SHE quickly sat up, with a tinge of happiness on her face, her heartbeat began racing faster than it was. Staring right into the phone was Jeremy’s caller id.
Sighing deeply with her eyes closed, she heaved a sigh of relief and then opened her eyes, then she answered the call and slowly put it on her left ear.
“Hello”, her soft voice spoke.
“Beautiful”, he called and she swallowed hard, “thought you were never gonna pick up again”, his deep baritone spoke.
Mmm, Jasira couldn’t help but savour the moment.
“Why won’t I?” She asked and chuckled.
He sighed.
“You -“.
“Ugh, firstly…”, she politely cut him short, “I’m sorry for my misconduct the other time, sorry for the stunt I pulled”, she said, still unsure with herself that she had just said that.
He smiled.
“Apology not accepted”, he spoke firmly.
Her eyes widened as she pouted.
“Ahh! Why?”
“Because I haven’t accepted it”, he said.
She sighed deeply.
“Okay fine, what do you want so that my apology can be accepted”.
At this juncture, Nathan barged into the room and Jeremy had to remove the phone from his ears, soon he heard a commotion downstairs and he was forced to look through the window.
“Boss?” Nathan called.
“What the hell is the problem? Why did you barge in like that?” He asked suddenly forgetting he was on the phone.
“Boss there have just been an -“.
Jeremy soon remembered he was on the phone, and he raised up his right hand and Nathan halted. Still looking at him he raised the phone to his ears.
“Beautiful? Let me talk to you later please, I just got an emergency”, he said and without even waiting for her reply, he hung up.
Jasira at the other end was just neutral.
“Okay”, she said even when she knew he had hung up, shrugging her shoulders.
“What emergency is that?” Jeremy said and got up.
“One of the guards, the one manning the small gate at the back, has just been brought in dead”, Nathan reported intelligently.
“Dead?” Jeremy asked and began walking out, Nathan immediately followed.
“Yes Boss, dead”, he replied and rushed forward to hold the door open for Jeremy, and they both walked out.
In matter of minutes there were at the scene, the guard had already been carried to the spacing just outside the torture room.
He was lying lifeless on the floor and other guards surrounded him, three were squatted beside, undressing him, while the others watched.
As soon as Jeremy walked in, they began giving way, bowing their heads slightly as they did.
“What happened to him?” He directed the question to no one in particular.
“I guess he was shot”, one of the guards undressing him said.
“Not guess, he was really shot”, another said.
“But how?” Jeremy asked.
“With a sniper, yeah, I can see the wound here”, the third guard undressing him said as he took off the white shirt he was wearing inside his suit, the shirt was now white-red.
Jeremy moved closer to have a look.
“Here, it was at his chest region. He was delicately targeted”, he concluded.
For a split second, Jeremy was silent, brooding over the matter. Suddenly his face split into wicked smiles.
“They came again, hmm, they must be fished out, sooner or later”, he said, then turned to leave.
“Has the environment been scathed?” He asked as he walked away.
“Yes Boss, it is safe as of now”, Nathan replied.
“Good. Go on with your rituals”, he finally said and walked away.
“Again we have lost a brother -“, he could hear Nathan speak from behind as he walked away.
Immediately he got into his room, he picked up his phone and called Jasira. She picked up immediately.
“Hey, sorry for that”, he said immediately.
“I hope all is well?” She asked.
“Well, I hope so too”.
His reply forced her to chuckle.
“What kind of a reply is that?” She asked.
He shrugged his shoulders.
“It is what it is, so back to our discussion”.
“Yeah, you said my apology isn’t accepted?”.
“Absolutely”, he licked his lips.
“And I asked what do you want me to so my apology can be accepted”.
He simpered and took a deep breath, the moment he had been waiting for.
“Go out with me on a date”, came his reply, “a proper date and do not make history repeat itself this time”, he said.
Jasira gasped, she never saw that coming.
“Okay fine, if that is what you want”.
“That is what I have always wanted my lady”, he said and she smiled.
“Okay then. When should it be?”
“I will text you the date and location, or do you want same location? I would send a chauffeur to come pick you up this time”.
“Oh my! Not so fast. Yeah, same location if it is what you want, but I’m not a babygirl, I can bring myself”, she said.
He laughed.
“You are my babygirl though, but if you insist, fine by me”.
“Yeah, I insist”.
“Okay, okay. Can’t wait to see your face again”, he said.
She smiled.
“There you go again. We will see, do have a nice rest of your day”.
“You too beautiful”, and he hung up.
***
Two strippers walked out of the room followed by Lucas doing his belt, a very fat pipe was stucked in between his lips. He trudged towards the balcony, to the round table and then sat.
About three minutes after he had sat down, Boogie approached him carrying with him two wine glasses and a half drunk bottle of St Remy.
“I hope you enjoyed yourself Boss”, he said as he settled himself into the only empty seat around, dropping the contents in his hands on the table.
“Don’t ask me foolish questions”, Lucas said.
“Okay My Lord, noted”, he said, and began filling the glasses, then he handed one to Lucas and began drinking from the other.
“How was it?” Lucas asked.
“Oh my! Sweet. We got our target right well, he was down. We are beginning to pave our way in”, Boogie replied.
Lucas simpered.
“Good, good. What I love to hear”.
“You know -“.
“My Lord… My Lord -“, someone called running up to them, and they both looked up.
“Who the hell?” Lucas roared.
The guy got to them, it was a guard, he was panting.
“Speak!”
“My Lord, it has been exposed, I don’t know how”, he said.
Lucas and Boogie glanced at each other.
“What secret? What are you talking about?” Lucas asked.
“Your secrets”, he spilled, and Lucas’ eyes went wide open.