed in?" The woman squinted as she looked towards the entrance. Two men who she assumed were their guests had just come in.

The embattled Mrs Vincent who had gotten the news of her husbands kidnap the previous night had been expecting visits from more security agencies. She had received the police that morning and they had called later to tell her to expect more visits from other security agencies.

"Good afternoon madam," the men greeted as they proceeded into the living room, raising their FOX identity cards up for her to see.

"Good afternoon," she replied and adjusted her sitting position.

"We're FOX agents from the national headquarters, my name is Steve and my partner here is Daniel." The man in front introduced.

"You're welcome, please have your seats."

The two settled into the seats directly opposite the woman comfortably.

"First of all, we would like to assure you that we are fully out and working on this case and we are going to certainly return your husband to you safe and sound."

"Oh!" The woman exclaimed with a gasp. "I'll be the happiest woman on earth if you're able to do that."

"We would get it done, we're not relenting." The officer reassured and readjusted himself on the seat. "We've been investigating already and we've come to ask some questions and also get some information around the house, we do hope you would be willing to help us."

"For sure, as far as it's going to return my husband safely."

"Yeah, he would return safe and that's why we are taking very urgent and stringent measures this time." He took two seconds pause to take out his phone before he continued. "This kidnap has been found to have some strange semblance to some recent kidnaps which includes that of Richard Brad, Mr Henderson and some others. This time however, we are going to get the two victims out unscathed."

"Ask me your questions, I would tell you all I know."

"First and foremost, we'd like you to tell us everyone and anyone you suspect could have a hand in this," the officer replied.

"I don't suspect anyone really, my husband hasn't had a disagreement or fight with anyone I know of recently." she answered.

The officer glanced at his partner's face and looked back at her. "Have you noticed any suspicious element in his movements recently?"

The woman squinted for a while, then she looked at the officer's face and shook her head. "No, I haven't noticed anything."

"What do you know about your husband's job?"

"My husband left the military some years ago and has been working as a security consultant for different firms and training security staffs, and he's been also working at the factory on Vincil as a consultant."

"There are rumors that there's been illegal production of explosives in the factory your husband works as a consultant, have you ever suspected such or seen anything that suggested so?"

"No," she shook her head again. "Like you said, it's just a rumour, unconfirmed by investigation yet."

"You're right..." The officer proceeded to asking her some more questions and carefully listened to her answers. He made a request after twenty minutes of interrogation.

"You said your husband spends more time in his personal room when he's at home?" The officer asked to confirm.

"Yes."

"Ermm... Can we check this room and probably go through some of his personal things there?"

The woman frowned.

The officer smiled to reduce the tension. "I know that sounds strange right, but you know this is urgent and I also told you we're taking urgent and stringent steps. If we're allowed to go through his personal things and see the things he does when he's alone, it could help us in our investigation."

"But, he doesn't like anyone going into the place especially when he's not around." She complained.

"If we're not allowed to check, he may never return to use that room again." The officer said, staring at her face intently. He could see she was scared. He took out a paper from his breast pocket and unfolded it as he proceeded towards her. "By the way, we have license from the office to do this, we're not just making the request without any backing." He said before handing the permission paper to her.

She checked through it briefly and nodded as she looked at him. "I'll take you there."


A total of eighty five minutes was spent in the room by the men. They did not only search the room but also went through the man's laptop and one of the devices found in the room. About three-quarter of the duration has been spent using the laptop alone.

The woman walked them to the entrance balcony when they were about to leave.

"I'll be expecting positive results as soon as possible," Mrs Vincent said as she watched the men walk down the steps.

"Yes, madam. We have enough information already and we would be working with what we have immediately." He replied.

She closed her eyes and drew in a breath.

"So, how are you guys returning?" She asked when she couldn't find their car parked anywhere in the compound.

"Our vehicle is outside," she was replied.

"Okay, do have a safe trip back to the capital," she smiled as she received their handshakes.

"Thank you ma."

She walked to the rails and rested her elbows on it as she watched them walk out through the gate.

She closed her eyes and took in a deep breath again. She hoped that all the details gotten by the men would help them bring her husband back home safely.

She opened her eyes and was about to walk back into the house when she noticed the security man at the gate talking with someone and also flashing glances in her direction. She thought at first that the FOX agents had forgotten something.

She waited for a while and watched, she saw the security man step out through the gate and come back in some seconds after. He closed the gate and began to walk towards her.

"Excuse me ma'am," the security man said as he got closer. "Aren't those men who came in now FOX Agents?"

"Yes, they are." The woman replied squinting at him. "Didn't you let them in?"

"Yes, I did," the man looked confused. "But there's another man and a woman outside, claiming they're from the FOX."

"The FOX?"

"Yes, Agent Steve and Agent Evelyn."


To be continued.


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The Bodyguard Reloaded - Episode 10

© Tisa Phiri

Paula.....

Waking up, l extended my hand to touch Ackim, but my hand fall on a blank space. I opened my eyes to look at my side he wasnt there . l turned to look at the watch on the table besides the bed , it was 05 am. I sat up and peeped through the bathroom door which was slightly open , he wasn`t there.

"where is this man ?" l whispered wrapping the gown on myself as l went out of the bedroom .

" In the kids bedroom." l thought to myself when l found the sitting room empty.

He was deeply asleep, his phone in his hands , l shook my head . Something was really up with him . l had noticed how sad he looked the previous night though he pretended to be calm ,

"maybe he knows l went to see Jay " l thought but then how could he have known ?

I took his phone which was almost sliding down and as l thought of putting it aside the screen opened , showing some picture file . with shock l slid through the photos and l was shocked , my heart skipped ..

"what ? who sent this?" l spoke up , waking Ackim who was asleep . He woke up and looked at me opening his eyes slightly. without a word he watched me for a couple of seconds and stood up.

"Ackim what is this ?" I asked him,

"whats what ?" He asked seriously looking at me.

"I was hoping you would tell me Paula" he answered. I could see the pain in his eyes , he was hurting and now l understood his behavior the previous night .

"Oh babe am.... am sorry but this is not what you think l just um... " I stammered , l had no words to tell him . How would l tell him l went to console my ex boyfriend who was so drunk and he pushed me around trying to convince me to get back to him? How would l tell him l fought him when he tried to kiss me and make me remember what we had ? I felt hopeless , my heart broken too . l knew l should have not trusted Serah and Jay. I definitely knew it was Serah , otherwise no one except the two of us and Jay knew about our meeting the previous day.

"Don't take me for a fool Paula" l heard Ackim tell me his voice with so much firmness and sad that l felt shivers on my body.

"Someone sent me that yesterday and it so happens at the same time you were supposed to be with Serah God knows where. Am not man enough for you Paula?" He asked his eyes wet .

"How could you do this to me? we are not even a month old in marriage and you fall back in the hands of that man. Is that why you called him here so that you dump me weeks after our wedding ?" He snapped angrily.

"Ackim , please don't say that, please you have to trust me l didn't do anything please understand." l cried holding his face .

" l love you so much and l swear l can never cheat on you. I don't love Jay and l have no reason whatsoever to get back with him , we have kids together Ackim and have been through a lot together. How could you accuse me of cheating ? " I asked tears running down my face.

"Accuse you ?" He asked looking away,

"am now accusing uh? tell me one thing Paula, did you or did you not go to that man`s hotel room ?" He asked sternly . The look in his eyes was killing me . He dropped my hands and stepped back, he didn't look like my Ackim. Clearly he didn't trust me and was so angry .

"Babe, please calm down" l said instead of answering his question , and he walked out leaving me standing . l followed him but he banged the door behind him in my face , l startled .

"Babe come back here please!" l ran after him as he grabbed the keys to the range rover and went out .

I sat down the couch powerless.

"Oh God what have l done now ?" I cried so much. I had hurt the man who l didn't just love but he was everything to me. I wished l had not listened to Serah and my life would have been different .

Flash back.....

I had no idea the hotel room Jay was in and Serah told me the room number. We went there at Protea hotel were Jay was booked in and Serah insisted l went in alone . "Come on Serah, how will people look at me if i go into the hotel room alone ?" I asked her shaking my head.

" Hey don't tell me married people cannot walk into hotels , come on , Paula stop acting like a child . Go in and do what we came for here. Stip that man from killing himself" she pushed me out of the car . l gave her a look and walked away to the entrance .

I found Jay`s room slightly open and from the entrance l saw bottles of beer on the floor. I pushed the door and found him laying back on the bed a bottle of wine in his hands .

"Jay what is happening here ?" I asked him standing next to him .

"Paula" he sighed looking at me and smiling widely .

"Wow ! Heavens are real for sure , it has brought back my woman" he added sitting up .

"Excuse me dear am not here to entertain you , don`t be silly Jay you have to understand l am not coming back to you . Not today, not tomorrow and not ever." l told him firmly.

" Am married and l love my man with everything that l am. So whatever you plan of doing here is all in vain. Instead of thinking of killing yourself start thinking of going back to Australia, go back home Jay."

"mmmmmmmmh l see " he said smiling,

" if you did love him that much you wouldn't be here right now, come on baby, you and me are meant to be, remember we were together for 5 years ,there is no way you can just throw away what we had." he added standing up and facing me.

"We were happy Paula. You and me.."

"Hmm , l see you are lost Jay am not lying when l tell you l love Ackim, and you are right l shouldn`t be here, and for your own information those 5 years were not happy for me , you were always cheating with other women remember?" I told him and brushed off his hand .

"That idiot has spoiled you Paula" he doesn't deserve you.

"Just dump him and leave the babies with him, then you and me can fly back to Austrilia." he said moving close to me .

"I can't believe this, here l am thinking something serious was going on, and that you wanted to kill yourself or something. Now l know you and Serah are idiots who are here to make my life difficult , am out of here Jay and please don't you dare come back to my home and text me in the night like you have been doing , go back to your country already!" l added as l turned away to leave.

He pulled me back and forced a kiss on me .

"What the hell Jay !" l snapped slapping him hard . He staggered and stepped back and grabbed me back pushing me to the bed, he came on top of me whispering ,

"please Paula don't do this to me" he pleaded trying to place his lips on me .

"Leave me now Jay or l will scream" l said kicking him hard on his groins. He winced in pain and sat up and l took off after hitting him twice in the face leaving him wearing a stupid smile as l left for the door .

" Don't you dare come near me again you jerk! " l shouted angrily.

I found Serah seated calmly scrolling something on her phone. "You bitch! you set me up with that fool of a man!" l shouted at her. "What now ?" She responded innocently .

"So this was your plan uh? you lied Jay was about to do something stupid and l fall for the lie meanwhile you had something else in mind ? Get out of my car!" l screamed opening the passenger seat

" and let me tell you Serah, as of today you are out of my house!" l added as l got into the driver`s seat.

" Just come for your things tomorrow and go to the airport first thing in the morning, your business here is over!" l added and took off.

I was so upset l parked in town for some few minutes to calm down. I thought of telling Ackim what happened but knowing his temper l knew he would react bad and he would kill him . l composed myself wiped my face and walked to the house.

Ackim wasn't around and checking his closet l noticed his gym clothes werent in there , l assumed he had gone to the gym like he did most of the afternoons. l felt relieved cause facing him right that moment could have given me away. I watched a documentary on TV with the twins for an hour and decided to help the maid prepare supper..

He walked in an hour later and his look was sad , l didn`t want to push it that night asking him things when l had something burning up as well , all l wanted was being in his arms and l slept happy knowing l had him close enough .

.............

I sighed coming back to the present,

"so Serah set me up. l thought she ended on wasting my time . Little did l know the whole thing was a scam to capture photos and send to Ackim , my God what have l done?" l cried.

The maid came to ask me if she could help me with anything and l asked her to sit down.

"Come here , take care of the babies I might delay coming back. make sure they are okey" l added walking to the bedroom .

l changed into a dress and flat sleepers. I had to find Ackim l thought to myself. He was hurting and he could end up doing something crazy. I had to explain everything as it was and save my marriage,

"l swear you will get to hear me Serah!" l whispered as l joined the road from the yard.

To be continued

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The Bodyguard Reloaded - Episode 9

© Tisa Phiri

Ackim.......

I was busy playing with the twins in the house .

I just loved being around them . Paul the younger one by 4 hours was always fetching much attention than Kim . Him was so much of action , throwing and grabbing things everywhere .

Hey guys time for your afternoon nap l shouted leading them to their room after the nanny fed them . We had decided to train them to sleep at defined times and they were getting used to the system , every afternoon they would sleep at exactly at 16 hours , in the night at exactly 20 hours, mid morning at 10 hours . Sometimes Paula complained that l treat them like they are in the military. I would tell her, they were to grow up with discipline .

They fall asleep and l heard my phone beep , l had received a whatsapp text . l ignored my phone and went to watch some soccer putting it besides me . l knew Paula was with Serah . She told me she had to take her somewhere but l cared less to ask her where to . Her friend was getting on my nerves but l had to bear with her since l knew she was going back in a few days .

At half time l opened my phone to check the text and my hands felt numb as l scrolled down seeing the photos of Paula with Jay her ex boyfriend . l knew the guy was a nut but l didn't anticipate her falling back in his arms . The first one, he was hugging her, the second he leaned forward and kissed her and the last one he lay on top of her on the bed . My heart pounded fast l felt it would burst inside me . My hands shook and l dropped the phone , l was powerless . Oh God what is happening l whispered standing up . I picked the phone and looked at them again , they came from a strange number and l couldn't recognise it .

I paced around the room not really knowing what to do my heart pounding . l folded my fist and rubbed in on my other hand , anger building up . l felt desperate .

I needed to hit something so hard to feel relieved , grabbing the keys l walked outside to the car and speed off to the gym .

Hey Ackim, the owner called me out, Hey man l responded . l need to work out really hard , l told him removing my pants and putting on shorts .

I spent the rest of the afternoon hitting and lifting weights not even keeping track of time . by the time l was done it was past 18 hours .

I went to the wash room and stood under the shower letting water fall on me as my mind thought of paula . l loved her with everything l had . l hard done my best to love her and show her all the care ,what have l done wrong ? I asked myself my heart bleeding .

Wasn`t l man enough for her to fall back into the hands of of her ex ?

I recalled the time l went out to have some time out with my friends the previous year , one of the boys warned me to be careful . She`s hot man and has money, and you are not so much close to what she has . Pray she loves you much man he added .

I know my woman loves me guys , l trust her she's not like that . l know how she is . She accepts me and would do things for me than anyone else would not .

I felt so disappointed as l drove home from the gym . l thought of going to the bar to have a drink up and get wasted but then l changed my mind . l needed to stay calm and focused so l went straight home and worked on my facial expression .

Hey babe , Paula called me out from the kitchen where the maid was preparing supper . Hey love l faked a smile . She walked to me and kissed me on the lips .

So how did it go with your friend ? I asked her as l inhaled her strange scent . l could tell there was some man perfume on her which made me mad but l still stayed calm .

It was okey she answered walking back to the kitchen avoiding my eyes .

I see , l told her so were is she ? I asked grabbing an apple from the fruit rack .

Um she's coming later babe , she had to do something in town . She told me wiping some plate and placing on the table to serve the table .

After supper l went straight to see the twins and saw them to bed . l sat on the couch lost in thoughts . lt felt bad to look at Paula and stay calm , my mind was screaming that l act but l convinced myself to stay calm .

She came to the room and found me leaning back on the couch my eyes closed . She came on top of me and whispered ,hey soldier the kids are asleep now lets go to bed . l looked at her and sighed , babe do you love me ? I asked seriously .

What kind of question is that Ackim ? she snapped .

Oh , am sorry love , l just want to hear it , l told her in a low tone rubbing my head on her chest as she sat on me .

Yes babe , l love you so much and you know that . Why did you ask it in that way ? She asked lifting her head to look at me .

How ? I asked seriously.

Like that , she said pointing at my face , look here Ackim l know you . Something is not okey , can you tell me what is eating you up ? she asked me .

Am okey babe l gues l over worked at the gym l lied and l wanted my wife to tell me she loved me and you are answering like you don't like me asking you that . l told her holding her fingers .

Am sorry babe come on let's go to our room now , she whispered kissing my ears . l need us to continue celebrating our new home .

Yeah let's go , l said lifting her and putting her down .

I let her do her thing on me even when l wasn't feeling like being intimate with her. My body obeyed her and we made love , it wasn`t as exciting though .

I woke up in the middle of the night , she was fast asleep her hair covered her face . l carefully pushed it aside leaving her sleepy face open and kissed her . l felt tears run down my face . l loved the woman before me with everything l had and it hurt so much .

Why did you do this to me love? I imagined her in the arms of another man and it hurt so much . l whispered caressing her hair . l trusted you so much Paula . You have taken away my pride as a man .

I had never anticipated feeling what l was feeling for a woman before . l spent the whole night pacing around the house untill l finally fall asleep on the couch in the twins bedroom .

To be continued

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Episode 19
the door push open by Nkechi Amina’s mother “Amina, Lucy you don come again, if ona wan play lesbian play nobe for my roof oh, make ona warn ona sef” Amina’s mother warned standing at the door, she left the door when they have remain quiet, the two girls grinned, Lucy stood up and threw the pillow at Amina and ran out of the room.
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8pm.
The next day.
“Base on say na me set this compass, I godey chop Amina back and front, so make ona four choose who go sample her sister first?” Five of them are in a room the windows facing the road in an uncompleted building close to Amina’s compound, the construction of the house has stopped a year ago. And the house is surrounded by grasses, sitted on the Window is YouTube who proposed the idea.
“Na me na, nobody fit handle Lucy here apart from me, that girl sabi **** well well” Mallam who is on a foam in the uncompleted room, cleared by the five of them. Mallam is the one who brought the idea of the foam for relaxation.
“You want make that girl turn you cripple, you nodey hear her voice wey dey sound like person wey don suck **** tire. She need person wey get muscles like me, make I give am plenty styles” the macho among them, his name is Bethel but popularly called Bet for his love for bet9ja.
“Ona fit dey drag oh, the watching go be turn by turn. You know say them don go party” YouTube said, he had trail the girls the whole day, and he find them discussing about something with Victoria earlier in the day. He conceal himself in a nearby bush and eavesdropped on their conversation, he mapped out a perfect place for their hide-out before calling his other friends who wanted to have Amina badly like him too.
“Bet, with that your small prick? Na Lucy go rape you na, ona know say na me get the longest ammunition for here” Emeka the smallest among them in stature said, Bethel felt insulted and grabbed his shirt collar and raise a punch to his face.
“Abeg oh, na joke oh. No kill me oh” Emeka pleaded with his hands up in the air making the others laugh at him, “make we use this leaf throw dice, for who go sample Lucy” Mallam took a leaf and ask one of them to choose. The only person allowed to throw the leaf is YouTube who continually declare the winners till the final round.
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“I regret why my papa na pastor, the man just dey frustrate brother James wey dey **** me well” Lucy said sipping from a bottle of beer, her voice loud so the others could hear her. The hall is rowdy, people going out and coming in, girls and boys with their best out-fits. Loud music playing from the big speakers.
“Your father na goodman, any boy you date. Em go go round the area dey warn the boy upadan” Amina chip in chuckling, four of them are sitted round a table.
“How em come take good, na my papa go marry me” Lucy said rolling her eyes. Victor, Victoria his sister. Lucy and Amina are the four occupants of the chairs surrounding the table with different drinks.
“Fish dey swim for your brain, you don reach to marry, sweet sixteen like you” Victor said winking and licking his lips at Lucy, Amina step on his foot and he wince in pain. He sat betwixt Amina and Victoria, they don’t want a situation where he will be fingering Lucy beneath the table.
“Make husband and wife go dance na” Victoria suggested pointing at the people dancing at the other end of the hall that is dimly light, people are dancing there. The tables and chairs are not allowed in that section. Victoria who returned home to celebrate the Christmas holiday.
“Amina no sabi dance na, her nyash dey heavy her to carry” Victor said jokingly, Amina almost spill her drink as every one grinned.
“You wan pour for your boxer, oya na” Amina stood up and drag him along to the other side were people are dancing, the song become louder as she turned her ass to his groin. Twerking on him, Victor feel his boner getting attention anytime Amina twist her waist.
A boy sitting in the tables section stood up, almost tipsy holding a half drink beer bottle in his right hand “Aro mate!” He shouted loudly his voice strong and loud.
“Aro” others on red caps echo.
“Excess ooh” he raised his bottle up, charging.
“Bloody!” The others echo.
A gun shot fired in the air by someone who has smoking in one of the table with two girls beside him, and some of his guys are sitted around him.
“Asa wana wana” he shouted standing up.
“Wana!” His group on black, echo with him.
“Asa chase” he shouted again firing another shot in the air.
“Asa chase them all” they echo again, there were sudden unrest in the hall as people scamper out of the hall, those who don’t belong to any of the secret cult.
The first shout made Victor to drag Amina out of the place they were dancing, he signaled Lucy and Victoria who are sitted to come out of the hall too. They were still outside the hall calling him fear fear when the first gunshot was heard and four of them start running away from the area.
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Since Victor’s house is closer than Amina’s house, they all ran to his house. The four of them arrived at the gate, as Victoria open the gate and four of them went in and she locked it.
“Lucy, come my room” Victoria drag Lucy’s to her room while Amina and Victor went to Victor’s room. Amina switch on the TV in his room as Victor went into the bathroom to have his bath, he return with just boxer and jump on the bed. And slept off, Amina switch off the TV and went to the bathroom, change to her undies and snug into his arms.
She find herself in a cave, behind her is the entrance of the cave as water pour down from the top downward. The cave is very dark, as Amina look terrified and confused on her undies only.
“You love him?” A voice echo round the cave, everything begin to fade away as Amina clutch tightly to Victor. A faint footsteps withdraw from the room were Amina and Victor is with a shadow.
6Am.
The next morning.
“This pillow soft oh” Victor mumble his eyes close, subconsciously handling it.
“Mumu, na my breast you dey press” Amina push him off her body as he rolled off the bed and landed on the tiled floor.
“Aah!” He winced in pain.
“Amina” he called out softly.
“Umhh..” she responded.
“One day, I go **** you” he said, both of them burst out laughing.
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The five men who were busy watching the road awaiting Amina’s return and her sister, after waiting for them, they try getting some sleep and subconsciously slept off in the uncompleted building. Mosquitoes feed on them, they wake up the next morning feeling feverish and tired embittered by their misery.
“Guys, guys, ona don **** up” YouTube said, not happy about their progress. The four others remain silent as they stagger to their various houses not wanting to be a part to another plan that will end up bringing more misery to them, YouTube wasn’t happy about the whole thing. He has failed again, he thought.
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A Month Later, those who return to the village for the Christmas holiday has all travelled back to their businesses. The village wasn’t as lively as it was, but not Upaga Community Secondary School that attract sons and daughters of other communities, their wide-fame of making good WAEC results. WAEC registration is on-going as strangers come in and out of the school to register.
It was a sunny noon as February sun shone brightly from it’s orbit. Victor sat on a bench looking at Amina who tried to stone down the last mango remaining on a mango tree, the area is secluded from the main school, located close to the school basketball court and long tennis court. David walk towards them smiling and jumping happily as he approach them.
“David, why you dey smile like person wey lick devil nyash?” Victor who has been studying the mood of his friend question.
“Na Emily, that girl sweet die. She be cheerful giver, why you never collect”
David said, sitting beside Victor on the bench. Who shake his head sideways.

