Must Read: The Cartel (18+)

Episode 7 years ago

Must Read: The Cartel (18+)

JADE



She took a few steps backward just as her heart began to beat painfully against her chest. Without being told she knew Vibangs was here for blood and would stop at nothing to see that everyone of them end up dead. But she wasn’t just going to stand there and be killed without a fight even though on a second thought she felt Vibangs wouldn’t kill her.


Immediately she heard the footsteps of someone approaching, she remembered there was a wooden closet directly opposite the bathroom door at the other end of the room. So she quickly moved there and was about to open the door but realized the sound would give her out. So she opted to hide between the frame of the closet and the window, covering herself with the blind.



The sound of rain drops on the roof was enough to prevent her movements from being heard.



Fortunately for her, the fella who came to search the room came without a flash light. Having been in the dark for a while, her eyes were already adjusted to the darkness, hence she saw him enter with his gun pointed in front. She becomes more terrified, closed her eyes and began wishing at that point she had paid heed to Ima’s warning that she should leave Vibangs alone. At the point, the saying that endeavour to dig two graves when a a revenge mission began to make sense to her.



Firstly, the guy who obviously had no prior idea of the room opened the bathroom door slowly. At that point there was a flash of lightning, temporarily illuminating the room (and the bathroom also). She could hear Vivian questioning Bonnie but couldn’t make out what she was saying. She then watched the guy checking the room stand briefly as if to decide were next to look. Or probably trying to adjust his eyes to the room also. Then suddenly the guy began to walk towards her direction.



At that point her body was trembling so hard she could barely stand upright. But just as she made up her mind to charge at the guy (who definitely wasn’t expecting to see anyone), she heard sounds of a shattered glass, followed by someone grunting in pains and then a gun shot sound form the living room. This was followed by a louder grunts by someone in pains.
“Fvck.. You son of a….” She heard Vibangs cussing followed by four quick gun shots. The nursing girl screamed and another shot was fired and everywhere remained silent but for the voice of someone groaning in pains. pains. This was enough distraction for the guy searching the room to run back out.
“What happened?” The guy asked
“He tried to be smart by attacking Razor. Quick, you two grab his arms and lets get out of hear. You, pick those other bags lets get out” She heard Vibangs say and instruct.



She waited some five more minutes before heading out into the living room. She already knew Bonnie and his girlfriend were dead as their bodies lay motionless next to each other in the dark. She didn’t bother to check for her bag as she was certain they took everything along with them. She quickly left the apartment, almost tripping over another body (she later discovered was Peter’s) by the door.



She kept running under the rain in the dark streets, turning into different streets every now and then. When she was certain she was far away from the street, she stopped running but kept walking. Luckily she found a cab which just dropped someone off and was already closing for the day (as said by the cab man). She asked the cab man to take her to the hotel Ima had lodged during her last visit. She felt that was the only safe place to go at that moment.



The entire attack didn’t take more than 10 minutes, but it felt like like a lifetime to her.

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With Bonnie and Peter dead, the N6m worth of drugs recently released to her for distribution and a supposedly cash remittance of N2m stolen, she had expected Ima to loose her cool and threaten to punish her and all. Although what she got at the end of the conversation wasn’t also expected, she was more surprised at the fact that Ima was more interested in her wellbeing.
“Hope you are not alright?” “Are you scared?” “Do you think someone is after you?” “Maybe I’ll beef up your private security in and around school” “Maybe you should come over to Lagos for your break?” Were some of the questions Ima had posed to her to which she answered she wasn’t scared, and she would love to visit Lagos also.
“It’s alright. Don’t sweat it. I’ve been briefed already by the 2i/c.” Ima had calmly told when she attempted to start her narrative of what happened.
“But I’m shutting down all your operations. I’ll be in Calabar first thing tomorrow to see you” Ima said and ended the call from her end not giving her the opportunity of explaining any further.

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