Restless - Season 1 - Episode 7

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Restless - Season 1 - Episode 7

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Tom was there, his eyes staring straight at her.
She stared back into his unshaking eyes,
shivering. She could see the wound he got from
the bottle crashing on his head, it wasn’t that
much and it was obvious he was already getting
first aid on it, but there was blood stains all
over the bed. The place was messier than she
left it, something else had happened while she
was away.

For some reason, Sheila could not move her
feet. She was not only shocked but scared by
the sight before her. The body of the maid la!d
sprawled in the bed lifelessly, with her clothes
all torn to shreds. Tom had not just had his way
forcefully with her, he had also used the broken
bottles on the floor to inflict injuries on the
woman. It didn’t look like she was still alive.
Tom was sitting on the seat she had met him
when she came in earlier, but this time it was
turned towards the door. He was on the top of
the backrest and his feet were on the seat.
There were still blood stains on his head and
blood was still dripping out of the wound. He
had a flat paper in his hand containing some
white substance, around his nostrils were also
traces of the white substance which Sheila
suspected to be cocaine. He was shocked to see
her return. He never expected that she would
return, especially after he had called her several
times and sent her a message without getting
any response from her.
He had continued to bang on the door after she
locked him inside the room and the maid had
come to his rescue. She opened the door and
found him bleeding on the head, she had asked
that he sat on the seat inside the room while she
went for the first aid equipment. By the time
she returned, she met him with his phone in his
right hand and the powdery substance on the
book cover in his left. She politely asked him to
put down the hard drug first so that she could
take care of his wound. He was surprised that
she wasn’t shocked on seeing him use the hard
drug, he thought it was a secret between himself
and the other maid who he slept with
frequently but never knew the maid had told
her colleague. He dropped the powder with the
book cover and she began to apply treatment on
his injured head but his strange urge for sex
overcame him as he got a view of her well
formed hips and noticed her backside. He
stopped her from treating him and had his way
forcefully when she struggled with him,
inflicting her with wounds all over her body as
she struggled.

Tom stared at Sheila. She was still vibrating
from the shock of what she saw, it was less than
a minute since she entered but she was already
sweating. She had seen his secret – the hard
drug in his hand and the woman he had just
forced himself on who was probably dead in the
bed. He decided she wasn’t going to leave
without him having his way with her too and
making sure he hit her so hard in the head that
even if she recovered, she could have lost her
mind or memory. He dropped the book cover in
his hands and jumped down from the chair.
Sheila never knew him to be a drug addict or
user. Never in her mildest imaginations had she
thought he could be involved in such. All
through the five years he had returned to El
Deols, she had not seen him show the slightest
sign that he was involved in drugs. Or maybe
she had seen some signs and only thought it was
his normal way of playing wild.

She watched as he dropped from the chair and
made his way towards her. She remained on the
spot, too scared to move her legs. She let out a
loud scream.

Henry was startled by the scream. He turned
back immediately and stared at the door for a
second wondering what was happening. The
scream continued and he hurried towards the
room, knowing something was definitely wrong.
Henry pushed the door open to see Tom
dragging Sheila to the bed already while she
tried to resist. Tom landed her two quick blows
on the face and pushed her to the bed, over the
already sprawled body of the maid. He noticed
someone had come in and turned to see who
had entered to disturb him from having fun in
his way. The powder he sniffed within the last
few minutes, already taking its full toll on him.
He charged towards Henry angrily, pissed firstly
for seeing Tom in his house and then for
intervening in what wasn’t his business. He
threw a punch at Henry but Henry grabbed his
fist easily, held it for a second and sent him a
headbutt on the face.

Tom shrieked in pain as he fell back on his
backside. His vision was already blurry and he
was feeling dizzy but he managed to get up
immediately and tried to attack Henry again.
Henry followed up with a straight punch in the
face. Tom fell flat to the ground like a log of
wood, totally unconscious.
“Sheila, are you okay?” Henry hurried to check
Sheila who was just getting up from the bed.
“I’m fine…” she murmured through her nose as
she rubbed it to ease the pain.
“What happened here?” Henry asked.
Sheila was in pains but was relieved to see Tom
ready on the floor.

