Chapter 46"If she catches us, this is going to be one of my worst days ever!" Shawn Muttered as the driver kept trying to manoeuvre his way around the road and turn back.There had been a car in front of them at first, and all Shawn had thought was that the people in that car were with them. . . But Erica was out of her car with a gun in her hand.She pointed to the car and ordered those who had been in it to step out immediately or get shot in the head. "I need all of you to be out here now!" Erica said to them. The car door quickly opened up and they all stepped out."On your knees all of you. . . And drop your weapons!" One of the guys who had been with Erica said to them. They threw their guns on the ground waiting for Erica's command."Who are you and who are you all working for?" She walked close to them and asked."I don't understand you. . . We work for nobody. . .!" They responded."I hope you don't think I'm playing. . ..!" Erica muttered calmly with a fake smile as she t
Chapter 47Shawn's POVJust when I heard that the tyres had been shot by Erica, I felt like I was going to explode. She was going to get me now. For sure no one was going to save me.After a lot of struggling with the car steering, the car came to a sudden halt in the middle of no way. It was getting cold and dark was covering quickly. . . "Ohhh fuck!! I just hope I don't regret doing this," I muttered to myself, recalling I was the one who had decided to stay back and not leave.I could feel my instincts tell me to not be afraid but go out there and confront her."She won't dare harm you, she knows she is going to regret it in an instant!" Was all I could hear from the voice in my head. In my mind, I had wanted to make the move but my body was not responding."We need to move out now sir!" The driver opted."Okay. . .! But to where?" I asked, not forgetting that I had no idea where I was and how I was going to get in contact with anyone. . . My phone's battery was dead and all it lo
Chapter 48>Pedro had promised Shawn's father that he was going to find his son by all means, no matter what it took him. And when once he makes a promise, he never breaks it. It was one of the reasons Shawn's parents were always fond of him. . . He never failed them when they had high hopes for them. So this time around, Pedro made sure to promise them Shawn was going to come back without a scratch on his body.He had ordered his guys to get ready that the mission was going to be simple but they had to be serious. He never considered any mission tough because he knew the kind of people he had beside him.Pedro knew Shawn's father needed to know how he was going to know where they had been. Pedro knew exactly how he was going to get that done.He had gotten one of the best hackers and computer operators he could find in the country. He needed to find out where they were through their phones, or where they had been last before they moved. Shawn always carried his phone
Chapter 49The car had finally arrived home and there, they stood watching, waiting in sight to see his foot step out of the car, with nothing but smiles on his face.The door was opened for Shawn to walk out, and when he did, he was about to be treated like the king of many nations and the godfather of all but Shawn immediately disagreed."No. . .!" Shawn said to the guard that was about to lay before him and the other who brought clothes for Shawn to make a quick change from the smelling and dirty clothes he had put on."This must be my father's work," Shawn uttered and immediately"Ohh Shawn. . . You're back and alive," Shawn's mother said as she grabbed him like she had not seen him in years. It seemed more like she had just found her precious diamond."I'm fine, mother. . . Nothing happened!" Shawn said with a fake smile.Pedro had been behind Shawn when he said this, and almost immediately, his parents raised their brows at Pedro. They quickly gave him a wink to confirm if all h
Chapter 50Pedro had gotten Shawn back to the car as soon as he could and had told Mike to get back at what he was doing.Pedro noticed Shawn had been constantly holding his stomach, at the same time trying to fold himself a bit to avoid the pain."What's going on with you?" Pedro asked him as he drove Shawn, heading back home."Nothing. . . I just need some sleep, that's all," Shawn responded, putting his gaze outside the window as he watched the cars drive past them each time they got stuck in the traffic."Take up your clothe!" Pedro said to Shawn."I'm okay. . . I just need to. . .""I just said something, and you have to listen to me whenever I speak. . . Raise your clothes right now!" Pedro yelled.Pedro quickly packed the car so he could focus on the matter at hand and see what the hell had been going on with Shawn because he was not looking good as he had said earlier.Shawn raised his shirt and Pedro glanced at the deep wounds he had seen. And as a matter of fact, the wound w
Chapter 51Shawn's POV.“Shawn” The shrill voice of my father reached my ears and I sighed but not loud enough to be heard. “What is this. . .? How did this happen to you?” My father asked.I had no idea I would begin this but I was literally afraid of the after-effects of the things I was going to say, knowing well that I would involve my friends in this wildfire. But I had to. . .“I got beaten by some group of boys from school,” I said to my father, but my head was down looking at the ground. I couldn't stand staring into his eyes, which would be flaring with fire at the moment."Are you that crazy to get into a fight in school? I mean, what were you there anywhere for. . .? Huh!” He said."Okay, what did you do... And by the way, were you in class when this happened?" He asked and all I could do was shake my head in response."Speak to me when I ask you a question boy!!" He yelled and I was shocked to the spine. My father was furious, and I had never seen him this angry. I knew I
Chapter 52The situation had become tense as all the students gathered around Mike. And just before Mike was Shawn's father, whose face had nothing but pain and anger written all over it."Just how am I going to get past this?" Mike muttered to himself, staring down at his feet."Dad! Please just let him go, everything that happened was not intentional and I swear he had nothing to do with it," Shawn said to his father but he turned dead ears to all he was saying like it meant absolutely nothing to him."How dare you do this to my son. . .? I thought you were his friend?" Shawn's father said, groaning angrily."I did nothing to Shawn, everything that happened back there was none of my fault Sir," Mike responded."Dad, please listen to me. . . He had nothing to do with the incident. He's my friend and I can swear that he could never think of hurting me." Shawn pleaded."Stop blabbing your mouth and get in the car now!" Shawn's father yelled at him, pointing to the car he referred to."
Chapter 53Shawn's father had some sort of blind faith in his son after Shawn has explained his plan clearly to him and told him all he needed to know about the VC. One of the hardest things there was to accomplish was to remove someone like the VC from that position notwithstanding the connection, with no valid reason.After the conversation Shawn had with his father, he had gone out of the car quickly to go look for his friends. After everything he told his father, Shawn's father was clear that Mike had nothing to do with anything that happened and was just trying to help out. . . And so for that, Shawn was allowed to go and see Mike.Shawn had picked up a hoodie he found at the back of the car when he got in. He wore it and stepped out. He needed to avoid the spotlights of cameras and people making videos. He needed to stay clear of the eyes of the people around him.Shawn had earlier tried to get in contact with Mike and Leah so he could know where they were but none of them was p
Chapter 120The alarms sounded, shimmering into the ears of the inmates waking them up from their sleep. It was quite earlier than the rest of the days and that was because it was a special day. Most of the Inmates that had been in the prison for years were finally getting their freedom back and they would be going home finally, after a long, long wait.The timetables for the day had been set and the inmates were made aware of what was going to happen today. New inmates were going to roll in either from a transfer from another prison or sentencing. And at the same time, a few people were going to leave— only those that survived though.It had been said that most of the inmates that would have gotten their freedom the next day were likely killed by their fellow inmates because of envy and other reasons which weren't made known to the General public.Mike and Leah after hearing all of the horrors had their eyes and their ears open throughout the night. They knew they had no excuse for n
Chapter 119(Hours Before The Mission)Pedro had been in constant communication with Grace. She had something Pedro needed and that was to be able to know what was happening even when he was with Shawn, and what was going to happen with his friends in the prison.Grace was the only one who Pedro had seen with such a gift, and in a long time, nothing had been heard of them until now. Pedro knew there was a big reason why she had offered to help him with Shawn's issue, even at the same time offering to help Mike and Leah out.She had an idea of how she was going to get them out of the prison. It was not convincing enough but Pedro had a much bigger reason to believe in what she had told him.Pedro was out of town and did not need Shawn's parents, who were in constant communication with him to know what was going on. He had to handle this alone and find a way not to involve or put any of his people in trouble.Shawn's parents needed to see Shawn as soon as possible. They feared that some
Chapter 118"Erica!! How are you still alive?" Shawn voiced, taking in a deep breath."Did you expect me to be dead? So much for the plan you had set up…" she said with a big smile as she gave Shawn a glance from head to toe. It seemed she was liking all that she had seen at the moment."Why are you in these ropes?" Erica asked, pretending to have nothing to do with this, she had on a pitiful face"Ohh fuck! Why is she acting like she has no idea what I am going through? She ordered the guards to do this to me and now she's here acting all innocent. Girls!!! Never to be trusted!" Shawn thought to himself as he shook his head in disapproval.It was just unbelievable. The news had been everywhere that he was the one who murdered her, but here she was standing before him with a scary wicked grin. "Why are you acting like you did not have a hand in this? I know you are the sole reason why I am tied in this fucking—" Shawn spoke furiously as he lifted his hands to show Erica what she had
Chapter 117Shawn had been arrested and was taken to a detention center where he was going to get interrogated by some policemen about the murder of Erica.The news and rumors had been put to bed for a long time since Shawn and the rest of his friends had moved away from the home and anywhere possible where they would have been found.Someone was responsible for this because none of the police officers had wanted to go in search of Shawn, knowing fully well that he wasn't going to be found that easily.The police had been informed that someone was coming to speak to Shawn as they had locked him up in the dark so he would have no idea where he was. He had been there for over two days and was weak. No food, no water, and in the most heated hours of the day when he would find himself sleeping for no reason, he had nightmares, much more times than he would have ever imagined. But the part that got him upset was the fact that he would wake up and not remember what the dream was about. Th
Chapter 116"Hey, you!!" A loud voice uttered pointing towards her as she turned her face in the direction of the voice."Huh…!!" Those were the only words she uttered as her heart shook when she knew she was the one being called."Come with me!! The voice commanded and Leah could feel her legs already tickling to get going before something happened to her.She could feel waves of shivers through her spine. As though it was her fate, her heart pounded like this day would be her last.She rose from where she had sat and tried to clean herself up but there was simply no time for that as the man quickly grabbed her arm ferociously and moved her in the direction where she had seen them take Mike.Now it was getting scary and she could not bear this on her own. She tried to be calm as they approached the area in the yard where there were no lights, and the closer they moved in the more there was a noise up front in the building ahead of them."Where are you taking me?" Leah voiced out afte
Chapter 115Mike's return from the president's office to the yard had caused a lot of problems and had brought so much trouble to him. He had not been told by anyone that he wasn't supposed to get any information from the president because whatever he was going to promise to give was just a scam… it wasn't real.He was not the kind of person who kept to his word, and if Mike had known this, for sure he would not have shaken hands with him. He, for sure, had made a huge blunder on his part. All eyes were on Mike and Leah now. Everyone had their eyes and ears on him just in case he had reasons to be suspected of anything. The men who stayed in the prison longer than Mike did have given an order to the rest of the guys in the prison to watch out for him… when Mike's bunkmate was no exception to this.It had been a few weeks now, and nothing had been mentioned to Shawn by anyone. Plans had been made to escape prison in 4 months when the digging was going to be completed but Mike this tim
Chapter 114Shawn had his eyes on the door now. There were only two things that would be if all he thought of truly happened. One was that he was going to see himself in jail sooner than he expected, or just maybe he was in some serious trouble.Ava took the bold step to twist the doorknob as she opened it. She poked her face slowly through the little space she had created, checking to see who knocked on the door and what they wanted."Bring the boy out… we need to take him with us now!" They ordered, and Shawn could feel the anger and authority in their voice."Who are you talking about? We do not know who you mean, we have not heard that name around here before," Ava said to them with a glare, showing them that she was not afraid of them or the guns they carried around in the name of security."Are you sure you are telling us the truth? We need to know the truth and as citizens you need to be truthful else you will face the law," the officer who stood before Ava lectured her."Crazy
Chapter 113It had been 5 hours since the girls last saw Shawn. 5 hours after the man that came in to look for Shawn walked out. Still, they had no idea who he was and what he came for. Shawn refused to speak to them about Pedro, who they knew nothing about. They waited for him to come out of his room, and when he finally did, they knew they would have the chance to ask him whatever they needed to know.Shawn stepped out of his room in an attempt to head for the kitchen when the girls walked up on him, blocking him before he could sneak in and out back to his room."What the hell? You shared the shit out of me," Shawn yelled as he held his heart in his hands."We did not scare you, we only noticed that you were trying to sneak to the kitchen to do whatever it is you wanted to do…" they both chorused as they gave Shawn a stern look."No, no! That isn't what I was doing… I only tried to dash to the kitchen because I needed to get something and immediately return to my room, that's all,
Chapter 112Shawn's eyes lighted up as tears filled in. He felt his body freeze for a minute until he heard his voice mutter."Hello, young master!”It was really Pedro… and how he got to his house, Shawn had no idea but at that moment, there were mixed feelings."I am supposed to hug him? Or I'm just going to stand here and see what unfolds next?" Shawn whispered to himself as he let out a tear."What's going on?" Ava's voice asked just behind Shawn and she placed her hands on Shawn's shoulders."Who is there?" Amelia joined to ask as she walked towards the door where Shawn stood to check why Shawn stood still like a plank of wood."How are you doing, young master?" Pedro asked with a shaky voice and just then, Shawn lifted his face to meet his teary eyes of Pedro. This was a surprise and at the same time an emotional moment for Shawn and Pedro. The two couldn't even hug themselves with the level of emotions that flooded the air.“I… I… am okay!" Shawn responded with a stutter as h