WHEN LOVE JUST HAPPENS : EPISODE 41 – 50

EPISODE 50

Jane’s mind raced as they drove, what were they going to do to her? She remembered Jeffery, what was going to become of him if they kill her? Maybe he might try to rescue her, but then he wasn’t even in the country, he was far away across the Caribbean. Before he arrives, she might have been long dead.

Jane panicked, she knew she needed to find a way to escape from them so she decided to engage Timothy in a conversation.

“Where are you taking me?”

“You will find out when we get there”

“How is your mother?”

“She is dead” Timothy spoke without any iota of emotion.

“I’m sorry for your loss”

In response, Timothy hit her hard on her head, this caused Jane to pass out.

Black knew the guy hit his back bumper on purpose, and with the way he kept trying to engage him in a conversation, it was obvious he was trying hard to distract him.

“I’m very sorry sir” the middle aged man apologized to Black as he examined the damage done.

”It’s fine, no much damage was done”

“I’m sorry, I have had a little too much to drink” the man apologized.

Black took a look at his wristwatch, it was barely 12noon, a very odd time to drink at all, talk more of getting drunk. And secondly no drunk driver ever admits he is drunk.

“It’s fine no problem, you can go”

“No sir, let me fix it”

“No you don’t have to worry, you can go”

“No sir I insist, I know a good mechanic just down the road, I’m sure he will be able to fix it”

“And I insist you go, before I report you for drunken driving!”

The driver seeing Black’s mean face, apologized and retreated to his car. Black immediately sensed something was amiss. He quickly rushed to Jane’s apartment. He knocked severally and when there was no response, he took out his gun, and kicked the door open to find the room has been turned upside down. He heard a muffled sound coming from the kitchen, he rushed there to find a bound Amaka sitting in a corner of the kitchen floor, struggling to free herself.

Black rushed to her side and untied her. “He has her, we need to save her” Amaka cried out.

“Who? Do you know the person?”

“Mr Okafor’s son, he has Jane” Amaka gasped for breath as she spoke. Black got her some water to drink, Amaka took some sips. She tried getting up, but was greeted by the pains on her knee and ankle.

Black helped her to the bedroom, and helped her to sit on the couch. “I need you to tell me everything that happened” Black paced the room as he spoke. He couldn’t believe he had been so stupid to allow himself to be distracted by that guy. Now Jane that he has been assigned to protect, has been kidnapped.

“I was about to leave for work, when I heard a knock on the door, I thought it was the caretaker, because I called him about the plumbing issue we were having, and he promised to come check it this morning. So I opened the door”

Amaka opened the door to find this strange guy who she didn’t know, standing at her door.

“Yes? Good morning?” she asked, not making any effort to allow him inside.

“Good morning Amaka”

“Sorry, but do I know you?” Amaka asked

“I’m quite sure your friend must have told you about me” the stranger pushed his way past Amaka into the room.

“Excuse me you don’t just barge into….” Amaka was still talking when the stranger pointed a g.un at her.

“I’m sure you wouldn’t want me to use this, close the door quietly and come in” he instructed. Amaka did as she was told, her eyes not leaving his hands. As she closed the door, she threw the hot chocolate she had in the mug she was holding in his face. And as he struggled to clean his face, his gun fell from his hands and Amaka took that opportunity to grab a stool from the dressing table to hit him with it, but he caught her hands mid air causing the stool to swing off her hands and break the dressing mirror.

The stranger, caught her two hands, and just then, Amaka bit his right hand. This forced him to leave her hands. She tried picking up the stool again, as that seems to be the only weapon closest to her. He caught her hands again and this time around, he twisted them behind her.

“You think you are smart, don’t you?” Amaka didn’t say a word, she was busy calculating her next move. The stranger turned her around to face him. “What do you hope to achieve?”

Amaka’s right knee connected with his gr®in and she immediately ran to the kitchen to get a knlfe, but he was behind her in no time. And this time, he $lapped her hard causing Amaka to fall to the floor. He took out his belt and fl®gged her severally, making sure she was no longer strong enough to fight him, before tying her hands and her legs and then gagged her mouth.

“Now listen good, I’m not here for you but your friend. So you can save your taekwondo skills for some other time. Now cooperate with me and I will be out of your face in no time. But if you continue to prove stubborn, I’m not assuring you I will continue to be a gentleman. Is that clear?”

Amaka seeing she stood no chance of winning him, nodded her response. “Good, now where is your phone?” Amaka made a muffled sound, which he couldn’t hear, so he had to remove the gag from her mouth.

