The Thirst For Revenge Episode 27 – 28

The Thirst For Revenge – Episode 27

Amidu and Alexandra walked out of the restaurant holding hands with a bright smile on their faces. They trudged towards the restaurant’s car park where variety of cars were being parked.

Amidu stopped and looked at her for a millisecond before she would say he was staring at her.

“Hope you enjoyed yourself?”, Amidu asked with a light smile.

“Yeah, I did. Thanks anyway”.

“Let me give you a ride home. Its pretty late already”.

Alexandra squeezed her face and shook her head.

“No, don’t bother yourself. I’ll sort myself out”, Alexandra replied sharply. It was a hell-No for her. She doesn’t want him to know her place of residence, certainly not now. It would only make him to be suspicious of her and she doesn’t want that. She had only a house at Rainbow Town which is too huge and exquisite for a young girl like her plus the fabricated occupation which she had told him that she was a small scale resident Doctor. Certainly, she couldn’t afford such a house with great technology intelligence. It would likely mean she was into something else, something not pure which could complicate things.

“I shouldn’t bother myself?”, he asked.

“Yes, you’ve done more than enough already”.

“But, I’m not complaining”, Amidu said, slightly raising his voice. He was getting annoyed already.

Alexandra noticed the change in his countenance and his voice getting edgier deviating from the cool voice he’d been using earlier. She gave him a s€×y smile then, clutched his hand in hers affectionately.

“I know dear, I just don’t want you to be stressed more than the way you are right now. Besides, I’m going to see a friend nearby”, she said, stroking his hand lightly.

The trick worked on him as he let out a sigh of relief mixed with pleasure. He was really enjoying the moment.

“Its okay, I understand”, he said breathlessly.

“Thank you, Adam”, she hugged him tightly which took Amidu by surprise.

“You’re always welcome, Cassandra”, he said, hugging her more tightly, placing his chin on her shoulder and car-ssing her back. The bliss of the moment was perfect and its suit him. He wished it would never end but sooner than expected, Alexandra disengaged from the tight embrace when she realized he wasn’t going to let go off her anytime soon.

Amidu reluctantly removed his hand from her back, disengaging from each other totally. They began to walk towards the main road hand in hand and then, stopped by the roadside looking for a taxi which would convey Alexandra to her destination.

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Agent Matt heaved a sigh of huge relief when he saw them walk out of the restaurant. He saw them standing by the roadside obviously on the lookout for a taxi. He was surprised as he had seen Amidu driving a Lexus when he came to the restaurant and now, they are on the lookout for a taxi which meant his target wasn’t going to be driven by Amidu as he had presumed. He only had one option which was to go honk before them and hopefully, she would get in and … A smile slowly wafted across his face. It was such a great plan even though, he didn’t plan for this but like he was taught by his boss; ‘Never be taken off guard by surprises instead, be prepared for the unexpected’. He had made use of the key words and was fully prepared. Hence, the reason why he was disguised as a cab driver. He took his phone and quickly typed in a coded message and sent it to Riggs Alexandra which read; ‘Got eyes on target. Done with my part, your turn to move in’. He dropped the phone back on the dashboard then, he adjusted his cap making it cover his face properly. The least thing he wanted was to be busted by Amidu who would recognize him without the face cap on.

Afterwards, he opened the safe and brought out a gun and tucked it in his hostler just in case she tries to play smart. ‘Never be taken by surprise’. The words rang in his head again. He smiled, and turned on the ignition. The car came to life, resounding to the throttle pedal which he stepped on and drove towards Amidu and Alexandra who were still waiting for a cab.

Cole parked his car some distance away from Agent Matt. He had been following Agent Matt closely without being detected. He was having a strange feeling that he was up to something not good and with his recent involvement on the case which made everything more complicated had made him to follow him up in a bid to check him out if he was compromised or was working on a good cause. Either way, he was about to find out. He sank back into the seat, placing his head on the headrest of the seat as he heaved a sigh not of relief but of frustration. He kept his eyes on the taxi car which Agent Matt was in. He had been in the car since hours ago which kept him wondering who he was actually waiting for or what he was planning to do.

Cole yawned. He was feeling dizzy from the long wait and he tried as much as possible to keep his eyes steady. He couldn’t afford to lose Agent Matt. Not when he was on his trail. He subconsciously looked at the paper beside him on the passenger’s seat. It was a paper which he had used to write down the plate number of the vehicle Agent Matt drove. That was just for preliminary investigation.