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The Bodyguard Reloaded - Episode 8

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Paula....

Days past after Ackim managed to rescue our twins .I knew Ackim was quite hurt that day but efforts to get him to see a doctor failed .

I recalled how he spent the whole day home , he played with the twins that afternoon moving them around the yard . One wouldn't tell they were kidnapped earlier .

We had a case where we had to testify in court for Chikola and her accomplices and so we had decided to concel our honey moon .

It was however not as bad as Ackim made each moment worthy it .

The day after Chikola and her people were charged and given their setence , Ackim told me we had to take a trip somewhere .

But babe why won't you tell me where we are going I complained as I got in the car . The twins remained home with the nanny and Ackim's sister who had just paid us a visit .

He drove for minutes and before he could turn off the main road he stopped the car and moved to the passenger's seat where I was .

What's going on babe ? I asked him with a smile .

Well , my woman can't be allowed to see anything from here onwards he said getting a tie and blind folding my eyes .

Oh no come on don't leave me in the dark I winced .

He came close and asked me to open my mouth . I did and he put his lips on mine kissing me .

Do you trust your husband ? he asked after a second .

I nodded my head as I searched for his head . c

Come on that's not enough of a kiss Ackim . ls that why you didn't want me to see anything ?

I heard him giggle and closed the door , there are more kisses where we are going my love he told me as he started the car engine .

I stayed quite as he drove , where are we now? I asked for the third time hating the suspense he was leaving me in . I could bet his face wore a smile as I spoke , he rubbed my thigh on the skin left by my short . I wore a short which went slightly on top of my knees and a vest .

It was one of Ackim's favourite dressing , he would always tell me . lf you wear shorts and a vest I wouldn't stop looking at you .

Well soldier you love neckdness and vest outlining my breast , l bursted out laughing , on the day he had first mentioned it . He came behind and held my waist .Yeah , he whispered but don't you ever think I will let another man admire you . I laughed at how much jealous Ackim had become . He always warned about another person touching or admiring me .

I told him he was becoming too jealous and he told me , get used to it my love . From now on am not letting anyone near you for you are mine alone and God gave you to me .

I knew he loved me and I guesed being jealous was just one way of showing it .

I felt the same too and now I was becoming jealous of Serah .I noticed her change of altitude towards Ackim but she still tried hooking me up with Jay .

They both stayed on claiming they had a one month vacation in Zambia . I had no way of chasing her but everyday that past I started wishing she had gone already, she had no respect for my home and I saw Ackim getting irritated when ever she was around . I had to plead to let her stay as she claimed she had no enough money to get herself a room at the hotel . Since it's only for a few weeks I decided to bear with her and let her vacation come to an end .

Lately Jay would call me and text even came over especially when Ackim wasn't around . All this time he acted innocently and pretended to just be visiting , according to him he was having a great time touring some Northen province tourist attraction sites such as Chishimba falls .

We are here now Ackim announced bringing my senses back to the present .

Can I remove now ? I asked nervously .

Not as yet love hold on he shouted coming to open for me .

He held my hand and helped me out my eyes still covered .

A few steps from the car and he went behind me unfolding the blind fold .

Now you can open your eyes he whispered in my ears .

I rubbed them a bit and opened . Wow ! There in front of me was a well built house painted and completed , the yard was so green all round except for the passage ways which had small flat stones making walk ways to the front door . Back and the bigger path towards what looked liked a garrage .

Babe what's this ? I turned to ask him , are we moving in here ? I asked my face obviously showing surprise . I had been telling him we buy another house as renting the current one wasn't worth it . Let's buy a new house Ackim I had told him but everytime he just told me , we will in due time my love .

It's our new home my love . I spent the last few months building this house for my family . I wanted it to be my wedding gift to you and our son's . You like it ? He asked .

What ? Oh you didn't I shouted hugging him , babe this is wonderful and I I I ..... I dont know what to say.. where did you get all this money honey , this must have cost a fortune ? I asked looking at his smiling face .

His well shaved moustache outlined his handsome features as always .

He wore a slim fit short sleeved shirt and a pair of brown cargo pants and some loose slippers . Looking like my Ackim making me feeling proud , he was my husband .

Come on inside l will answer all your questions , he pulled me forward .

I loved the interio , he had it well furnished with the perfect things .

Our room was well done , l couldn't believe it , the twins room had everything in terms of furniture and their white beds with the initials for Paul and Kim .

The green cabinets in the wide kitchen left me in awe . The house had four bedrooms, a gym , a kitchen , dinning room, living room and a Tv room , two small storage rooms and a big verandah behind . It was more than perfect for me. His taste of things was amazing .

We toured the whole house including the back yard were he told me will be a flower garden , it was next to our bedroom window .

Wow ! Honestly I love this Ackim , it's so beautiful thank you l said walking around taking in the back view and the wide varandah .

This house is a token of my love for you my woman , he told me when we sat in the living room , the comfort of the long burge couch making me feel relaxed .

Now to answer your question where I got all this money , am an intelligent officer working for the government under special operations . Don't ask me what I do my love cause I can't tell you that . The thing is that there is no quiting the force especially after receiving the training I did , so I was reinstated a month after George's issue , he explained holding my hands .

Oh , Ackim why didn't you tell me? No wonder those days you went away without really explaining yourself ?

He nodded . Yeah I had gone on a mission involving the president but I couldn't tell you , am sorry he said looking at me . l would never cheat on you Paula .

I recalled the time Ackim had gone for almost a week . I tried to ask were he was going but he insisted it was some business trip concerning the lodges he was running . Dad had practically left all the 15 lodges across copperbelt to him and he had over time expanded the business. I helped to design the interiors but he did most of the outside works making sure the places look beautiful outside and the same . I recalled telling him how a good landscaper he could make and he smiled . l don't know a thing about landscaping but I know the right people to do it he bragged .

Okay so you are telling me this job is well paying and dangerous right ?

Well paying yes he chuckled , dangerous , sort of . He smiled , some days are tougher than others but it's survival of the fittest right ?

Please just tell me nothing will happen to you babe I won't let you put your life in any more danger than you have been already .

Don't worry my love l will try stay strong for you guys and it's not only the money am paid there . Look , he said handing me the documents showing his shares under Lusaka stock exchange and a few other investments .

I cant believe this Ackim , you mean you have all this money ?

We have , my love. He corrected me . All this is ours he smiled kissing my hands .

You are unbelievable babe , l don't know what to say .

Well you can start by giving me the whole of yourself right now , he teased diving on me .

After spending some time at the house we headed back home . He told me we would move in as soon as the electric wall fence was worked on . Later that afternoon we arrived at the apartment ..

We found Serah outside looking kind of upset . Hey girlfriend what is wrong ? I asked sitting next to her as Ackim walked past us to the entrance , let me see the boys he kissed my forehead before leaving us.

It's Jay she started . What happened , you guys had a fight ? I asked her . I mean . I have noticed you guys look close , I added shrugging .

No Paula , she snapped angrily . How can you think that I would go out with your man , no ways girl .

Wow wow , come on Serah we both know he's not my man come on . am married and happy I told her frankly .

Whatever, she said carelessly . As you are enjoying yourself am disappointed to tell you that Jay still loves you and he wants you , he doesn't care you are married . He told me you are his .

I don't care what he thinks I think it's time you guys left for Australia already I told her seriously .

We will Pauala but for now I beg you she whispered , you need to go and talk to Jay . I left him wasted he wants to kill himself , please you are the only one who can help talk Sense into him . Just go and see how you can talk to him .

I refused to do as Serah asked of me but after she started crying that she was responsible for him and that if anything happened people back home would blame her cause she invited him . I felt for her .

I couldn't tell Ackim knowing he wouldn't let me go. I just lied I had to take Sarah somewhere and left .

Unknown to me , they had set a trap for me..

To be continued

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Restless EPISODE 66


March 29, 2016
11:23AM

Interrogation Room,
FOX Corporation, Bexford.

"Good morning Mr Stanley Inn, I'm Agent Steve," Steve introduced himself as he sat in one of the chairs at the other end of the table.

Stanley Inn who was sitting at the other side gave no response to the greeting but only stared at the Agent's face. His eyes moved around the room and he spotted the several cameras around, he was sure Steve wasn't the only one that was going to be listening to him.

"How are you doing Mr Stanley Inn?" Steve asked in a calm voice, staring at the man's face.

Stanley after looking around for a few more seconds settled his gaze on the Agent's face. "Can you go ahead to your god-damned questions and stop wasting time with unnecessary formalities?"

Steve smiled calmly, he was unruffled by the harsh response.

"So Mr Stanley, would you tell me how you alone escaped the explosion?"

"How many times will I answer that question?" Stanley raised his brows at his questioner. "I know you already have my previous answers, so why are you asking me again?"

"Sorry, but I just wanted to be sure you don't want to tell me something different." Steve replied, with his eyes squinted at the suspect. He wondered how the man knew he had the previous answers, it only showed he had some knowledge about police investigations.

"You should ask your own questions, I won't be changing any of my previous answers, so don't waste our time."

"Okay Mr Stanley," Steve put a smile on his face and leaned forward. "So, for how long have you guys been producing the explosives illegally?"

Stanley raised his brows. "I'm not in charge of production in that factory, I'm only in charge of security."

Steve smiled. "You said that to the previous person who questioned you, but does that mean that as a security personnel, you do not know what is being produced int he factory you secure?"

"I only know we refine chemicals, up until yesterday I was told at the security office, I never knew explosives have ever been produced in the factory."

"Don't you perform routine checks as a measure of security around your factory?"

"We do, just like the government security agencies do also but never found anything. We never found anything relating to explosives," Stanley replied confidently.

Steve remained silent for almost a minute. "Okay, tell me truthfully. When did you discover that the factory you secure produces for the Invisible terrorists and what has been your role working for the terrorists."

Stanley widened his eyes to express shock. "What the hell are you talking about?"

"You know what I'm talking about Mr Stan, you cannot be unaware of these things as the one in charge of security."

"Well, you're the first person I'm hearing this from." Stan said without any atom of panic.

Steve stared silently at his face for about eight seconds. "Your defensiveness dear Mr Stan, makes you more suspicious, why don't you open up to me instead of trying hard to hide the truth?"

Stanley raised his head and stared at him for few seconds. "Why don't you go straight to your point?"

"Carlos Antonio and Vincent Shawn already told us how it works with the Invisible Terrorists, it's surprising that you are still defending a lie." Steve said lightly and then raised the left side of his upper lip.

Stanley's countenance changed visibly and Steve took note. It took some seconds before Stanley spoke again.

"Where's Antonio and Vincent?"

"Here with us," Steve replied.

The look on Stanley's face turned to be more of a confused look.

"Let's digress a bit, since you find it difficult to answer my questions." Steve smiled and leaned forward again. "Can we talk about the man that attacked your factory that night? Have you had any previous encounter with him?"

"No, never seen any man like him."

"You saw him closely, didn't you? What does he look like?"

"I didn't have the opportunity to see him closely, I saw him first through the security cameras, then from afar in the hallway and on the motorcycle."

"Is your security system that porous? How did he gain access easily into the factory?"

"He had some classified information that allowed the men at the gate let him in before we found out he was fake," Stanley answered.

"What do you mean by classified information?"

"Secret details from one of our bosses."

"Which one of your bosses?"

"Antonio and Vincent are in better position to answer that question, why don't you ask them since there are here?" Stanley retorted.

"You are the one in charge of security, you should be able to tell me which of your bosses that classified information was gotten from."

"I don't know which boss, I only know the information."

"So, would you give us a list of all your bosses?"

"Why should I?"

"Why shouldn't you?" Steve raised his brows. "If you have nothing to hide, why should you not be able to name your superiors?"

Stanley heaved a sigh, the seat was becoming hotter than he thought it would be.

"Well, the only bosses I know of are Antonio and Vincent," Stanley finally said.

"Hmm...Okay," Steve made a slow nod. He placed the sheets of paper in his hands on the table and moved them close to him. "Please take a look at those pictures and tell me which of the men look like the man who attacked the factory."

Stanley picked up the documents and began to go through each one after the other. It took him an average of five seconds to view each picture until he got to the last one.

"Here he is," he said, handing back the last one to Steve.

Steve collected it and viewed it, it was the image of the suspect which Lydia had printed the day before.

"Yeah, I know this is the man," Steve said and handed the photo back to him. "I want you to take a closer look at other pictures and tell me which one bears the closest resemblance to this picture and the last one."

"I don't understand you," Stanley complained.

"The person in that picture you chose has been unidentifiable, and the other pictures are his closest match to the identifiable people." Steve began to explain. "It's possible that one of those men in the other pictures have disguised to be the one we now see. So, you go through again and tell me which one look the closest like him."

Stanley nodded to show he now understood. It took him almost two minutes to check all the pictures and compare with the last one.

"None looks like him in anyway," he finally said.

"Thank you," Steve said as he took back all the pictures from him. He placed them into the bag where he took them from and rested his back to continue his interrogation. "Back to business," he said as he folded his arms across his chest. "You said Carlos and Antonio are the only bosses you know in the factory, does that mean only the two of them oversee the whole activities going on there?"

"Yes, they do."

Steve stared at him silently for some few seconds. He then chuckled briefly and switched to a brief laughter before he sat up.

"That factory is a government owned factory, run by known government officials who have been invited for investigation and are here presently. Vincent Shawn and Antonio Carlos happen to be no government officials and there's nothing in the records which tells of their association with the factory or the government. Even the government officials in charge of the factory happen to have only little information about who Vincent Shawn and Antonio Carlos are."

Stanley placed a keen look at him, he could tell that this man already had so much information.

"You got the wrong information man, that factory is a private owned property." Stanley retorted.

"I've got the known government officials who run the company here, I can call them in to identify you, I'm sure they won't know you."

"I agree they may not know me, but I say for sure that the factory is owned by a private body."

"And which private body is that?"

"That, you would have to find out for yourself." Stanley said with a scorn.

"The Red Wolves, isn't it?" Steve chuckled. "You work for the Wolves and we know it already, so I'll advise you to cooperate with us strongly."

Steve shook his head, carrying a mocking smile on his lips. "You don't know what you're talking about man," he said in a confident tone.


45 minutes later, In Paul Edward's Office.

"I read the reports too," Paul Edwards said, tapping the table slowly and continuously with the pen in his hands. He had a serious look on his face. "That factory supplies raw materials for the weapons manufacturing section of the FOX and I wouldn't want to accept that it was sold to a private body three years ago."

"We have also not accepted that sir," Steve replied him. "But we consider it a possibility, we've interrogated the man legally in charge and he confirmed to us he was asked to sign some documents in 2013..."

"You have to confirm that as soon as you can," Paul interjected. He looked at the faces of the three Junior agents standing behind his table - Steve, Evelyn and Daniel. "And you also have to dig out everything about Antonio Carlos and Vincent Shawn."

"We're on that already," Steve replied

"I want you to speed it up," Paul said sharply. "Once you make the confirmation of the private control of the factory, I would write an invitation immediately to the Governor Of Vincil."

"Thank you sir," Steve bowed slightly.

"Is there any other thing you need to tell me?"

"Ermmm... Yes sir, " Steve said hesitatingly.

Paul raised his brows, signalling for him to go ahead.

"We might need to question family members and friends of the late Agent Elkim Nuel, more links to him are being discovered in the case."

"What other links have you seen?"

"Stanley Inn mentioned that the man who led the attack to the factory got his information from one of his bosses but he refused to mention who the boss was," Steve replied. "But from our investigation and interrogation of other witnesses, we have already found out that the man got in claiming he was sent there by Elkim Nuel."

Paul Edwards let out a breath. "You're free to question anyone but be careful for it not to be termed as harassment."


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Restless - Episode 66

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"I knew this was gonna link at the end," Steve said as he got up from the chair. Still in the team's investigation room, they had split to work separately. Agent Evelyn was working at the investigation table on the documents, Agent Steve was working at the main system at the tail end of the room, Lydia was on the computer system close to the entrance while Daniel had gone out to get some information from the police.

All eyes turned to Steve as he paced for a few seconds before returning to his seat. He sent a document to the printer and got back up immediately. He then walked to pick it up and returned finally to the investigation table with the six paged printed documents.

"I just confirmed our suspicions, Antonio Carlos and Vincent Shawn do not only have links with the Daysman, they are also linked to late Elvis Nuel." Steve said to Evelyn as he dropped the documents on the table.

Evelyn drew closer to him. "Only linked with Daysman and Elkim Nuel? No links with Paul Edwards?"

"No seen link with Paul yet," Steve replied. "It's obvious Paul is a cunning man and knows how to exclude himself."

He handed two different pages to Evelyn for her to go through while he scanned through another one.

"Antonio Carlos is a Brazilian Engineer?" Evelyn asked rhetorically after going the page.

"Yeah, that's what he's known as." Steve joined in. "He's a chemical engineer who has worked in different parts of the world."

"Vincent Shawn used to be in the Bethanna Military Service and was dismissed five years ago for gross misconduct," Evelyn said aloud, but still to herself as she expected no response. She turned to Steve again, "Both men are high profiled men."

"Since the Red Wolves case started involving individuals, it has barely involved any unknown man. Brad, Henderson, Elkim Nuel, Daysman were never unknown people," Steve said.

"And can't we just run an investigation on all related people to them?" Evelyn asked, sounding more like a suggestion.

"That's a good idea, but they've got so many related people around them, it would take us a lot of time to investigate each of them," Steve said, thoughtfully staring at her face.

"But there should be a way to go about it," Evelyn squinted at him.

"Yes, there's a way." Steve said sharply as an idea came into his mind. "We can narrow the investigation down to people who have had business with all the first four men together."

