Deep secrets episode 8 – 9

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Writer: Anonymous❤️

Episode 8

6:45 AM, ACCRA GHANA
“My wife is missing. Someone abducted her after a nude picture of her was sent to me…”
said Steve.

“What!! A nude what?! Lizzy is a good woman.
What got her into such a habit?!” Emmalyn wondered aloud.

“She is innocent. I have an idea of what is happening. I want to leave my children with
you and go back to Nigeria to look for her. Please watch my children with your life.”

“But Steve, I don’t want to get into trouble by your leaving your children here. I have lost
enough relatives over the years; I don’t want to lose more.”

“No one knows where I am right now, Emmalyn. Please help me. There are not many people I can trust right now.”

“I love your children, Steve, and will gladly watch over them; but make sure I don’t get into trouble doing that.

“Thank you Ema; I am sure you won’t get into
trouble helping me with trouble M with my
children.”
***************

7: 18 am, Marlow Street, Lagos Nigeria
Lizzy was in a dark small room and tied to a chair. Since She was abducted by the men in
black Mercedes SUV, no one had spoken to her as to the reason she was abducted. Of course
the Sony camera containing her nude pictures taken in a hotel room in Sun City had been taken from her. Whoever abducted her knew about the pictures and had taken her primarily for those pictures. For three days she had not eaten a thing and had not had a bath. She could smell her own pong. She could not tell what hour of the day it was outside. The room she was in had been dark from the moment she was taken into it.
She was happy when the door to the small dark room jangled and flew wide open. A gust of
fresh air rushed into the room and car-ssed her skin. The door remained open for a while
without anyone coming in. She had to assume that perhaps her captors must have remembered her and decided to let her have
some fresh air. Just when she thought no one was going to talk to her, two hefty men
barged into the room and lifted her along with the chair to which she was tied.

She had no clue what would happen next, but she was afraid. She struggled to break loose but the ropes on her were firm and the men carrying her were too strong for her. When
she was brought outside the house, her eyes began to burn for not having seen daylight for
days. The two men took her toward a swimming pool at the back of the grand building and set her down. There were three
men sitting at a table, staring at her like mongrels. She was certain she had not seen any of them before. One of them barked at the two men who carried her out,

“Untie her!” The men hurriedly untied her. “Lizzy, we are sorry about what you have been through in the last few days. Please don’t take it personal, we are just doing our job. Anyway your husband brought it on himself when he
overstepped his bounds. You must be hungry, get her something to eat!” the man barked again.
Lizzy stretched her arms and legs, while she
studied the three men. Though her heart was pounding against her ribs as a result of fear, she was grateful that the ropes had been untied from her.
In a jiffy, a man, looking like a chef brought food for her. The sight of grilled chicken served
with rice and a glass of Piña Colada made her stomach to growl loudly. She felt embarrassed at the sound her stomach made. She was
ravenously hungry; dragging her chair closer to the table on which the food sat, she dug her
fingers into the chicken and shoved chunks of it into her mouth. Turning to one of the
guards who stood nearby, she said with a mouth full of/chicken,

“Water, I need water.” As though on cue the chef who had served her food appeared with a glass bowl and a can of bottled water. He was surprised to see that Lizzy had begun to eat without washing her hands. Smiling, he set down the glass bowl and can of water and filled the glass bowl with water for
Lizzy to wash her hands. When Lizzy had eaten to her fill, she was dragged into a bathroom and was ordered to have her bath. She was scared, and didn’t know what would come next. All the people she had seen in the house were
men. However, she had to take her bath, for days she had gone without one. As soon as she was done having her bath, the door of the bathroom flew open and two men dragged her
out of it and led her toward the swimming pool. She was overcome with shame and cried like a child, pleading for them to allow her put on her clothes. When the three men who had watched her eat, stood up from their table, Lizzy took note of what she did not see earlier – her Sony camera.

Then it dawned on her that the men were going to take more nude pictures of her or probably force her to have s€× with one of them and then make a video of it.
She had not been that afraid before. Without thinking about it, she bolted toward the house,
knocking one of the guards to the ground. Just before she made it to the door, she heard a
gunshot and the glass door next to her shattered. Thinking she had been shot, she sunk to the ground. The guards came and picked her from the ground, put guns to her head and asked her to do as she was told.
Shaking like a weather beaten bird, she nodded. The three men who had watched her eat, undressed quickly and asked Lizzy to pose with them.
While she posed with them, crying profusely, a man came out with a video camera, set it on a tripod and began to film Lizzy and the men taking different poses. Whenever Lizzy failed to pose as she was asked to, the men slapped her across the face.

