Beneath the whispers

Chapter 50

Anthony

We had arrived at the border not long after we left the hotel, the bus is not there as we saw it earlier. So we decided to wait. In the process of waiting we had slept through the night at the border and it is the morning now

I grunt “what should we do now?” the sun is barely risen but the light of day is upon the island

“check out the brick house” Willow suggests and I nod along with him

We slowly make it for the brick house, one step at a time until we are leaning at the wall of the house. We walk slowly along the wall till we got to the rusty front door that was already slightly open

“when will they arrive?” a huge man with chest tattoos and a tiny nicker says in a grumpy cracking voice

“I think in fifteen minutes time. They are an hour behind us” says the younger one looking at his wristwatch, he is better dressed and has glasses on “oh, the package?” he asks looking from the chest tattooed man to another similar sized man

“it's ready” the similar one answered

“what about the girl?” the younger one asks again

“we have prepared her, as promised” the tattooed one responds

“isn't that too risky? I mean what if it doesn't work?” the similar one asks

“it doesn't have to, they will take what they need eventually” the younger one says “I just hope they dispose properly so it doesn't trace to us”

“why the headache when we can just do it like we usually do?” the huge guy says grumpily

“no more questions. Have you received a call from the other clients?” the younger one asked

“not yet”

“we wont wait any longer, we have dealt with Harper. Prepare to clear everything up and leak the story” we look at each other in shock – what had they don’t to Harper?

The sound of tire grinding on the sand below approaches the brick house. I look around and it is a bus, coming from the other side of the building.

“they have arrived” the younger one said and the two men hurry through an opening in the ground and disappears while the younger one arranges his tucked in shirt and sits on a plastic sit just by the table

The bus comes to a halt and three men on suit leaps out of the vehicle and starts heading towards the building, we watch to see which path they will take so we can take the other part to avoid being caught

They take the left part of the building so we slide into the right, walking with their pace until they were inside the building. We rush towards their bus and slowly leap into the middle session

“so what is the plan?” I ask

Willow shrugs “we steal this one”

“but the keys?”

We both look at the driver's seat and the keys is plunged into the key hole. Willow tries to move and his leg presses on something. He stops and raises the something to see a gun

We both gasp and fall back on the seat. They were armed? Who are these people. Boots scrap the rough soil approaching us, we freeze and try to cover ourselves with the front seat

My heart race as the steps drew closer and closer. I tap Willow when the man got to the car so we hold our breaths, the man pull the front door open and climb into the vehicle

He grunts and leans for the passeger seat beside him and I shut my eyes close not daring to let my quivering breaths have their way

“one or two?” he asks the person on the phone. I don’t hear the reply but he drags out a suit case from underneath the passenger seat and open it. Then he shuts it and climb down the vehicle

The sound of his steps receding has me letting how dozens of breath of reliefs. I hold Willow and he nods also panting. When we cannot hear him again,

Willow leap into the front seat, and after a heavy breath he starts the engine. The men immediately rushes out of the building and towards us at the sound of the engine

Willow swirls the vehicle backwards and then forward with so much speed that they had to get out of the way and we pass them

They hadn't expected that this could ever happen so they had their guard down and that element of surprise was exactly what we needed.

They are no longer waiting for any stupid client so we don't have time anymore, what we need is to get out of here as fast as we could.

We drive down a narrow part at the front of the brick house hoping it would get us to the village just in time as the men chased after us until they couldn't meet up

We rode and rode until the bus gush out from the woods, on the opposite side is a house on the hill with grasses and trees all around it. Some men ran out of the house heading towards us so we turn the car towards the village and sped forward

We rode and rode until we got to the village’s rode gate, without stopping we burst the gate open and drove in, hurrying for the hotel. When we got to the hotel

The villagers had rushed out from the front door and is waiting for us. I glance around at the broken fence and the fallen gate in awe.

“they did a number here last night” I say

“maybe it has to do with Harper” Willow says as he manages to drive through the fallen bricks until the front of the hotel

“they will be here in minutes, we need to move now… get the weapons” I yell and rush out from the bus towards the villagers

“where is Bella?” I ask Harper

He shrugs “they went to the mansion”

“what?!” I look from Harper to Mira and she nods along

“they went for Thelma and Maya”

“what's going on?” Willow asks

“the rest, they are not here” I say. The sound of shooting grows from afar and I am immediately knocked into the reality of our situation

“let's go upstairs and hold them off, Mira, take any one and go get them. You” I point to the youngest teenager “guide them into the bus” she nods and I snatch some guns from Willow

I hand Harper one and we all sprint to the top of the house through the chimney hole in the reception. We arrange ourselves and starts firing into the village. Good thing the hotel was on the hill

We don't stop, to give the girls enough time to reach us before we take off. The firing from the woods stops and the men retreat to hide from our bullets

The villagers are all settled in the bus, the few that survived and the youngest teenager joins them inside the bus. We fire and fire waiting for Bella to arrive with her friends

“once she breaks the circle they will all die” Harper yells and I stop shooting.

I look up at him “including you?”

“she says I lost my memory after the shadow attack last night” he says. I raise my brows in shock and look at speechless Willow

The men below starts firing back at us so we snap back into reality and we load again to continue firing at them.