Image gotten from Pixabay and edited by me.
Rachael was having her evening exercise when something in her waste pouch vibrated. Immediately, she beckoned on her body guards to be at alert. There’s only one thing that could cause the vibration in her pouch, her tiny mobile phone. She has a lot of smartphone, but this was special. It’s always with her and only two people had the number. She has been thinking of dumping the phone since Ryan died and there was no way Kendrick would call her. He swear he wouldn’t keep in touch. She stared at the number showing on the screen and concluded her enemies has finally gotten her hidden line.
She switched on her computer, imputed some codes on the screen and connected the phone to it. Before she could finish setting it up, the call went off. She waited another twenty minutes and nothing came up. Just when she decided to call the number, the phone rang. It was a different number this time around. She hesitated before picking.
“I was thinking you would find a way to track this line too. I thought you were fast with codes.” She heard her brother say.
“I knew you wouldn’t last a year brother. Miss me already?”
“Why do you want me dead?”
What her brother said made her grimaced, she wanted to be sure she heard him right, then she asked.
“What did you just say?”
“I’m alive Rachael and I’m definitely not dying before you.” Kendrick said and ended the call.
Rachael became terrified, not because of her brother’s outburst but who she’s guessing is behind it scares her. Her brother is the only human that can ruin her, he has all her secrets and knows her weakness. Even the serpent hasn’t overpowered her.
“I shouldn’t have killed Ryan yet.” She soliloquized.
After pondering about it for a while, she took her phone and placed a call.
“I want you to follow him now like never before, I want every details of what he does, what he eat, who he sees, where he goes, every damn thing!”
She didn’t wait for the receiver’s reply before ending the call.
Kendrick left the telephone booth and took the next available bus to his destination. The city wasn’t safe for him anymore, he hadn’t stayed in one place for more than twelve hours since his last talk with his boss. He had the opportunity to touch the guns he had always wanted to use and finally picked one of them, that was after he agreed to kill his sister. Although, the evidences the serpent laid down against her sister weren’t solid but he assured himself of getting to the root of it and killing her sister if need be.
He sat down beside the driver at the passenger’s seat constantly staring at the side mirror. A guy sitting at the back seat has been following him since he left his previous location. He placed his hand into his pocket and held on to the cock of his gun. Then, his phone rang, he picked it instantly.
“Errrrmm, Samuel can I call you back?”
“No, Ken! I just had a strange revelation about you, we need to see. It might be dangerous.” Samuel replied from the other end.
The bus was getting to his destination, he had no choice than to disengage Samuel.
“Alright, I’ll call you back.” He ended the call.
He dropped at the junction and went straight to the market square. He looked back and noticed the guy had dropped too. He was familiar with the area but was acting like he was lost, he kept turning round the market till he got to a mosque. Just then, he remembered his visit to the mosque. Rachael had given him an assignment to kill the imam heading there.
The guy that has been trailing Kendrick entered the mosque too. He checked around and noticed no one was in it. There was no other door inside leading to anywhere and he was sure he saw him enter. He was about turning back when he heard a sound underground. That’s exactly where Kendrick is he thought. He placed his hands in his pocket and brought out a pistol. It was easy spotting the underground passage, it was covered with a mat rhyming with the tiles of the floor. He opened the mat and saw a covered hole. He opened it and stairs could be seen.
Kendrick came out of his hiding place, he wasn’t under the ground, he had been watching at the side window hiding behind the curtains. Before the guy could turn back and realize, Kendrick shot him on his thigh. He moved closer to him and shot his hand too. He had a silencer tied up to the tip of his gun, so no one could hear the sound of a gunshot.
“Now, tell me who you work for.” He said cleaning his gun with a handkerchief.
“Your mother, idiot!” The guy replied.
He shot the same thigh he shot earlier causing the guy to yell in pain.
“That’s for calling my sweet dead mother.”
He shot the other thigh again.
“That’s for not giving me the answer I wanted. Now, who do you work for?”
The guy was losing his voice. The pain was unbearable, he couldn’t feel his legs. He tried raising them but couldn’t. If his second thigh gets shot again, then he will be saying goodbye to both legs.
“Kill me already dude.”
Kendrick hesitated a little before shooting the second thigh. The guy cried out loudly this time.
“Now, I’m moving over to your hands. Another wrong answer gets you a shot at the hand I shot earlier.” He leaned over to his face.
“Who are you working for?”
“I don’t know him. He called me and gave me the job with huge sum transferred to my bank account. I swear that’s all I know.” The guy replied.
“I wasn’t told to kill you, the instruction was to make you suffer.” He added.
“Him? You mean a male gave you the job?” Kendrick was confused.
“I can tell a male’s voice man! Females can’t order me around” The guy said in anger.
“Then, you haven’t met Rachael.” Kendrick said and shot him.
Samuel had called Kendrick’s line for the umpteenth time, he kept moving to and fro his sitting room. He tried calling again but Kendrick’s phone was switched off.
“Why is he switching off his phone?” He asked himself.
He went straight to his room, changed into a lighter cloth and came out to meet his phone ringing. He picked almost immediately.
“Smith is dead. He killed him!”
He ended the call and fell back to his chair.
To be continued.