Tarasha - Season 5 - Episode 39

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Tarasha - Season 5 - Episode 39

Twenty Minutes Later.

‘So what do we do next now that we’ve confirmed that this is their destination?’ Stephanie asked Dave. It was few minutes after they watched the Vice President and his entourage drive into the presidential lodge.
‘We’d go back to the hotel and monitor the rest of his movement through the security cameras,’ Dave replied her almost inaudibly; he had taken a bite from an apple and was munching the fruit in his mouth noisily.
‘Security Cameras? How are we going to do that?’

‘Leave that to me Steph,’ Dave replied, not giving her much attention. His focus was on the apple. ‘Do you realize we haven’t had lunch today?’

‘Yes, I know.’
‘Aren’t you hungry?’ He flashed a funny look at her and placed his gaze on the remaining apples in the nylon place on her lap.
Stephanie sighed. She was hungry but was eager to find out first what Madam Henrietta was doing with the Vice President.
‘If it’s about Madam Henrietta, I would advise you to relax. There’s no way we’re going to find out what she’s doing with the man, we can’t find out today, it’ll take another process, but a simple one.’ Dave said before taking another apple from the nylon. ‘I think you should call and talk to her, greet her warmly and ask where she is.’
Stephanie stretched her hand to the backseat and picked a bag from there. She was about to return the bag when Dave spoke.
‘Can I have my tab please?’ he requested. She took out his tablet device and handed it over to him before returning the bag to the backseat. Dave unlocked the device to use it while Stephanie made the call.
‘Hello mum,’ Stephanie said into the phone.

‘Hi Daughter, how are you?’
‘I’m fine, how about you mum?’
‘I’m fine too.’
‘So… Mum, where are you now?’
‘Erm… Why do you ask?’ Madam Henrietta questioned instead of giving an answer.
‘Well, I just feel like knowing.’
‘Okay, I’m at a friend’s place.’
‘Oh! Which of your friends?’ Stephanie asked again.
‘You don’t know him Steph, maybe I’ll introduce you to him soon.’
‘Okay, I was just wondering, you never told me of any friend you have in Abuja and…he’s even a male.’
‘Do you have any problem with that Steph?’ the woman’s voice sounded cold.
‘No Mum, not at all. I was planning to return to Abuja soon, that’s why I called.’
‘How soon?’
‘Tomorrow.’
‘Tomorrow? We may not get to see hen because I’m leaving Abuja tomorrow morning.’
‘Wow! What if I start the journey this evening and get there very early tomorrow morning.’
‘There’s no need to do that, I’ll also be leaving very early and we won’t have time to talk.’

‘Okay Mum, say hi to your friend for me.’
The call ended and Stephanie let out a breath, she locked the phone and threw it carefully to the backseat. She then looked at Dave whom she was expecting to have made a comment. Dave was so busy with the tab and he seemed not to be aware of her presence anymore.
‘What are you doing?’ She asked.
It took him sometime before he replied her. He seemed to be lost in deep thoughts and Stephanie wondered what he had seen on the device just few seconds ago that made him thoughtful.
‘There’s a little shift,’ Dave said in a dragging tone. ‘Samantha Osman has arrived already and would try to rescue Chief Nonso this night.’
Stephanie widened her eyes in surprise, ‘I thought you said she would be meeting with you tomorrow morning.’
‘Yes, she said so but she didn’t tell me of her plans to be here tonight. I just saw her message now requesting for me to send her the data I’m using to track the Chief.’
‘Are you going to send it to her?’
‘No, how can I?’

