Tarasha - Season 4 - Episode 25

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Tarasha - Season 4 - Episode 25

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Yes, look here Henry. News outlets have already started giving reports about an accident along the road but Tarasha has checked it and noticed that it was only an arranged accident.’
‘Arranged accident, what does that mean?’

‘No accident occurred, it was only set up to look that way.’
‘For what purpose?’
‘To make the event look like something other than a kidnap.’
‘I don’t still understand.’
‘You don’t have to understand bro,’ Cole slammed at him, tired of explaining the situation.
‘I need to understand, it’s my mother we’re talking about here.’ Henry fired back.
‘They took your mum out of the place in an ambulance like an injured person who they are taking to the hospital.’
‘Is she truly injured?’
‘No, she isn’t, they only made it appear like that. The ambulance took her somewhere else and not aa hospital.’
Henry took a pause to think about Cole’s explanation and make sense out of it.
‘But how long do we have to wait for Omotara?’
‘I directed her to a place she can find a car but she can’t arrive here anytime earlier than tomorrow morning.’
‘And what assurance do we have that nothing would have happened to my mother?’

‘You’ve not replied the message, have you?’

‘No.’
‘There’s no way those guys are going to know that you’ve gotten the message.’

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Stephanie took a brief pause to look out through the car windows as they met a traffic jam. She checked her wristwatch for time and sighed on seeing that it was already evening, it meant she only had a short time to spend with her mum if she wanted to return to town that day, the other option which she hadn’t considered was to stay longer and sleep over in a nearby hotel and return to school very early the next morning. Weekends were always the best period to make visits but she had been busy with functions for the past week.

It was the second time she was visiting after her foster mother – madam Henrietta – had left for the United States. Their relationship had normalized even though the woman still reminded her from time to time how she wanted them to live in the same country. Stephanie couldn’t think of leaving yet, not until she could get her real mother to be in her own custody.

Her life had returned to normal, she had gone back to being the President of the SWAD team and returned to her normal activities in school. The betrayal amongst the SWAD team members had also been arrested by the police and security for her in the school premises had been tightened up by the rest of the SWAD members.
Just as the roads cleared and vehicles began to move normally, Stephanie’s phone notified her of an incoming call. She took it out of her bag and stared at the screen for a moment, trying to recognize the unsaved number.
‘Hello, who am I speaking with?’
‘Good evening Steph, how are you?’
‘I’m fine, thank you. So who am I speaking with?’
‘It’s Dave, remember me?’
‘Dave… Sorry, I don’t really remember, can you tell me where we met?’
‘We met at the hospital after your encounter with Samantha Osman,’ the voice replied.
‘Oh! The guy that came like a Doctor?’
‘Yes, how are you?’
‘I’m fine, how about you?’
‘I’m excellent.’
‘Nice to hear from you again.’
‘Yea, really nice. So have you heard recently from the police?’

‘They came about two weeks ago to ask if I could now remember what happened?’
‘And what did you tell them?’
‘That I can’t remember anything of course.’

‘Thank God, do you recognize the officers that came to you?’
‘Agent Tim and officer James.’
‘Okay, please let that secret be kept between us for now. If anyone knows you remember, your life would be in danger.’
‘I know.’
‘Thank God you know, I just hope Samantha Osman would meet her Waterloo very soon, so that we can forget everything about her.’
‘Hmm… But I don’t really think she’s someone bad.’

‘She’s an assassin, she has killed several people for money and that is bad enough. Don’t pity her because she didn’t hurt you.’

‘Well, I’m just saying how I feel.’
‘I understand you but it’s dangerous to have compassion on assassins or other hardened criminals, they would take advantage of that and cause more harm to the world through you.’
‘I’ve heard you.’
‘Good. So have you heard from her recently?’

‘Heard from who?’
‘From Samantha Osman.’
‘No,’ she sounded surprised at his question. ‘I don’t have her contact and she doesn’t have mine, what do you expect her to reach me for?’

‘Don’t get pissed dear, I was just asking.’
‘I’m not angry, I’m only surprised. Do you think my mind would be at rest if ever I come across her again?’
‘I understand you. Why don’t we just forget about Samantha Osman and the police for now. How’s school?’
‘School is fine, how is work?’
‘Fine too, just been stressful these days. How were you able to cover up all you missed during your absence from school?’
She chuckled. ‘I have friends who helped me with notes and explanation on some difficult courses, so I didn’t find it difficult to level up with the others. We just finished our exams last week and I think I did well.’

‘Oh! That’s good. So it means you’re on break right now?’

‘Yes, on first semester break already though I’m still busy with the SWAD activities and some other functions in school.’
Alright, I hope we’ll be able to spend some time out when you’re finally available.’

‘I hope so too.’
‘When will that time be?’
‘When I’ll be free?’
‘Yes.’
‘I can’t really say for now. I plan on spending more time with my mum during this break, it’s a very short one.’
‘I thought your mum has gone back to the States.’

‘Ermm… No,’ Stephanie realized he was talking about Madam Stephanie but decided not to talk about her real mother. ‘She’s in Nigeria.’

‘Okay but it doesn’t stop us from spending an hour or two together.’
‘I know but.. Please Dave, you have to call back later. I’m in a cab and I’m close to where I’m going to.’
‘Alright then, till later.’
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