"Oh yeah!" Evelyn's face brightened with a smile.


"Sir, no perfect matches for this man." Agent Lydia said as she proceeded towards them from behind, she had six newly printed sheets of papers in her hand. "The highest we have is a forty two percent match and we have a total of six persons between forty two percent to thirty percent."

She got to the table and stood beside Steve, she began to place the papers separately on the table. They showed pictures of men and brief details about the men below the pictures.

"I do think this is one area we need to pay proper attention to," Evelyn said as she joined Steve to look at the papers placed in front of him. Steve leaned forward to pick a set of papers placed on each other at the centre of the table.

He checked through quickly and pulled out five sheets which showed several coloured images of the huge suspect. In most of the pictures, he was seen putting on a face cap. Steve began to check through all the pictures for one that showed his face better in an upright position. After checking through the ones on a particular page, he would hand them over to Evelyn and continue checking through the next.

"Here," he located a good one on the third paper and separated it from the rest. "The picture is named image 202, please get a clearer printout for me," he said to Lydia.

"Image 202," Lydia said before turning back to go for the new printout.

Lydia was yet to return when the door to the room opened and Daniel walked in.

"Hey boss," he said as he got to the table and stopped beside Evelyn. He tapped her gently on the arm before he dropped his phones on the table. "It has been approved for Stanley Inn to be moved to Bexford."

"To the FOX office or police office?" Steve turned to him and asked.

"To the FOX office first, we would be given twenty four hours to verify its a FOX case or send him to the police office."

"That won't be difficult," Steve said confidently. "I hope he's been put on the way already."

"The evening flight is for five o'clock," Daniel replied.

Steve checked his wristwatch. "Have you made arrangements for him to be received at the airport?"

"Yes, I made all arrangements before coming here." Daniel answered. "I've also sent invitation to some of the men in charge of the factory."

"I've got the picture," Lydia announced as she joined them again at the table.

She placed the photo in front of Steve on the table. Steve began to check through the first set of six pictures she had previously placed on the table.

"Who's this?" Daniel asked.

"The suspect for all murders involved in this case," Evelyn answered him.

After studying carefully for over two minutes, Steve handed the pictures back to Lydia.

"There's no perfect match for this man among these people," Steve concluded, staring at Lydia's face.

"Sir, I think he wears a perfect disguise." Daniel put in.

"If he wears a perfect disguise for his face, does he also wear disguise for his body?" Steve turned to him.

"I can't tell sir," Steve answered with stammering lips. "But I've spoken with someone who might be able to tell more."

"And who's that?" All eyes turned to Daniel.

"He's a FOX agent at Vincil, he happened to see this particular man before he escaped into the bush."

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The Reconciliation Team's Lodge

"So we need to get to South Africa before we can proceed?" Dave asked his question aloud, directing it to no one in particular.

"No, Benuit is closer, we may not need to get to South Africa before we get what we need." Cole replied him.

"Whether South Africa or Benuit. I'm not sure if we've got enough funds to continue at all," Samantha put in and turned to face Henry.

They were in the common room of the lodge, all the men were standing except for the Doctor who was sitting beside Jennifer on the old long sofa.

"We would have enough funds to proceed with our enquiry in Benuit," Henry said, directing his response to everyone but having his eyes on Samantha. He then looked away from her slowly, "The doctor here would borrow us some funds from his personal savings to continue for now. Cole and Dave would proceed on to Benuit to fetch details while I will go with Samantha to make arrangements for more funds."

"Let the job begin then," Samantha turned her eyes back to Henry after flashing a look at the doctor.

"But what do we do with those two locked in the rooms?" Dave asked.

"We would decide that after you two return from Benuit," Henry replied Dave. He then turned his eyes to Jenny and Doctor. "The two of you would be here with them and you would have to be very careful. This place is safe and no one would discover us if we do not make contact ourselves with a third party."

"When do we move boss?" Cole asked.

"Tonight."

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The Bodyguard Reloaded - Episode 7

© Tisa Phiri

Ackim...

I let Chikola lead the way to the next room . She knocked and when the man inside answered I warned her not to do anything funny .

It's me she responded as he opened the door to let her in , I pushed it open and grabbed the man before he could grab the gun he had placed on the small table in the room . I took it quickly and hit him on the head before he could fight me back .

Looking around l saw the twins laying in the bed , two feeding bottles besides them . I wondered what their plan was . I was assuming Chikola a woman was to be with them . I then realised that they planned to guard the kids and that it was probably easy to let them be with one with strength to fight back .

I rushed to them checking if they were okey . The kids were fast asleep , I was carried away inspecting the babies and didn't notice Chikola coming to hit me with a stool . I luckily grabbed it from her and pushed her down . Her accomplice come to me and charged forward . He hit me hard and as I staggard towards the Wall he come with full force punching me .

As We engaged into a fight I saw Chikola grab one of the babies and started heading out .

My attention shifted to saving my baby and the guy took advantage punching me , he grabbed the stool thrown down and lashed it on my head sending me down in an instance .

I shook to stand up and shouted noo ! Bring back the boy I screamed powerless . She ignored my scream and headed right to the door .

I lifted myself grabbing back the stool and pushed the guy to the Wall with the strength I remained with .

I was not going to let them take one of the twins away and the mission of the guy fighting me was clear . He wanted to delay me to let Chikola escape .

I struggled to keep him to the wall his height advantage over mine making it a challenge .

I heard someone walk in the room and saw Chikola coming back in , Jim pointing a gun at her. Gaining momentum I lashed at the guy hiting him with the other hand as he was still pinned to the wall .

His mouth was filled with blood and I noticed he was weak . I felt the rage for all the trouble I had been , the pain I saw in Paula's eyes with my hands I continued hitting even when I saw he was not moving .

Stop, that's enough man . Jim pushed me back , I tried going back to finish him but Jim held me so tight not letting me go .

Think of your kids man , he shouted . Let me finish him Jim I snapped feeling my anger not quenched .

Chikola tried to escape but I ran to her holding her by her dress before she could leave the door . I slapped her hard sending her to the floor .

Calm down Ackim , Jim held my hand as I went to hit her again .

I sighed and walked to the twins . Kim was just waking up his brother fast asleep .

Hey sonny I smiled wipping the blood from my hand , it's dad , you okay ? I asked lifting him up . I got Paul on the other hand and slowly walked out .

In the corridor I met the police officers . Hold it ! They shouted at me , don't move .

Am not a criminal officer I told them . I just came to get kids they were kidnapped last night . The culprits are in that room I said Indicating with my head .

They passed me as I walked on , I saw the lady at the reception stand in the corner with the guard . I looked at them both , thank you I told them with a weak smile . I got what I came for . The lady nodded her head and wiped a tear from her eye . l hope all goes well for you sir she told me .

Thank you l let a smile as I walked out , my babies held tight in my arms .

I took them to the car and one of the police officers outside asked me to go to the station to go and give my statement .

I gave them details and even reported Jane who was taken in together with Chikola and the other guy who they put on a stretcher . He was still breathing but his face was dismantled .

Come on man let's take you to your wife , Jim said patting my back .

I got in the back seat with the boys as he drove us . Thank you man I told Jim .

You came right on time and you have really been great . I owe you one man I added .

That's what mates are for dont mention it , you would do the same for me .

Yeah I nodded as I lifted Paul who I had put down on the seat as Kim sucked his finger laying in my laps .

Yes my love , yeah am okey and the babies too I answered as I talked to Paula . I called her to let her know we were safe .

Oh my God am so happy you guys are okey she shouted , tell me how far you are from getting home and can't wait .

Soon , we are just from giving reports at the police station now we are on our way back .

Paula and her father waited for us and ran to welcome us as we turned to the yard , she ran to hug and kissed me tears in her eyes . Thank you for bringing back the boys and yourself my love , she touched the twins one after the other as she checked them .

Oh I missed you two she cried as she took them in the house .

Come here I clear your face she told me after she went to put the kids in their room after changing and feeding them .

I had stayed talking and giving the details to her father . Am so proud of you Ackim , he told me. You have always put your life on the line for my daughter and I know you won't let me down ever . You are the strongest and most courageous and braviest man I know soldier , your heart is exceptional too .

I appreciate it Sir , I told him honestly .

Paula grabbed my hand and led me to the bedroom where she had prepared a first aid box and some warm water for me to clean up .

I winced as she wipped the small cut on my head , you need to go to the hospital babe , she told me , there are more than two cuts in your head .

No forget it love . Am not going anywhere just do what you can do I will be fine .

She shrugged and shook her head , you are stubborn Ackim .

I won't leave your side and the kids I told her .

It was already 6 hours by the time I finished bathing and Paula stitched my wounds . I felt so tired I had to retire to bed after taking some strong pain killers , go on and rest Paula's father told me when l went to check on the kids . Am here nothing will happen to any of them , they are safe he emphasized . Paula stayed back in the twins room as I went to bed .

I fall asleep almost immediately l lay down .

I woke up 4 hours later . Hey handsome Paula called me , she came to sit next to me .

How are the boys I asked her ? They are okey I called the Doctor to check on them , everything is okey . They are both so much asleep she added .

You are our hero babe she told me , what would I have done without you ?

I smiled at her , maybe gotten a life with that American I saw at the reception . I saw the way he looked at you Paula , tell me who that man is ?

She looked down and I knew my suspicions were right . I suspected the two of them had a past .

Forget it Paual , all I want to know is that you two are nothing more than just people with some history .

I love you Ackim and I can never do anything to break your heart she told me . Am sorry I didn't tell you he was coming , I was caught by surprise as well . Serah invited him over and I didn't get to understand why .

Umm that friend of yours I don't trust her I said plainly . I know I have no right to chose friends for you but I don't like that one .

Ackim can we stop discussing other people that don't matter , come here she said extending her hands . I missed you so much she smiled and I love you . My friend and my past are just that , you are the one that matter to me .

I put my head on her chest as she talked brushing her hand in my head . I love you so much my woman I just hope someone will not make me want to kill them over you .

She ignored my statement and went on pulling me closer before kissing me passionately .

We made love and she sighed holding my face . Am yours and yours only , believe that okey she whispered seriously .

Just then her friend walked in without knocking , Oh am sorry guys I thought you are alone Paula she smiled looking at me and I knew she was trouble . Someone is asking for you , they said they are from Solwezi? Something to do with the mine she added .

Oh yeah Paula asnwered , sorry babe I need to sign some documents before we leave for our honeymoon .

Yeah I nodded and lay back down as she quickly dressed and headed out .

A few minutes later I stood to go and take another bath , turning I saw Serah standing by the door her tongue out .

what the hell , I screamed grabing a sheet to cover myself .

Wow ! She exclaimed biting her lip , I see why Paula is all over you , you are a true defination of a man Ackim .

Get out of my room I screamed pushing her out , what is wrong with you , are you are sick in the head.....

To be continued

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Web Of Lies - Episode 4

"A relapse? Urrgh," Darren growled. "Why do i allow myself to fall into her traps? I have told her again and again that I don't want anything to do with her," he hit his head. "Perhaps, i should demand the key Frome her."

Serena left early in the morning claiming she had to get to work as fast as possible. Darren stared at her as she wore her clothes after having a shower. He couldn't resist the sight of a bare goddess in his sight innocently acting like he was not in the room. Pacing about fronting her seductive body with all the mightiness in her. She enjoyed playing with his mind like that.

"Goodbye papi," she waved him goodbye and on her way she went.

Darren got out of bed and prepared himself for work. He went into his small kitchen and found breakfast prepared for him. As soon as he saw it, he cringed.

"Serena is something else," he sat on the chair and dug in.

As he was about to finish up, Chilufya called him. When Chilufya called Darren, it wasn't about chit chats but serious business. Darren didn't care about his partners personal life. He only knew he was married.

"Chilufya," Darren answered the phone.

"Get here quickly, we have a lead," Chilufya hang up the phone.

Darren quickly got out of his chair, grabbed his coat and phone and rushed for the door. He opened it and found his mother about to knock.

"Mother what are you doing here?"

"Is it wrong to visit my son?" She pushed him aside and entered the house.

Confused and uneasy, Darren went back inside. His mother made herself comfortable on a sofa. She looked around and looked at Darren dubiously while he stood motionless looking at her.

"There was a woman here?" She paused.

Darren felt weak in his knees.

"Why didn't you tell me? I couldn't have brought Ayana at your workplace for you to embarrass her." She complained.

Darren only looked at her while he kept checking his watch.

"Who is she? What does she do? How old is she?"

"There was no woman here mother," He answered impatiently.

"Don't lie to me, you cannot prepare yourself breakfast. That's the reason you have gained abruptly," She said happily. "I can smell a feminine perfume. Tell me i am your mother Darren. Why are you like this?"

"Mother there was no woman here," he raised his voice.

"Sometimes i wonder if you're my son."

Darrens face was blank.

"Well, Ayana is willing to give you another chance. Here is her number," she handed him a piece of paper which he didn't take. Realizing he won't grab it, she put it under the glass table. "You have to call her."

"Mother I am late," he looked at her agitated.

"Don't kill me i am leaving. Call Ayana," she looked at him direct in the eyes.

"There was a woman here yes," He said trying to stop her from talking about Ayana.

"Tell me about her," her eyes brightened.

"It was a prostitute i picked up last night"

Darrens mother almost fell on the floor with shock. She looked at him after balancing herself on the grill door. She didn't say anything but leave. Darren locked his door and found his cab driver waiting for him outside.

"A woman who came out of your compound sir was almost crying and in total terror. Is everything alright sir?" The cab driver asked.

"Just drive," Darren said hastily.

He arrived at the station and walked to Chilufyas office next to his. Finding Chilufya talking to his wife on the phone, Darren watched him impatiently as if he can grab his phone and smash it on the ground.

"Tell me, what's the lead?" Darren asked before Chilufya could even put the phone on the table.

"There is a sex tape," Chilufya said looking at Darren.

"A sex tape? Whose?"

"Fiona's."

"Our dead girl?"

"Yes."

"Oh my. That girl. Where has this information come from."

"Her friend Clarisa told me yesterday when i went to release her. I put her in a tight situation," Chilufya smiled.

"What if? What if?"

"What if what Darren?" Chilufya asked curiously.

"What if the sex tape has more to do with this murder than anything else?" Any idea when it surfaced?'

"Days before Fiona's demise."

"Is the man recognizable in the video?"

"No and the friend doesn't know either. She claims she was not told."

"What if the killer didn't want to be known or identified? What if she threatened him and he decided to get rid of her?"

"That makes sense. Only problem is no one knows who the man in the video is."

"Who released the video?"

"Her friend said it's the ex boyfriend who released the video on social media. I watched the video and the face of the man or body is not vivid but Fiona can be seen in all angles," Chilufya said trying to show the video to Darren.

"Not now," He rejected the phone. "We have to find the ex boyfriend. Did her friend say anything about his whereabouts?"

"She said the boyfriend knows where the ex boyfriend lives. Apparently they used to be best friends and Fiona dumped the other one for his friend," Chilufya said smiling.

"Our dead girl has a baggage. Let's get going."

They left the office and headed to the parking lot where they found the chief standing with Xavier talking seriously. Ignoring them, the two got in Chilufyas car.

"What's with those two?" Darren asked fastening his seatbelt.

"I don't know." Chilufya answered.

"Sampa Darren!" The chief called Darren.

Darren got out of the car and walked to the chief. Xavier left as soon as Darren got out of the car.

"Morning chief," Darren said.

"Hows the investigation so far?"

"Good sir. We have leads and there's a sex tape."

The chief flinched and asked," A sex tape?"

"Yes sir. A sex tape but we couldn't recognize the man in it, only our dead girl. The ex boyfriend might know who is in it but we don't know where he is so we are going to the boyfriends place who happens to be friends with the ex boyfriend."

"Don't confuse me, run along," The chief dismissed Darren.

"When i mentioned the sex tape to the chief, he reacted unusual," Darren told Chilufya.

"Unusual? How?"

"I don't know. Nervous like."

"Oh. Do you know that the chief and the Minister of defense are childhood friends?"

"Heard something like that. I don't pay attention. So that's probably the reason the chief became nervous."

"Probably, yes! because our dead girl was more like a daughter to him to too. I heard from one of the officers that she even used to come at the station."

"I never saw her. So Childhood friends?"

"Yes. The chief owe his position to the Minister. Apparently, when Fiona's father found work in the government, he also helped his friend who was a neighborhood officer some years ago."

"Wait. How do you know all this Chilufya?" Darren asked.

"I am a detective," He laughed. "On a serious note, this is high class case, it will either raise our ranks or pull us down."

"I am aware Chilufya," Darren nodded. He didn't tell Chilufya the reason he accepted the case but was more than happy to learn that he was in direct cahoots with the Minister of Defense.

They reached Kabwata township at around 11:20am. Clarisa gave them the direction to the place. They got to the alleged house and found it open with some soccer noise coming from it. They knocked but there was no one coming out of the house. Darren looked at Chilufya and gave him a sign to enter. It was a one bedroom house with a kitchen being a part of the living room. Looking at the living room, there was evidence that there were people around. There was a bottle of whiskey on the table with two filled cups. Darren heard some noise coming from the other room. He went straight to it and found a woman pouncing up and down on a man all naked.

"Jesus!" Darren yelled going back to the other room. "Police here. Put on some clothes."

"We want to talk to Christopher," Chilufya shouted.

"I am coming," Christopher yelled from the other room.

Darren looked at Chilufya and chuckled. Christopher came out of the room embarrased. He pointed the two men to a chair which was in a mess.

"No thanks," Darren refused to sit looking at the chair disgustingly. "Are you Christopher?"

"Yes sir," Christopher answered.

"When was the last time you saw Fiona? Your other girlfriend it seems."

"I saw her last week sir. I have not seen her since then, is she in trouble?" Christopher inquired.

"She is dead," Darren said straightforward.

"What?" Christopher asked surprised. "What do you mean dead? Fiona cannot be dead."

Darren looked at Chilufya.

"Well she is," Darren said.

Christopher started weeping and Darren handed him a tissue. Chilufya looked around the house. Darren intuitively looked at Christopher. Was this acting or was he being sincere? He was with a woman on top of him and he's acting like he was faithful. Darren couldn't have any of it anymore.

"Stop this. There's a woman in here and you're crying over your dead girlfriend. Quit it will you?"

Chilufya and Christopher were both surprised.

"Where were you in the early mornings of yesterday?" Darren asked.

"I was with her."

"Who? damn it."

Scared, Christopher looked in the direction of his bedroom.

"You mean you were shagging the other girl?" Darren asked.

"Yes sir," Christopher faced down.

"Young lady, come out!" Chilufya called out.

The girl came out shaking with a t shirt and a short. She knelt before Darren and Chilufya.

"Don't you have clothes to wear?" Darren asked and went on. "Was Christopher with you yesterday in the early mornings?"

"Yes sir, i have been here for three days now," she replied.

"Do you know he has another girlfriend?"

"Fiona, yes."

Surprised, Darren asked, "aren't you happy now?"

"Happy?" The girl asked surprised.

"Fiona is out of the picture now."

"What do you mean out of the picture? Did she dump him?" The girl looked at Christopher.

"She's dead."

"What?"

"Happy is the surviving girlfriend."

"No sir. I don't know about that. Christopher, is that the reason you wanted me here? To comfort you?" She looked at Christopher disappointed.

"No babe," Christopher answered. "I have just been told too."

"I am done with you.Oh my God, i feel like an idiot."

"Well, you're both idiots." Darren looked at the girl. 'Don't you have any shame? Darren asked. "Go back to the bedroom and lock yourself up. Think about how stupid you are."

The girl went back to the bedroom and locked herself up.

Christopher was scared to his wits. He couldn't even look at The two detectives faces.

"Let's go. Stand up," Darren ordered Christopher.

"Am i under arrest sir?" Christopher asked getting up.

"Take us to Fiona's ex boyfriends place?"

"Williams place?" He asked in shock.

"Yes," Chilufya answered.

"That man is a monster, he will kill me sir. Please i cannot go there please sir i cannot," Christopher begged.

"I can also kill you if i were him. You stole his girlfriend. He was your best friend."

Surprised that these men seemed to know a lot about him, Christopher became even more scared.

"He's a savage. He will beat me up once he sees me. He has anger issues. That's the reason Fiona left him," Christopher complained while being dragged outside.

"I need to see this monster," Darren said walking to the door.