___
Four hours later
“That fool did this to you?” Emery Jack asked
with his face full of shock as he sat beside his
daughter on the sofa. His hands were shaking as
he cupped her chin gently in his palms. He had
been called by the state’s police overseer that
his daughter had filed a report against Tom
Wills, son of Harry Wills, accusing him of
harassment, attempted rape and also accusing
him of raping and attempting murder on
another lady. Emery Jack had called his
daughter at once to find out what happened and
she narrated her order to him.
“I’m fine Dad,” Sheila said and dropped her
Dad’s palm from her face.
The man got up to his feet and let out a breath
angrily. His eyes staring at the ground as he
wished to get the opportunity to see Tom and
strangle life out of him.
“I would never forgive Wills and his son for
what he’s done to you,” he grated out angrily.
He began to pace about the room slowly.
“Hey Dad! I’m okay, you shouldn’t involve Mr
Wills in this. He knows nothing about Tom’s
temerity to behave in this kind of manner and
I’m sure he would be as shocked as you and I
are.”


Emery Jack was however still not satisfied. He
was a naturally strict and disciplined but calm,
he only could become the wildest animal when
his daughter was hurt or someone was trying to
hurt her. The apple of his eyes,she was his only
reminder of his wife whom he had loved so
much.

He stopped for a second and stared at Sheila’s
face again. “Whether Wills is aware of son’s
reckless behavior or not, I’m going to make sure
the animal pays dearly for his acts.” He
threatened.

“Dad, I don’t want you to make him pay. Please
just let him be, remember I loved him.” Sheila
said.


“You can’t love him again, thank God I haven’t
gotten you married to the nonentity yet.” Emery
heaved a sigh of relief as he wondered what a
regret it could have been if Sheila had gotten
married to Tom before this side of him was
revealed.

“Dad, I want you to stay out of the case since it’s
already in the hands of the government. Tom
would certainly get his punishment. The woman
he raped and injured is at the hospital. He has
enough charges against him already.”
Emery continued to pace about angrily, his mind
suggesting to him that he could not just sit and
do nothing to punish the man who tried to
harass his daughter.

He was still pacing when he noticed someone
had joined them in the living room. He turned
to see Henry standing behind the loveseat and
placing his elbows on the top of the backrest.
“Good evening sir,” Henry greeted.

Emery’s face loosened a bit. “Henry,” he called
softly and proceeded towards him.
Henry straightened up seeing the man coming
towards him.

“Thank you for being available to save my
daughter from that thug,” Emery said in a
reflective tone. He offered his hand to Henry
for a handshake and Henry took it warmly in
his.

Henry remained silent and returned to his
position while Emery Jack sat beside his
daughter.

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Four days later, news had gone around on how
the son of successful businessman Harry Wills
had been arraigned to court on the charges of
rape and sexual assault. The Emerys had
pressed no charges and did not have any thing
to do with the case apart from the initial report
Sheila had made at the police office.

It was a six o’clock on a Saturday morning and
was Sheila’s jog time in her workout routine.
She was awake and dressed already, waiting at
Henry’s door for him to join her.

“Good morning Sheila,” Henry greeted as he
finally opened the door. He stepped out, not
fully dressed yet ; his shoes still unlaced and his
track suit not well buttoned. “Sorry, I woke up
late.” He apologized as he squatted to lace his
shoes.

Five minutes later, they were on the El Deols
main road. Henry began to jog as their usual
Saturday morning routine was but he was
surprised to see Sheila not following him. He
stopped and turned to ask her why.

“Please, let’s go to the workout center today.
You know I missed the last session, I’d like to
cover up with today.” Sheila said.

“Okay,” Henry smiled and waited for her to join
him. He recalled that they had truly missed a
session at the workout center because of the
incident at Tom’s place, Sheila had said they
would make up for it somehow.

MacFitness workout center was busy as usual
that Saturday morning and the physical
instructors were at different sections giving
counsel and instructions to the exercisers on
which of the exercises to partake in. Henry and
Sheila got to the place after ten more minutes
and soon began with exercises on the machines.
Sheila had prevailed over Henry not to partake
in Barbells and Dumbbells until after one year
like the doctor advised, so Henry was left with
no choice than to partake in some of the less
strenuous ones.

