The Thirst For Revenge Episode 29 – 30

The Thirst For Revenge – Episode 29

Alabede Jude Oluwabamise (Prince Jude) | All rights reserved.

Time: 9am

Location: Elekohia Teaching Hospital.

Agent Dave was seated in a white plastic armless chair. He was seated perpendicular to Cole who laid on the small sized hospital bed with a drip connected to his wrist and his wh0le head was stitched up due to the numerous cuts in his head. Cole was now conscious after he was being operated on immediately he was rushed in by passers by who witnessed the horrific scene. Dave had gathered enough information from the witnesses to what transpired between Cole and the assailant which he also took note of the wreckages for further investigation. He knew it wasn’t an accident nor a coincidence but seemed like someone is trying to kill him.

Cole slowly opened his eyelids and immediately shut it back due to the reflection of the sun which peered in through the open louver, illuminating the wh0le room. He opened it afterwards which his pupil had adjusted to its surrounding and his head began to pound with an headache.

“Oh my God! You’re awake”, Dave said gleefully as he saw him open his eyes.

Cole looked up at him and a smile appeared on his face. He was happy seeing Dave being there for him.

“How do you feel?”, Dave asked in a concerned tone.

“I’m quite fine. At least, for now”, Cole replied trying to sit up on the bed but pains from different part of his body shot through him and he gro-ned.

“Easy, easy”, Dave said, rushing to his aid as he helped him rest back on the bed. He shook his head as he watched Cole grit his teeth in pains.

“You’re far from being fine”, Dave said as he settled back into his seat.

“I’m fine”, Cole managed to say amidst clenched teeth.

“No, you’re not. I need to call the doctor”

“Please, don’t”, Cole quickly said with a pleading eyes.

“Why?”, Dave furrowed his eyebrows.

“I need to tell you something first”

“Whatever that thing is, it has to wait. Let me go get the doctor”, Dave said, standing up.

“No, please”, Cole begged and he let out a gro-n from a pain that seeped into his arm as he held Dave hands.

“Cole let me go get the doctor”, Dave insisted.

“I know who the killer is”

“What?”, Dave squeaked. “Seriously?”

“Seriously. But first, you have to be seated”, Cole said.

Dave sat hurriedly as curiosity got the better part of him.

“So who is the killer?”, Dave asked impatiently, eagerly awaiting the revelation.

“I never knew you could be this curious. You know, curiousity kills the cat”, Cole said chuckling.

“True but less you forget, I’m not a cat”

“Oh I get it. You’re human”, Cole joked.

“Please, stop beating around the bush and skip to the main points, would you?”

“Well”, Cole began. “Amidu is the killer but ….”

“What?”, Dave said, interrupting him and stood up with a changed countenance. “Are you out of your mind? Why would you say such frivolous thing?”

Cole let out a sigh. He knew Dave wouldn’t believe. Actually, no one would, not even him if he was told but he knew what it is. He had seen him, he even ran him over to the point of death but thanks to God, he wasn’t dead.

“I know what am saying Dave”

“Seriously? You know what you are saying? By accusing him falsely?”

“I’m not accusing him falsely, Dave!” He shouted as loud as his voice could carry him.

Dave shrugged and heaved a sigh.

“If you’re not, then I guess you must have an evidence to back your accusation”

Cole let out a sigh of frustration.

“That’s the problem, Dave”, he said. “I do not have any paper work evidence whatsoever, even if I have it’s not substantial enough to build a case against him”

“Oh! You don’t have any evidence and you’re falsely accusing him of murder? You must be insane. After all, he is your boss”

“Our boss”, Cole corrected.

“I admit but he’s directly your boss because you’re his assistant”

“I know but you have to believe me Dave.”

“Believe that fabricated lie?”, Dave ranted with his voice getting edgier. “Cole, have you been compromised? Huh?”

“No I’m not”, Cole said in a calm voice trying his best not to also flare up. “Just listen to me. Amidu ran me over with his Jeep which almost got me dead. He attempted to kill me, Dave”.

Dave chuckled. “And you expect me to believe that crap? See, Cole you better come out clean or I find out the truth and I’ll use it strongly against you”, Dave threatened.

“You still don’t get it, do you?”

