WHEN LOVE JUST HAPPENS 2 : EPISODE 11 – 20
EPISODE 16
“Please have mercy on us, whatever it is we have done to you, I beg you in the name of whatever you hold scared, please forgive us” Jane was crying as she pleaded to their kidnappers. The lady still wore the mask she had on since the day they were kidnapped, so Jane couldn’t see her face. But every time she spoke, Jane feels she has heard that voice before. She has been trying her best to remember where she had heard the voice from, but hasn’t been able to.
“I beg you ma, please don’t kill us. We promise to stay out of you and Jeffery’s life for good. You can have him if you want, but please just let us go” Amaka pleaded this time.
“Shut up you two, if you had just stayed out of I and Jeffery’s life in the first place, we wouldn’t be here, but instead you decided that my Jeffery is the man you want. No amount of pleading can get you out of this, so I suggest you start saying your last prayers”
As she spoke, her partner walked in and said; “The boss is here”
“Where is he?”
“He is outside, he will be here any minute” They are still talking, when a lanky, dark man walked in. The moment he came in, the lady and the guy immediately went to his side.
“Welcome boss” The lady greeted
“How is it going?” The man asked in a grumpy voice.
“Very well boss, we have everything under control boss”
“And who is this?” He asked referring to Amaka as he walked up to where she was.
“Emm, that’s her best friend boss” the lady answered stuttering.
“And why the he.ll is her best friend here? What is she doing here? We don’t have any business with her!” The boss barked in anger.
“She is sought of involved too, boss” the lady was visibly scared of the man as she spoke.
“I still don’t get how she is involved in this, I specifically told you to kidnap just his fiancée”
“Ye..s but the thing is; they were both together when we went for the operation” the other guy spoke.
“So if she had been with her entire family during the time of kidnap, you would have kidnapped all of them too?”
“No sir, we took her beca….”
“Shut the fuck up! just fucking shut up!” He grabbed a bottle which was on the floor and smashed it against the wall in anger. Everyone became suddenly silent, even Amaka who was groaning in pains, was too scared to breath out loud.
“Do you know why I agreed to bring you in on this?” He asked the lady who was already shaking like a jelly fish. “It’s because, we have a common enemy, and we want a common goal which is to eliminate Jane, why would you choose to bring in someone else?”
“I’m sorry boss”
“Now listen good, I want you to take that girl out of here, now!”
“Sure boss” The lady started untying Amaka from the chair.
“No, you leave her and let him do it instead. There is something else I will be needing you to do”
The second guy untied Amaka, and carried her over his shoulder into the car that was parked outside the building and started to drive.
Amaka’s hands and legs were still tied, and her eyes were blindfolded, so she couldn’t see where they were going.
The guy drove at a very high speed, Amaka feared they might crash into something or someone. After about an hour of him driving like a maniac, the guy finally stopped. He got out of the car and carried Amaka out, and placed her over his shoulder.
“Please don’t hurt me I beg you, please”
The guy didn’t say a word, he just kept walking. And after walking for a while, he untied Amaka’s hands and legs and then dropped her in the bush.
WHEN LOVE JUST HAPPENS 2 : EPISODE 11 – 20
Early the next morning, Jeffery was on his way out of his compound, to go visit his sister at the hospital, when he saw two people standing in front of his gate. He got down from his car to find a feeble looking Amaka standing at his gate with a middle aged man.
Jeffery had to clean his eyes to make sure he wasn’t hallucinating. Indeed it was Amaka who was standing in front of his gate for she called his name as he approached her.
“Jeff..ery” her voice was a bit dry which it made quite inaudible.
“Oh my God Amaka it’s really you” Jeffery quickly got to where she was standing and hugged her. “Where have you been? Where is Jane?” She whimpered in pain as he held her in the places she had injuries.
“Oh sorry, are you hurt?” Jeffery held her on the shoulders as he examined her.
“Just a little pain here and there” Her voice was so faint Jeffery could barely hear her.
“Come on, let’s get you inside” he started to guide her back into his compound, that was when he remembered the man who has been standing behind Amaka quietly.
“I’m sorry are you both together?” Jeffery asked referring to the man.
“Yes, he is with me” Amaka said calmly to Jeffery.
“Alright come in then”
They all went into Jeffery’s house. Jeffery helped Amaka to sit down on the couch as she seemed to be having difficulty moving her body. Then he quickly rushed into the kitchen and got her a glass of water. She took a few sips of the water before handing Jeffery back the glass.
“He helped me to get here” Amaka said referring to the man who was with her. And she started to cough, holding her ribs as she did. Jeffery immediately went to her side.
“Amaka are you okay?” She shook her head to indicate she wasn’t.
“You need to see a doctor” Jeffery quickly brought his phone out of his pocket, but Amaka shook her head again.
“What is it?”
“I don’t want to go to a hospital please” tears rolled down her cheeks as she spoke.
“No I’m not taking you to a hospital, I will have my doctor come check you here”
WHEN LOVE JUST HAPPENS 2 : EPISODE 11 – 20
An hour later, a sleeping Amaka was surrounded by a medical doctor, a nurse, Dele, Lauretha and Jeffery.
“Was she able to tell you anything about who kidnapped them before she slept off?” Lauretha asked Jeffery who has been watching Amaka like a hawk.
