Tiit For Tat - S01 E21

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Tiit For Tat - S01 E21

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 21

Cassandra’s Residence

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.- Lao tsu.

{Mike’s Viewpoint }

As we got closer to Cassandra’s Estate, I noticed the well laid out houses with their well painted walls and iron massive gates.Even the smell of the ornamental plants made the area so tranquil, interwoven by a magical ambiance. Almost all the houses were surrounded by blooming roses, Daffodils, Weeping willow and Lilac bushes and Lavendar.

The people in Cassandra’s community were better dressed and well fed. It was not surprising because that place was one of the elitist’s communities in Nigeria ,

built in such a way that it offers panoramic view to its residents.

I also noted the well painted building decorated with potted plants and designed burglar proofing with walls which have been spiked to keep away intruders and thieves.

As soon as Cassandra reached the gate, it opened automatically and the car went in.

” Does it open like that to everyone?” I asked Cassandra.

“No dear, only me and those I give the gate’s configuration code ,” She said rather succinctly.

“Ok,” I said, a bit assured that I would be saved in her residence.

Cassandra took me through the large compound, surrounded by magnificent buildings that bore the mark of unique designs you only see in CNN, BBC or DW-TV News.

There was a large garden at the back of her magnificent mansion .A fresh cut lawn with beautiful plants and flowers and an overwhelming smell of mint, lent the place an unparalleled ambience.

Cassandra’s Residence was paradise on Earth.

To think Cassandra was only a nurse made the scenario more perplexing. How many nurses in Nigeria can afford a piece of land , let alone a car? I wanted to ask her how she made but decided to keep it to myself for the time being.

Her sitting room was superb. A large 55′ inch LG TV hanged on the wall. The couch was well cleaned and the drapes that hanged from the windows kept away unneces

sary Sunshine.

The floor was tiled and a sophisticated Decoder was connected to the Telly and a gigantic home theatre.

Attached to the ceiling were

chandeliers. Seeing all the luxuries in Cassandra’s residence made me remember my father Bill Ebuka, and a time when we live in affluence.

“What are you thinking of?” Cassandra’s sweet voice cut through my chain of thought.

“Don’t worry. Let me show you a movie. It will help you to relax.”

Cassandra turned on the Digital- Satellite TV and scrolled through the plethora of channels. Then he chose ” Movie Channel. ”

No sooner had she selected the channel than a movie was being

Shown. It was titled ” Naked weapon.

***

The movie opened with the assassination of a man of unknown identity. A team of three CIA

officered , including Jack Chen, a rookie, watched through surveillance as a sexy female assassin named Fiona Birch entered the man’s heavily guarded apartment suite and, after having sex with him, killed him by breaking his spine with her bare hands. As she made her escape, Fiona’s car was hit by a rocket. As the CIA officers rushed over to extricate her from the wreckage, they were shot and killed by a woman in a limousine, leaving Jack as the only survivor.

The woman in the limousine was Madam M, the leader of a mysterious assassin organization, to which the killed assassin belonged. After the incident, young girls across the globe started disappearing one after another. The only relationship among them is that they were all trained in martial arts or sports.

As Jack correctly theorized , these girls had been abducted by Madam M and transported to an island to be trained to become professional assassins.

After six years of gruesome training, only Charlene Ching, Katt and Jing survived and “graduated”. The last test in order for them to graduate was a fight for survival/to the death test. Katt and Charlene, being friends, could not kill each other, and so each was accepted as a survivor.

To celebrate, Madam M gave them all different wines which had drugs in them. As the drugs took effect Madam M called her guards to brutally rape the girls, thus (in Madam M’s words) making them ready for what was to come.

The three girls were then sent on several missions around the world to ……..”

” Mike, are you attracted to me?” Cassandra said. I turned round and faced her.

“Why did you ask, Sandra?” I said.

Cassandra smiled and said, “you are behaving like a typical African man.; Answering questions with questions.

We broke into laughter.