#UNCLAIMEDBAGGAGE

#EPISODE_5_ON_MONDAY

(THIS IS A WORK OF FICTION. NAMES, CHARACTERS, BUSINESSES, EVENTS AND INCIDENTS ARE EITHER THE PRODUCTS OF THE AUTHORS IMAGINATION OR USED IN A FICTITIOUS MANNER. ANY RESEMBLANCE TO ACTUAL PERSONS, LIVING OR DEAD, OR ACTUAL EVENTS IS PURELY COINCIDENTAL.)

© Brian Ngoma


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Web Of Lies - Episode 3

Darrens mother always ensured that her three children had the best in their lives. All the three were doing fine. What worried her the most was Darren who at the age of 38 was not married and didn't seem to be marrying anytime soon. She had taken it upon herself to find her son a wife. She knew how difficult her son was but she persisted in setting him up for blind dates. It was through this tireless venture that she met Ayana. Apparently, another woman told her about a single 35 year old beautiful woman. When Darrens mother saw Ayana, she couldn't believe her eyes and wondered why the beautiful woman was still without a husband. She immediately thought about Darren and didn't want to waste anymore time.

"Isn't he at work?" Ayana asked when Darrens mother forced her to go with her to the station. "I can se him some other time.'

"Today is a good day, despite his work, he will spare some time for us and with your beauty, he will definitely see us." Darrens mother said confidently.

On their way to the station, she kept thinking about how impressed her son would be. She thought Darren would fall in love with Ayana on first sight. Little did she know that the opposite would be true.

"What do you mean you don't like her?" Darrens mother asked furiously.

"I said I don't like her, do i have to explain myself?" Darren answered. "No offense intended," he looked at Ayana.

"Mother i am sorry, i have to leave now, I have work ," Ayana lied and excused herself before leaving Darrens office.

"Look what you have done Darren," Darrens mother stood up furious. "Go and apologize to that beautiful woman right now."

"Beautiful," he laughed. "I don't even know her, why should I apologize and what for? I have just said the truth. And if you don't mind, i have an interrogation to go to."

Startled, Darrens mother left the small office without saying a word. Darren looked at his watch and also left his office and went to the holding cell where Clarisa was held. At the door, he found Chilufya waiting for him.

"How did it go?" Chilufya asked opening the door.

"I don't want to talk about it, we have a murder to solve on our hands."

Darren and Chilufya found Clarisa still shaking. She had grown tired of waiting.

"Am i under arrest?" Clarisa inquired.

"No, we just need to ask you a few questions that's all," Chilufya said in a friendly manner.

Darren took a sit and stared at Clarisa for some good few seconds. He observed her movements and her facial expressions while she talked to Chilufya.

"So how did you find yourself at Fiona's place?" Darren asked.

"On most nights when we go out, i crash there,' Clarisa answered and added. "Fiona was my classmate."

"How long have you known her and why don't her parents know you?"

"We knew each other last year first semester. About her parents, i never was introduced formally to them."

"Ever quarreled?"

"Over petty stuff yes."

"Might you know whose man's clothes in Fiona's closet belong to?" Chilufya probed.

"Those are Christopher's.""

"Whose Christopher?" Darren joined.

"Fiona's boyfriend, but they were not in talking terms for a week now."

"Do you know why?"

"I don't like meddling in other people's personal affairs," Clarisa lied. She knew exactly why her dead friend was not in good terms with the boyfriend.

"Are you sure you don't know?" Darren asked further with furrows forming on his forehead.

"I don't know detective," she answered firmly.

"How did you get at Fiona's place after the club by the way?" Chilufya asked suspiciously.

"I think i booked a cab," Clarisa responded unsurely.

"You think?"

"I know but I don't remember how i got there. In the morning i found myself on Fiona's bed. That's all i can remember," Clarisa said.

"What time did you reach the flat?"

"I left the club around three in the morning."

"Anyone who can confirm what you've told us?" Darren looked directly into her eyes.

"I think Fiona posted some pictures on instagram. You can check. Use my phone," Clarisa gave Darren her phone.

Darren went through Fiona's instagram profile and saw alot of pictures and videos. This girl was full of life, he thought to himself. It was unfortunate she had to meet her fate like that. Darren stumbled across the pictures from the previous night and saw Clarisa and Fiona having a good time. He scrutinized the photos and one photo caught his attention.

"Who is this man?" Darren showed Clarisa the picture.

"I don't know him but he was with us from 11pm last night. He seemed rather interested in Fiona. He even drove us around. As a matter of fact, i left her with him."

"You left your friend with a total stranger?" Darren asked surprised.

Clarisa didn't say anything.

"These youths," Chilufya nodded.

Darren left the interrogation room and headed to the small Laboratory just opposite his office. He found Jeremy busy working on some items he collected from the crime scene.

"Were you given the iphone?" Darren asked Jeremy.

"Yes sir but I haven't managed to bypass the password yet. You know iPhones and their security," Jeremy laughed.

"I dont know about that, all i need is the phone unlocked and we can probably find something of greater importance to the case. Work on it as soon as possible," Darren said and went on. "I also need information on the time and cause of death.'

"The coroner will do their job on that sir."

"I am telling you Jeremy," Darren said.

"Alright sir, i will give you the details.'

Darren couldn't help himself but think there was something fishy about this case. With his mind running wild with questions, he went back to the interrogation room.

Just before he opened the door, he heard some joyful noise coming from outside accompanied by blank gun shots and the only people to make such noise were the specilist team led by Xavier. They were also referred to as the C5. Every police officer wanted to be them but Darren. Darren and Xavier never saw eye to eye. Before becoming a C5, Xavier and Darren worked as partners for a while. They loathed each other. One time they even fought at the station and Darren was suspended for a month. Xavier was never suspended. When Darren asked why Xavier wasn't suspended, the response he got from the chief was that Xavier was more important to the force than a mere low life detective. Since then, Darren knew that Xavier was the chiefs favorite. Rumor had it that Xavier handled the chiefs errands.

"Detective on a murder case?" Xavier shouted as he saw Darren at the entrance of the interrogation room.

Darren stiffened.

"Worst cop of the century," a member of the C5 shouted.

They all laughed.

"Give a man a break. He will find the murderer this time. Right DJ?" Xavier asked scoldingly.

Darren shifted uneasily.

"Cat got his tongue," they all burst into laughter before heading upstairs were their department was.

Darren composed himself, took a breath and entered the interrogation room.

"Help me understand something," he stormed into the room and looked at Clarisa. "You say you left your friend at a club and went to her house. You don't remember how you got there and you woke up finding her dead. The phone your friend used to take pictures of the two of you and the unknown man was found under the bed you slept on?"

"I need a lawyer!" Clarisa shouted. "I know my rights."

Darren and Chilufya looked at each other. They left the room with sad faces.

"We have ourself a first suspect," Darren told Chilufya. "The motive? Why would she need her friend dead?"

"Remember you said the offender probably has some bruises on them. I don't see any bruises on that girl," Chilufya said.

"That's the reason i said suspect you idiot," Darren smiled mischievously. "She should be released, we don't have anything on her yet.'

"The stranger on the photos too," Chilufya added. "It will be difficult to identify that face though, it's not clear," He sighed. "It's late now, let's go home. I heard Xavier and the boys scold you."

"He knows there's nothing i can do about it. He's the chiefs favorite and i cannot touch him. One day, only one day is all it takes to put that bastard in his place," Darren said clenching his fist unconsciously.

"I hope that day never comes. I have gone home. See you tomorrow partner."

"You go ahead, let me sort some things before i go," Darren went straight to his office.

He sat down on his table with a piece of paper with notes on it. He checked the time on his watch and it was 17:45. He had nothing to do at his place, as a matter of fact he hated his place because it reminded him of how lonely and pathetic his life was. He turned his thoughts to the pecks of accomplishing the case on his hands. It was a high profile case and he needed to do his best. He couldn't let anything distort him from solving it. He left his office and got a cab back to his place.

Located in Thornpark, Darrens house was a self contained two bedroom with a decent kitchen and a small living room that had a sofa and a LED samsung TV mounted on the wall. Upon arrival, he noticed that the door was unlocked. Someone is inside, he told himself. He pushed the door further which led directly to the living room. There was no sign of anyone. He tiptoed carefully to the kitchen and found nothing but food well prepared on the table. The cooker was still warm. The only person who had a key was Serena. Since they were done with their relationship, he couldn't think of anyone else that could find their way into his house and cook something for him. He then went to his bedroom and found the light was on and the door slightly open.

"Whose there!" He shouted wishing he had a gun with him.

There was no response. He entered the bedroom. Bewildered but not surprised, he found Serena standing in front of his mirror. Still in her uniform which comprised a tight short skirt which was slightly above her knees. Too tight that it showed her curves perfectly. She swirled her hair and her side of the face could be seen clearly by Darren. She bit her lower lip followed by a pout that could make any man bow to her wishes. Aware of Darrens presence, she bent down seemingly pulling up her tights which were in their place. Darrens face turned red with lust. He could feel his blood boiling as a volcano about to explode.

"Come here papi," she said in a low tone.

Darren walked slowly to her like a Zombie. He reached where she was and stood motionless looking at her endowed behind.

"Hold me papi," she said.

Darren did as told. His heart was out of place. Feeling her back against his body sent him into a world of sensations inexplicable.

"I miss you. I need you so much papi," she softly said in his ear biting his earlobe.

#Manipulations &Frustrations

(THIS IS A WORK OF FICTION. NAMES, CHARACTERS, BUSINESSES, EVENTS AND INCIDENTS ARE EITHER THE PRODUCTS OF THE AUTHORS IMAGINATION OR USED IN A FICTITIOUS MANNER. ANY RESEMBLANCE TO ACTUAL PERSONS, LIVING OR DEAD, OR ACTUAL EVENTS IS PURELY COINCIDENTAL.)

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The Bodyguard Reloaded - Episode 6

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Ackim..

In exactly 30 minutes we entered kitwe . All the time as we moved , Jane remained quite . I was too upset with her to even look at her face .

Jim grabbed a ciggarate from the bonet and lit it , one for you ? He asked me .

No I will pass , I told him shrugging . I have not smoked in a year . Mmmmm staying healthy uh ? He asked with a laugh . Yeah , I stopped when my wife was pregnant , she wouldn't let me smoke and get close to her man plus she insisted l had to quit before our kids were born . I smiled at the thought of that .

I remembered I sat outside on the corridor as I took in a cigarrate ,Paula came and sat a step away from me , come here my love why are you seating away ? I asked looking at her . She was almost 3 Months pregnant then .

I thought we talked about smoking Ackim , that smoke is not good for you , besides if you insist l will make sure you won't come any closer if you take in that poison , she added making a face and to punish me further that night , she chased me from the bedroom to the spare room .

Please love let me in I can't sleep alone here I complained seated by the door , she had locked herself in . I tried brushing my teeth and assure her I was not smelling any cigarette but she wouldn't just open .

I recalled retiring to the other room upset . How painful it felt staying away from her , it was like she was part of my body and being away the whole night was really a torture .

She came to the room in the morning and laughed so hard at how I was curled up in the bed . I hope you will never smoke again she teased walking way .

I ran to her before she could close the door , oh no not again I told her, you can't punish me the whole night and expect to be free this morning , I told her as I grabbed her back to the bed .

She smiled as I lay her down on the bed . I first kissed her tummy to say good Morning to the kids and went up as she closed her eyes .

I had kissed her and caressed her until she was breathless and I left her . Oh no Ackim she screamed following me to the sitting room . How dare you leave me like this she cried as she chased me .

Uh so you thought you would get away with that punishment you gave me ? I asked as she sat down powerless . I laughed as she pretended to be crying .

I am going to find a man outside to finish what you have failed to do she shouted walking to the door .

I caught her by the door and kissed her leading her back to the couch in the sitting room , tell me you will never leave me out again I whispered as I touched her most sensitive parts . She mourned as she nodded , mmmmmm I can't get you I whispered kissing her ears .

I won't provided you don't smoke again she said looking into my eyes even after we fell back down panting she still reminded me of not smoking and I knew I had to take a step to stop and since that day I had not smoked .

Recalling such moments made me shed a tear , thankfully it was dark in the car no one could see l was crying . I missed my woman and I knew if not for Jane and the other people who were determined to hurt us l would be curled up with her that moment .

So ? I finally spoke up as I parked in front of the lodge on the address , is this the place I cleared my throat as I turned to look at Jane .

Yes she answered in a low tone . Tell me which room they are keeping my kids ? I asked her sternly .

I told you I don't know all the details she responded carelessly , I was only told it's this place but I am not aware of anything else .

Lie to me Jane and I swear you won't see the sun today I warned as I got out . I was driving the land cruiser and I was glad I used that car cause it was black , it wasn't easy to spot especially in the dark night .

Jim followed me outside and I asked him to stay back and watch out as I went to check out the place .

I used a tactic I learned from the military to always check out the camp of the enemy before attacking , moving around I took in the yard of the lodge from the Wall fence .

I saw a guard at the gate and as I approached I noticed he was fast asleep.I didn't want to risk anyone knowing I was around but again getting in illegally would cause the problems for me .

So I shrugged and went to kick the guard slightly . He woke up with a start , who are you ? he asked his face still sleepy . I could see his fat face from the light that shown around the gate.

Take it easy I told him calmly , now if you tell me what I need to know and give me the correct information this will be yours I said showing him some K100 notes .

He looked at my hands and licked his lips wanting to grab it .

Oh no I whispered , first things first , tell me if any one walked in the lodge with babies ? I asked . The children are twins I added , now did you see any of such ?

He stayed quite as though trying hard to remember . Hey I told him I don't have the whole day . Look am not a criminal , those people you saw took my twins and I know they are here , all I need is for you to confirm you saw something and leave the rest to me I told him holding his shoulder making sure my grip was strong enough to make him know who was in charge .

He winced a bit before speaking up . I saw an elderly woman and a man walk in some hours ago .

Good now thats more like it , l patted his shoulder . Now second favour , watch out here for me as I go inside , don't do anything stupid cause if you do, I won't pay you this money but your reward will be a deep grave I added as I stood from where I had squat close to him .

Walking to the reception I met a tall and light lady who smiled widely . Good evening Sir , she greeted happily .

It's morning I smiled back .

Oh yeah Morning it is , she chuckled . So how may I help you ? She asked .

I went close to her and whispered . I really need your help beautiful, and if you help me I know I will never forget your beautiful face I said flirting .

She smiled , well let's hear what the gentleman wants .

I told her my mother was lodging there with my kids and that my wife had ran away so I needed to see her cause her phone was off .

Oh am sorry you are going through that with your wife , so tell me what's the name of this your mother so I check her room number .

You see that's the problem , she just got my kids and didn't tell me so I must presume she isn't using her real names I told her seriously with a sad face .

She shook her head , am sorry I can't give you that information then , you have to understand . lt's policy .

Oh please I begged.I need to see my children please help a poor and desperate man I told her. I know you can help , if I cause any trouble please call the police on me . lf you want take me there yourself and you will see am not lying .

She was quite for some time and finally sighed ,ok I will tell you the room but please don't sell me out..

You are an angel I smiled . I wish l married you instead of my wife who is causing me trouble I flirt smilling and I saw her smile back .

I walked to the room I was told , looking at my watch it was almost 02 am .

I knocked softly on the door and waited , it was quite for a while and l knocked again and this time I heard a female voice ask ,who is there ?

Sorry Madam am the room service man , we have a problem with our Dstv and I need to check on your TV , I spoke in a tuned voice .

Oh am sorry am sleeping I heard Chikola answer. We are not using the TV right now .

I understand madam but the thing is the connection to the other room is from your room and the other guest is complaining it won't take a minute I said .

Slowly I saw the door open , before she could see who was by the door . I quickly pushed back the door and it hit her in the face pushing her down to the floor .

You ! She screamed , yes me I responded lifting her by her dress .

I saw the bed was empty , where are the kids ? I asked her still holding her. Let me go you fool I don't know what you are talking about .

Oh sure you know , l snapped angrily and you will tell me now .

She smiled wickedly , go to hell you bodyguard and Gold digger she spat .

I felt my anger rise and I knew at that moment I could do anything even kill for my children .

Listen am not a fool , you showed yourself at my wedding and the boys went missing and I have your acomplice outside so stop playing games or I swear to God you will not like me at all . I scolded pushing her hard to the corner of the bed not caring as her dress went up exposing her spoted thighs .I noticed she had patches all over her body . lt was evident she used lighting skin lotions but her old skin was not really accepting the bleaching .

Let me go and leave me alone you idiot or I will scream she Warned .

Or I see you are not good at dialogue , scream and let them call the police so you see how all this will work out for you .

With force I grabbed her neck and pushed her further to the wall .

She gulped her eyes popping out .

Where are they ? I asked agian as I lossened the hold on her .

She started saying something but her voice wasn't coming out . I let her go and she breathed heavely .

What was that again ? I asked her .

She stayed quite .

Now I was done being patient , I lifted my hand and landed it on her face , the next one missed her eye and l saw a bump rise on the corner of her eye .

She tried to scream but I quickly held her mouth , tell me were they are I warned my eyes direct set on her.

Talk now I whispered angrily before I could hit her again .

She shouted .

In the next room ! raising her hand to avoid my slap .

I lifted her with one hand , move you are showing me the room . She staggered as she led me to the next door and I quickly grabbed my phone and text Jim to come enter and secure the doors not to let Jane escape .

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Web Of Lies - Episode 2

In his late 50s, the chief of police had done good for himself and his family. He was a well respected man in the police force. Short, dark in complexion and a scar on his chin. When he was asked how he got the scar, he always said those are the pecks of being a police officer. The chief didn't talk much but whenever he did, no one dared to cross his path. Everyone feared the small man and was given the respect he earned.

"Yes sir i will handle it. I will put my best men on the case," the chief said on the phone.

Darren entered the office and found the chief on the phone with a serious face. Darren could feel the strange atmosphere in the office. The chief pointed Darren to a chair without even looking at him. Darren sat down and envied the office like he had always done. With an animal painting on the big wall on his left, a huge table piled with books, files and a monitor, a big window behind the chair that gave a beautiful view to the mall opposite the station, a mini upright freezer in the corner to the chief's right and an air conditioner installed some inches before the ceiling, the chief was living a dream at work. Who would go home with an office like this? Darren asked himself and thought about his tiny dusty suffocating office downstairs that didn't even have a door knob on the door.

"Good morning Darren," the chief put down the receiver.

"Morning Mr Mambwe," Darren said with respect in his voice.

"Let's not waste time here, we have a possible homicide in Makeni. The victim is no other than Fiona Chibuye," Mr Mabwe said sadly.

"The ministers daughter?" Darren asked astound.

"Yes Darren."

"That's unfortunate. But where do i fall in now?"

"I am assigning you to the case. I want you to do everything you can to find out what happened."

Darrens eyes were wide open. It had been three years since he was assigned a murder case and the last time he dealt with a murder case, he couldn't manage to solve it. He ended up being crowned worst cop of the year.

"But sir you know my history with murder cases," he said worryingly.

"All the more reasons i am assigning you to the case. Don't you feel you need some redemption? You're getting old." The chief stared at him.

"What i need is not to go out in the field but stay in the office," Darren said confidently.

"I see. Let me make you a deal then. If you solve this case, i will put your request into consideration and probably give you a promotion," The chief grinned.

"Really sir?" Darrens face brightened.

"Yes. Now run along, go to the scene and you should take your partner with you."

"I promise i will do my best," Darren left the chiefs office excitedly.

For the first time in years, Darren felt like a young man again. His breakthrough was finally in sight. Not only was his request going to be approved but also a promotion. This meant a raise and probably go on a vacation that he had always been dreaming about. Darren was delirious.

"My daughter, why?" Fiona's mother cried. "You killed her," she pointed at Clarisa.

Clarisa was curled up in the corner of the small house. She was in terror and in disbelief. She had even stopped tearing up and her eyes were sore. The parademics had arrived at the scene and confirmed that Fiona was dead. They wanted to lift the body when a husky voice stopped them.

"This is a crime scene, you don't mess with the corpse like that," Darren said hastily still outside as the door was wide open.

The parademics looked at each other seemingly lost and wondered who the man was. One of the young parademics told their coworkers to step back. Darren walked in the house to the body ensuring he didnt step on the blood and knelt before the corpse. He stared at it for a while looking around the small beautiful place. He looked back at Chilufya and gave him a sign to go upstairs. He asked for some gloves from the young parademic and checked the body. He checked the neck and noticed that it was red covered with bruises. He stood up and wondered where the blood had come from. He knelt once again but to roll the body on the other side. Since she died in lingerie, Darren was met with the gruesome black marks on the body. He couldn't see them before because she was found laying face down. He felt a chilly feeling thinking about how someone could do that to a girl.