Cole’s eyes darted around the radius of Agent Matt then, his eyes darted to a restaurant which was enclosed with small sized iron gates. He squinted his eyes to read the name of the restaurant with the help of inbuilt coloured bulbs. It was God’s Favour Restaurant. Cole at once knew that was why he parked some few meters away from it but it doesn’t appear to him that he was waiting for someone. Obviously not. Because if he was, he would have gone in,side the restaurant to meet whoever he was waiting for. Just as if on cue, he saw a man clothed in a cream shirt and a lady beside him, walking hand in hand as they walked out of the restaurant but something caught his attention as he looked more closer on them, zooming in and out with his retina. He recognized the man, it was SA Amidu.

‘What?, he gasped. What was he doing with the girl?. Has he gotten himself a new girl?. These and more of the questions throbbed his mind. He knew Amidu too well not as a boss but more like a friend. He knew Amidu hasn’t gotten himself out of the traumatic experience. Thus, he had never seen him with a girl, not just random girls but girls in terms of being in a relationsh¡p, but with what he was seeing, he knew there’s more to it than what meets the eye. It was now making sense to him. Agent Matt had been spying on the duo all these while? What was he going to do? There’s only one way to find out.

Cole turned and stretched forth his hand to the back seat where he had kept his backpack. He drew the backpack to himself and opened the second zip compartment, bringing out a digital camera. He arranged the camera and set it off for work, squinting his eyes as he peered into the camera, rotating it to take a clear shot of Amidu and Alexandra holding hands like a newly wedded couple. He took three clear shots with the aid of the street lights which illuminated the wh0le place and had made the picture clear with its brilliance. He smiled but his smile quickly turned to a frown when he saw Agent Matt driving towards them. He saw him stop the car beside them and the lady embraced Amidu before entering into the car and the car took off.

“sh*t!”, Cole cursed disappointedly as he watched the car drove out of sight. He quickly ignited the car engine and followed suit.

Episode 28

Cole increased his speed as he overtook a Mercedes Benz almost leveling up with the taxi car Agent Matt was driving. There were two cars in front of him which demarcated him from Agent Matt, but he kept going at that pace not wanting to be detected by Agent Matt.

Cole wondered where Agent Matt was driving the lady to. Perhaps, he was actually a taxi driver, driving the lady to her destination, but it sounds funny and stupid. A FBI agent working as a taxi driver? It was indeed ridiculous.

A Jeep from nowhere suddenly hit his car from behind and the impact made him lose his balance as he hit the steering wheel with his head. His head immediately burst open and blood began trickling down his face. Another hit from the unknown Jeep made him jerk forth and back, crashing into the side window as glass shærds got stuck in his head and blood spurted out from different cuts on his head. The Jeep was now beside Cole and it made a final clash as the jeep swerved right, crashing into Cole’s car, but this time h-rder which made Cole’s car to spin in rotation and skidded off the road. Cole slowly drifted into unconsciousness as his eyes began to close on its own accord with pains from different angle seeping into his body. In his fuzzy sight, he subconsciously saw Amidu as the driver of the Jeep that crashed into him and then, everything went black.

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(Some minutes ago)

Amidu watched with both delight and displeasure as the taxi car slowly drove out of sight. He fixated his gaze at the car hoping Alexandra would take a last glance at him before they would be out of sight which she did, and their gaze met. She winked at him and their car drove out of sight.

Amidu took a deep breath satisfactorily as he saw her wink at him which he also winked back before she went out of sight. He walked gracefully back to his Lexus. He unlocked the doors, hopped in and turned on the ignition.

Suddenly, a hand from nowhere pointed a gun at his head which caught him off guard as he blanched and his body froze from the coldness of the gun pointed at the back of his head. Amidu was quivering and shaking all over as shudders ran up and down his spine. He had never been this petrified all his life, even when his father was murdered, he wasn’t scared such as this. Who is this person freaking him out with a gun? He couldn’t risk taking a glance back at who was holding the gun and likewise could he risk making a move to detach the gun which would likely mean he had signed his death warrant by his own hands.

“Drive”, a hoarse feminine voice said from behind. It was Riggs Alexandra.

She crouched at the backseat, holding a SPG riffle, pressing the muzzle of the gun against Amidu’s head.

