Roses and Thorns – Episode 44

Roses and Thorns – Episode 44
Ambler hurriedly threw few of his clothes in a travel bag, he was on a black trouser and a white singlet, he kept on checking his wrist watch at every given opportunity, his phone rung, he picked and placed it on loudspeaker.
“Hello Ambler, when should we expect your arrival?” a woman asked over the phone.
“Moma, before evening, i will be with you guys, i already booked a flight and it leaves in an hour time” he replied going to pick a jean trouser from the wardrobe.
“Okay then, we await you” she said and hung up.
Ambler smiled after he was done packing, his hand reached for the black polo on top of the bed, he wore it and zoomed out. He got to his car, unlocked it, threw his bag into the car, on the back seat, he then went to open the gate. He had sacked his gateman the previous year because he was snitching around and few days later, he was found dead and since then, Ambler never wanted to employ another person.
He opened the gate wide and turned back walking towards his car, the sound of screeching tires got his attention, he turned around again and a black Benz had made it’s way into his compound, he stood and watched in fear, as the detective, the captain and Okenwa jumped down from the car matching towards him in anger. His legs felt so heavy and his heartbeat increased.
“Ambler, you are going out?” Okenwa asked putting his hands in his pocket.
“Where to? Barrister?” the detective smirked standing beside Okenwa, giving a little space.
“I knew you would be a rapist with the way you were defending that idiot in court” Joel hissed, stood beside the detective leaving the same space between Okenwa and the detective, he folded his hands against his chest making them look like “The Three Wise Men” but the warrior version.
“I hope you all have an evidence to prove your accusations, if not, i will sue you all for defamation of character” Ambler spoke when he finally found his voice.
“You killed Aisha, after brutally having your way with her” Okenwa said calmly, his hands still in his pocket.
“Aisha?” Ambler asked, fear visibly seen in his eyes.
“No, Halima” Joel sneered angrily.
“You have killed three other persons too” the detective told him. “I have an arrest warrant for you” he added, flashing a piece of paper at him.
“So, do you have an evidence?” Ambler asked letting out a breath.
“When we get to the station, you will see the evidence. you are under arrest, Barrister, and you have the right to re….” The detective was saying when Joel cut him short.
“Detective, arrest this man already, he doesn’t need the sermon” Joel hissed.
The detective chuckled and cuffed Ambler’s hands behind him. They entered the car and drove out, few meters away from the gate, the car stopped and Okenwa came down, locked the gate and re-entered the car while they drove away.
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The joy on Joel’s face that morning could easily be noticed, he sang along to “Jerusalem by Master KG” blasting from the speaker in his car. Even though it was a South African song sang in a South African language, he still murmured to the beat as he drove to the police station. It was the morning scheduled for the killing of Ezenwa, and Joel had tossed around in bed waiting for sunrise.
By the time he got to the police station, the detective was there already with Okenwa and even Chidiebube, Joel wondered if they slept in their homes at all. He parked his car and got down, walking towards the others.
“Hey Captain, you are here” The detective said with a smile.
“Yes, and where is the psycho? i hope you have not killed him yet because i have another plan for him” he said shaking hands with Chidiebube and Okenwa.
“What other plans do you have for my brother?” Okenwa asked with a sad tone.
“I want to mutilate his s€× org-n first, before electrocuting him finally” he replied and placed his hand on Okenwa’s shoulder and then added “That idiot is not your brother, he is a rapist and should be punished accordingly” he squeezed his shoulder a little.
“He is lucky because the detective insisted on taking him to court, if not, we were trained on killing instantly once you are found guilty and his crimes are major crimes in Nigeria, he would have been shot right at that farm house” Chidiebube added with a shrug.
“To the execution room then” the detective said leading the way while the others followed. They passed through the backyard and walked towards the labour area. The detective turned towards his right and entered a long corridor, it was so dark that they had to make use of their phone torch light for illumination. Walking down the corridor, the detective stopped in front of the last room, brought out a bunch of keys and unlocked the door, they all trooped in and the door was closed.
Joel looked around the room, different apparatus were laying, hung and kept on the only table in the room. Guns, ropes of different sizes, plyers, big nails and Teasers of different kinds filled up the room. Ezenwa sat on the electrocuting chair, his hands cuffed to the hand of the chair, his ankles chained to the leg of the chair, his head Bent forward as though he was sleeping.
“Is he sleeping or what?” Chidiebube asked.
“He shouldn’t bother sleeping because he will soon go to sleep forever without waking up” Joel scorned.
The detective took Ezenwa’s face up, his eyes were red, maybe he had cried through out the night. “Do you have anything to say before we finally kill you?” the detective asked him still holding his head.
“Amb…ler, led me to this, arrest him too, he has rap..ed and killed ev..en before i started mine” he stuttered.
“We already had him arrested, what else do you want to say?” Joel asked.
“Okenwa, you must be happy right now but am not sorry for everything i have done to you and i will never be, if you thought i was going to apologise to you, then you must be a fool” he chuckled briefly and coughed.
“Okay, that is it, Captain, over to you” the detective said walking away from Ezenwa. Joel brought a packet of razor blade out from his pocket, the people around him chuckled. He took one out from the packet and walked towards Ezenwa, he Bent down and tore his trouser with the razor, his boxers followed leaving him unclad from the wa-ist below.
“Plyer, please” Joel said to no one in particular but stretched his right hand ready to collect it. The plyer was placed in his hand, he held it with both hands and kept it firmly on Ezenwa’s ball, he clipped it and dragged, Ezenwa scre-med and gro-ned in pain. Joel stopped and asked “Is it painful?, now do you know how those ladies felt when you raped them?” he dragged it again much longer than before, Ezenwa continued to scre-m in pain.
“It’s a good thing this room is far from the main building, prisoners would have been wondering by now” Chidiebube said.
“Not at all, the room is sound proof, nobody hears anything from outside” the detective said with a nod of the head.
“Teaser” Joel said again. Okenwa handed it over to him. He placed it on Ezenwa’s rooster and turned it on, Ezenwa scre-med as the pain burned his shaft. Joel took the razor again and finally cut Ezenwa’s shaft deeply with it, blood gushed out.
“You can connect the electrocuting chair to the wall socket now, but leave it at the lowest degree, i want his death to be slow and painful” Joel said, stood up and took back the tools to their original position.
The electrocuting chair got connected to the wall socket, the detective pressed “01”
on the chair, Waves of electric shock started shaking Ezenwa together with the Chair, with his bleeding rooster and the electric shock, they watched him silently as he gave up the ghost. Okenwa ran out of the room, his eyes burned as the tears gathered.
The stalker’s body was finally released from the Chair and taken to the police cemetery where he would be thrown into an already dug grave.
“And the Barrister?” Chidiebube asked.
“He will face the same fate as this” the detective replied him with a shrug.