“It’s in my hand bag on the dresser” she winced in pain as she spoke.

He replaced the gag on her mouth and went to the dresser and took out her phone from the bag.

“Now I’m going to be sending your beautiful friend a message, asking her to meet you here”

As Amaka narrated her ordeal to Black, he could see she was in pains, she had a few bruises on her face and her hands. He needed to take her to the hospital.

“I think we should take you to a hospital, to get your injuries checked”

“What about Jane? we need to save her”

“I’m calling my agency already, we are going to hunt that bastard down and get Jane back” He tried to help her up.

“No! We have to save Jane. I think we need to inform Jeffery” Amaka protested.

“He is out of the country on a business assignment” Black told her as he tried getting her to stand up.

“Then we inform his friends Dele and Michael. I’m sorry but I can’t go to the hospital just to take care of my minor wounds while my friend is in grave danger”

“Very well then, we will inform them”

“Good, I think we should inform Dele first”

On their way to Dele’s office, Black called his office and informed them about the situation of things and they swung into action of finding Jane Immediately.

When they arrived Dele’s office, he was in a meeting so they had to wait a little while before he came out to meet them.

“Hello Amaka, this is sure a surprise visit” The moment he saw Amaka’s bruises, he quickly went to her side. “Are you okay? Who did this to you?” He examined Amaka’s face as he spoke. “Wait, did he do this to you?” Dele faced Black with an angry look on his face.

“I’m fine Dele, he didn’t do any of these to me. We are here because we have something very important to tell you”

“What is that?” Dele asked looking confused.

“Good day sir, my name is agent Black” Black extended his hands to Dele for a handshake “I’m the bodyguard Mr. Jeffery assigned to protect Jane”

Dele shook Black’s hand “Good day Black, I never knew Jeffery assigned a bodyguard to watch Jane?”

“Yes he did” Amaka said.

“Whatever for? I thought the paparazzi’s were no longer after her?” Dele asked.

“Well.. it wasn’t just because of the paparazzi, he was protecting her from a dangerous person who has now kidnapped her”

“What are you talking about?”

“Jane has been kidnapped!” Amaka cried out.

“Are you joking or what? What do you mean by Jane has been kidnapped?” Dele asked in shock.

“I’m afraid, she is not joking, miss Jane has actually been kidnapped. But you need not panic, my agency is working on getting her back” Black said, as he tried to calm both Amaka and Dele.

“So, if I get you correctly, someone has been after Jane, so Jeffery hired you to watch her, and now she has been kidnapped by that same person?”

“You are very correct sir” Black said.

“Oh my goodness, how did this happen?” Dele paced his office as Amaka narrated everything that happened to him.

“We must inform the police at once” Dele picked up his phone as he spoke.

“I’m afraid that won’t be a good idea” said Black.

“What do you mean by that?”

“Informing the police isn’t going to help matters”

“But the police needs to be informed of what is going on, if anything is to go by with the way you handled bodyguarding her, then we would be needing the help of the police to get her back”

“I totally get your point sir, but with what I have come to know about this guy, he does have an informant in the police. So that means when we do report, he is most likely to know and that won’t be good”

Dele knew Black was right, this is a case of kidnapping and if Jane’s kidnappers heard that they reported it to the police, that will endanger Jane’s life all the more. “I guess you do have a point. So what do we do now?”

“We wait”

“What?” Dele and Amaka asked this at the same time.

“We can’t just fold our arms and wait, we have to do something” Amaka argued.

“We are not going be doing nothing, my agency is already working on tracking him down, while we also wait and see if he contacts any of us”

“And if he doesn’t?” Dele asked.

“Let’s hope he does, we stand a better chance of tracking him if he contacts us”

“Oh God please save my friend” Amaka took to pacing the room as she prayed. While Dele dialed Michael to inform him of what was going on, Jeffery’s trip is twelve hoursong, he hasn’t landed the Caribbean yet, so he won’t be able to reach him.

WHEN LOVE JUST HAPPENS : EPISODE 41 – 50

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When Jeffery landed at the airport, the first thing that came to his mind was to call Jane, but he decided to get to his hotel room first. He was just checking into the hotel, when his phone rang. “Hello?” He answered.

“Hey Jeffery, finally I have been able to reach you” Dele said.

“I just landed a few minutes ago, what’s the urgency, is everything okay?”

“I’m afraid not”

“What is it? what happened?”

“Jane has been kidnapped”

Jeffery’s mind started racing fast, “what did you just say? When did this happen?”

“Earlier today”