"This is homicide," he said out loudly.

"She did it!" Fiona's mother pointed at Clarisa.

Darren went to Fiona's father and mother and took them to a small living room. They sat down and he waited for them to calm down. He noticed that Fiona's father had worn a sweater which went upto to his kneck despite the hot weather. On the other hand, Fiona's mother had worn a red dress that fitted her so tightly for her age and officiality. Brushing his attention to detail aside, He took a small notebook and looked at them for a while once again. He didn't know how they were feeling because he had no experience in that kind of grief. One thing he knew was that they were hurting. He remembered when he was young and came home with a red eye and swollen mouth, his mother cried like he was dead. That woman, he wondered.

"I believe this is not your residence, right?" Darren looked at them.

They both nodded.

"What were you doing here?" He asked carefully not to push them.

"What sort of question is that?" Fiona's mother asked angrily.

"Our daughter had not been answering her phone and we were worried. She's a mess so we decided to come here and found the girl in that corner kneeling before our daughters body," Fiona's father said pointing at Clarisa.

"You're supposed to be interrogating that girl," Fiona's mother interrupted angrily.

Darren looked at Clarisa and could tell she was shaken. Reason he didn't want to interrogate her first was because of that, she wouldn't have made sense. Hence starting with Fiona's parents.

"Do you know the girl?" Darren asked them.

"This is our first time seeing her," Fiona's father responded.

"So what you are telling me is that You don't know this girl you found in your daughters flat kneeling before the dead body?" Darren asked insensitively. Realizing that he had probably hurt the parents feelings, he rephrased his question putting an emphasis on the name Fiona.

"Yes detective, we don't know her."

Darren stood up and walked to Clarisa who couldn't look at him in the eyes. He felt sorry for the girl but he had no choice but subject her to the questioning. Feelings of suspects didn't matter in these kind of situations, he told himself nearing where Clarisa had sat.

"Darren!" Chilufya called from upstairs.

Darren left Clarisa and rushed upstairs. He found Chilufya standing looking rather suspiciously at the closet.

"What is it Chilufya?" Darren asked.

"See this?" he pointed at the closet.

"I only see clothes, what?"

"A man was also living here. There are men clothes in this closet."

That interested Darren and knew that one who could know about the clothes was The girl downstairs. Darren looked around once more and everything seemed to be in it's place in the room. He was about to leave the room when something prompted him to check under the bed. He knelt down and saw a phone. He stretched his arm and reached for it.

"Iphone 7 hmmm," Chilufya nodded. "One other thing Darren, there's no sign of force entry but i noticed something on the stair handles when coming up here."

"I am listening," Darren said while trying to unlock the iphone.

"It didn't look right. It's as if someone was trying to pull it off. Being that it's made of wood, i even noticed a nail missing."

"I saw that too. As a matter of fact, there is a tiny blood stain on the wood and it seems our dead girl was trying to run to the bedroom while the offender was pulling her."

"So it was a pull-pull game. She was holding on to the stair handle while the perpetrator was pulling her downstairs," Chilufya added. "Whoever did it sure is strong and our girl didn't just die without putting up a fight."

"Our suspect probably has some bruises or injuries on their face," Darren said putting the iphone in a small plastic and headed downstairs. He went straight to Clarisa and stood before her.

"Whose phone is this?" He showed her the phone.

"That's Fiona's phone," Clarisa answered shakingly.

"Where did you find your friend? Stairs or the bedroom?"

"Right below the first step sir," Clarisa looked at Fiona's body on the floor.

Darrens suspicions were now being put to the test. The dead girl was found right below the starter stair and her phone under the bed. Something was not right, Darren thought to himself. Darren called the other officers on the scene and instructed them to take Clarisa to the station for questioning. Darren went back to Fiona's parents.

"This is definitely a murder, we will do our best to catch the offender. I am sorry for your loss," Darren turned around.

"I hope you do your best because I don't think you're right for this job Darren Sampa Junior," Fiona's father said.

How he hated to be called by his full name. He froze for a while and felt his temper rise. The hot weather made it even worse. He clenched his fist and bit his lower lip that he almost dug his teeth into the fresh. He almost turned around when Chilufya came and signed to him to let it go.

"Thank you Minister, if anything we will get back to you," Chilufya said patting Darrens shoulder.

The two detectives left the flat and went to the car. They drove in silence and Chilufya knew how upset Darren was.

"Bastard son of a gun," Darren hit the cars compartment.

"Chill, you will ruin my car," Chilufya said. "He's the minister you know? Let's just do our job. Whatever happened to your last murder case doesn't have to determine the outcome of this case."

Darren and Chilufya reached the station when Darrens phone rang. It was his mother.

"What again? I just talked to her this morning."

He answered it.

"I am at your office with Ayana," she hang up.

"What?"

Chilufya laughed at him. They both entered the station and As always met Serena at the reception. They didn't talk to her and she acted like she had not seen them.

"Have Jeremy go to the crime scene Chilufya," Darren instructed Chilufya. "And give him the phone," he passed the phone to him.

Darren rushed to his office and found his mother with Ayana. They had already made themselves comfortable in his small office. He sat down and looked at the both of them after greeting them.

"This is Ayana, isn't she pretty?" His mother asked excitedly.

Darren looked at the shy Ayana and thought for a while. He then shifted his attention to his mother and sighed.

"I don't like her mother," he said.

#ColderThanACorpse

(THIS IS A WORK OF FICTION. NAMES, CHARACTERS, BUSINESSES, EVENTS AND INCIDENTS ARE EITHER THE PRODUCTS OF THE AUTHORS IMAGINATION OR USED IN A FICTITIOUS MANNER. ANY RESEMBLANCE TO ACTUAL PERSONS, LIVING OR DEAD, OR ACTUAL EVENTS IS PURELY COINCIDENTAL.)

© Brian Ngoma


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Web Of Lies - Episode 1

© Brian Ngoma

"Run faster Darren!" Chilufya yelled as they ran down the street chasing a suspect.

"Damn! I am doing my best, can't you see?" Darren groaned while panting heavily.

Between the two, Chilufya was the youngest and the fastest at running and every time these two partners were involved in a chase, Darren would always be left behind. Chilufya would always catch the culprit or at least try to.

"You have caught him?" Darren caught up with Chilufya who had caught the suspect and laid him down.

"As usual, sometimes i wonder why you are my partner because you're the laziest cop I have ever met in my life," Chilufya grimaced.

"Respect young man."

"Apparently you're the longest serving detective in the Crime Investigation Department and yet the laziest."

"Whatever. The CID veteran" Darren laughed and went on. "I hate this job, let's get back to the station. When I started fifteen years ago, it was interesting, i was a young man not now."

"A morning stake out is a good thing, isn't it?" He asked him. "You're only 38 Darren," Chilufya said while he drove out of the street.

"Exactly my point. I am old my friend. I need desk work not the chases. There's no fun in this anymore. A man like me is supposed to be reporting for work at 8am not go for 3am stakeouts."

"You have forgotten that CID officers work any hour of the day," Chilufya grinned. "How did the chief handle your last request by the way?"

"Like always. He rejected it," Darren answered sadly. "He said he is in so much pressure with the scandal of the Minister of Defense."

"Why is that Minister always in the NEWS?"

"It's his children that will be the death of him. Especially the daughter," Darren said thoughtfully.

"I think the son is much worse. No one really knows what happens with him. That boy is a mystery. I never thought having two children would be a hustle in this day and age. Just two and they act like they are ten," Chilufya Laughed as he stepped on the gas.

The two detectives arrived at Central police station at 8am and Chilufya took the suspect in as Darren remained in the car. He looked at the entrance of the station disgustingly and wondered why he had chosen this career. Growing up, Darren always wanted to be a professional basketball player. With his tall, thick and muscular body, with a light complexion that complimented his looks, he wanted to be a professional basketballer but that's not where life took him. Life took him where he was staring at in that moment. Basketball became a hobby. He got out of the car and went inside.

"Another successful pursuit?" Serena asked smiling while sited comfortably at the reception.

"Yes," He answered without looking at her.

"Good morning to you too Darren," Serena said rolling her eyes.

So beautiful but so dull, can't she read between the lines? Darren asked himself. Darren and Serena had something going on sometime back but it was a one sided thing. Serena was way over Darren but he couldn't give her what she needed the most; A perfect relationship. Darren was always unstable especially when it came to relationships. He went into a small office which was found at the far end of the long corridor in the station. The small office was his. He sat down and took a breath hoping he would no longer go back to the field and just remain in the office till he resigned. While in deep thoughts, he was interrupted by the enthusiastic and jovial young Jeremy.

"Morning sir, I ran down the fingerprints of the last suspect you and Detective Chilufya caught and they were confirmed. He did it," Jeremy said proudly. "All I need is for you to sign these papers and we can corner that fool."

Darren didn't say anything, he got the papers from Jeremy and signed. After finishing he dismissed him. Jeremy knew better not to disturb his boss whenever he was in this kind of mood. Darren watched him leave. Why was the young man always happy? Darren wondered. He remembered when Jeremy joined the station three years ago. The first day Jeremy reported, he was happy as it gets. He was a fresh newbie from Duquesne University School of Law in Pittsburgh. He was among the few selected privileged young men to be sent away abroad to study by the police force. He studied forensics and was also very good with technology like any young man of his age. He had his small laboratory in the station. They called him the brains in the station. All the evidence from crime scenes went to Jeremy.

RING RING RING

"Aren't you going to answer that?" Chilufya asked standing by Darren’s office door. "I have put the bastard in the cells and that ringtone is irritating, answer the phone."

"It's mother again. I am tired with her blind dates," Darren answered faded up. "I don't need a woman."

"Answer it. Deny as much as you want You need yourself a woman."

"Screw you Chilufya."

"I am just being honest. You pushed away Serena," Chilufya smiled. "Maybe this time it will work out. Anyway why should I bother? I am happily married."

"Get out!" Darren dismissed Chilufya.

He took a long breath and looked at his phone.

"Mother," he answered sounding calm.

"What kind of child are you? You're old and you don't think of me. All your siblings have given me grandchildren but you. Do you want me to die?" a furious mother complained bitterly on the other end of the line.

Darren knew better not to interrupt her when she spoke. He waited for her to finish.

"I Have heard mother and I am fine thanks," He said trying to cut her off.

"So next week you have to come and meet Ayana. She's 35, beautiful, short and light in complexion and not like the rest. She’s educated and has a good family background. Anyway will tell you more when you come."

"Bye mother," he hang up.

Every time Darren talked to his mother, he would become furious with rage that he hit the walls of his tiny suffocating office.

"Damn this woman!" He growled. "How dare she thinks can order me around? I am 38 years old for crying out loud. I don't need a woman to complete my life"

"Is everything alright?" Serena asked Darren standing on his office door.

Embarrassed he answered, “how can I help you Serena?"

"If you want to talk you know I am always...."

"State your business not that nonsense woman," he cut her.

"The chief is asking for you," She ran off hurt.

Without even recognizing what he had done to Serena, his mind drifted off to the chief. Was this the breakthrough that he had always wanted? Was this it? Did the chief reconsider his request? He quickly got up and walked to the chief’s office.

The previous day in the early evenings sat a girl on a balcony staring at the bright city of Lusaka. She admired the view and it gave her so much to think about. The view looked innocent and beautiful it reminded her of how innocent she once was. She sipped on some red wine and thought how blessed she was. She didn’t work for anything in her life, whatever she needed, it was provided for by her father. She checked her watch impatiently, grabbed the phone and dialed.

"Clarisa where the hell are you?" She asked irritated. "You know i don't like waiting."

"Be patient Fiona," Clarisa answered calmly. "I am outside your flat."

"The door is unlocked, Come up, I am in the balcony," Fiona took another sip of the red wine.

As soon as she put the phone down, it rang. She checked who it was, it was her father. She felt her stomach turn. She knew she was in deep trouble.

"I am here," Clarisa said sitting down.

Fiona looked at her and then the phone.

"He knows," Fiona said shaking.

"Better answer him and explain everything," Clarisa advised.

"You know nothing about my family Clarisa. Moreover, What can I explain about a sex tape? A daughter of the Minister? One of the respected man in this country and me as his daughter caught up in such a scandal? I won't answer the phone."

"Some ex boyfriends can be cruel Eish," Clarisa said thoughtfully.

"I don't understand everything. I didn't know he could stoop this low to release the sex tape. I don't even know what I saw in that junk, I trusted him with the tape." Fiona hit her head."

"Maybe your brother can handle him. I hear he's one of the most feared people in the city," Clarisa looked at Fiona.

"You don't know my brother. That bastard and me don't get along," she said with hate in her voice. "I don't even know where he is and I don't care."

"Where's Christopher by the way?"

"He doesn't want to talk to me. I understand him, he must be hurting. He loves me. That sex tape has ruined everything for me. I feel like killing myself."

"Don't say that, everything will pass. You better start attending class. The lecturers have been asking about you by the way."

"So that they scold me? My face is vividly clear in that tape. Everyone knows it's me," Fiona stood up hiding her pain.

"Enough of this, let's go out," Clarisa said.

"An outing would do yes," Fiona carried her handbag.

The two girls went to club 101 as always. The duo had a great time. They met a fine gentleman who seemed interested in Fiona. The two girls were too drunk to even ask for his name. Having fun is what mattered at the time. The man drove them around town from club to club. Clarisa got tired and remembered they had an 8am lecture in the morning.

"Let's get going!" She shouted as the music was too loud.

"No let's enjoy the night, you only live once" Fiona yelled as she danced to her favorite song Despacito.

Clarisa tried to convince her friend to go back to the flat but she refused. She seemed comfortable with the stranger in her waist dancing with their bodies tight to each other like glue. On nights like this when Fiona refused to leave a club, Clarisa would just leave her and go back to the flat. She did just that.

The following morning, Clarisa woke up with a terrible hangover. She didn't remember how she got to the flat. She reached for an aspirin in a drawer. She looked at the time and it was 08;45. She was late for her lecture and she knew how tough Mrs. Hillbilly was. No matter how much she would beg to enter the classroom, she would never be allowed. Instead, She threw herself onto the bed and hit the covers with frustration. Why do i allow Fiona to use me like a puppet? She asked herself forgetting she was the one who suggested an outing.

"I depend on this and she has everything even without an education," Clarisa moaned.

After spending an hour on the bed, she decided to go downstairs to have some coffee. As she was about to leave the room, she heard a doorbell and thought it was Fiona though That was unusual because Fiona had a key. She left the bedroom and just as she stepped a foot on the stairs, she saw Fiona laying in a pool of blood with lingerie only.

"Fiona!" She screamed. "Help!"

She checked for a pulse and there was none. Fiona was not breathing. Being a medical student, Clarisa knew there and then that her friend was dead.

"Help!" She shouted again.

The door opened forcefully. A man in his 60s and a woman stood on the door shocked and in disbelief. Clarisa looked at them and could recognize them from the newspapers and TV. She had seen them before but she was in shock to remember them.

"Who are you? What are you doing in our daughters house? What have you done to our daughter?" The woman cried out. "Don't just stand there, call 911," She looked at the man who was trying to figure what he had just seen.

"Get away from her," The woman shouted at Clarisa. "You will pay for this."

"I found her like this too," Clarisa cried out moving away from the corpse.

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The Bodyguard Reloaded - Episode 5

© Tisa Phiri

Paula........

I looked at my watch and it was almost mid night , l had put my phone close enough so that l would answer as soon as Ackim calls .

Removing my wedding dress l wore loose pajamas and walked to the twin`s room touching their toys and clothes as l hugged them, I felt deeply sadden. Lord keep them safe and protect them l prayed silently . The thought of not having them around made my heart ach .

I sat on the small couch and cried silently, my mind wild back to the time l first knew l was pregnant .

We had gone for some vacation in Livingstone with Ackim just after the imprisonment of George , we needed time to rest from everything and just be alone for a while. Ackim booked us at Chrisma Hotel and we spent time going round places , it was one of the most precious times we had together .

Every night we would took walks in the streets and around the hotel hand in hand , every day that passed l grew further in love with him . He was and has always been the most amazing man in my life .

One day l woke up feeling dizzy, l tried getting up from bed but l fell down , whats wrong my love ?Ackim rushed to lift me up. I had not told him l wasn't feeling like myself the past days , l didn't want to spoil the moment . l just feel dizzy l told him .

We have to go to the hospital he insisted, some doctor need to check on you . Am fine babe pliz come on . l just need some rest maybe , l just feel tired .

No way am letting you be without being checked , l noticed you have been looking tired the past days , he snapped getting a pair of jeans and a top for me to wear , come on love dress up we go or l will take you in your night wear.

I smiled , you are so stubborn Ackim , l winced dressing up . Yeah l want you good and strong , he teased kissing my lips slightly as he led me out .

The doctor looked at both of us after some examinations and smiled, congratulations you two he said, you are going to have a baby .

What ? I screamed surprised .

Yes my dear you are about 3 weeks pregnant , he smiled .

Yes ! Ackim jumped excited, love we are going to have a baby he shouted hugging me as l sat on the bed . Am so excited he laughed kissing me . I clossed my eyes with excitement building up in me as well . l didn't anticipate having a child that soon but the thought of carrying Ackim`s child inside myself made me so happy .

Thank you my love for making me a proud man , he added . l promise to always be here for you .

Later on that day we were asked to go for a scan and it added to our joy to learn that we were going to have twins . Ackim couldn`t stop shouting and kissing me with happiness .

The following day l stood by the balcony in the afternoon looking outside , the view of the pool ahead of me looking beautiful . l smiled at how Ackim had insisted we get a room near the pool side , he practically made the hotel attendant to give us the room even when he told him it was booked , he gave him some money and asked him to cancel the other booking . l smiled at him as we were taken to the room . Did you have to force that man babe ? I asked him laughing .

Yes love , he said chuckling , l get what l want remember ? He asked throwing himself on the bed . l know that now l teased joining him . You are so stubborn , l added getting on top of him . He sighed and mourned as he turned me besides making me face him , come here and give me a reward for getting you this room , he teased kissing me . l love you Ackim l whispered as he went on kissing me .

He stood behind me and cleared his throat , what are you thinking about ?He asked standing behind me and hugging me bringing me back to the present , everything l answered turning to look at him . So what next ? I asked him . What about ? he responded rubbing his nose on mine .

We are having babies and we didn`t plan for this , l told him , l don't know what we are supposed to do now .

Oh love , l sometimes don't understand you , do you doubt l love you ? I know we didn't plan but you and these babies in here , he said holding my tummy , are the best things that have happened to me . Am here and will always be here for you and our kids whatever happens l will live to protect and love you both till the day l will die , he added seriously . Let's get married he said lifting my head such that my eyes met his .

Are you proposing marriage soldier ? I giggled . Yes he said , all l need is to find a ring and put on your finger . l go now he teased leaving me and stepped back .

No stop , l shouted pulling him back , we don't have to rush anything . l mean am here , am not planning on running away with these babies you have planted in me , you know my father would want a big wedding and you heard the doctor l don't need a lot of stress until l give birth , lets wait until l give birth then we can arrange the wedding things , l told him .

Whatever you say my love he whispered but am moving in with you when we heard back to Solwezi .

Why don't we stay in Chingola , l suggested , we can rent or buy an apartment near town centre .

I will take care of that Ackim assured me and for sure when we got back he had gotten an apartment for us .

Coming to the present , l looked around the room . We had spent months preparing and planning on the babies' arrival . Oh my God l sighed , we were supposed to be together and happy . Why won't everyone just let us live in peace ? I whispered crying . l didn't hear dad walk in .

He came and sat next to me , am sorry baby you have to go through a lot right after your beautiful wedding . l really wish things were different and that you, Ackim and the kids were all together as it should be the case . Sometimes l feel bad and blame myself for all this .

No dad , it's not your fault George and his mother do what they do , they are just jealous and ungrateful people ,all they want is to destroy our lives . She won't just accept the fate of her son and now she wants me to suffer for her loss .

Yeah l know, but someone has to act on this it's been too much of her dad complained , this time around l won't sit and watch . lt's high time that woman got to see the worst of me .

Calm down my dota am sure Ackim is doing the best he can and l promise tomorrow l will involve the police and find my way of facing those criminals he added serious .

I could see he was tired , but all my efforts to let him go to bed failed . l won't sleep before you do he insisted .

Just then my phone rang and l grabbed it quickly standing up. Yes babe, l answered .

My love hope you are not crying yourself out that side l heard him speak , take it easy l will make sure l bring the kids home l promise you .