The two worked out separately at different
section of the center, Henry’s section was at
some distance from Sheila’s, even though they
could see each other afar off through the
transparent glass walls used in the building.

Everything seemed to be going smoothly until
Henry decided to switch to the Dip machine
after spending few minutes on the chest press.
He noticed some people’s eyes on him but he
ignored at first, he only began to give more
attention when he observed they were still
looking at him after he began exercising on the
Dip machine. He stopped briefly to take a look
at Sheila where she was. She didn’t seem to be
troubled or to have noticed anything unusual,
she continued her exercise peacefully.

Henry kept an eye on them even as he
continued exercising. After sometime, he
noticed that the four men whose eyes he caught
on himself had dispersed. It seemed that
everything had returned to normal for a while.

Sheila was now on the stationary bicycle and he
was already rounding on the machine he was
when he observed that the population in the
workout center was gradually reducing. He
looked around and saw the four men at
different corners of the large workout centers.

He watched them for some seconds and
suspected that they were the ones asking the
people to go out. He knew at once that
something sinister was about to happen. He
hoped it was not what he feared, he hoped that
those men were not men from his past who
were planning to do something bad to him. He
quickly stopped his exercises and got off the
machine. He wiped his face with the towel and
threw it into the bag. He tightened the bag and
wrapped the handle around his palm.
He looked towards Sheila from where he was
and noticed she was also rounding up but yet to
get off the machine. He was glad because he
thought it would be easier to convince her it
was time to go home. He was however shocked
when he saw one of the men that he caught
watching him already walking towards Sheila.

He froze for a second, not knowing whether to
run to her or walk hurriedly as he planned to do
before. But none of the options could still help
him get to Sheila before the man would.

A Dip Machine
“Hey sl*t, you should get down from the
machine. I want to use it.”

Sheila was shocked as she heard the man’s
words. She turned her head sharply to him and
narrowed her look on his face, he was staring at
her evidently but she did not want to believe
she heard him right.

“Excuse me?” her eyebrows gathered together
as she responded politely.

“You heard me sl*t, get your slutty backside off
the machine, I want to use it.”

Sheila was burning with rage inside of her but
she managed to keep herself calm. She knew he
was a trouble seeker, there were other machines
he could have used.

“I’m about to get off this but why… I mean why
can’t you use any of the vacant machines?”
“You must be freaking silly to question me, I
want to use this! Can you get off now?” he
barked at her.

Sheila stared at him unbelievably. She was sure
something was wrong with him. She looked in
the direction of the officials’ stand to call for the
attention of an official or instructor but they
were all not available, all the stands were empty
and even the security men were nowhere to be
found. The only people she could see were four
of the heavily built muscled men who were
looking in their direction already like they were
already expecting something. She returned her
gaze to the man’s face for a while and met him
staring at her like a hungry lion ready to devour
it’s prey. It occurred to her that something was
definitely wrong in the center that day. She
looked away again and saw that the four men
were walking towards their direction already.
She didn’t know what to expect as fearful
thoughts began to run through her mind.
She totally forgot that she had Henry close by
and even when she looked in his direction, she
didn’t noticed he was already coming towards
them until the trouble maker spoke.
“Your big man is coming,” the trouble maker
said with a sinister smile, looking in Henry’s
direction.

Sheila also looked and saw Henry coming. The
fears in her heart increased and she became
more afraid for Henry than she was for herself.
“What do you want from us?” Sheila asked in
low tones, ready to negotiate with him so that
they can let them go in peace.

“I don’t want anything from you sl*t, just get
off the machine.” he barked at her.

Sheila realized she was still sitting and quickly
got off the saddle. “Here, you have the machine
all to yourself now.” she said as she picked up a
towel to wipe her face.

He grabbed her by the arm and pulled her as
she tried to walk away.

She squealed in pain as he dragged her back to
the machine.