When they were done, Lizzy was given her clothes, car key and her Sony camera. She dressed hurriedly, crying her bruised eyes sore.
She had expected worse; her thoughts were that the men would force her to have s€× with them, she was thankful that her ordeal did not reach that point. Clearly the men were building a case against her husband. Much to her surprise she was led out of the compound and was asked to go home. When she stepped out of the house and saw her car outside; like a child whose mother had been away for days,
she ran toward it car, got into and drove away.
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10:30 am, A Mansion outside the City.
Eve was sitting beside Stanley on a bed, eager to find out what was going on in his head, and frustrated that he could not tell her much because they were being watched. Upstairs the
three doctors and some armed men sat before a monitor hoping that the couple would
volunteer some information about the videos; especially about who had the videos.
Doctor Larry picked up his phone and dialed a certain man,

“Hello sir, it doesn’t look like this couple know anything about the videos. They have not said a word about them for days. It is likely they don’t even know why they were shot. I want to ask, should we let them go?”

“If this current plan does not work, tell my boys to use force to find out from them everything they know. If force fails to yield any good result, shoot them on the head and dump their bodies in a ditch somewhere!” an angry voice on the other end of the phone said.

“But sir, this was not what you told us earlier!
You said you wanted to help…”

“Doctor Larry, I am a businessman and a politician whose life is on the verge of being destroyed. Eve and Stanley have videos that can destroy my life and that of my daughter. I want the videos found and destroyed! If the
couple cannot tell you anything useful about the videos, kill them and dump their bodies in
the bush. That should not be difficult, you are at the outskirt of the city. Doctor Larry, please
don’t call me until you have some good news to give me. I have just sent a message to my boys to kill Eve and Stanley it your method fails.”

The phone line went dead. Doctor Larry was shocked. He stood up and asked his other
two colleagues to follow him down stairs. He could tell that the message the leader of the
armed group read was from their boss asking him and his boys to kill Eve and Stanley if they fail to give them the information they sought for. On the staircase, Dr. Larry told his colleagues what the man they were working for said. The two doctors were horrified to hear what their employer said.

“We have to let Eve and Stanley know what is going on. If they know anything, it is about time to let us know,” Dr. Lami, the youngest of the three doctors said as he descended the
staircase in a flight.

Eve and Stanley were locked in each other’s hands, k-ssing when the three doctors barged into their room. Eve was sure she locked the door, how the doctors opened it was a surprise to her.
She broke from the k-ss, looking at the doctors in disbelieve.

“I thought I had that door locked, how did you get in?” she asked. Ignoring her,

Dr. Larry said to the two of them, “Your lives are
right now more in danger than they had ever been. I need you to give me some information
about something.”

Eve was surprised, but Stanley looked like he had been waiting for that moment.

“What is it you want, Dr. Larry?” Stanley asked.

“The man who is keeping our families from harm, who saved your lives, wants a favour from the two of you. He is looking for…”

“Some videos,” Stanley cut in.

Dr. Larry and the other two doctors looked at each other, happy that finally they were getting some information from the couple.

Upstairs one of the armed men called their boss and told him that Stanley had begun to tell the doctors what he knew about the videos.

Down in the room where Stanley and the doctors were, Stanley began a mind game he had been rehearsing for hours.

“Doctors, I am not sure you want to know what is in those videos. Believe me, you don’t want to know.”

“Stanley, please don’t bother about us. We have no interest in the videos. The man we work for is the one who wants to get his hands on the videos.”

“Okay, but you will need to write down the things I am about to tell you.”

“Don’t worry about that Stanley. Go ahead tell us what you know.”

Stanley leaned forward and whispered, “Doctors, you don’t know what you are doing. Once I tell you three the contents of those videos, your lives will be in grave danger. I know this wh0le house is wired with video cameras. You have been watching us every minute. I know this conversation is being
recorded, but you need your own record of the things I am about to tell you…” Stanley lowered his voice further and continued, “Doctors, you need your own bargaining ch¡ps.
Your lives and those of your family members will be in danger the moment you hear the contents of those videos. You need something to bargain your way out of the coming storm.”