Then I said, “Ok, Ok, Ok, Yes, I am attracted to you the very first day I saw you in your nursing uniform at the hospital.You look so glamorous*.

“I know it,” she said, but don’t worry, the feeling is mutual.

I could feel a sensation of love and warmth in her voice. I was quite speechless. How could I fall for a nurse I saw a few days ago.

Our first eye contact was so magical that the alluring magnet of attraction pulled us together without us uttering any word.

I was lost in the sea of my own thoughts. All I could see was her mesmerizing smile; the one that blew away my mind till she slowly tapped me just to get me to believe that whatever was happening was real. I still couldn’t believe it.

I remembered how Pamela tricked me into believing she loved me and eventually betrayed me. I knew Cassandra wouldn’t do that. She had proven her love for me in the hospital while staring in the face of death.

But I still have to be careful. I need to be tactful too if I want to stay in Cassandra’s residence for long. I knew any argle-bargle*

From experience, I knew the world is full of cosmetic love but

My feeling for Cassandra was different. I could only relish in silence as to how I will feel if her soft lips touched mine but not explicitly. I wanted to see how it felt like to be in love with her.

The chemistry was natural. I glanced at her. Our lips seemed to be working in their own magical way dancing along the same rhythm of thought.

I imagined her kissing my lips softly in a way that would make me forget everything around me.

I fantasized her touching my bare skin, sculpturing my body into the form of love using his magical fingers. I saw our souls mingling in the circle of love.

Then I heard A love music flowing from her DVD Player. It was titled ” AFRICAN QUEEN” by 2baba

Yea e yea e

You are my African queen

Ooh lord ooh lord uh

Just like the sun lights up the earth

You light up my life uh

The only one I’ve ever seen with a smile so bright e

Just yesterday eh you came around my way e e e

You changed my whole scenery way

With your astonishing beauty oh

You could make a brother sin

Ordinary thing a supernatural being I know

You are just brighter than the moon

Brighter than the sun I love you just the way you are

And you are my African queen

The girl of my dreams

You take me where I’ve never been

You make my heart go ting a ling a ling oh ahh

You are my African queen

The girl of my dreams

You remind me of a thing

And that is the African beauty yahh oooo

You are my African queen oh lord oh lord ……

****

The music seemed to spark my desire for love and intimacy.

I turned and pulled Cassandra to myself , looking into her eyes. The fire burning in them was all I need to be convinced that she was nurturing true love in her heart for me.

Our lips locked in kisses and the stream of passion heightened.

“Let’s not do it now, Cassandra ” I told her.

She looked at me with romantic eyes and asked, “why, are you a Roman Father?”

“Soon, I will be going to the seminary,” I said.

We laughed gleefully. I kissed her lightly below her ears and whispered, “ I love you Cassandra .”

Cassandra went to the bathhouse and had a shower.

After that she dressed in her nightie. I could see the lines of her gorgeous body and heavy thighs. She smiled when my eyes met hers.

“I feel honoured to have you in my apartment,” dear Mike.

“I’m glad to be here, Sandra” I said.

“Are you sure?” She asked.

“Yes,” I said.

“Hmm. Mike , I want to assure you no criminal can enter my room.”

I was quiet sceptical about her claime but decided not to argue with her. Succinctly, I told her,

“Okay Sandra.”

Will you be comfortable if I share this bed with you, Mike?

I looked at her charming eyes. They shone with love. It’s obvious I can’t say “no.”

I said ” Yes “.

That was the answer she was waiting for. She climbed into the bed and laid beside me. She clung onto me as if there is no tomorrow.

Then I felt something soft pressed into my mouth. I remembered Tife’s experience at the morgue where he was compelled to s--k the dead girls breast.

I detached myself slowly from the soft thing. Sandra was soft and yielding and her perfume smelled good. She was weak in my arms. Her lips searched for mine until they met. I pulled myself from her gently but she held my hand and directed it towards the curves of her two “Conical hills” in her silky night- dress.