You wont believe what l just found out he told me , what happened ? I asked my eyes popping out .

Jane is working with Chikola and the gang , they planned all this together .

Oh no , l sighed but why ? What does she want too ? I asked surprised .

I was shocked too, but not to worry am letting her free until she leads me to our kids , just take it easy and take care of yourself there , am heading to Kitwe right now were l suspect they took the kids. I will give you details of everything when l came home .

Okey then please just promise you will bring the kids and yourself back home Ackim . l won't survive if anything happened to you all .

I will bring us back home my love he sighed , over my dead body that l let anything happen to you and our twins , he said before hanging up .

I told dad about Jane . Take it easy Paula he told me , everything will be okey . l cried as he hugged me . Come on dad , l finally sighed and told him , am going to bed now you should get some rest .

I walked him to his room .

I went back to my bedroom , realising l had not seen Serah since the time at the reception . l dialed her number and called her , as the phone rang l thought of why she had to come all the way from Austrialia with Jay my ex boyfriend . l had noticed the two of them making some funny glances at the wedding knowing how wild Serah was , l wouldn't be surprised they were sleeping together . l wasn't so much interested in them however , l just ignored them . l have come to learn that she wasn't not trully happy for me . Unlike her l found a man who trully loved me , she was jealous though she pretended to be happy for me . l knew from the time she told me about Jay wanting me back that her intentions were not to see me happy .

Hello ! girfriend , l heard her respond just before the phone cut .

Hey Serah where are you am worried , l didn't see you here at home after the wedding ?

Am okey girlfriend she said , a lot of noise in the back ground . Am just having some time out with a hot guy l met at the wedding , she shouted excited . l could bet she was drunk . Any news on the kids ? she asked .

Nothing yet dear, am still waiting for Ackim .

Am sorry Paula am not with you l promise to come tomorrow early in the morning to be with you .

Yeah , it's fine Serah have funny l told her . l heard Jay`s voice in the back calling her out . Before l could ask she cut the line. I knew she didn't want me knowing she was with him . l shook my heard as l lay back down , l knew those two were up to something fishy but l had to care about something more important at the moment....

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WEB OF LIES

Darren sampa had never been encouraged by his job as a detective at the Criminal Intelligent Department (CID), infact it doesn't seem like anything can make him like it. He never knew that a case he's totally not interested in is about to trigger his love for his job.

Well, the time have come when the skills of Detective Darren sampa will be put to the test. He will be working against the most hideous, powerful, mysterious and dangerous criminals in the state.

The thing is the more he investigates, the more complicated the case becomes. This is some sort of interesting abracadabra, and he must get to the root of it!

Who ever is involved in this scandal had perfectly crafted this Web, and people would keep dying until he finds out who is crafting this WEB OF LIES... Even Detective Darren and his family are not safe...

Get ready for this mind-blowing action/crime story... This Web of Lies would capture anyone that works against it!!

Stay tuned....

By

Brian Ngoma

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The Bodyguard Reloaded - Episode 4

© Tisa Phiri

We checked outside Jane's house , it was all quite. I could see a faint light from the room I remebered to be Jane's. She stayed with her elder sister who was married with 3 kids .

I knew if I had to get to Jane I needed to be clever in a way I was to deal with her.

Slowly I opened her bedroom window with a sharp tool from the car,

"stay here and watch out!" I told Jim as I pushed the window open .

Jumping inside I found the room deserted. I looked around the room for any clues , I saw some pieces of paper on the unmade bed .

Unfolding it , my heart skipped .

It was an address for one of the lodges in kitwe though I couldn't see the complete address , I could figure out the address because I knew it I had once been there for some meeting a month before .

I searched around further but nothing else caught my attention . I was almost going out when I heard a car outside.

I quickly walked to the window , "who is there ?" I asked Jim who was standing by the corner peeping on a corner.

" Not sure yet" he whispered to me .

" Stay put let me check who it is."

I stood by the window waiting for Jim to come back but infortunately he didn't. I heard voices outside like some people arguing .

"Dammit!" I spat when I crawled out just to find a police car outside and two officers talking to Jim.

I saw them trying to hand calf him and I walked towards them , "excuse me officers!" I shouted before reaching them .

"What is the problem here ?" I asked with a command ?

"Who are you ?" One of them asked me ,

" why are you interfering in our work?"

"Am with this man" l pointed at Jim .

"Oh so you are together uh?" The policeman asked coldly ,

"you guys were reported minutes ago as robbers by some anonymous person ." He mentioned.

"And you just come to arrest us without consulting ? Or evidence of what we have done?" I asked with my voice with so much command . I had to stand my ground for me to face the cops . l hated their behavour , their altitude of intimidating actually frustrated me and all the time I had to face them I made sure I put the police people in their place .

"Who are you to question us ?" One of them the shorter one, asked standing next to me his head held up .

"Am someone who you wouldn't want to mess with" I snapped firmly. I saw Jim smile and I knew I was nailing it .

"Listen guys , " I said patting the short cop on his shoulders .

"We are in the middle of an operation here and you are getting in our way" I added .

"Um we are just doing our job sir" they respond . Am sure the command in my tone gave them a hint I was not just a civilian .

"May we know who you are ?" they asked standing back . I grabbed my wallet and handed them my Id .

"Sorry sir" they paid their compliments ,

"we just acted on the call sir , permission to carry on ?"

" Carry on !" I ordered and stood beside Him as they got back in their car .

"Wait a minute" l called them before they could drive away .

"Do you have the details of the caller?" l asked leaning on the window to their car .

"Just the line sir and all we know is that it was a woman from the neighbour no name given"

"Good ...let me have the line" I told him with a smile .

" Sure sir" he smiled back as he showed me the phone he had so I copied the number .

"Welldone! officer" l responded and hit the side of the truck as they moved away.

"You are crazy soldier" Jim chuckled as we walked towards our vehicle . I got the number and dialled it upon reaching the car.

"Hallo!" I heard a lady answer ,

" this is the police" I lied .

" May I know who this is , we have information that you just reported some dangerous robbers in your area" I told her .

"No , I won't tell you my name sir just do your work , I have told you I saw two men break in at my neighbours house and you are asking questions instead of doing your job!" she shouted and I could now recognise her voice .

"Jane ?" I asked her surprised, "where are you, you mad woman ,where have you taken my kids ? "

She went quite , "speak up you bitch, I swear to God I will find you and when I do you will learn the worse of me." l shouted my temper rising .

She cut the line and I knew she was close by, she saw us and called the police

"She must be close" I told Jim .

I took some steps to and from outside Jane's house thinking, I was getting desperate each passing minute . I knew Paula was waiting on me to take the twins home and I hated that I had not done much that night . lt was almost mid night .

"What next ?" Jim asked me when I finally stopped walking around .

"I don't know Jim, I don't like the feel of all this and my woman is probably getting worried sick right now. I can't take this any more. you know what? am going in there "

I told him walking to the house .

" lf she won't come out here from where ever she may be I will fish her out," l stormed heading direct to the door. I knocked with a loud blow on the door and a few seconds later I saw Jane's brother in-law stand before me holding the door .

"Who are you ? How dare you knock like that ?"

I didn't answer back , I didn't have any more time to argue and talk , I had to act fast .

I quickly pushed him back inside and grabbed the gun from my back to his head ,

"where is Jane ?" I asked looking straight at him .

"I don't know who you are and I don't know what business you have , leave me out of your issues , " the man answered .

"Oh, by the time am done here you will know who I am" I said sternly .

"Jim get the woman out from the

bedroom" I ordered. He looked at me with a questioning look ,

" go on!" I shouted .

He brought Jane's sister and told her to take a seat near the husband .

"Now" I sighed as I sat down and leaned on my knees , my gun put back in my belt .

" Sorry people l woke you up but it's a matter of life and death , your sister" I said looking at Jane's sister "just kidnapped my twins, the boys are just 3 months old so as you know the babies need to feed and they need the mother's care . I won't let this day end without finding them. so tell me where she is " I spoke to them calmly .

"I have no idea what you are talking about" the sister shook her head on me.

"Just tell me anything that will help me locate her ." I insisted.

"She is supposed to be in her room for all I know" the sister answered.

"She's not there" l answered her standing up my patience was running out .

"Call her now and talk to her please , let her come out and face me , otherwise I know the small girl you are keeping here is hers , tell her I won't let her destroy my life and if she's daring me I will make sure she never sees her child again . I will hunt her down and l will find her. May God help her if that happens ." I scoffed.

She looked at me and asked to get her phone from the shelf in the sitting room as I watched her .

"Hello Jane, please come back here this man is threatening us and the kids . please if it's true what he's saying about you just drop this already ."

Before she could say anymore I grabbed the phone from her .

"Jane ! If I don't see you here in 2 minutes, I assure you your girl is dead." I said cutting the line.

She didn't know I knew that the girl she always told me was the last born of her sister's kids was actually hers. In my desperation I had to use her to get her out of her hiding.

About 5 minutes later the back door opened and she walked in slowly . I knew she was scared .

"How could you do this to me Jane ?" I asked walking to her. I grabbed her with force and pushed her down to the floor. She fell down wimping ,

"where are my kids Jane ? Talk now or you all regret ever knowing me and messing with my kids" l snapped standing up on her as she raised her hands scared .

"Who told you l took your children Ackim ? I don't know what you are talking about ."

"You know what, don't give me that bulshit , those kids are innocent and still little , how could you act so evil ? Just start talking or I swear you will get me mad and trust me that won't occur well for you ."

"Sorry but I dnt know anything" she answered flirting and standing to sit up .

With my hand I slapped her hard and she went down with a bang , I felt bad she was pushing me beyond limit . I had never hit a woman before and I felt the effect my hand as I saw her bleeding from the mouth , the sister jumped screaming as Jane cried wiping her bloody mouth.

"Tell him what he wants to know Jane please" the brother in-law begged .

She stayed quite her head down , "don't make me do this Jane" I told her firmly .

"Give me back my kids and let me go back to my woman she needs me and our babies."

Jane looked at me with a disguisting look when I mentioned Paula. After some few seconds of threatening her , she finally gave me the information I needed .

"Am not the one who took them " she started ,

" I was just helping organise the kidnapping . l just wanted to make you pay for rejecting me so when I was approached by Chikola , George's mother to arrange for some baby foods and diapers some two weeks ago, I agreed but from here they took off . They just came to get the things I got . I was told to wait for their call for the next step. I panicked and decided to hide at the neighbour's when I saw you walk into our yard and called the police .

"Well so now tell me where they have taken my boys , don't tell me you don't know cause I just found this in your room" I told her holding out a piece of paper I picked from her room with a tone address .

"Is this were they took the babies ? " I asked her lifting her head with my hand .

"I think so. They never really told me a thing." she nodded her head . " Well then, let's go" I told her lifting her by the hand , ."you will lead us to the place"

Jim who had been watching in silence followed us outside and walked past us to open the vehicle .

I put Jane in the back seat and jumped into the driver's seat .

"Check out the address I just text " I told Chama on the phone as I drove .

I later called my wife and briefed her on the matter .

I heard her sigh as she told me to be careful .

" I need you and the kids back to me Ackim" she whispered .

"I promise to bring us all back my love" l assured her before hanging up....

The road to kitwe was clear , it was past midnight. I accerated as my mind focused on the road .

"We have to be in kitwe in 30 minutes" I told Jim who sat next to me .

"Just be careful not to fly us soldier " he smiled fastening the seat belt , "better do the same back there." he told Jane who was as silent as a stone.

To be continued

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Hidden Dream - Episode 22

A Story By Tisa Phiri

2 years later.....

I was rushing for a meeting when the call came from Zambia. " Hey dad" I responded as I got into the vehicle.

" hey son, your mother and I were thinking about the issue of Blessings. We still feel she's still young. Won't you reconsider the decision to come and get her. Let her stay here a little bit longer. Your mother and i will make sure she's okey here."

" oh dad, am sorry. I know you all have grown fond of Blessings but I think its high time I live with her too. I miss her so much and seeing her after a long time is not doing me any good. I need my daughter with me. Am sure I can learn to take care of her. Besides am no longer that busy here. " i argued.

My parents had convinced me after Angela died that they would keep Blessings for some time until I was stable and wasn't mourning any more .

Angela's death left me broken. I remember the day she died. I was dragged to the car out side and was taken home. I however insisted I went to where the funeral was held, that was her brother's house. He had shifted to a different house within Avondale.

When I got there he was the one who welcomed me. Encouraging me to be strong.

I wondered why everyone wanted me to be strong. I felt so weak. I shut my ears so that I wouldn't hear what people were saying.

I went to her room and held her clothes close. Wishing for a moment someone would tell me it was all a dream and I would wake up and find her by my side.

I closed my eyes as the tears run down my face. " I miss you so much my love, I miss you and it's only been a day. What am I going to do after several days?" I cried laying in her bed and inhaling her scent.

I paced around her room and looked at her things. Then came across her small diary. Without hesitation I grabbed it and went to sit on the bed.

I flipped through the pages and went to 20th January,2011. And it read.

Dear diary,

Today was a great day. My students are catching up on the new steps and am so proud of them.

I saw a man, oh No, a boy Today, he was so handsome I couldn't stop looking at him. Anyway he's just a student.

27th January,

Dear diary,

What a day this was. I don't know What is wrong with me. I talked to Jared Zimba the boy who looked like he was fighting to join the dance group. I know he wants to. But my fear is that my heart races everytime I see him.

Any way I hope he joins the group soon. I can't wait to see him explore his hidden talent. Something tells me he's going to make a great dancer.

I slipped though the next pages and saw the last one.

Dear diary,

Am so much in pain. I feel like my heart is being pulled out of my chest.

Oh how I wish I had the courage to call my love Jay and tell him what am going through. But I can't. Why should I cut his dream short.? I have to let him me finish what he's doing so that his life can change for good. I know he will go through a lot of pain but i just pray he will learn to live without me.

I couldn't go on reading the diary. I put it away and lay in her bed. I was awakened the following day.

" It's time for burial. If you will come along we must be starting off now" her brother told me.

" Angela will be happy if you stood straight for your child and for yourself." He added sitting next to me.

" yeah I sighed wiping my eyes. I was still feeling sleepy even after sleeping for over 5 hours.

My father had brought me clothes to change as I had not moved out of the clothes I wore the time she died.

After a few minutes I changed into a black shirt and trousers. I had to place some dark sheds on my eyes. I couldn't have everyone notice how I would shed tears at the burial site. I had to say bye to her and so after everyone left I remained behind and talked to her. Hoping with everything, she would hear me.

" I miss you Angela. And honestly I don't know how to live without you. It was easy when you went quite because I knew you were still here somehow. But now that you have left me forever I don't seem to know the way out.

I wish you were here to even scold me for crying like a child" I chuckled kneeling besides her grave.

" I thought I would come here to say good bye but I can't yet. Am not ready to let you go my love. See you soon cause right now I have no words to tell you my heart is bleeding" I had frowned and left.

After a week I had not moved out a lot. Some media reporters had approached me for some interviews but I wasn't ready to face them.

The video of Angela and I dancing was all over the social meIda. With comments such as,

" World ballroom dancer's lover dies"

" The Amazing last Dance"

" Jay the Zambian Dancer mourns lover"

With lots of encouragement I started feeling better.

I recall when I talked to aunty Nelly.

" Jay I know and understand your pain. When I lost my son I had gone through a very rough patch in my life. I thought I would never forget the pain. But I can assure you God will find a way of comforting you. I believe everything happens for a purpose my son. Every human being was created for a purpose and maybe its high time you started looking at it in the way that Angela' s purpose in life came to an end." She explained sitting with me in the garden.

" but what purpose aunty Nelly.? She was still young and had a whole life ahead of her. Some people live for 90 or even 100 years. Why should her own life be shorter?" I frowned.

" well my son we can not question God now can we? . He gave and now has taken we have no right to question his deeds for he is God. He knows better and am sure he will make you fall in love again and just then you will understand what the purpose of Angela was."

I looked at her. She spoke so well but like they say it's easier said than done.

I didn't feel i was going to fall in love again. I had loved and now I had to go through the pain of losing her. My mind told me it wasn't possible to love again and I was okey with it.

My baby was all I had to love. Even when my parents talked me out of getting her to Paris, I painfully agreed only wanting her to have the motherly care before she could grow a little bit order. I knew with Aunty Nelly around she was going to be okey.

After 2 months of being in Zambia I decided to go back to Paris. I had to keep the promise I made to Angela. So I decided to take up the offers I had and started performing again.

Well, people were right. I never thought I would live without Angela but with time the pain become easier. At least I would mention her name without tears.

I missed her lots of course but I fought hard to forge ahead. She was my love and she would always be. No matter what. All I had to do is live my dream and I knew she was going to be proud of me.

I was lost in thoughts when I drove into the park. I had a few minutes before the meeting. I quickly grabbed my small file and walked towards the building.

" hey hold It!" I shouted.

The elevator was almost closing. I had to get in and I saw a lady hold it for me.

" thank You" I smiled at her.

" you are welcome Mr Jared!" She smiled back and I turned to look at her.

" well, I know who you are. You are my favourite dancer I don't miss your shows" she smiled like to answer my question.

" oh yeah, thank you" I responded.

" so late for a meeting?" She asked pointing at my file.

" Yeah, imagine I have to sign some contracts but I was held up in traffic. Busy day" I shrugged.

" nice to meet you lady" I smiled as I got to the floor I was going to.

" My pleasure. My name is Annie Bwalya" she smiled.

" oh Wow, you are Zambian" I sighed

" Of course, born and bred. I just came here for work" she added

" great , see you around Ms Bwalya" I smiled and walked on.

A week later I booked the flight to Zambia. I had to go and pick my daughter. All had been arranged. I found a school for her and I planned on getting Aunty Nelly to come live with us. She's the one I was trusting to help raise my daughter. All I needed was to convince her.

Beverly and i had not been as close after i returned. I was actually glad she had found a guy she fall in love with. Relieving me of the guilty of using her before. She was a nice person and I knew she derseved better. She was a hard working assistant and i knew I could depend on her for anything to do with work.

" Hello! We meet again!" I heard a familiar voice.

I turned to look at the direction of the voice and saw her sitting next to were I was heading to.

" Hey Annie Right?" I greeted her.

" a good memory you have there !" She smiled cheerfully.

I sat next to her. " going home?" She asked

" yeah am going to get my daughter I want her close to me " I nodded.

" well that's great. Am sorry I saw the sad news on the media. It must be hard to lose your loved one."

" Yeah, it is. " i sighed

" what about You? Where to? Home? " I asked trying not to stay on the story of my lose.

" yeah, my parents are celebrating their 40 th anniversary. So I had to go you know, celebrate with them. All my sister's and brothers are going."

" mmmh that's great 40 years.. Wow! Am impressed. Say my congratulations to them" I chuckled.

We talked almost the whole way. She was easy to talk to. She told me she was a nurse working in one of the hospitals in Paris. She had graduated from UTH in Zambia about 3 years back.

Her parents were both retired. Her mother was a nurse too and her father a Doctor.

She asked a lot of questions about me but I loved the fact she was very sensitive and avoided some more personal questions.

I realised she loved seeing people dance but she laughed as she told me she had always wanted to dance.

" I would love to learn more about dancing. I wouldn't mind knowing some few moves. I think there's more to dancing than people see. It just gives me so much pleasure seeing people happy when they dance" she smiled.

Her last words reminding me so much of the way Angela used to say them.

I looked at her and smiled.

" what? " She asked shrugging.

" Nothing, I like your way of thought about Dancing " I sat back smiling.

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Restless Episode 65

14:23PM

FOX Corporation Building,
EPA Hill, Bexford.

"FOX Agents at Vincil are yet to confirm the root cause of the attack at the factory," Agent Steve announced as he walked into his team's investigation room with a file in his hand.

Evelyn and Dan who were at the table turned to look at him.

"Don't you think we need a representative there to confirm our suspicions?" Evelyn asked Steve.

Steve gave no response until he got to the table and dropped the file.

"We've got no sensible conclusions yet and there's no certain link to our ongoing case except for the absence of the footages from the street cameras," Steve replied.

"But I think that's enough link to our case, footages for most events surrounding this case has always been missing." Dan put in.

"Still not enough reason to take permission for a trip out of Bexford," Steve replied and glanced at his face. "We have to pull out more reasonable facts than what we have now."