“No she didn’t, she only said; that man was the one who helped her to get here”
“You mean the man downstairs in the sitting room?” Dele asked as he watched Amaka sleep, not taking his eyes off her.
“Yeah, that was all she could say before her cough became worse and I had to call the doctor, and then you guys”
“She has contracted a chest infection, which most likely must have been caused by her exposure to cold. I’m also suspecting a broken rib but we will be able to confirm that, once we conduct an x-ray” The doctor said to them.
“Will she be alright?” Dele asked with so much fear and concern.
“Yes, with the antibiotics I have administered to her, she should be better in no time. I will be back to check her on my way back from work in the evening”
“Thank you so much Doc” Jeffery shook the doctor’s hands.
“Anytime, and please endeavor not to stress her with questions, at least not for today. I will have my nurse stay back to administer her next drip once this one gets finished, and also to attend to her medical needs while I’m away”
“Thank you so much” Jeffery walked the Doctor to his car. He came back to meet Dele and Lauretha interrogating the man who came with Amaka.
“I found her in my farm this morning when I got there to work as usual” the man said to them.
The farmer had gotten to his farm quite earlier than usual, he wanted to get most of his work at the farm done before the sun comes out.
He was trying to uproot some cassava when he noticed a strange movement in-between the cassava plants. He thought it might be a snake or a dangerous animal so he quickly picked up his machete and advanced carefully to the direction where he noticed the movement, only to find out it wasn’t a snake, but human.
Amaka was curled into a ball in-between the cassava plants as she shivered from cold. “Ple..ase.. do..n’t kill me” she begged the farmer who had his machete ready to strike.
The farmer instantly realized she was harmless and needed help, he carried her to his farm house and covered her with some of his old farm clothes, then gave her some food and water
Amaka ate and drank the water hungrily like a deer who hasn’t seen water in days. After she had eaten, she rested a bit and then told the farmer to please help her locate Jeffery’s address, which she called out to him. She told him her friend’s life was in danger, and she needed to get to Jeffery immediately.
“So, she didn’t tell you who had kidnapped her, and how she got to your farm?” Lauretha questioned.
“No she didn’t, she was very weak and couldn’t say much”
“I guess we would have to wait for her to wake up, and tell us what happened herself. Hopefully she should be able to lead us to the kidnappers” said Dele.
“Thank you so much sir for your help, God bless you” Jeffery went over to where the man was standing and shook his hands.
“You are welcome sir, I will have to be on my way now”
“Sure I will have my driver go drop you off” Jeffery called his driver to come drive the farmer back. But not before asking the farmer for his account details and transferred the sum of three hundred thousand naira into his account.
“Jeffery please can I talk to you in private?” Lauretha asked as Jeffery came in from seeing the farmer off.
“Yeah sure, let’s talk in my study”
Lauretha followed him into his study, while Dele went to check on Amaka.
“Jeffery I’m sorry I didn’t tell you about our son all these years. I know no amount of apology can bring back all the years you lost with him, I’m truly sorry”
“What you did Lauretha, is bad. You kept me away from my son all these years, and that is very wrong. But I don’t think this is the best time to discuss this issue. Once all of these is over, we will need to sit and discuss the way forward”
“I truly understand, does that mean I can continue working on your fiancée’s case?”
“If I didn’t want you to continue working on the case, I wouldn’t have called you this morning to come here. Please do go on with your investigation and help me find my fiancée”
“Thank you. I will be meeting with my partner today, we are both going to check on your gateman to see if he has regained consciousness, and see if he remembers anything”
”Alright, though I spoke with the doctor in charge of his case yesterday, and he said he was still unconscious”
”Alright. But still, we would go there and see if there is any improvement”
”Okay, please keep me informed on whatever you find”
When Jeffery and Lauretha came out of the study, Dele was at the bar pouring himself a drink.
“Hmmm, guy what is going on between you two?” Dele asked, after Lauretha has left the house.
“It’s very complicated man” Jeffery sat down tiredly on the couch, while Dele came to where he was seated and handed him a glass of drink.
“How do you mean complicated? Don’t tell me you still have feelings for her?”
“Nooo.. that’s far from it”
“What is it then? Because I see the way she looks at you, it’s evident she still has feelings for you after all these years”
“How come you never told me Lauretha was the private investigator you were hiring?”
“I didn’t know so myself until I met her, she came highly recommended by a friend. Besides I knew if I told you, you might not have agreed”
“Well, I don’t know if I should be grateful for what you did or not” Jeffery swiped his palm over his face.
“How do you mean?”
“I just discovered I have a son with Lauretha”
“What are you talking about? A child how?”
“Apparently she found out she was pregnant after we brokeup”
“And the pregnancy was yours?”
“Yeah, we have a son together”
“But why didn’t she tell you all these years? Who keeps a child from his father that long? It’s not as if you broke her heart or something. I remember your breakup was mutual”
“Same thing I have been asking since she told me”
“Except for one thing though”
“What is that?”
“You know she is the only child of her parents right? And we all know how her father wanted a son badly”
“Your point?”
“It could be that she didn’t tell you because; her father took the boy as his heir. And the boy could be bearing his surname and not yours. And if that is the case, then, they might put up a strong fight before ever allowing you access to that boy”
WHEN LOVE JUST HAPPENS 2 : EPISODE 11 – 20
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