Amidu obeyed as he was instructed and began driving. He drove out of the lot and face the main road, even though he doesn’t know where he was driving to but he just kept on driving as the gun was still firmly pointed at his head. He could have wished to die but this isn’t the right time, not now that he had met the love of his life or was he lusting after her?

“Drive more faster!”, Riggs Alexandra shouted, cutting through his thoughts.

Amidu obeyed as he immediately changed gears and stepped on the accelerator pedal, overtaking cars at his front who honked at him, cautioning the maniac way he was driving but that was the least of his concern. After all, he was acting on impulse and not a self will which they would have thought of him. If only they knew what he was dealing with, they wouldn’t have been hauling insults at him.

“Now, listen up”, she said, gaining his attention which he risked looking back but she immediately shove his face back to the front aggressively with the gun in her hands.

“Don’t f**k with me. Its ain’t gonna take me a second to blow off ya damn head, got it?”.

He nodded.

“Good. Here’s the plan. There is a black Toyota corolla at your front, three cars away from you precisely”, She pointed out through the windscreen to further emphasize and make her description clear.

Amidu nodded again as he looked over the cars to see the actual car she was referring to.

“You’re gonna crash the car and make the occup-nt of the car severely injured”.

“What?”, he gasped.

“Just do as I say or you gonna lose your girlfriend. The driver of the taxi is working for me, got it”, she said, chuckling at him.

Amidu cringed and a shudder slid down his spine. He didn’t check out the taxi driver due to the love that blinded his eyes as he was all over Alexandra, staring at her at every given opportunity. He became more scared than he earlier was. Who is this lady?

“Hit the car now!”, she yelled at him as they were now directly at the back of the Corolla Cole was driving.

Amidu was jolted back to reality and he did as he was being instructed. He suddenly hit the brakes, making the Jeep to jerk forward in slow pumps and then, stepped on the throttle and the tires screeched as the Jeep hit the Corolla car with full force. The Jeep had strong iron suspenders and a strong metal barricade around its front and rear lights which had great impact on the car as it loses balance, crashing into a car beside it.

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Agent Matt was behind the wheels at the guise of a taxi driver. He was driving at an average speed, taking occasional glances at Alexandra who sat in the passenger’s seat. She was busy fiddling with her phone doing one thing or the other but that was the least of his concern. All he needed was for his mission to be a success which was already alternating very well.

“What’s your name?”, Alexandra suddenly asked, cutting through his thoughts.

He looked at her surprised with jaws down.

“What?”, he asked, still in disbelief of what he heard. Was she flirting with him or trying to play smart?

“Your name? Or you do not have one”, Alexandra pressed on with her gaze strictly fixed on him which made him uncomfortable.

“I. . . I have”, he stuttered.

“So what’s the name?”, she asked again smiling.

He looked at her and he became convinced that she was flirting with him. Probably, she found him attractive.

“Mat… Erhm.. Joseph”, he croaked, cracking his head to find a suitable name.

“Wow! Joseph the dreamer”.

He laughed heartily and returned his gaze back to the road.

Alexandra smiled. She knew he had been following her since she left her main resident for the restaurant and now, she was in his car which she needed to know who he was before she began making plans as she had no clear cut plan. All she had devised was to lay low for the meantime for the murders falsified against her to die down before she bagan making her own plans. She could have gone to rescue her guards who were locked behind bars but she doesn’t want to complicate things, so she decided to lay low. She knew it wasn’t the right time to be hanging out with Amidu but she did anyway, to avoid suspicion. So she thought. She took another glance at Agent Matt, observing him closely. She saw the gun in his hostler and she knew what it meant. He was a cop, a frigging cop.

“What are you doing with a gun?”, she asked, pointing at his wa-ist hostler.

“You mean this?”, Agent Matt foolishly held up the gun for Alexandra to see but that was his greatest mistake as Alexandra quickly launched at him, twisted his hands and detached the gun from him as she snapped his fingers and the gun fell off his hands. She quickly took it and hit him twice with the butt of the gun, knocking him out as he slowly fell sideways in a heap. She pushed him off the driver’s seat and took charge of the steering wheel, speeding down the road. The phone in her purse suddenly beeped. She reached for it and brought it out, it was a message and it read; ‘Is that the best you could come up with? Anyway, I also got your guy in my custody, lovebirds.”

TO BE CONTINUED…