Stephanie stared at him with a look of confusion. ‘I don’t understand, I thought you wanted to help her save Chief Nonso.’
‘Yes, I wanted to save Chief Nonso but you should remember that I am a government official, I shouldn’t be caught giving information to a criminal.’
‘How would you get caught?’
Dave glanced at her with a light smile on his lips and shook his head. ‘There are lots of things that you cannot understand about my job,’ he said and took out a small phone from his pocket. ‘I think it’s time I get the SSS fully involved in this.’
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PRESIDENTIAL QUARTERS
‘Who was that?’ Chief Elvis asked Madam Henrietta who was seated on a sofa in front of him.
‘Stephanie,’ she answered and pulled her gown as she adjusted her seating position. The man was not in the living room when the call came in and he had entered the living room to see her speaking on phone.
‘The poor girl, I hear she leads a group of activists in her school now.’
‘Yes, she does.’
Chief Elvis chuckled, ‘Just like her father, I pray she doesn’t end up like him.’
‘I pray so too,’ Madam Henrietta said. ‘I’ve tried so many times to warn her but she always refuses to listen. I’ve come to see her as my own daughter and I love her so much.’
‘I understand you, after being with her for so many years and bringing her up, you would definitely develop a strong attachment to her.”
She sniffed in cool air and smiled lightly.
‘Well, she’s not the reason you are here.’ Chief Elvis said and adjusted his seating position. ‘There are some documents I’ve been looking for and I don’t know if you have any idea of where they are.’
‘What documents could you need from me?’ She asked with a raised eyebrow.
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IGBEDE
‘Hey Boss, there’s an important text message here,’ Stainless said as he entered into Rex’s room.
Rex glanced at him with a nonchalant look. Stainless marched towards him with Chief Nonso’s phone in his hands.
‘That Chief tried to reach our hostage some minutes ago via call, but I cut the call and asked him to send a message instead. He sent a message thinking that Chief Nonso was the one with the phone.
Rex looked at Stainless with the side eye and stretched out his hand to take the phone, hoping that the message Stainless was excited about was really worth it.
‘Tarasha is coming soon, I think she knows your location and she would make you free by tonight.’
‘That Chief Gabriel sent this message?’ Rex asked, flashing a look at Stainless.
‘Yes, he did.’
Rex returned the phone to Stainless. ‘The other Chief is not in Nigeria, the only way Samantha could have gotten this location is by tracking that phone in your hand.’
Stainless remained mute.
‘You leave it with me here and move the man to the other facility we have in this town. I’ll wait for Samantha here, I already have enough weapons set up for her destruction.’
Stainless bowed and smiled evilly. He dropped the phone on the table in front of Rex and proceeded out of the room.
‘Hello, Vice President. You need to postpone your visit, I’m expecting another visitor.’
‘Who are you expecting?’ the Vice President replied in low tones from the other end.
‘Samantha Osman, it seems she found our location and she’s coming to us.’
‘Please don’t let her slip away this time,’ Chief Elvis pleaded.
‘She’d be dead the moment she gets into this building.’ Rex replied.
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7:48PM
IYANAIBA, LAGOS.
Cole is seated at the front seat with Henry who is driving the car. Tarasha is seated at the backseat and is busy with her tablet device.
‘Tara, I’m not still sure if we’re doing the right thing really.’ Henry said, looking at her face through the rearview mirror.
‘What’s making you doubt it?’ She asked and looked at his face briefly.
‘We don’t know how many guys we’re going to face where we are headed for,’ Henry said.
‘We’re not heading towards a barracks, we’d be able to take down all of them because we would catch them unawares.’
‘Unawares?’ Henry seemed a bit surprised. ‘How sure are you that we’re going to catch them unawares? That journalist who you sent the message, what if he works with the enemy and has told them of our coming.’
‘He doesn’t working with them, we caught him tailing the Vice President today, just like we were.’
‘Well, I don’t still trust him.’
‘If you don’t trust him, trust me.’ Tarasha replied and with that Henry gave in. She spoke again after some minutes of silence. ‘Make sure that you have your communication device on always, you should put on your earphone and mouthpiece before we step out of the car.’
‘Yes boss, I remember all the instructions,’ Henry replied.
‘How many minutes more do we have to get there Cole?’
Cole quickly checked the time on his phone. ‘Forty minutes more.’
8:26 PM
IGBEDE, LAGOS.
‘It’s time to take a survey around the place,’ Tarasha said as she plugged an earpiece to her ear and clipped a mouthpiece beside a button on her shirt close to her mouth, Cole was also doing the same.
‘Okay, be careful,’ Henry replied, now putting on his communication pieces too.
He watched them step out of the car with his eyes full of fear. The weather was cold, but he felt hot. He felt like something terrible was about to happen.