CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND FIVE
“You see, although no one would caution me if I go late, but I think I have about twenty four minutes more before my arrival be regarded as late, so let's make good use of our time, what do you think?” Owen asked and from the look of excitement in her eyes, he needed no soothsayer to tell him that she was fully in. “Shall we?” He asked, just to be sure and she nodded her head slowly to show affirmation. Owen smiled as he took off the towel which was the only piece of clothing on his body while Rina just raised the nightgown she was putting on up her thighs, and they got to work immediately. ************ “Did you find anything mum?” Kate asked her mother for the umpteenth time. Maria sighed as she dropped the phone on the bedside table. Kate had asked her this after every single call she had made since her arrival and it was beginning to bug her now. She had not expected Kate to arrive that earlyCHAPTER HUNDRED AND ONE Maria and Kate had just gotten to Kate's and Jake's home, There they could already see him standing outside the house. He stood close to his car, tapping his leg continuously on the locked floors. He seemed uneasy and Kate watched him carefully, she felt there was something wrong. She turned to look at her mother and she could see that Maria felt the same way. “Jake” she called and he turned to her almost immediately. It seemed he had been oblivious to her arrival all the while. She ran into his arms and hugged him tight. He stood there for a minute, unmoving and Kate thought she had done something wrong. She thought they bonded well the day before and that was why she hugged him, it seemed they were back to square one. She felt her heart sink as she slowly released her arms around him, in an attempt to let go of him but he drew her back in, enveloping her in a tight hug while Kate's face broke into a relaxed smile. He looked up at once and he
CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SEVEN************* ***Two days later*** “What the hell are you trying to say, where the hell is my son?” Tamara barked on the phone. Her palms were sweaty and her throat hurt from shouting continuously. Daniel had left home for work early this morning and a few minutes later, his guards were telling her that they were attacked on their way and he was taken. She had sent messages to her ground workers and many had called to relay the same information, ‘he was nowhere to be found’ “I'm sorry ma'am, we tried our best but we can't seem to find him. It seems he was taken directly out of the city because if he wasn't, we would have seen him by now” the man answered over the phone “You're so incompetent, how many places did you check? Was there not a CCTV camera where he was taken? Can't you start the search from there?” She barked for the umpteenth time. “There were no CCTV’s there ma’am, it was a blind spot, the perpetrators knew the place
CHAPTER HUNDRED AND EIGHT Maria had left and it was just Jake and Kate in their room. He sat on one of the couches deep in thought while she sat at the edge of the bed, cautiously observing him. He had been acting weird since he returned and she had wanted to ask if something was wrong but she couldn't muster the courage to do so. She tried to remember if she had offended him in any way before he left, but she couldn't come up with anything. They were cool before his disappearance and now, he was acting all cold and it troubled her. On the other hand, Jake was patiently waiting for Kate to fall asleep so he could call his mum to ask about any new developments. They were on tenterhooks as they were sure that Mario's accomplices would likely retaliate if they found out he had been kidnapped. He didn't want to leave his mum alone in the middle of all this, but Maria and Kate were close to finding out his location and the only way to stop them would be to show his face to them, s
CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND NINE Owen sat on one of the couches in the sitting room as he waited for Tamara to come in. He had asked one of the guards to ask the others to let her in and for about twenty minutes he had been waiting but there was no sign of her. He shook his head in exasperation as he got up from the couch and headed to the door. Halfway to the door, he heard noise outside the house and he sighed. He placed a call to his head guard and the man picked up almost immediately. It seemed as if he had been waiting for his call. “Greetings boss” the man greeted “What's going on at the gate?” Owen asked, not caring to return his greeting “Uhmm it's the woman at the gate, she's refusing to go in without her guards and I've told her countlessly that she can't go in with all those armed men” the man replied and Owen let out a deep breath. With the way she came with all those men, he already knew something was wrong. The fact that she was requesting to talk to him only
CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND TEN Mario opened his eyes with a groan as he was not surprised to see himself in a totally different room. He remembered the guards come in and that was the last thing he could recall. He tried to move his hands with the feeling that it might have been tied up but he was surprised to see that it wasn't. He took a look around the room he was in, and it looked a little bit familiar to him. He tried to recall when he came here, but his brain failed him. He looked out the window and he could see that the house was situated in the middle of the woods, more like middle of nowhere. It was a two storey building, probably an abandoned house. He stood up from the floor as he made his way to the door. He twisted the doorknob and the door became ajar. He wrinkled his brows as he didn't understand what sort of game they were playing with him. He went back into the room and looked for a sharp object to take with him. He saw a screwdriver by the side of the bed a
CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN Mario opened his eyes to see where he was in, but he couldn't see much as the place was dark. He tried to stand up but he felt severe pains on the side of his head and he winced as he touched the affected side of his head. He felt the moistness on his fingers and since he couldn't really see, he brought it to his nose and took a sniff. It was blood, lots of it on the side of his head. He tried to recall what had happened ***Few hours ago*** Jake walked into the room where Mario had been tied up by the guards, Mario sneered when he saw him. “I said I wanted to speak with the master, not the master's cub” Mario said and Jake chuckled “Yeah, I heard. But the master is kinda busy with a little bit of arrangement at the moment, so you'd just have to make do with the cub, your Majesty” Jake said mockingly. “Arrangements? What arrangements?” Mario
CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND TWELVEWell, the thing is I'm getting older and you know the older we get, the more boring life becomes. So I kinda need something to keep me busy, something exciting. And what would be more exciting than toying with the son of the woman who destroyed my marriage?” She said again, this time chuckling at the end of her statement. “No one destroyed your marriage Danny, you destroyed it yourself” Gabriel thundered. “Well, we’ll see about that” when she said this, Gabriel cocked his brow at her “What do you mean by that?” He asked “You know, his mum was a believer. So how about we do this? If her hand was pure, then her God would save her son from my wrath. And if it wasn't, I don't need to explain the terms to you” she said with a smirk “I won't let you harm him. I would tell him about the spy you put on him” Gabriel said and she burst into villainous laughter
CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN Mario had made it to the base, not knowing he was being followed. He looked at the camera at the gate and his face was scanned before he was let in. As soon as the gate opened, he was surprised to see the others all dressed and ready for war. It seemed they were going somewhere. They were all surprised to see him too, especially with the state he was in. One of them ran to him, probably the only person who liked him in the whole group. “You're back” he heard her say and Mario nodded his head. He didn't have the strength to talk, not after everything. He had thought he would end up stranded, seeing as the money he had on him was little but here he was, happy and grateful but anxious too. “Is the boss around?” He asked and she nodded her head in affirmation. “Take me to her” Mario said and he could see that she was shocked. “But …” she tried to protest but Mario cut her short “No buts. Take me to her Now” he said with a time of fina