“No, I don’t. Maybe you explain better”

“Please, just try to think out of the radius and focus more on the possibilities.”

“Okay, go ahead.”

“Last night, I followed Agent Matt without being detected and ..”

“Oh! You’re now spying on your colleagues?”

“No, I’m not. I thought he was dirty and needed to check him out if he was but it turned out he was working on a good cause.”

“Oh you…”

“Dave please!”, Cole shouted and winced in pain. “Are we friends? or foes?”

“Of course, we’re friends”

“What are friends for?”, Cole asked.

“To help each other, of course”

“Good, I need you now more than ever. Will you help me?”

“Not until I get evidence to ascertain your assumption”

“You can check the footages covering the area if it’s not intercepted yet and if it is, you spy on them”

“I can’t believe this”

“You have to, because right now, we don’t know what he’s planning. Probably, he’s coming back for me”.

“But we can report this to the DG. At least, to ensure your safety”, Dave said.

“I know but I do not have substantial evidence yet, don’t you get it?”

“Just think, think Dave!”, Cole shouted. “Do you recall when we went after the suspects on Malatama road?”

“Yes, I do and what does that have to do with this?”, Dave asked with a furrowed eyebrows.

“Do you recall Amidu wasn’t with us that night?”

“Yes and that’s because he was off the case, remember?”

“Oh!”, Cole looked surprised. “He was off the case and yet, he reported seeing dead bodies in a taxi car we just finished investigating?”

David seemingly kept quiet. Probably, thinking it over.

“Dave tell me, how could he be there at that moment even when it’s clear that he was off the case”

“So you think he killed those people?”, Dave asked inquisitively.

“Yes, as much as i don’t want to say this but I think he killed those people, he killed the love of my life and dumped them in the backseat of the taxi car”, Cole said with a teary eyes.

“No, it could be a coincidence”, Dave said pitifully.

“Coincidence my foot!”, Cole retorted. He was visibly angry now.

“Coincidence you say?”

Dave nodded.

“You know what it is when coincidence becomes two or three?”

“Yes, it becomes evidence”, Dave said.

“Good, its an evidence Dave”.

“Wait, he hasn’t reported to office this morning”, Dave suddenly said thoughtfully.

“Good, you see what am talking about?”

You can’t be so sure, Cole. He might have gone MIA”

“MIA you say? A special agent missing in action? You got to be smart Dave”

“So what do you suggest we do?”

“You’ll track him down and if possible, bug him too”

“You’re crazy”

“You can say that again”, Cole said with a smile.

Episode 30

Time: 11am

Location: Rainbow Town.
(Alexandra’s main residence)

Alexandra descended the stairs which spiraled down the exquisite sitting room. Then, she walked to the end of the sitting room, facing the wall. She placed her palm on the wall; there was an inbuilt palm prints scanner in the wall which green lights emitted from and the wall splits open, revealing a shinning crystal door which the door also split open gaining her entrance into the large but dark room. It was a secret room which she reserved for hostages who had the source of breaking out. She pressed a button on the wall and light flooded the wh0le room. Two people could be seen strapped to a chair adjacent to each other with their back turned against each other. One was Agent Matt while the other was Mr Bamidele William. The duo were blindfolded with their mouth gagged. Alexandra str-de towards Agent Matt and stopped right in front of him. She bent down a little to remove the duck tape which she used to gag his mouth.

Agent Matt exhaled immediately the duck tape was taken off and heaved a long sigh. He breathed in and out heavily for sometime before he heard her speak.

“You lied to me”, Alexandra said, folding her arms.

“About what specifically?”, he asked indifferently.

“Your name”, she said.

“Oh!”, he chuckled. “Is that it? You’ve finally found out who i am?”

“Oh yeah! You thought I believed you in the first place?”

“No, I don’t expect you to believe either. I know you’re smart and I guess, you already know am a cop”, he said smiling in his concealed face.

“I should have met you earlier but well, its a good thing I got to meet you now”.

Agent Matt laughed. “Is this your definition of having an encounter? Holding me as hostage?”, he laughed again.

“Enough!’”, Alexandra shouted in anger. “Do not mess with me if you don’t want to see my wrath, understood?”

Agent Matt nodded. He knew game time was over and he couldn’t risk joking around. Probably, he should try his luck a last time but he doesn’t know if it would pay off.

