Tarasha - Season 7 - Episode 29

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Tarasha - Season 7 - Episode 29

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The fall was more than something he could control. He couldn’t stop the scream that forced itself out of his mouth as he found himself struggling against the force of gravity. His body hit the window guards from the top most floor and his head also hit one of the opened window glasses and continued downward until it got to the middle floor at the fourth second where it hit another opened glass window, all this slowing down his movement and increasing the pains of his fall. He closed his eyes in anticipation of his death as he continued falling.

He suddenly stopped moving after three more seconds of hitting two more opened windows. He opened his eyes expecting to find himself dead but he was still about twenty feet away from the ground. The thick collar of his cloth had hung one of the window glasses which was now oscillating because of his weight on it. Breathing heavily he managed to look down from that position. He could see people there looking up and pointing at him as his legs flew in the air. He heard a tearing sound and his body dropped a centimetre downward, the collar was giving way. He quickly used his hands to grab the window glass and also supported himself with the legs.

He was panting heavily as he managed to turn his body to the other side. He heard a scream from the room of the window.
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Tarasha opened her eyes to look down after seven seconds. The distance to the ground was quite far and the bright lights on the walls of the building at every floor made it impossible for her to see the ground clearly. She however saw traces of gathered people and concluded that Rex must have fallen to the ground and they were surrounding his dead body.

She turned and dropped to her knees weakly, she closed her eyes and then took in some very deep breaths. She opened her eyes after few seconds. She still felt so weak in her body but she managed to get up to her feet. She picked the other end of rope on the floor and dragged her feet as fast as she could to the structure at the centre of the roof. She knew that security officials would be making their way up to that floor at that moment, the fastest way for her to escape would be to leave with the rope through the back of the building.

She quickly located her phone where she kept it on the floor and also located her bag.
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‘What did the boss say?’ Nicholas asked Cole for the umpteenth time.

Cole remained mute as usual as he tried to settle in the speedboat.

‘Are you sure you can sail this boat?’ the keeper of the boat asked Cole again.
‘Yes,’ Cole replied the man. ‘You don’t need to get scared,’ he added even though he was not so confident of his riding ability.
The man stared at Cole doubtingly. He had compromised the standards to release the boat that night after Cole offered him a huge sum of money. The speedboat usually goes with a sailor who works with the organization, but at that time of the night, the sailors had closed and the sailing company was supposed to have closed operations for that day. Cole had claimed to forget his license but needed to use the boat urgently, his enticing offer made the man compromise.
‘Or should I sail you?’ the man offered.

Cole turned and stared at him. He heaved a deep sigh of relief. He wondered why the man had not offered to help from the beginning.
‘But you would have to pay extra,’ the man quickly added on seeing that Cole was considering his offer.

‘I’ll pay right away,’ Cole accepted.
The man joined them on board and sailed the boat while Cole and Nicholas sat behind.
‘So is she coming to join us on the ship?’
Cole stared at him, he wondered why he won’t stop disturbing. He didn’t want to tell him the truth that Tarasha was dead like he heard from Rex because he wasn’t fully convinced that Nicholas was truly on their side. He didn’t want anything to stop Elvis Richards’ death. He knew that was one thing Tarasha wanted to do and he made up his mind to complete the task even if she wasn’t there.

‘Yes, she’s coming to meet us.’ Cole finally replied him.

Nicholas sighed. ‘You don’t trust me yet,’ he asked, amazed that Cole still doubted him. ‘What would you have done if your mother and child’s lives were in danger?’

Cole stared at him, unwillingly to answer. His phone rang at that moment.
‘Hey Henry, have you been able to ask for a stop?’

‘Yes, but it was quite difficult and still complicated, they asked me to speak with the company’s Rep on board. He wasn’t fully convinced it was his boss’ voice. He tried to contact his boss after speaking with him but I already redirected his boss’ call to me. They’ve agreed to wait but they’re expecting to see men in Erico’s company shirt, you might find it difficult to get on board since you don’t have their uniform.’
‘Alright, thank you so much Henry. You’ve done a wonderful job,’ Cole commended.
‘Okay, what about Tara? Is she there with you now?’
‘No, she’d join us.’ Cole replied, trying to hide the sadness in his tone. He couldn’t tell Henry that she was dead yet. He saw himself as the leader of the team in her absence and did not want to give any room for weakness of the team.
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