“So you had to let me talk this much before
getting off?” he roared in a loud voice, widening
his eyes threateningly at her.
“Why do you want from me?” she screamed
out.
“Leave her alone now Mister,” Henry said in a
low but confident tone.
The troublemaker turned his face to Henry, still
holding sheila by the arm. He pushed Sheila
away to the machine and took a short step back.
He tilted his neck to the left and stared at Henry
with a crooked smile. “So what are you going to
do man? Beat me up? Or you gonna beat us all
up?” he said, taking a brief glance at his men
who had now arrived behind him. They stood
side by side on a straight line, exactly a metre
behind him.
Henry hurried to Sheila and helped her stand
well, then he held her hand and helped her turn
to the other side of the machine.
“Please let us go,” Sheila pleaded in a shaky
voice as she stared at the five men standing at
the other side of the machine.
“No, I would like to see what your strong man
would want to do to us.” the troublemaker
replied.
Henry remained silent.
Sheila was greatly afraid. She looked at the
men’s faces and could see they really meant
business. The face of one of the men behind the
main troublemaker looked somehow familiar
and she did not take much time to think before
she recalled several occasions when she had
seen him and Tom discussing when she came
with Tom to this same fitness center. That was
months ago when she first started her workout
program but she had totally forgotten his face
until now. She realized that they were in a big
mess. The men seemed to be Tom’s friends and
had heard from him how Henry took him out.
They probably wanted to get revenge for their
friend.

“Please, let us go. I promise, he doesn’t want
any trouble with you guys.” Sheila pleaded
again.

The men were unwilling to listen. They all shook
their heads in negative and began to move their
fists and muscles in preparation for a fight.
“Someone, help please. Where are the officials
around?” Sheila screamed out loud but saw no
one around.

The men appeared more confident on seeing
Sheila so afraid and they began to move their
muscles and straighten their fists for a fight.
Henry still remained silent. His face was
expressionless and no one could tell what was
on his mind.

“Please, we don’t want any trouble with you.
Let us go please,” Sheila was almost crying now.
“Your man isn’t talking, I guess he wants to
show us the stuff he’s made off.” the main
troublemaker said, smiling devilishly at Henry.
Henry reacted for the first time. The skin on his
forehead sq££zed as he closed his eyes for
some seconds and opened it, letting out a deep
breath.

He had a strange feeling and he couldn’t
understand what it was. All five of the men
before him were muscular and almost the same
height as him, one of them was slightly taller-
about an inch. This men were his match in terms
of size, and there was no doubt that they were
also strong men. He realized he was afraid of
what would happen, not afraid of being beaten
up by the men but afraid of anything happening
to Sheila especially if they were men from his
past.

“Please let us go,” Henry finally spoke. “We
don’t want trouble from anyone, I beg you.”
“Hahaha,” the men jeered.
“So your man is a sissy, he cannot even protect
a woman.” the trouble maker spoke. “We are
going to teach him some lessons today.”
Sheila realized that the men’s mind were made
up to involve them in a fight and it was obvious
that a combo of her who was just trying to build
strength and Henry were no match for the
heavily built men. She reached for the bag in
Henry’s hand to attempt her final hope of
avoiding trouble. She took out her phone and
quickly unlocked it, hoping to dial a number
quickly.

“She wants to make calls right in front of us?”
the leader of the trouble makers said in a loud
voice and proceeded forward to walk pass the
stationary bicycle. Sheila moved back in fear
and he tried to follow and grab her but Henry
stepped in his way and landed him a quick blow
on his cheek.

The blow was unexpected due to Henry’s plea a
minute ago, it caught the rest of the four men in
surprise as they watch saliva been splattered
out from their leader’s mouth as he staggered
back from the impact of the blow.

The impact of the blow was more than what the
trouble makers’ leader had anticipated. It felt at
first as if his head had fallen off his neck and
was now replaced by a big heavy rock, his
vision also turned blurry and he began to see
stars.

Sheila who had taken only two steps back was
also shocked to see Henry hit the man so hard.
She paused with her phone for a moment and
saw as the other four men rushed towards
Henry one after the other in a rage. She knew
Henry had stepped beyond his limits and there
was no way he wasn’t going to get beaten. She
walked further backwards as she scrolled
through her contacts to find a number.

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