"I have been making some research on why that factory could be a target for the Red Wolves or whoever may have attacked it," Evelyn said as she turned around the table and proceeded towards one of the computer systems placed on the table at the front wall of the room. She sat on the seat in front of the computer and tapped the space bar to exit the screensaver. She opened a document from the desktop with the use of the mouse and scanned through before she clicked on the command to print the document. She got up from the seat and walked past the table where Steve and Dan were still studying some documents. She got to the printer at the opposite corner and picked up the three printed pages. Scanning through them with her eyes, she walked back to the investigation table.

"What have you got there?" Steve asked her, his eyes followed her as she returned to the table.

"Give me a minute to connect the pages boss," she pleaded.

"Take your time," he replied and continued to work on his own documents.

"Here," Evelyn said after two minutes of checking the newly printed documents and some other ones which she previously placed on the table. She moved closer to Steve. "Here boss, Enox is well known as a natural source for some of the raw materials used in manufacturing of some powerful explosives. This particular factory is known for refining the raw materials but our men reported this morning that they found the empty shells and balls for packaging the explosives."

Steve squinted. "I read that too but I thought they were also permitted for production and packaging of explosives."

"I confirmed through my research, they are only permitted to refine the raw materials." Evelyn replied.

"Hmm... Please go on," Steve said as he collected one of the documents in her hand to view.

"Our men found empty shells in there and it meant that they have been secretly packaging and producing explosives in the factory without permission from the necessary authority," Evelyn continued. "We requested for a photos of the shell used for packaging and we had , I studied the picture and also studied materials used in producing the shells and balls, they happen to consist of the same material making up the shells for explosives used by the Red Wolves."

"Damn! So, how come no one ever found out that the secret production goes on there?" Steve raised his brows. Daniel also came closer to them.

"There's no way anyone could have found out," Evelyn replied.

"But there should be frequent visits from the FOX and other security agencies to the place," Daniel said.

"Yes..." Steve cut in thoughtfully, stressing the word than usual. "There must have been frequent visits but we have to note that this visit was different, it wasn't expected and it was after something tragic had happened." Steve pointed out.

"Right, the place was attacked from the three different entrances, their men were killed and ongoing production and packaging were stopped abruptly." Evelyn stated.

"That means they could not have cleared off the materials used for the illegal production before the arrival of men from the FOX in the morning," Steve added thoughtfully.

"It actually has to be that there was no one to clear them," Evelyn stated. "And the point I'm trying to establish with all these is that that factory was the production ground for explosives used by the Red Wolves."

"You're right Agent," Steve heaved a sigh and took a step back from the table to think. "This is a good discovery," he stated as he stepped back forward. "However, some other group discovered it before us, and their own discovery led to our discovery." he added, stressing his words to emphasize the fact that they made the discovery late.

"That group, I believed attacked the factory." Daniel said.

"And we're yet to find out what they took from the place," Evelyn pointed out.

"Or who they took from the place," Steve added.

The entrance door opened and they all turned briefly to watch Agent Lydia walk in.

"There's a new mail boss," Lydia announced as she closed the door and walked to the system at the corner.

"And who is it from?" Steve asked her.

"The FOX Corporation in Vincil," Lydia replied. "They've got more information about those who went missing from the factory last night, and they also found one man alive at the exploded car."

Agent Steve turned back to take one more look at the documents on the table while waiting for Lydia to come up with her own documents. Lydia sent the document to the printer from the system and walked to the printer to pick the output. She joined them at the table afterwards, holding two A4 sized papers with her.

Steve took the document from her and began to read through, he was joined by Dan and Evelyn.

The report from the team in charge of the case from the FOX branch in Vincil mentioned names of some men who had left the facility in two cars before they were pursued on a motorcycle by the same man who attacked them from the entrance. It also revealed more about the whole thing.

It was learnt that one of the men from the car which was set on fire by an explosive narrowly escaped death while two others went missing. The rest of them were found dead, four men dead by the explosion while another was found with bullets in his body at the driver's side of the other vehicle. The man who was found alive was identified as Stanley Inn and the two men who were missing were identified as Antonio Carlos and Vincent Shawn.

Agent Steve underlined major points from the report, especially the names of the man who escaped death and the two others missing.

"This gives us all we need to get fully into the case," Steve said after analyzing the report. "The factory has not only been found to be connected to the invisible terrorist but two people have also gone missing. We need to find who those two men are and make some investigations."

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14:30PM
Benuit, Bethanna.

"There's no cause for alarm Kahn, it's a war and we do not expect less from Agent Carl Winston. You lose some battles and win some but the beautiful thing here is that we are winning the war at the end of it all." Hutton said boldly after listening to Kahn's complaint.

"You do not understand this Hutton, he's got Vincent and Antonio, that's the same way he had Elkim Nuel and killed him. Not just that, but he also uncovered our largest explosive production factory and you still say we shouldn't let the whole body know the man responsible for all these is Agent Carl Winston?" Kahn questioned. He was standing and staring at Hutton's face while Hutton was comfortably sitting in the sofa.

"It's too late for the whole body to take any action against Agent Carl Winston Kahn, I made mention of it at the right time but we weren't sure he was alive and we could not take any action."

"If we let the whole body know, there may be ideas on how to get him down." Kahn suggested.

"If we didn't get ideas on how to confirm his presumed death, what makes you think we would get ideas on how to get him down?" Hutton asked and stared sternly at Kahn's face for a response. He didn't get any. "You see... We all know Carl Winston is an intelligent and crafty man, who knows if he's got a mole in our team?" Hutton asked with a shrug. "Making it loud that we know he's alive could get him to be more careful of us."

Kahn narrowed his gaze at Hutton. He had been trained to expect anything and not to trust anyone, but looking at the top men in the Wolves, he wasn't so sure of who the mole could be. All of the men had high stakes in the mission and working against the Wolves would be working against themselves.

"We would act like we know nothing when we get to Bexford for the meeting," Hutton continued. "We would offer solutions and ideas like the other men would do and try as much as possible to pick information that we may have missed from them."

Kahn stared at him for about a minute without saying anything.

"So, how long do we keep this from them?" Kahn asked.

"As long as it takes to get the first stage of our plan against Carl Winston done," Hutton replied.

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16:43PM
Orel, Vincil.

Their temporary Lodge was more of like an uncompleted building. Only few parts of the building were completed and comfortable enough for human living. The place had been chosen for it's far distance from the main habitation in the community and it's closeness to rarely used road.

Cole, Dave and Henry were in a room. The ceiling fan right under which Henry was sitting made funny sounds as it rotated and one would think it was going to drop off the ceiling the next second.

Henry was sitting at the corner of the fifty centimetres high mattress. Cole was sitting on a chair behind a table with a laptop on it and some devices scattered around while Dave stood beside him, bent forward and looking at the laptop screen to see something Cole was showing him.

Henry was still wondering how Antonio had recognized him to be Carl Winston. It pointed to him, something he really hoped wasn't as he thought, which was the possibility of all top members of the Red Wolves being able to recognize him facially. Maybe they had all seen his pictures after his death was declared or they had probably been shown before the attempt to murder he and Rex. If it were true, then he would have to change his approach to other things involved in the mission.

"We can't tell you anything Winston," Vincent had said to him after confirming that he was truly Carl Winston. "You picked our other men and they all ended up dying, we can't trust our enemy with our lives."

The men were unwilling to release information to him even after finding out he was Carl Winston. They were of the opinion that he wouldn't spare their lives even after they gave him the information he required. He tried to change their mind about it to no avail. He was sure they were hardened enough not to release any secret to him.

"Boss, almost all these devices have no passwords." Cole said, taking a glance back at Henry.

"How many has passwords on them?" Henry asked.

"Just two, one each for both men." Cole replied.

"Are they the most frequently used devices by the men?"

"No, surprisingly, the most frequently used devices by them has no passwords but we do believe that these two passworded devices have more secrets in them."

"I agree with you," Henry said. He got up from the bed and put on his sandals. He joined them at the table. "How long is it going to take to hack into the locked ones?"

"The pattern is quite different from what we faced with Elkim Nuel, it could take two to three days." Cole replied

"That's damn too much to stay here, we need to get a quicker solution." Henry said and bent to stare at the computer screen. He stood back upright after a while. "Why don't we track the recent locations of their frequently used devices, we can track their homes, other offices or hideouts that way."


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Restless - Episode 65

® 18+ SNVL
© Oyinloye Oluwatosin Emmanuel

11AM
Orel, Vincil
Bethanna.

"Arggh..." Vincent winced in pain as he opened his eyes to find himself tied up to a chair. He continued to make muffled sounds as he struggled desperately with the ropes keeping him trapped to the chair.

He stopped his struggle after one minute and took a quick look around the place, trying to recall how he had gotten there. He was shocked when he saw Antonio placed close to the window at the back, tied to a chair just like him. He noticed that Antonio was also bare chested and with a gag placed in his mouth also.

It was then he suddenly remembered the night experience at the factory and how he had met with the rider, and then how they escaped just to be pursued by a group of two made up of a man and a woman. He remembered how he was determined to take down his enemy after being tortured on the ground and then how someone else whose face he hadn't seen had intervened.

He took in a deep breath. Maybe Kahn was right, maybe they should have listened and never given that man the opportunity to meet with them at all. But there was no way the bike rider could have escaped, Vincent thought to himself. With all the men who arrived as backup, he surely would have been taken down.

He began to struggle again with the ropes but he only lasted for few seconds before he got weary. He turned once more to look at Antonio who was still unconscious and oblivious of the new environment. He tried to make some sounds to wake Antonio up but even he couldn't hear himself properly.

He heaved a sigh and made up his mind to remain calm until their captors came in. He looked around to study the place again. It was an empty large room with unplastered walls, bad windows and screeeded floor. He didn't know where exactly they could be but he believed they couldn't have gone so far away from Enox within the short while. That gave him some courage that the men Kahn sent could still find them before their captors achieve their plans with them.

Vincent kept staring around for about forty more minutes before he heard some sounds from Antonio's direction. He turned and saw Antonio struggling hard to make himself free. he made a sound to get Antonio's attention and Antonio's eyes turned to him. They stared at each other silently for a while before Vincent turned back forward.

Antonio let out a deep breath. Seeing Vincent staying calm and not struggling made him realize it was a fruitless effort to do so.





No one came forth until two hours later. Antonio was the first to recognize the first person who walked in. He cursed her in his mind, it was the lady who fought him on the road the night before. Vincent from Antonio's reaction also knew it was none else but her.

After her came in the heavily built muscled man, the one who had knocked out almost of all their men at the factory, the same man who rode on the bike. They were both surprised on seeing him and they wondered how he could have escaped all the men who arrived at the scene before they left. More surprisingly, the brightness of the day revealed his face clearer and he seemed familiar to the both of them, even though they were yet to be sure who he really was.

Two other men entered after him and they walked straight to Antonio and lifted him up with the seat. They moved him closer to where Vincent was and dropped him by the side.

Henry stepped to the front of the two men.

"Hi guys, do you remember me?" Henry asked rhetorically with a mocking smile on his lips.

They both stared at him without giving any response, wondering if he meant remembering him from the encounter they had at midnight or from a far past experience.

"Well, I would introduce myself again." Henry said and squatted before them. "My name is Michael, the Reconciliation Team. I met you two few hours ago and gave you two options to follow. Unfortunately for you, you chose the bad option. Maybe you thought you could escape from me but as you can see, you didn't escape and you still can not escape."

Henry paused for a moment and bit his lips. He raised his brows and moved his gaze from Antonio to Vincent.

"I offered you a deal to work with me, but you chose to stay loyal to Elvis Kahn." Henry said with a chuckle. "It has landed you back into my hands and I'm supposed to finish you up for rejecting my offer, but..." He paused and licked his lips softly. "I won't kill you because I like loyal people. If you were loyal to Elvis Kahn, I believe you can be loyal to me."

Henry stood up after speaking. He turned around and took three short steps forward before turning back to them again. " So what do you say? You work for me or I do away with you two?"

Henry turned his gaze to Dave and signaled with a nod for the gags to be taken off the men's mouth to enable them respond to him. Dave proceeded forward and took the tapes off the mouth of both men.

They both stared at Henry silently for some seconds without talking until Henry spread his hands and palms wide to urge them.

"Who the hell are you?" Vincent asked with a squeezed face in a cool and calm confident tone.

"I'm Michael," Henry widened his eyes at him with an angry expression on his face.

"Elvis Kahn and the Red Wolves we know, Paul Edwards and the FOX we know. " He took two seconds pause and bit his lips. "Who the hell is Michael and the Reconciliation team?" Vincent blasted.

Antonio glanced at his face. He had a humbled look on. He looked at Henry's face again and glanced back at Vincent. He seemed to have recalled who was standing before them.

Henry smiled and moved to Vincent's front directly.

"You were considering this offer last night before he came to drag you away but it seems you are more hardened now than he was yesterday," Henry said with a smile.

"Bleep you man! You killed Elkim Nuel and tried to sell it to me that Kahn did, you killed him for not agreeing to work with you and you're threatening us the same way now." Vincent fired at him.

"I never planned to kill Elkim Nuel, his undue allegiance to Elvis Kahn and terrorism killed him and not me." Henry voiced out in a firm tone. "As much as I like loyal people, I hate it when people are loyal to the wrong cause."


"Damn you Michael, stop playing on my intelligence." Vincent cursed.

"I'm playing no games here man, your loyalty to Elvis Kahn is not only going to get you killed but your family members too." Henry threatened.

"You can't get to my family members dude, you can't get to em."

Henry laughed and stepped closer to the man. "How do you think I got to you?" He questioned in whispers. Yet to get an answer, he turned his gaze to Antonio and noticed Antonio's hands trembling visibly. "Your man here seems to be more reasonable than you are this afternoon," he said before he got up and stepped back again. "What do you think about my offer?" Henry asked, looking directly at Antonio before he turned his back to them. He remained in the position waiting for a response.

Vincent turned to Antonio, wondering why he wasn't talking. Antonio also turned to him, he was visibly trembling and his eyes were moving back and forth, looking at Henry and also at Vincent.

Vincent squinted at him, wondering what the cause of the unneccesary trembling was for.


"He's not Michael," Antonio whispered to Vincent in a sharp tone.

Vincent's eyebrows moved as he wondered what his partner was talking about.

"He's Carl Winston."

Henry turned sharply on hearing the same whispered. His eyes met with theirs and he saw the fear on their face, he never imagined they would know who he was.

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The Bodyguard Reloaded - Episode 3

© Tisa Phiri

Ackim....

I left the front Windows of the vehicle I was driving open . The soft breeze of the September night touching my face, my mind was so much active planning and thinking about my life .

I wondered to myself , my whole life had not been so easy . I was okay before I joined the army , I actually had a dream of becoming an engineer when I was growing up , however my father insisted I join the force since he couldn't take all of us to college . My elder brothers were also in the army but luck for them none of them went for the hardest training to become commandos .

I on the other hand worked so hard , at first it was just to prove to my father that I was strong enough since he started calling me names when I first rejected joining the force .

With time I started loving the drills and the adrenaline of every part of the training , the hard nights and the nights out in the deep forests. It became part of me and I felt belonging .

Even when general Loko forced me to go beyond my abilities to please him , I didn't give up on myself . l had hoped one day I would save a purpose in this life .

Well now I had no idea what that purpose was anymore . I recall my mother walking in the hospital ward I was admitted for a day after the last fight I had with George and his gang .

She sat beside me and told me God loved me and that he saved my life for something greater in this life.I smiled not really understanding her point .

"You are even blessed with a woman who would give anything for you." she added looking at Paula who sat close to me holding my hand. I smiled at her and kissed her hand ,

" that I agree with you mum

" I told my mother . She prayed for us and I felt really great . She was right, over the year I came to love Paula more and more and she was the best woman ever , selfless and always there for me even when I was stressed with work plus the secret Intelligence thing was also putting me under pressure. She seemed to just understand me and I couldn't help love her .

"Ackim ! Hey man it's your phone " Jim called me bring me to the moment . I was lost in my thoughts though I was still able to control the car as I drove.

"Yeah sure" I sighed picking my phone.

"Yes love" I answered , it was my Paula .

"Where are you babe ? Tell me what's going on , am loosing my mind right now" she cried on the phone .

"Stay calm and try to get some sleep am working on something just hoping all goes well , don't worry about me I will be ok." I told her .

"I love you" I said before hanging up. We got to town centre and my phone rang again ,

"it's Chama" I told Jim .

"Yes Chama ! Anything there ?" I asked parking the car aside the main street of town centre . lt was past 23 hours and it was so quite only a couple of vehicles moving on the roads.

"Are you there ?" He asked .

"Yeah just got here what's up ?"

"Well I used the system for the force to trace the line , it's showing 7th street that's were the owner of that line was some 35 minutes ago. Am not so sure about now, still working on it"

"What ?" I asked puzzled

"7th street ?"

"Yeah" Chama responded,

"why Ackim , does the address ring a bell ?" He asked me .

"It does actually, what's the house number again?" I inquired my mind confused. The only people I could remember in that street where Dr Mwamba's family." It can't be them" I thought as I drove there waiting for Chama to confirm the actual address.

"That family was with us at the wedding and even if l didn't get a chance to talk to them after the wedding because of the confusion with Chikola, I knew they couldn't have betrayed me and Paula , they were practically family.

In fact, Maya was our knife girl which was her dream come true , even her mother's efforts to convince her she was beyond the age of dancing as a knife girl failed .

"I will do it mom" she told her mother.She was always at our home during week ends to baby sit the twins.

"No it can't be them working against us" I whispered shaking my head.

"What did you say ?" Jim asked me wondering what I was talking about .

"It's nothing man" I responded , "am just thinking aloud. There's some people l know from 7th street am just wondering if at all they have something to do with my kids"

"Mmmmmm , anything is possible man, remember you don't trust people any how" he sighed

"I know, but these people are not just anyone , they helped save my life once and we have been more like family over the period ,no ways man there must be a mistake somewhere am sure of it."

A few seconds later my phone vibrated , l opened the text and my heart skipped .

"Oh she didn't!" I shouted hitting the steering making some noise as l hit the horn. My mind stating the name of the woman Jane.

The last time l saw her and talked was some months past almost 8 Months or so . She called me and confessed her love for me .

"I love you Ackim and you and me have been close , please don't dump me for that coloured girl" she pleaded .

"Stop it Jane" I had told her ,

"you and me have always been just friends nothing more and besides I already told you I was in love with Paula even before we met . lt doesn't make sense for you to insist on us being anything rather than just friends."

She said lots of things to get me to date her but I turned her down , the next time she called and asked me for help , she told me something wasn't right at her place like she was suspecting thieves breaking in . The time I reached her house to help I found her naked in her bedroom and she tried to seduce me to lay with her , unfortunately I wasn't ready for her craziness and I stormed out.

I didn't get to tell Paula back then and I was overtime assuming Jane had gotten over her obsession with me .

I looked at her gate and my furry emmerged ,

" how dare she scheme against me!" I sighed taking in some deep breath to calm myself down . I almost stormed out to push open the door but Jim held my hand .

"Don't rush man, we have to stay focused . Don't let your anger control your actions" he warned still holding my hand .

"Yeah you are right man, I have to focus ." I sighed

"Good , now let's walk silently and check out each side of the house before we proceed to go in." he added leting go of my hand .

I was glad I had company cause the anger I had was going to make me act like a mad man.

To be continued


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Hidden Dream - Episode 21

A Story By Tisa Phiri

Jay.....

I had fallen asleep holding her close. Waking up, I looked at her sleepy face. She was still deep in sleep. Slowly I moved out of the bed and walked outside. After planting a kiss on her dry lips.

It was past 6am, I checked my mails to see if the Indian Doctor had sent anything but there was nothing, just some mails for the offers to perform at some dance shows in Paris and New York. I quickly responded telling the offerors to give me some time.

I had to make a call to Beverly, I just recalled I had not talked to her since I got back.

" You finally decide to call me. I bet the silence means you found her right? She asked in her high tone voice .

" hey Bev, how are You?" I ignored her response.

" am okey but I dont like the silence" she complained.

" am sorry I had to do something and I didnt pay attention to my phone. I found her yes and unfortunately she's very sick. Am at the hospital right now." I went on explanning.

" oh my God Jay, am trully sorry, I had no idea. What is wrong with her?" She asked.

After talking to Beverly I decided to take a walk outside. My thoughts were not clear, I needed time to think through things.

What was I to do if the Doctor confirms there's nothing they can do? I asked myself.

I wasn't ready to let her go.

I recalled the last video chat we had.Angela was so happy her face was beaming.

" hey mate! " she had smiled widely after answering my call.

" Hey teacher" I teased

She lay on her bed with a pillow placed high to lift her back.

