Tarasha - Season 3 - Episode 141

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Tarasha - Season 3 - Episode 141

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‘Tarasha!’ Chief Gab’s voice came blaring through the phone speaker as the call was answered, Cole had to take it far from his ears for comfort.

‘No Chief, she’s not here yet. I’m the one calling back.’ Cole said after putting the phone on loud speakers for he and Henry to listen.

‘Have your delivered my message to her?’
‘No Chief, you should know she’s in a very serious situation for someone else to be handling her phone. Or has someone else spoken on her behalf to you before?’
There was silence for some seconds before the Chief replied, ‘What situation is she in?’
‘She’s terribly injured and receiving treatment right now. The Vice President got another assassin group to counter us,’ Cole replied.

‘So Tarasha could not handle another assassin group? I thought she already handled the best in Nigeria, the Nanl Gang .’
‘Yes but this new guy isn’t a Nigerian assassin.’

‘What do you mean?’
‘There’s no time to explain right now Chief, we need your help urgently to stay safe. The police and this other assassin group are seriously on our tail and they’ve discovered our location already. Tarasha is down and it will take more than a week for her to be well enough to defend herself or fight back. We need a facility where we can hide until she’s strong enough, if we don’t leave here tonight, we might get captured by the police.’
There was total silence for more than thirty seconds.

‘Chief, are you there?’ Cole asked.
‘I’ll call you back later.’ the voice sounded low and the call ended.
‘I guess the Chief is scared,’ Cole said to Henry, putting back the phone on the table.

‘What do we now?’
‘We have to wait for him, we can’t just launch out without knowing where to go.’ Cole replied.

‘But what if the car returns anytime soon, it was there for more than an hour, it looks like it went to get more of their men.’
‘We can’t still leave now, here is safer than anywhere else we can run to. The other option is if the boss gets well enough to speak to us.’

Both men remained in silence for the next couple of minutes, each one cleaving to his own thoughts and worries.
‘Where are you going to?’ Cole stared at Henry who had just risen to his feet.
‘I’m going to check on Omotara,’ Henry replied.

‘Come on sit and allow the nurse do her work well,’ Cole said giving him a reprimanding look.
‘She should be done by now, besides, she’s the one calling, I think she needs our attention.’ Henry replied, displaying the screen of his phone to Cole. There was an incoming call.

‘Alright, I’ll join you shortly.’ Cole said, waving him off. ‘But answer that call, she might just have something urgent to tell you.’ Cole added before Henry got to the door.
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**20 minutes later**
‘But Chief, why have you made such an urgent decision, I thought you said you’ll only return after you meet with her.’ Chief Nonso’s voice sounded through the phone with a surprised tone.
‘I can’t wait anymore, besides she’s in trouble now and I don’t think I can help her right now. I have to help myself by leaving immediately else I’ll be in trouble if I’m still here when she’s caught.’ Chief Gab replied.
‘Oh! That’s serious, isn’t there anything else could do?’
‘The only thing I know I can do is to leave as soon as possible.’
‘It’s okay Chief, I wish you safety.’
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5pm
‘I’ll be back tonight to give her some drugs,’ Tomi said, looking at Tarasha’s face on the bed she la!d. Cole and Henry stood at the other side of the bed, listening to her as she gave instructions on what to do while she’s away. ‘I have to go now,’ she said as she straightened her dress. She picked her handbag from the seat it was and began to walk away.
Cole walked up to her and stopped her by holding her hands. ‘Tomi, thank you so much for coming.’ he said in a calm tone, both of them staring at each other’s faces.
‘It’s nothing to thank me for, it’s okay as far as I keep getting my bank credit alerts.’ she replied, unsmiling.
‘Thank you so much,’ Cole said again and grabbed her in a warm embrace. The embrace lasted for more than twenty seconds before Cole released her.
She felt a bit embarrassed but tried to comport herself. ‘You’re welcome,’ she said, forcing on a smile.
Cole still held her with his two hands by her elbow. His hands left her hands and found it’s way to the back of her head where he rubbed her hair gently. Then he pulled her face gently to himself and took her mouth in his, the kiss lasted for more than thirty seconds.
Tomi gasped and forced out another smile, the look on her face showed the embarrassment she tried to hide as she saw Henry smiling behind.
‘Please Henry, can you help see her off.’ Cole said to him as he turned back.
‘Okay,’ Henry agreed and walked up to Tomi as Cole walked back to Tarasha’s bed.
‘Tomi, please do not tell anyone about this place.’ Cole said to her. She nodded back in response.

Henry returned seven minutes later and found Cole seated on a plastic chair beside Tarasha’s seat. He had his legs crossed and a tablet device in his hands.
‘I never knew you were in love with her,’ Henry said as he proceeded towards the bed.
‘In love with who?’ Cole raised his eyebrow to look at him.
‘In love with the nurse,’ Henry replied. ‘No one says thank you to a nurse my hugging her so tight and kissing her like that.’

Cole chuckled. ‘It worked then,’ he said and turned his focus back to the tablet device.
‘What worked?’ Henry stared at him.
‘The trick,’ Cole replied, shaking his legs playfully. ‘If you can think I’m in love with her, then she must feel the same way too. It’s just a trick to stir up her emotions and her loyalty. Girls are easily deceived.’
‘That was just a trick?’ Come on, I’m not a kid.’ Henry smiled doubtingly. ‘You couldn’t have kissed her as passionately as that.’
‘Yes, you’re right, I didn’t really intend to kiss her so passionately but it took me so long to fix the device at the back of her hair.’
‘Huh? Which device?’
‘I attached a tracker to her hair.’ Cole stated. ‘It will only take a passionate kiss for her not to notice anything going on.’
Henry laughed. ‘Oh my God! You mean that kiss was just to fix a tracker to her hair?’
‘Definitely, why should I be in love with a w---e?’ Cole eyed him.
Henry chuckled, ‘It just looked too real’.
‘You have…’ Cole was about to say something when they heard a soft voice. Both of them paused and their gazes turned to Tarasha.

‘Has she left already?’ Tarasha asked in a weak voice.
‘Yes, she’s gone.’ Henry answered, running to her. He stopped at the bed and stared down at her face with his face full of smiles like a father who was watching his newly delivered baby. Cole also got up and stood by his side.

‘We need to move,’ Tarasha said. She tried to adjust herself and sit up but she couldn’t as her body was still weak. Cole offered to help her up but she refused politely, ‘Thanks, don’t bother.’
‘Where do we go to boss?’ Cole felt a bit happy now that his boss was talking, he was sure to get directions even if she couldn’t act by herself yet.