TARASHA
*Episode 4*
By OyinPrince
‘Good morning Tarasha’ a harsh voice
responded.
‘Chief, have you gotten the stuff you asked me
to get? I dropped it in the car parked in front of
your office according to our plan’
‘Yes, I’ve seen it’ the voice answered
‘You’ve seen it? But why haven’t you called me
then? You didn’t keep your part of the deal’
‘What deal?’
‘What do you mean Chief? Didn’t you say that I
would get the bank alert for my balance two
hours after you get the carton?’
‘Yes I said that, but you broke the agreement
first’
‘What? How?’
‘You said you would do the job without killing
anybody’
‘Yes, I didn’t drop anyone’
‘But it was all over the news yesterday, all the
labourers at the warehouse were found dead
yesterday’
‘That wasn’t me, that happened in the
afternoon. I carried out the job around 3am’
‘How am I supposed to believe that you really
did the job by 3am?’
‘What the hell are you talking about Chief?’
Tarasha flared up. ‘I see you don’t want to keep
to your part of the deal?’
‘I will send you the balance once I’m sure that it
wasn’t you that carried out the killings’ the call
ended.
Tarasha was fuming with anger as she dropped
the phone, it wasn’t as if the balance meant so
much to her but she was angry at the obvious
fact that the Chief only wanted to cheat her
and she wouldn’t take that from anyone. She
checked her wall clock and pondered for a while
before shr picked up a pistol and a mask from
her bedside and stormed out of the house.
She tapped a button on the remote control and
the door to the driver’s seat of her Zently 2027
model opened. She slid into the car and the
door closed back automatically, she inserted two
bullets into the revolver and hid it safely under
the car seat after which she started the car
engine and drove towards the gate which
opened automatically and closed after she was
out of the compound.
She drove as fast as possible, hissing every
time she had to stop because of traffic signals
and other road users. After almost an hour
drive, she got to Gravl Avenue, she parked at a
very far distance to the Chief’s house.
She gave a wicked smile as she glanced at her
wristwatch. In few minutes, the driver and the
bodyguard that accompanied the Chief youngest
daughter to school would be returning. She took
the revolver from where she hid it and kept it in
her purse, reason that she wasn’t properly
dressed; the clothes she wore would show signs
of the gun if pocketed.
She got out of the car , carefully making sure
no passerby was watching or noticing her and
she walked a distance closer to the Chief’s
house.
With her dark goggles on, she stayed by the
side of the road and placed one hand on her
waist, acting like one who was waiting for a
cab. After two minutes, she sighted the driver
and bodyguard from afar, returning in the car.
As they came closer, she started to walk
through the road pretending not to see the
coming car. She got the driver confused as he
struggled to bring the car to a halt but not after
he had gotten so close, almost hitting her.
‘What’s wrong with you ma’am? Didn’t you see a
car was coming?’ The driver shouted angrily at
her.
‘I’m sorry’ she pleaded, holding her chest like
someone who was deeply horrified. She turned
to the driver’s side to apologize.
‘You should be careful next time’ the driver
continued, more calmly now.
‘I’m sorry’ she said, gasping for breath and
coughing as sweat drop from her face in the hot
sun. ‘I think I’ve lost my way, I was going to
Eden hair salon at Gravl Avenue’
‘You’re at Gravl avenue already, just walk a little
bit further and you’ll find it by your left side’
‘Please can you give me a lift there?’ She
pleaded.
‘Okay yes’ the driver replied, looking at the
bodyguard by his side who shrugged in
confirmation. ‘Enter the back seat’
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Inspector James sat on a chair facing a man on
the hospital bed, the only survivor of the
warehouse attack.
To be continued
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