" what's up? I missed you so much today. It's been a long day am sorry I didn't call you earlier"

" it's okey, I missed you too but I knew you would call me."

" hey so I was thinking, I want to start my own dancing school here in zambia. I love seeing people happy when dancing and I think we have a lot of untamed talent here"

" I think it's a great idea my love. You have a great passion and I love the way you look at this whole dancing thing. Just look at where I am bcause you encouraged me to take a step. You are a super woman you know that?" I let a laugh and I saw her blush.

" you are there because you deserve it Jay, I know for sure you will make it bigger than you have ever imagined and am gonna be so proud of you" she chuckled

" I love you" I went on making her smile.

" I know and I love you so much. So if we had a child what name would you give her or him?" She asked me

" mnmmm let's see " i sighed looking up. " I think the baby would be called Blessings." I finally uttered.

" wow! Why that name?" She laughed.

" well what else can I name my first child if not to identify how blessed I am. I was given a great talent by God and I had to fall in love with you the best woman I ever ever known. So yeah, am blessed and I would name the child ' Blessings' " I laughed as she did too.

We had chatted for a long time and after the baby talk I saw her facial expression a little bit sad. I couldn't get the reason for that but now I understood. It was about the same period she found out she was sick and pregnant . I wished she had told me earlier and she was right. I could have abandoned what I was doing to come be with her.

Her generosity and the sacrifice she had to make for me to complete my thing in Paris made me shed tears.

She was the one for me and I wasn't going to give up. I was lost in thoughts walking around when one of the nurses came running to me.

" are you Mr Zimba Jared?" She asked panting

I started walking back towards the wards before I could answer her question.

" yes what is going on Nurse?' I asked in between the long strides I was taking.

" The patient has been rushed to the ICU and before she was taken she called your name. The Doctor told me to come and call you" she explained and my heart raced. .

" Oh God. Take me to her Now!" I shouted trotting.

I found her connected to some machines. The Doctor told me it was to help her breath properly. " but what happened doctor, a few minutes ago i left her sleeping and she looked okey to me" I cried holding my head as I paced around.

" I told you her condition is delicate. We cannot guarantee her wellbeing. She is bound to have such lapses here and there. Shes gone through a lot and am afraid the cancer had has reached a fatal stage. Am sorry Mr Zimba " he added an walked away after telling me I could go in.

I stood my eyes wet looking at her face. She looked calm as usual, Like an Angel she was. I really wanted to stop my tears but they kept spilling off I hated myself for being so weak.

My mother came over with John and she held my hand leading me outside.

"She might not be looking Jared, but she can feel your emotions. Stay calm my son and don't cry in there. Your father told me everything and am so sorry you are going through this" she whispered wiping her own tears.

" she can not die on me mom, I love her. She has given us a baby and I want to raise her with her. Please help me to pray for her mother. Am not strong enough" I cried as she held me.

John patted my back and comforted me too. " you are going to go through all this together man, you are. Just be strong" he added

After 2 hours in the ICU. The doctors told me that Angela was able to breath on her own now and she was awake.

I left my mother and John and rushed to go to her..

" hey, you left me" she accused me her eyes on me but they looked so different. It was like she was looking at me but not really seeing me.

" no love. I just walked out a little bit. Am sorry. Am here now. You need anything?" I asked her sitting close.

" Yeah, I want to dance " she said without hesitation.

" What?" I asked shocked. She looked so weak I wondered how she would think of dancing.

" you are too weak my love, I promise I will dance with you when you are stronger" I tried to convince her. .

" No, I want to dance with you today my love. Please don't deny me this chance. Will you dance with me Jared Zimba? " she pleaded holding my hand and sitting up.

" here?" I asked her still surprised she insisted.

" a perfect place, for a perfect dance!" She smiled widely mimicking my words the time I danced with her in the bush.

I looked at her and saw the determination in her eyes. I lifted her to the floor and she stood straight.

" let's dance from the waiting hall, there's no enough space here" she smiled now her face lit up.

" of course my love, whatever you want" I smiled and led her to the waiting room.

There were a few people seated waiting to be attended to and others taking some fresh air from the wards.

She made me turn on her favourite song, " I will always love you" I placed the phone on the bench and increased the volume.

She smiled and opened her arms to invite me to hold her.

I held her in a balldance stance and she leaned her head on my chest holding my shoulder.

She lifted her head up looking at me as I kept mine on hers. What was in them was the pure kind of passion. If someone was to ask me at the moment what i was seeing, I would tell them i could see stars in her eyes.

We danced slowly and when the slow song finished the next one played on. It was my favourite and dedication to her. A Latin song, meaning " you are mine for eternity"

It was a bit fast and I pushed her slightly as she followed my move and turned around gracefully. In a moment all I could see was my lovely Angela, she was looking strong and her mouth kept on smiling. It was like that's where she wanted to be and the same for me.

We moved about and round the floor and I saw some crowds of people gathering others taking videos and photos whilst others kept smiling with so much admiration.

I turned my attention to my Angela. It didn't matter that they were all watching, what mattered was being with her. " I love you so much. Never should you forget this dance. And I want you to know this is the happiest day of my life."

"I know you love me Angela and I will never forget this dance" i smiled widely

" she slowed down and held me tight.

" it has been my greatest pleasure to have been your teacher Jared and more than an honour to have fallen in love with you. In a short time you have showed me there is love in this world. A love that is beyond age, culture, class or anything else for that matter. No matter what happens in your life know that I love you so much. I want you to continue exploring your hidden dream. Maximise every chance in life and live your dreams to the fullest"

" Angela..." I cut her short.

She smiled and shook her head to stop me from saying anything

" shshshshs" she whispered.

"Promise you are going to be happy, that you will not let anything bring you down. Promise me now Jay" she ordered

" Ang..." i almost responded and she leaned closer.

" please just promise" she insisted.

with tears in my eyes I whispered back.

" I promise"

She moved away for the last time and I held her back in an embrace.

" i will love you through death. Fare well my love. Be happy and take care of our child. Let her be a reminder of our pure love."

I was almost saying something back but she fall back.

" Angela!" I shouted aloud as I tried to hold her so she doesn't fall.

" My love open your eyes please" I cried when I felt her body go stiff. She wasn't moving and I knelt down holding her body in my arms.

She was quite and wasn't breathing.

Everything around me stopped. It was like I was lost in my own mind. I couldn't think, I couldnt move.

" noooo!" I screamed when the Doctor rushed to the scene too and held her. He placed his hand on her to feel her pulse, checking her and shook his head. ." Am so sorry Sir, she's gone" he announced

" No she can't.. Angela wake up please" I screamed like a child. Don't leave me My love please am still a child I need you to guide me. Angela please dont abandon me am so scared. I can't face the World alone please come back" I sobbed loudly.

John and my mother came and lifted me from the floor as they out put her in a strether covering her with a white clothe.

I escaped John's grip and ran after them like a mad man. Screaming her name loudly as people watched.

" come down man" John pleaded holding me still.

" she's gone John, don't you get it. She left me with our baby. She cannot do this to me man. She can't she told me she loved me. She can not give up so soon. I want her back. " I cried as he continuously patted my back.

" you have to stay strong man. It's what she would want for you. Be strong Jared " he whispered.

To be continued

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Blood Legacy - Episode 20

© Brian Ngoma

Ludo walked out of the house and found Hunter standing at the gate confused. She ran to where he was. He looked at her and told her to wait for him. She watched him go back to the house. After some minutes he came back looking even more confused. She didn't want to say anything yet. He left her again and went to the car park and came back with her handbag and his bag.

"How did you find me?" she asked as they started walking out of the yard.

"Your phone," he pointed at her handbag.

It then dawned on her that her parents must have been calling her. She quickly searched her bag and removed the phone but it was off.

"I overheard them talking about taking the boy back to the village," she sighed.

"I am going back there."

She didn't say anything. They walked to the taxi rank and got a cab. Hunter wanted to make sure that Ludo had reached home safely. They reached Ludo's place. Whilst in the car, Hunter felt something was not right. He got out of the car and told Ludo to stay. He looked around but he couldn't clearly see. Satisfied, he told her to come out. He walked her to the gate.

"So you are leaving tonight?" she asked him.

"Yes. Before they do anything to him. I am sure Mapulanga wants to do the work himself.," Hunter turned around.

"Be careful!"

He walked back to the car and when he wanted to open the front door, lights shone at him. He heard voices shouting angrily. The lights were too bright to see the people behind them.

"Don't move!"

"Shit!" he cussed knowing that it was the police.

"Stay where you are, put your hands in the air."

There was no freaking way he was going to the prison. Not now, not ever. The taxi driver locked the doors scared. Hunter stood motionless thinking about what to do. He looked in Ludo's direction and saw her being pulled into the yard by Joe. She was resisting screaming his name but Joe was strong. At least she was now safe, Hunter thought. He needed to get away.

Two officers were closing in on him. He could hear their voices behind him. Because of the lights, it was difficult to have a clear view of the surrounding. The officers reached where he was and took him down. They cuffed him and stood him up. He wasn't even told why he was being arrested but he knew. It was because of the body found at Melanie's husband flat.

They led him to a police car and the lights were now deemed. He could now see properly. The officers had two cars and they were six in total. He was pushed into the car and locked in. He saw two officers go to Ludo's gate and Joe came out. He watched them talk while Joe didn't look in his direction. Busy with his hands, he was trying to get out of the cuffs before the other officers returned.

*****

Inside Ludo's house, Ludo was arguing with her mother trying to get back outside. She tried to convince her mother that Hunter had nothing to do with the body found at Melanie's flat. Zamiwe didn't believe her. She argued that her daughter was only protecting her friend.

"What happened to Walu?" Zamiwe asked concerned.

"Walu is in danger and you having Hunter arrested has only made it worse!" Ludo shouted.

"That man is dangerous. Your father warned you about him."

"He saved our lives."

"I don't care. Your safety comes first."

Ludo sprinted to the door but was held by her mother. They started the pulling and pushing tag of war at the door. Zamiwe overpowered her and pushed her away.

"What's wrong with you!" she shouted. "What has happened to your head? If he is innocent, you're a lawyer, you know how the system works."

"No," Ludo got up.

She ran towards her mother again and tried to get her out of the way. Whilst they were struggling with each other, they heard gunshots outside and both froze. They looked in each others eyes frightened. Who had been shot? They both ran outside and found Joe laying down. As soon as he saw them, he yelled at them to get down. A few gunshots were fired one more time.

"What's happening!" Ludo asked Joe while she laid on the ground.

"It's Hunter, he has beaten up officers and made a run for it. I am sure he has been shot."

Without a care, Ludo was on her feet and ran towards the police cars and found the officers who were beaten on the ground crying like little children. The officers grabbed her and pulled her away from the scene. She looked around trying to see if Hunter was anywhere near but she couldn't.

"That bastard has escaped," One officer angrily yelled. "I am sure i shot him."

Ludo was worried sick. What if he had been shot? He could be running bleeding and would bleed to death. She was taken back to her parents.

"We are coming tomorrow morning to question you," the officer told Ludo. "Keep an eye on her," he looked at Joe.

Ludo and her parents got in the house and ensured they had locked all doors. Ludo directly went to her bedroom and locked herself in. She put her phone on charger and impatiently waited for it to switch on. It did. She found missed calls from Caesar, Melanie, Lance and her parents. She ignored them and tried getting hold of Hunter but his phone was off. She was worried even more.

Her phone rang, it was Lance. "Good evening sir," she answered.

"Where have you been Ludo? You had us worried."

"I am fine sir. What can i do for you?"

"The preliminary trial is on Monday. I hope you haven't forgotten."

Ludo had lost track of days and the case. She was fortunate it was Saturday and the case was on Monday but she felt like sitting it out. She had a lot on her plate but she knew she couldn't tell Lance.

"I haven't forgotten sir." She cleared her throat.

"Okay see you on monday then and Call Caesar, he's concerned about you."

"I will do that sir."

There was a knock at her bedroom door. It was her parents. She told them she was tired and didn't want to talk to them. They insisted she open the door for them but she refused. They couldn't do anything but let her be, at least for the night. They would ask her questions the following morning.

Ludo tried Hunter's phone again but it wasn't going through. She instead called Caesar and assured him she was fine. From how he talked, she knew he was dead worried about her. She then talked to Melanie who told her about the arrest. It was her father Joe and Melanie's husband who went to the police and reported the incidence at the flat. She didn't blame them, they were worried and didn't know Hunter like she did. Ludo also told her about his escape.

"So where could he have gone to?" Melanie asked.

"I don't know and i think he's hurt," Ludo answered warily. "It's all my fault Melanie. This could have ended three weeks ago but i insisted he waited. Now there is a body and they think he killed the man. I can testify for him but I'm worried about him."

"He's a big man. He will be fine if he hasn't being shot. Let's just hope for that."

The two women said goodnight to each other. Ludo took a shower and immediately went to bed. She couldn't help but wonder where Hunter was and in what state of health he was. She didn't even realize that she had slept till she was awoken the following morning by some noise in the other room.

She got out of bed and went to the kitchen. When passing, she found her parents sited on different chairs in the living room. She ignored them. Whilst in the kitchen, Zamiwe called her.

"So you're living here now?" Ludo asked as she sat down.

"Respect," Joe said.

"I am just asking," she rolled her eyes. "Don't i have a right to know?"

"You don't like me being here?" Zamiwe asked.

"Don't get me wrong. I would just appreciate if you two stopped lying to me."

Joe and Zamiwe were embarrassed but they couldn't show it. Like every parent, they flipped it on her. They cleverly changed the topic and Ludo noticed how nervous they had become.

"Where did he take you?" Joe asked.

"Hunter took me no where. I was kidnapped but would you know."

Joe and Zamiwes faces were covered in shock.

"Yes i could have been dead by now. That man you had arrested or killed saved my life."

Before they could say anything, there was some breaking NEWS on the screen.

BUSINESS TYCOON AND FOUNDER OF TRIPLE E GROUP OF COMPANIES MR. NALISHUWA HAMUUMBU HAS DIED IN PRISON AT THE AGE OF 71.

"What the hell is happening?" Ludo stood up.

Her phone rang and it was Lance again. "Sir did you see that?"

"Reason I'm calling you. I heard from Erica an hour ago. She couldn't even speak properly. She also don't know what happened but said they found him dead. She told me he was sick."

"What about the case?"

"She said it goes forward."

"But the preliminary trial is tomorrow. Can't we at least wait?"

"She refused."

"Something doesn't add up sir."

"I also don't know. The old man is gone."

Ludo left her parents and went to her bedroom. She tried getting hold of Hunter again but his phone was still off.

"Where are you Hunter?"

To be continued

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The Bodyguard Reloaded - Episode 2

© Tisa Phiri

Ackim.......

I ran outside my heart pumping . I felt the anger in my veins bulging and making my fists shake , I stood in the middle of the road and looked on both sides there was nothing . No sign of that evil woman .

I knew somehow that was bound to happen , only that I didn't anticipate that Chikola the mother to George would go for our kids . She had met me one day after her son was imprisoned .

You ! She shouted at me as I walked in the streets of Chingola . I had gone to check on some businesses there one Wednesday morning .

I stopped and looked behind just to see her walk to me , do you think I will rest and watch you live in peace after you caused the down fall of my only son ? She scolded me .

Excuse me mam , your son deserved what he got l responded , besides if you wanted a better life for him you could have done a good job when raising him , it's evident you failed .

She raised her hand to slap me but I held it up high .

Listen to me woman , leave me and Paula alone . Don't dare me , l will do anything for her and anyone who comes against her will answer to me .

We will see, she snapped as she walked away .

I didn't tell Paula bcoz I didn't want to worry her but I had been alert all along . When I realised months went by and it was quite I had come to think that maybe she was now at ease and had come to terms with everything , well I was wrong . Now that I was achieving what I had hoped for since I fall in love with Paula. I made her my wife and I felt complete with her and my two sons , I named them Paul and kim , we had to name them from both our names Paul from Paula and Kim from Ackim .

Running back to the event venue I found Paula sobbing her father comforting her . I felt my heart pain seeing her devasted , I had to stay calm for her .

Come here love, I held her. Am going to find our kids , I whispered to her kissing her forehead .

You have to Ackim , she cried , please don't let anything happen to our babies.

The wedding was sumarised and after everyone was dispersed I saw a white guy walk towards us as we walked to the car .

Congratulations , he told us looking at Paula in particular . Thank you , I answered still holding my wife . Well , am happy for you guys , he added and walked away . I saw Paula frown but I didn't ask anything.I didn't want to start asking questions about some stranger guy when we already have pressure of loosing our boys .

She sat on the bed at our home her face down . What does she want from us babe ? It's not my fault that my father had a child outside marriage , what am I supposed to do ? These people are just being paranoid , she complained .

I won't let anything happen to our kids my love l comforted sitting next to her. Am sorry our day has been spoiled , we were supposed to be enjoying this moment this time , I added holding her neck , come on give me a smile I whispered kissing her.Did I tell you that you look extra sexy tonight ?

She shook her head smilling , no you didn't she responded in a low tone .

Well you do and if It was some other day I could be enjoying you right now but I have to go my love , let me find our kids and then I will come back to finish this I said kissing her again .

She nodded her head and I hugged her for a minute before leaving .

Hello ! I spoke up as the person I was calling answered the call .

It's Ackim am coming your way there's an emmergence I announced . I heard a sleepy voice sigh and he said , okey sir see you soon then .

I cut the line and increased the speed of the car as I drove across the city all the way to the army base .

I was reinnstated under special ops department when I reported back the year before , I was working as an under cover in the intelligent unit . My work was to carry out special operations for the government . I couldn't refuse coz once one was in the system there was no backing out .

I had not told Paula yet because I knew the danger of my operations , I needed more time to tell her what was going on .

From the operations I was well paid and had put some money into the shares under Lusaka stock exchange , as it was I had a good chunk of wealthy . I somehow felt bad I couldn't tell my wife yet but the excuse was because our relationship wasn't legal . And the force was against revealing such details to partners we weren't married to. Now that it was time for me to reveal my secret my plan was defeated and I somehow had to involve the force to help me find my children .

I called two of my friends who I knew I could trust . They both lived within the base but not a lot of people knew they were part of the intelligence unit . I had worked with them on several occasions and I knew they were the best to summon to help me solve a personal matter .

I came to halt in front of the gate to the Mess were I was meeting my friends, intelligent officers . I needed help ASAP , my kids were barely 3 months old and letting them out there for a day would be a big risk for them .

I steped out of the car and went to the corner in the officer's mess . Sighing , I raised my hand to call out to the man at the bar . I showed him my Id and the man saluted , good evening Sir , he shouted . At ease soldier I called out putting back my Id , am waiting for other guys let me have two shots of the strongest wine you have here , I ordered .

Yes sir, he saluted and left to the counter .

I removed the Jacket remaining with the pale pink shirt I wore inside . I was still in my wedding suit feeling uncomfortable . lf it were up to me I would have worn casual clothes , Paula and her matron had to convince me to wear a suit and I hated it .

I unbuttoned the first 3 buttons of the shirt and relaxed as I grabbed the glass of wine which was placed before me . I took it all at once and closed my eyes as the wine burnt my gullet .

Jim walked in wearing a thin black coat . He greeted sitting down . What's up ? He asked placing his phone on the table , I thought you were supposed to be enjoying your wedding night this time , he said looking at his watch .

Yeah I should but unfortunately some irritating person just kidnapped my boys at the reception , l told him looking straight at him .

Oh shit ! Jim cursed sitting back his back on the chair .

Chama , another guy I was meeting walked in as I breifed Jim . He was the guy good with comminuication issues. Give him a computer and he would trace anyone using a phone line and a few details such as NRC and any personal details.

I pointed at a seat nearby and he pulled it towards us sitting his back bend .

So guys like I said I have to find my kids before dawn , l won't let that woman play me for a fool again , l can bet she's not working alone it's obvious she isn't that sharp to carry out such an action , I added as the guys nodded .

let's get to it now then Chama started , give me anything about this person I have my computer in the car.

As Chama went to get the computer I wrote down the details I knew for Chikola , I managed to grab her phone number from the records at the time she signed her details at the prison before George was imprisoned .

As Chama started connecting his computer Jim and I planned our next move .

I pray to God my kids are alive I swear am sending her and whoever is helping her straight to hell I snapped .

She made some last call from central town, Chama announced . I think you guys can start from there and l will brief you as you drive to town centre with the rest of the details .

Great , thanx guys I owe you both , I told them grabbing my jacket . Let's go Jim .

To be continued

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