Tarasha - Season 4 - Episode 13

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Tarasha - Season 4 - Episode 13

4.55pm

Tarasha had slept for two hours when the sound of her phone’s ringing tone woke up. She got up from the bed and realized that she had slept off since Henry left the room. She was already getting used to taking naps in the afternoon like the nurse had advised for her to make her recovery fast. But she knew it was just for the moment; soon there might just be no time for her to even relax at night.
The phone had stopped ringing by the time she got to the table. She picked it and swiped it open to see the ID of the missed caller. It was Chief Gab calling with a Nigerian number. She dialed back.


‘Good afternoon Chief, I see you are in town already.’

‘Yes, I landed not up to thirty minutes ago.’ The Chief replied.

‘Okay then, I’ll see you tomorrow.’
‘What time are you coming? What time is your flight leaving?’

‘I’ll be coming anytime, just prepare for me. You would receive my call when I get there.’
‘I thought you would need someone to pick you from the airport,’ the man said.
‘No, you should not worry about that. All you need to do is to make sure you are ready with the documents.”

‘Alright Tarasha, I will be expecting you.’ the man said and the call ended.
Tarasha dropped the phone on the table and was about to settle on the chair when she heard a soft knock at the door.
‘Come in,’ she said as she sat.

The door opened slowly and Cole walked in.

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‘D--n it! I was scared when I couldn’t find you at the car, I thought you left already.’ Tomi said in a stressed tone to Dave as he drove the car with her by his side.
‘I could see the fright on your face even from the far distance.’ he replied with a chuckle. ‘Who did you think he was calling?’

‘I thought he was calling a backup or maybe one his men, I thought he had discovered I was there on a different mission from the EasyShoppers but I became relaxed when I saw you with the phone. Who was he speaking to?’

‘He called the EasyShoppers line.’
‘Huh?’ Lizzy’s eyes shone in surprise.
‘Yea, but I didn’t let it go through. He spoke to me instead.’
‘Wow! You were so fast.’
‘Yea, I had to leave the car then because I wanted to watch every of your moves, so I moved to a place the van wasn’t blocking my view.’
‘What did he say?’
‘He wanted to confirm who was sent to make the delivery.’
‘I knew he had doubts with the way he was staring.’
‘He sure did.’


‘How were you able to intercept? Was it just the little time you spent accessing the EasyShoppers’ data that you configured your device with theirs and turned around their settings.’
‘Yes, those guys never expected this kind of day to come so they did not provide top security for their systems. I did it in such a way that I can intercept any of their calls to 55678 which is the number that responds to calls from Asokoro and Maitama but I only get an alarm on my device whenever Kimberly’s number is trying to connect or they are trying to connect to her.’
‘So does that mean Kimberly and her guys live in Asokoro or Maitama?’
‘Not necessarily, it only means they registered with EasyShoppers in one of these two places.’


‘I see.’
‘Now, we have to plan for tonight. Did you still put the tracker anywhere?’
‘No, you asked me not to do that only if I saw that there was no good rapport between us.’
‘But you said he accused you of trying to s£duce him.’
‘Yes, he did but I could see that he still wanted to have a taste and I knew he was still going to fall.’
:Well, it’s what you specialize at, I shouldn’t be surprised that you knew what every of his reaction meant.’
‘I did, and do I need to meet him tonight?’
‘Did you agree to?’
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‘Good day boss,’ he bowed slightly before closing back the door.
‘Cole,’ she called his name in response to his greeting. ‘Have you gotten any useful data yet?’
‘Ermmm… I don’t really think what I’ve got is useful,’ he said and began to walk closer to her.
‘What have you gotten?’
‘I found out this morning that there’s been no other police officer or team handling the Samantha Osman case and there are no records of any other security agency acting on it.’
Tarasha took in a breath as she stared thinly into the air.


‘So Agent Tim’s team is still in charge of the case?’ she asked. Cole nodded in affirmation, muttering a ‘yes’ which could only be read by the movement of his lips. ‘So it means that the guy who helped you on that day isn’t a member of the agent’s team.’

‘Yes and I don’t think he’s a member of the police force also,’ Cole stated.
‘Why do you say so?’
‘He’s been declared wanted by the Police for a month now, I believe they should have fished him out if he was one of them.’
‘Didn’t you say he had a bandage on his head?’

‘Yes, he did. He looked seriously injured and…’ Cole paused, a confused look appeared on his face. ‘But his carriage wasn’t like that of a seriously injured person, he moved and acted so swift.’
‘That could just be as a result of a training he might have undergone,’ Tarasha said. ‘And that leads us closer to finding who he is; which armed force in Nigeria do you think has the ability to be that swift?’
‘I’ve thought about it also and there are so many of them, he could be a personal investigator who was trained somewhere outside the country or a special intelligence officer of one of the forces except the police.’

‘He can’t be a personal investigator, the Vice President and Inspector General who are the men in focus won’t employ a personal investigator when they have Rex…’ she stopped to think for a while. Then she turned to the table and picked her phone, she began to scroll through. I made some research and my findings were that the State Security Service in Nigeria would also be involved in the case since it involves top government officials and then I searched and found the pictures of some SSS men that have been involved in the case, I have them here,’ she said, stretching the phone towards him. He quickly walked forward to collect it. ‘Just keep swiping, they all have the same name pattern.’


Cole took about two minute to stare at the ten pictures of two men, five for each man. He shook his head, ‘Boss, this guy looked younger than these men. I know these two men before, they’ve spoken about the case on national TV before but it’s just that I didn’t find any existing record.’
‘Well, I was thinking it could be someone under them if it isn’t one of them but the confusing part is that he shot security officers and that is making me want to rule out the possibility of him being a security official himself. There’s a higher possibility of him just being from another Hoodlum who had worked with the Inspector General and Vice President before and had fallen out with them, it is possible he helped you just to get back at them.’


There was silence for a minute.
‘But he still being alive could be a disturbance to us, he shot you a tracker and that means he had plans of coming after us or of coming to us. It is also possible we never meet him again, no one knows where we are right now and can’t trace our movements from here except we expose ourself. But do you think he is someone who knew you before that day?’
‘No, I don’t think so. The only person I know who could interfere like that is Don who is late now…’ Cole paused and closed his eyes briefly. ‘And then Stainless, but Stainless works with Rex and he doesn’t look like the guy I saw.’
‘Didn’t you say he had a bandage around his forehead, he might also have had other things on his face.’


‘That’s true.’
‘Is there any possibility of this Stainless wanting to betray Rex?’
‘I’m not sure but Tomi mentioned that he was gathering a new set of guys recently and I believe he is trying to revive his own gang.
‘Tomi,’ Tarasha mentioned thoughtfully, stressing each syllable of the name. ‘Is Tomi good enough to be sent?’
‘With close monitoring, I think we could send her.’


‘Okay, I’ll decide on what to do.’ she said and remained silent for some seconds. ‘Don’t ask or tell her anything until I return from Lagos.’
‘Sure boss, I won’t.
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