The doctors were scared. Stanley could see sweat break on their foreheads. He had got them hooked. His scheme was working. Lami, the youngest of the doctors, backed the camera on the wall and removed his Samsung phone and turned on the recorder. Blinking his eyes repeatedly at Stanley, he pointed his index
finger at his phone and urged him to continue.

To be continued

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Writer: Anonymous❤️

Episode 9

Bimpe was working in her office when her phone rang. Steve was the caller. Before
picking the call, Bimpe locked her office door. She would not want someone else to hear her.

“Hello Steve. What happened?”

“Where are you?”

“In my office.”

“I think someone knows the truth now. Lizzy has been abducted. I don’t know where they took her to.”

“Oh my God! Are you sure of what you are saying?”

“I am certain of it. Someone sent me a picture of Lizzy and after that she was abducted. I am worried to death.”

“I hope you know you can’t go to the police. Have you spoken to our henchmen?”

“No, I can’t talk to them. They have been compromised. I am hoping that whoever
kidnapped Lizzy will call me for ransom or for vendetta. I need to know she is still alive… I just
returned to the country. I had to take my children to some safe place.”

“That is a smart move. Where are they?”

“I can’t tell you bimpe. It is better you don’t know.”

“It’s okay, I understand. Do whatever you can to find Lizzy, I will do my best from here… have you heard?”

“What?”

“Eve and Stanley are still alive.”

There was silence for a moment after Bimpe informed him that Eve and Stanley were still alive.

“Steve, are you still there?”

“Yes… Bimpe, I hope you know we are in a deep mess?”

“Yeah, I know. Find your wife as quickly as you can. I have the feeling things won’t work out
well between Emilia and Mayo.
We should try and take advantage of that.”

“I didn’t understand what you mean.”

“Mayo does not know who made the videos, Emilia won’t tell him. I will try and point fingers at Emilia; that should break them up.”

“No, Bimpe! You should not do that. Emilia is
a monster; you don’t want to mess with her. Please don’t do it. You absolutely do not have
what it takes to handle her. I would suggest we disappear.”

“Okay, I will try not to point fingers at Emilia. Steve, I have got to go. I have so much work
to do. Call me when you find your wife. I’ll get my men to look underground for her.”

“Thank you, Bimpe.”

“You are welcome.”

As soon as Bimpe was done talking to Steve, she sent a text to Mayo, using an unknown number. The text message read,

“Hello Mayo, Emilia paid someone to make
the videos. Check the house you use for your abominable s€×ual orgies and you will see lots of hidden cameras. Are you aware of the hidden cameras? Are you aware that she worked as a hooker for seven years in Atlanta before she returned to Nigeria? Don’t believe what she tells you. She doesn’t want the videos found. If you don’t believe me, you know where to look.”

As quickly as Bimpe sent the text message, she turned off her phone and removed the sim
card with which she sent the message. Steve had warned her not to point fingers at Emilia,
but she would not listen. She had her reasons for attacking Emilia.

On the other side Mayo was trying hærd without
success to call the number which sent him the message.
Determined to find out who was behind the text message, he called a friend of his in the mobile carrier which owned the number that sent him the message and asked his friend to get him the identity of the person who sent him the
message.
***************

In Apple Bar, Steve sat alone at a table, working out how to get back his wife. He was lost in thought when his phone rang. To his surprise, the caller was Lizzy. Steve was happy that finally, those who abducted his wife were getting in touch with him. With a cold voice he said,

“Hello…”

“Baby! Baby! Where are you? Where are our children? I have been calling you since yesterday!”

“Where are you Lizzy?”

“I am home. They have let me go! Come home please! Come home!”

“No! I am not coming home. They are trying to use you to get me. Who is there with you? They have not let you go right?”

Steve could not believe his wife would be sent home that easily. Lizzy broke down and began to cry.

“I am alone in the house. No one is here with me. I was released yesterday after those who kidnaped me made me do some things…”

Steve was alarmed; his heart began to beat very fast.

“Lizzy, what did they make you do?”

“They stripped me and forced me to pose with three men who were also stripped. They beat me up…”

Steve went numb with fear. Bimpe was right, someone must know the truth now and was
working secretly to get him and his accomplices.

“I want you to come to Apple Bar. Walk in and
take a seat. I will meet you there in minutes.”