“I have questions and I want answers”, she said and began circling him in a slow pace. “It’s up to you if you want it the easy way or the hærd way. Anyway, the choice is yours”.

“Who do you work for?”, She asked, stopping right in front of him.

Agent Matt smiled. There’s no way he would give out his boss to a f***in’ girl who he was much more older than. Never would he snitch on his boss, never.

“Myself”, he finally said after some minutes of silence.

“I work for myself”, he smirked.

Alexandra grinned mischievously. “Well, I guess you’ll stop messing around with me if you see this”, she said and brought out an android device from her jean pocket. She unlocked the phone and a streaming live video popped up on the screen. She removed the blindfold from his eyes and showed him.

Agent Matt gasped in shock as his look turned to horror. His wife was strapped to a chair like he was but not blindfolded nor mouth gagged as her gro-ns and muffled breaths could be heard from the speaker of the phone.

“My wife?”, he breathed out with tears gathering in his eyes. “She’s pregnant”, he blurted out.

“I know”, Alexandra said nonchalantly.

“Please, don’t hurt her”, Agent Matt pleaded with teary eyes.

“I won’t, if only you’ll comply”, Alexandra said coyly.

“I will, I will. I promise”, he said breathing heavily. Its a hærd choice to make, if not the hærdest but all he cares for and all what matters to him that moment was his wife. She’s carrying his child for Pete’s sake! His first child for crying out loud!

“So, I will ask again and I won’t ask twice, got it?”

Agent Matt only nodded.

“So, who do you work for?”

“I work for Riggs Alexandra”, Agent Matt sharply replied.

“You’re quite aware that we bare the same name, right?”

“Yes, I am”

“Good, so tell me all you know about her”, Alexandra said and sat on her haunches, looking straight into his eyes.

“She’s quite tall like you and fair in complexion, she looked like an American and …”

“Enough!”, Alexandra shouted cutting him short. “I do not ask for her description, you know that. If you continue to mess with me, your wife will end up dead, am I clear?”

“Crystal”.

“Good, so tell me what I need to know, including how she hacked into my database, how she got intels to know my plans and where my guards are!”, she squealed angrily.

“She’s quite a good hacker, no doubt which made hacking into your database a piece of cake for her. Her location is highly encrypted and can’t be decrypted by anyone, not even me and ..”

“Wait, you said her location is highly encrypted?”, Alexandra asked, interrupting him.

“Yes, highly encrypted. That’s if you track her directly”

Alexandra kept mute for a moment. She could remember having a tracker on Adam and she could check out his current location automatically, finding out Riggs Alexandra location too. A smile appeared on her face; it was just easy peasy.

Alexandra walked up to Agent Matt and untied his hands and legs which got Matt wondering what she was up to.

“Follow me”, Alexandra ordered and began walking towards the wall which enclosed a hidden door. She stopped and repeated the process. The wall splits open and it turned into a door which the door opened and she went through it.

Agent Matt stood obviously stunned to the marrow that he didn’t move an inch. His mouth was wide open agape in surprise to what he just watch her do.

“The door will close back in five seconds”, Alexandra said without looking back. She knew he wasn’t following her as she couldn’t feel his presence behind her.

Agent Matt immediately jolted back to reality as he quickly ran and slid out of the door as it closes and turned into a wall. He kept looking back as he followed Alexandra. He just couldn’t believe it.

“Here’s the plan”, Alexandra began, as she climbed up the stairs that spiraled up into the hallway. “You’ll go rescue my guards in your custody while I’ll go after my f**kin’ namesake and everything will happen tonight”.

“Oh my God! That’s crazy. How am I supposed to do that alone?”, Agent Matt exclaimed in fear.

“You must sort yourself out and if you make any f**kin’ mistake, your wife dies, got it?”

“I get it”.

“Do not try to play games because I already bugged you with a listening device and a tiny video camera which you can never see even if you try finding it”.

Agent Matt cringed in shock and he quickly checked his body but found nothing, nothing out of the ordinary.

“Understood?”, Alexandra asked.

He nodded his head before saying “yes”.

Alexandra smiled mischievously.

“It turns out we make quite a team”, Alexandra said tauntingly.

TO BE CONTINUED…