TARASHA Episode 10 Pt 3 – Oyin Oluwatosin Emmanuel
PRESENT
‘My sister died that day and till date, I’ve not been really able to stop missing her. We were so close, always found moving together when it wasn’t school or work time’ Henry fought back tears as he narrated the story to Evelyn in his car.
Evelyn placed a palm on his shoulder, she stared into his eyes as she thought of what to say to him. What bothered her mind most was that her plan hadn’t worked out, she wouldn’t have allowed them meet each other if she had any idea that they were enemies.
Still, she wasn’t feeling any pity about Henry’s sister’s loss, but she had to make herself feel something so that the acting could go on smoothly.
‘I understand how you feel but didn’t you take any step to report the matter?’ She managed to say.
‘I did, but there was no proof. My parents even had to pay for damages as ordered by the court. His father was a very influential man then, so it was easy for him to go scot free’
‘What about the two other guys?’ Evelyn asked.
‘I couldn’t recognise them, I’m sure I would have seen them with Dare after then but I couldn’t point accusing fingers when I wasn’t sure’ Henry explained. ‘Dare was later withdrawn from the school by his father before the next semester and was sent to restart his university education overseas’
‘Hmm’ Evelyn sighed.
‘My sister’s death doesn’t really hurt me as much as the manner at which she died’ Henry continued. ‘She died in a most horrible manner, they stole her dignity which she held in high esteem and after then took her life’
Evelyn helped Henry cleaned his face as drop of tears rolled down his face. She really wondered how he felt. And what dignity was he talking about? She frowned.
Well… She and numerous other girls were molested sexually for several years by uncountable ruthless men in the Nefary Clan in the most brutal way. Rape meant nothing significant to her anymore.
‘Sorry I had to make you meet an enemy, I never knew Dare was that kind of person’ Evelyn apologized.
‘It’s okay, I forgave him a long time ago’ Henry muttered.
‘You’ve forgiven him?’ Evelyn seemed surprised. To her and the Nefary Clan, forgiveness was a sin. Those who forgive are weak and deserving of death
‘Yes’
‘You don’t want to get back at him?’ She stared into his eyes, a strange kind of emotion began to overwhelm her. ‘You don’t feel like making him pay? Or making sure he dies too?’
‘No, I’ll rather act like God. God doesn’t ki*ll even when you wrong him, he still loves you’
‘Naaaah…’ Evelyn suddenly screamed and flung the door open. ‘god is a killer and love doesn’t exist’
‘What? ‘ Henry got out of the car, shocked by Evelyn’s new display. ‘What do you mean?’
Tarasha was dumbfounded. Even she was shocked at her outburst. A button had been pushed, her emotions weren’t dead, some elements of feelings still remained in her.
‘Are you okay, Evelyn?’ Henry moved closer to her. She was the one who needed consoling now.
‘Please, can you get in?’ He motioned her back into the car and winded up the windows, cutting away the stares of several onlookers in the garden.
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Dare threw his phone angrily on the sofa as he stormed into the living room. The maid that opened the door for him had quickly hid herself to avoid receiving his anger.
He never knew he was going to ever meet Henry again. He had stopped involving himself in cultic activities since he started the new university in the united kingdom. He had also dropped his other vices, of course except for partying, alcoholism and womanising, those ones were inbuilt “talents”.
Henry had suddenly showed up now that he had decided to drop womanising and partying as he already started developing feelings for Evelyn. He wished they had gunned down Henry that day. He suggested it to his friends but Julius refused, advising him that the way to really punish people was to leave them to feel their pains after the torment.
He bit his lips in anger as he sat briefly on the sofa, loosening his shirt buttons. He had to act quick and act wisely. Killing Henry now would make Evelyn dread him more or even testify against him, he was sure that Henry would have told her about his bad deeds after he stormed out of the restaurant immediately.
Maybe he wouldn’t have stormed out in that manner, he could have waited and tried to pick up a conversation with Henry in pretence that they did not know each other and deny the accusation vehemently of Henry tried to raise any. Or he could have been the one to stay and would have allowed Henry to leave and then feed Evelyn lies about him. But it was too late, he had already acted like a criminal caught red handed.
He scratched his head. Henry had to die, and Evelyn too. He thanked God his feelings for Evelyn had not developed into something big, he could still do without her.
Moreover, she was a friend to his enemy and a friend to his enemy was also his enemy.
‘Hello Afo’ he said into the phone. ‘Meet me at my house in the next twenty minutes. I have a job for you’
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Chief Jubril sat comfortably into the leather sofa, skimming through the Weekly Sun newspaper. The newspaper was just a distraction, his mind was on something else. He was thinking about the event of the whole day.
AA Ltd according to his research would be a very good partner to do business with. It would further improve the image of his own companies in the international sight. The only thing that troubled his mind now was his doubts about Evelyn. She could just be an impostor claiming to be Alexander Amaechi’s daughter. He needed to find a way to confirm her story.
He smiled as his thoughts drifted to his son. The boy must really be ‘jobless’ for him to leave his own company matters and accompany someone else to do business. He wished his son could just have investment ideas like this Evelyn seemed to have, he would just make his own billions in few years. But his son wanted to become a lawyer, he was even studying law before he withdrew him from the Nigerian university after suspecting that he had begun to move with bad guys.
He picked his phone and dialed a number as another thought flashed across his mind. He bit his lips, waiting for the call to be answered.
‘Hey Afo’ he hailed and smiled at the response. ‘Were you at the office today? … okay, there was a lady who came to the office with Dare, I want you to keep an eye on her from tomorrow. I want to be know her movement’
He heaved a sigh of satisfaction as he dropped the call. No one could play pranks with him in Nigeria, the country is his domain.
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‘Who’s that?’ Dare asked the haggard looking Afo who just ended a call.
‘It’s one of my clients’ Afo hid the truth from him.
‘Ok…’ Dare continued. ‘There’s this girl I’ve been going around with recently, have you seen her with me?’
‘The one you came to Chief Jubril’s office with?’ Afo asked.
‘Exactly’ Dare nodded in affirmation. ‘I want her dead… and there’s this guy following her around now’
Afo exhaled deeply as he thought about compiling the father and son’s job together. The father wanted the girl monitored while the son wanted her killed. Whatever beef was between the girl and the family was not his business, he only needed their monies.
Dare racked his brain trying to put together what best description would tge second target. He remembered that he saw Henry’s ID card hung on his neck. ‘His name is Henry, he works with the cameras security corps’ he explained.
‘You don’t have his picture?’
‘No, you have to do that job. When you find out someone who you suspect to be him, send me his picture for confirmation.’ Dare said and got up to leave.
‘How do you want the job done? Should we hide away their bodies or leave it in public?’
‘Let the bodies never be found’ Dare stated. ‘I want them killed on the same day and it must happen before Friday’
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