“Okay, I’ll leave right away.” Lizzy dropped the
call and ran down stairs. She had thought her husband and children had been killed by the
men who kidnapped her. Steve was not sure his wife was telling him the truth, so he left
the bar, went across the street and paid a taxi driver to let him sit in his taxi for some time.
While he waited, Lizzy drove into Apple Bar in her Range Rover HSE. In a jiffy she made it
out of her car and headed into the bar.
****************

10:45 AM, EMILIA’S RESIDENCE
“Who else amongst these people do you think is closest to finding the videos,” Emilia asked
her guards. On her dining table was spread a wide sheet containing the names of the people looking for the videos and those in the videos.

“I think Maxwell has the best chance of finding the videos. He knows where Eve and Stanley are,” one of Emilia’s guards said.

“Maxwell is chasing shadows. He is doing
exactly what I want him doing at the moment,”

Emilia replied sarcastically. Just then her
phone rang. It was the policeman who called some days earlier from Briggs Clinic to inform her that Eve and Stanley might still be alive. She had to take his call,

“Hey, man. What have you got?” Emilia asked.

“Leroy survived the shooting at Briggs Clinic. He will be transferred to a military hospital by 11: am tomorrow. Do you still have need for him?”

“I do. Thanks for letting me know. Can you help him disappear?”

“Maybe, but I am not yet sure.”

“If you can make it happen; make sure he never gets taken to the military hospital.”

“I will try, Emilia.”

“Thanks man. I will remember this.”

“You are welcome.”
*****************

11:55 am, A Mansion outside the City.
“Whoever it is you are working for is looking for videos. The videos contain the worst form of deviant s€×ual acts you can
imagine. You need to understand the caliber of
people in those videos. There are four currently serving governors, six ministers, seven celebrities of immense wealth, an ex-president and his daughter, and also one of the richest men in Africa and his daughter. Actually this man and his daughter had s€× together with their eyes blindfolded. It was a set up and I don’t know who planned it all. The people in
the videos have the means to kill whoever will try to keep them from finding the videos…”

Stanley paused. Eve had Stanley paused. Eve had heard those things from him and so was not surprised.

“I don’t know what you were told, but the truth is I did not make those videos and you cannot find me in any of them. Someone amongst my friends or in connection with my friends did, but I don’t know who they are,” he continued.

“Where are the original copies of the videos now,” Dr. Larry asked. Stanley knew that
admitting he did not know where the videos were would take his bargaining power away; so he made up a story,

“I don’t know where they are, but I might know who does. I understand there is a sixteen-digit code with which the videos were locked away in a safe somewhere in this city. I and Eve were made to memorize three digits each. If anything happens to us, you will never find the videos. According to what I was told, the numbers are also coordinates to the location of the original copies of the videos.”

Eve was shocked to hear Stanley say they were
made to memorize numbers. That was a lie. They simply did not know much about the
videos except those who were in them. The fact that Stanley was leading their captors on
made her much more afraid. If they found out, they would not hesitate to shoot them.

“You said you know who might know where the videos are, who is that?” Dr. Larry asked.

“I want to know that I and my wife are safe before I give you a name.”

“Stanley, you don’t understand what mess you are in right now. Give us a name and we will convince our boss to let you go,” Dr. Lami
persuaded him.

“How do I know they won’t shoot us the moment I give them a name?”

“This is messier than we thought, Stanley. Just drop a name and we will leave this place with you right now,” Dr. Lami pleaded with a fear riddled voice.

They were all startled when one of the armed men watching from a room upstairs barged into the room, wielding a gun.

“Stanley, I doubt very much you understand what is going on here. If you don’t give us a name I am going to shoot you and your wife right here!” the man shouted.
“I understand you want to protect your
friends but you need to see this!”
He handed Stanley a tablet and urged him, “Play the video.”

Stanley was not sure what was in the video. He was clearly afraid. Eve came over and sat
beside him.
Stanley braved up for the worst and taped the play button and the video began to play.
Seconds into the video, the mouths of Stanley and Eve hung open in shock. In the video were Bimpe, Steve and Clara, in a bar, telling an unidentified man that the s€× videos may
have been made by Stanley and Eve. At the end of the video, the unidentified man left a briefcase on the table and left. Turning to
them, the armed man said,

“The video you just watched was recorded six months ago. Your friends believe you made the
videos. They were paid ten million Naira for that information.”

TBC