Her two ‘Conical hills’ jiggled tantalizingly in her nightie waiting for me to grab them and spark the engine of her passion.

Tactfully I untangled myself from her grip, not because I didn’t want to enjoy the sweetness lying beyond her silky nightie but I didn’t want to cross the red line and be so engrossed with the sweetness and be caught unaware. She realised I wasn’t prepared psychologically for what she needed from me. Wisely, she turned and slept. Though I was still premonitious* ,I also closed my eyes.

{Third Person’s POV}

What Mike and Cassandra didn’t realise was that they were being followed the moment Cassandra’s Chevrolet Corvette car left the hospital. The thugs decided not to use their usual blue van. Instead they used a smaller private car. They tailed Mike and Cassandra until she reached her residence. There, they waited until the darkness pointed its fingers on earth.

” Are you certain you can break into that residence tonight?” Jackson asked Calculla.

‘I can,” Calculla replied confidently. There are a lot of CCTV Camera’s and Security installations but I can manoeuvre through those technologies.”

” What about Security dogs? They may back and warn them”

” There are no dogs in the house ,” Cobra leader. I have done a meticulous scan of the whole residence using our camouflaged drone.

Cobra leader was used to address the leader of the Black Cobra as a sign of respect.

“Okay, do that,” Jackson the Cobra leader commanded Calculla and Razak. ” When you get into the flat, rape that spoil nurse girl, Cassan

dra and kidnap Mike. Who knows? He may even be enjoying himself with that nurse right now.!”

Calculla looked at Jackson with a subtle surprise. Razak’s face beamed with pleasure. He said, “that nurse girl, I must taste her ‘nectar’ tonight. I go show her sey I get bazooka for my under wey I go take scatter her toto. ”

The rest of the gangs laughed except the female thugs Tenah and Tiana. They knew what Razak was talking about. He had ‘dealt with them’ in that manner before. In their gang code, a gang leader or his assistants can have access to any lady of his choice who also belong to the gang, the only exception being the boss’s girlfriends.

Razak was second in command thus he had that power.

The thugs stepped out of their car. The air was warm chilly outside and the street was deserted.

Razak and Calculla wore their masks and moved noiselessly towards the wall. They cut though a section of the Spikes standing on a foldable ladder. Then they jumped acrobatically over the electric fence and landed with a light thud into Cassandra’s compound.

Then they crawled slowly outside the scope of vision of the CCTV camera and managed to reach the stairs. They climbed it quickly and walked up to Cassandra’s door and tried the handle. The door was locked from the other side with a key. Calculla bent low and peeped through the key hole and saw that the key had been turned carelessly, leaving a small opening through which he could see into the room.

Cassandra had turned the key more than a full revolution and the key

rested in the lock in an inclined position. This meant the key would not fall off if pushed.

Calculla smiled a bit.He knew how to tackle things like that. He took out a slim pair of pliers from his pocket, the type used by watch repairers. He eased it into the key hole catching the round end of the key facing him. He turned it slowly to the left, then back to the right until he noticed it stuck, then he turned it towards the left again. Eventually, the gap in the key hole was blocked and he could see no light coming out from the room.

Satisfied, he straightened up, took an old paper from his pocket and then pushed it under the door, just underneath the lock. With the pliers now closed he pushed the key inwards, gently and heard it fall on to the paper underneath the door. He bent himself and pulled the sheet gently outside, the key coming with it. He picked it up and smiled, pleased with himself. He received a silent praise from Razak who was holding his ‘thing ‘ incessantly. He was more interested in Cassandra’s ‘feminine world’ than kidnapping Mike.

From the outside now, Calculla inserted the key into its hole and turned it in the lock. “Kra,kraaaa.”

*****

What happened next?

Will Mike be finally captured?

Will Razak rape Cassandra?

I’m sure you don’t want to miss

EPISODE 22 OF TIIT FOR TAT.

Watch out!!!!

Glossary

*Glamorous- stylish.

*argle-bargle- Verbal Argument.

* Premonition-A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively).