“This is 911. What’s your emergency?”“My friend has just been kidnapped,” Avery said through clattering teeth.“I need you to take a deep breath, ma’am.” The male respondent said.Avery felt like pulling out her hair. There was no way she was staying calm.“Where are you? Can you tell us the location of the kidnap?”“I’m currently At Lifeline Axis. Right beside the city mall. My friend was kidnapped right there. I watched them push him into a van.” Avery supplied. In about an instant, she was sweating profusely.“Find somewhere safe and stay there. Our team will be right there in a few minutes.” The man assured her.When Avery lowered the phone to her chest, she felt her heartbeat skyrocketing.Who were those people and where could they have taken Nathan to? She roved her eyes around the street. Everyone was going about their business. It was as if no one saw the incident.She moved away from the driveway and when she got to the edge of the building, she quickly placed a call to Char
Nathan opened his eyes and shut them immediately. His eyes had just caught a bright ray of light.A few seconds later, the light went off but Nathan was scared of getting another burning sensation so he kept his eyes closed.“Open your eyes, you piece of shit!” he heard someone growl.Nathan coughed and slowly opened his eyes. He could feel his hands strapped behind him. He was tied to a chair and could deduce that he was in a dark room.The last thing Nathan remembered was someone grabbing him from behind when he tried to turn, he blacked out.Nathan didn't know that the men had pressed a cloth to his nose and after inhaling the soaked material, he passed out.His eyes were hurting less now.He could see about three men surrounding him. They were covering their faces with black thick masks. The only thing he could see was their eyeballs through the holes in the masks.“What do you want from me?” Nathan demanded and tried to stretch.One of the men placed his legs on Nathan’s tummy, p
When Mike stepped out, he met Jackson gathering the team. About ten minutes later, they left for downtown. They had gone with two vans and a bulletproof Camry. The men that left were about two dozen with Jackson and Mike.Thirty minutes later, the men made it to downtown. They drove straight to the garage and saw a huge abandoned metallic house. The men surrounded the area.Meanwhile, a handful of the men were going around the area, taking positions. When they got to the entrance of the metallic house, Mike was shocked to find the entrance unguarded.“Now!” he commanded and in an instant, the door was gunned down.Mike and the men barged into the place and were greeted by an emptiness. Not even a roach could be seen in the room.“Fuck!” Mike cussed and hurried out. The men went after him.“I want the entire place searched.”Mike turned to Jackson. “Get me Cole on the phone.”****Back at the mansion, Charles watched Cole with amazement as he kept running his hands expertly on the keyb
Roderick Barnes is a mafia lord to reckon with in Nightmare City. He owns a syndicate and is mostly described as unpredictable and loyal. Roderick controls a gang of fearless men around the city. He's wealthy and is into the oil business.Two months ago when Fredrick went into exile, he didn't leave the country as planned. He decided to remain hidden in Nightmare City because he was scared that Salvador might say too much and hence call the embassy to tackle him so the person he reached out to for help was Roderick.Roderick offered Fredrick shelter in his house and offered him protection and access to his crew. He even responded to Fredrick’s inquisitive thirst for knowledge on how he runs his oil business and syndicate. Out of goodwill, Roderick had shown Fredrick how things were done but Fredrick had other things in mind.He conned Roderick and stole a lot from him. Fredrick had collaborated with his other colleagues who were aware that he was in hiding. He had reached out to them
“I know the Alcantaras and in my perspective, it's impossible for a peasant like you to be affiliated with them but then if the Tysons think you are a suspect then there’s something worth looking into,” Roderick said.“Do you know Mike Carter?”At the mention of Mike, Roderick’s brows went up. He then went back to his seat.Nathan continued. “Mike is the executive assistant of the Alcantaras.”“Wait, I thought you said you were not affiliated with the Alcantaras then how did you know Mike?” Roderick countered.Nathan sighed. If Roderick claims to know the Alcantaras, he was thinking that maybe opening up to him might help him get a way out but he wasn't sure about Roderick’s level of commitment to the Alcantaras.“The thing is, Mike is my Godfather. My parents work for him as cleaners and we are acquainted. Mike had been really helpful so Kelvin had seen us together a couple of times and then he concluded that I was affiliated with the Alcantaras so he had me kidnapped.” Nathan told R
By 9 pm, the Alcantara private jet landed in Nightmare City.With the device stationed on his lap, Cole kept moving his hands around the keyboard. “This will be easy to track because we are in the city. The signal is strong.”“Did you get anything?” Mike demanded a minute later.“I've got an address here. It's showing a villa located at the Government reserved area.” Cole supplied and zoomed in on the map.“Can you check out more details about the location?”“Let me quickly run a search on the address,” Cole replied and swung into action. A few seconds later, he turned to Mike. “According to what I've just stumbled on, the villa where the boss is being kept is owned by the Barnes family.”Mike raised an eyebrow. “The Barnes family? Why would they be keeping Nathan?”Cole sighed. “Well, that's what I saw and right now, we should be headed to that location.”They stepped out of the jet and headed toward the van waiting for them.Before speaking to Jackson to assemble the men and contact
“I'll call the doctor to be at the mansion before we arrive to check up on you,” Mike told NathanRoderick walked up to Mike and fell at his feet. “I'm very sorry. I never knew he was...,“That's okay Roderick. You can get up now.” Mike intervened and motioned to Roderick to stand up.Roderick got up on the floor. “Are you guys going to head back to Rockville at such an hour? It's quite late. We've got enough space for you and your men at the Villa and if this place is not okay, I can take you guys to a hotel.”Mike smiled. “We appreciate your kind gesture but we must leave right away. Nathan has an examination to take by 7 am tomorrow.”Roderick nodded in understanding.“I'll meet you outside,” Nathan told Mike and dashed out to meet Jackson and the rest.When Nathan left, Mike moved closer to Roderick. “I need to discuss something briefly with you.”Roderick was paying keen attention.“We share a common enemy.”“Fredrick Tyson I guess,” Roderick said.“Yeah. This isn't the first tim
“We are here!” Larry announced after he wheeled the Lamborghini to the school’s parking lot.He had driven Nathan from the mansion to school that morning. From the moment Nathan stepped into the car, he had been sleeping with his back thrown against the car seat.Larry had to tap him on the left thigh to wake him up. “We are here, boss.”Nathan almost flew out of the car seat.Larry chuckled. “Don't worry boss, you've got just one paper to go so I'm sure you'll get enough time to rest after this.”“That's true,” Nathan said and stepped down from the car.Larry drove away.Nathan was about to take a step toward the route leading to his examination hall when he heard Avery calling out to him.He exhaled sharply and then turned around to face her. During their conference call last night, Nathan and his friends had come up with a story in case Avery interrogated any of them.Immediately after Avery got to Nathan, she engaged him in a hug. Nathan chuckled and hugged her tightly.“You gave