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*CHAPTER 48* part 1
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The chef places a plate of food before him,
Adam nods his head and mouths a thank you
as he continued to listen as he was on the
phone
”Have we checked out the feeds from the
station, local police all of it?”
”We have hacked into their system though, so
we following calls that come in, and
information pas-sed. If they find anything we
would also be alerted to it”
”And no report of any woman being attacked?”
”None”
Adam nods his head ”Where you able to comb
throu-ghthe guest list?”
”Yes, we have, everyone in that room checked
out and they all had an alibi at every point.
They either went home after the event, went to
some other event, met up with their mistresses
or family or other..functions. The women where
not looked into because it was a man that
attacked her. We ensured to deploy as many
people to make sure the checks were done as
Boss directed and without raising suspicion.
Over three hundred men in that room aside
securities that day..all checked out, but-”
”But what?” Adam inquires
”The other man who left his car at the scene
and was interrogated at the station, from
reports he ought to be out of town like late
last night, but he is still here”
”So?”
”Well, i am giving you reports aren’t i?”
Adam smiles ”Yes you are, the fellow was
checked out even by the police, what’s his
name again?”
”Kennedy Anderson, Lonestar worker,
represented Mr Kelvin Todds”
”Ah yes, maybe he has business in town ..he
isn’t our guy””Didn’t say he was, was just reporting on our
findings as you asked us to, and to alert you
of any one’s movement to suggest otherwise.
At the moment-” Adam could hear his fli-pping
files ”We have every man ticked and clear..but
we do not have our attacker”
Adam sighs ”He can’t be a ghost, keep an eye
on them, anyone changes his routine for any
reason, let me know. So, anything from the
station? The forensic reports, heard anything
about it? Last time i heard of it, Steve told me
his boss Gareth ask that it gets to him
first..and- i am guessing the team would have
been alerted to see whose fingerprints are
there, did you guys get privy too?’
”Yeah,about that, did you not hear?”
Adam straightens up ”Hear what?”
”A fire at the lab, all the evidence from the
sto-re room is gone, thankfully no one was
hurt.”
Adam frowns ”I do not un-derstand, when did
this happen and how does this have anything
to do with the reports?”
”I don’t know, last night, this morning who
knows, but that’s the word on the streets, they
have even informed the Mayor”
Adam is ru-b-bing his jaw ” Wait i do not
un-derstand what you are saying”
”The Lab that the test was being run to get the
reports from the sto-re room, fire outbreak”
”Which lab is that, got an address?”
”Nope, not privy to that info but all i know is
that it was Gareth who informed them that it
was on fire and he couldn’t get any report. So
he tasked them to finding other means to look
for evidence”
”Whoa what?”
”Yes, he got back and broke the news”
”No, that’s wrong…” he frowns ”I ran into Steve
last night and he insinuated that he had the
reports but his boss asked that it goes throu-gh
him and that it was sealed so he can’t and
won’t show me”
”Maybe he was messing with you” The voice
states, Adam is shaking his head
”Why would he do that, Steve is alot of things
and he wouldn’t lie or joke like that”
”Maybe he was trying to fish and see what you
would do, besides, Mr Jaime is your Boss and
the only suspect here, he was throwing a bone
to see if you would catch it but you didn’t.”
”No, i do not think so. Can you tell me the
time exactly Gareth made this statement
though?”
”Er” there was a pause at the other end ”Late
hours between 10 and 11 pm, then this
morning he restates it.
”Gareth had to restate it, was there any news
about the fire?”
”He said it was a tiny fire that didn’t nee-d fire
services or something like that”
”Has it been reported?”
”He said it was a little fire” Adam shakes his
head ”This does not make any sense. And
Steve?”
”Steve, hasn’t been around all morning..” Came
the voice.
Adam checks his time ”He shouldn’t be on
parole duties, or is he?”
”He has been taken off the case, Gareth
notified the district yesterday that he was off
the Case because he nee-ded him to tackle
some other warlord smuggling girls into the
city and says he would find another officer to
deal with the Mayor’s son case, some
gibberish like that”
Adam frowns, remembering his conversation
with Steve , why did he not mention that he
was off the case, unless at that time he met
him at the bar, he was still leg de-ep in the
case. Adam ru-bs his jaw , something didn’t
feel right.”As of last night, i could swear Steve had the
report on him and because i didn’t want to
make a scene, i didn’t push for it knowing that
by morning , it would be laid out on the table
for the cops to tackle and narrow it down to
the actual killer and right not you are telling me
that Gareth said the reports got torched in the
lab? ”
”Yes, he said it happened late afternoon”
”But i saw Steve around 8:pm and he definitely
sounded sure”
”So someone is lying!”
”Ping me Steve’s location, i nee-d to have a talk
with him”
”Ghost”
”What, how long?”
”This morning, i told you, he hasn’t been in
since morning.”
”Have you checked?”
”Dude, from my cubicle and my eyes
everywhere, i can see even when the devil
walks in. No one knows where he is, they
nee-ded him for an early morning drill operation
but the fool is not in, and they tried pinging his
location but it’s ghost..”
Now Adam stands up ”When a police officer
ghosts his location, it’s because he wants to
be somewhere he don’t want people knowing”
”You think he is up to something, doing shady
things, illegal things?”
Adam ru-bs his jaw ”Steve is not like that, he is
one of the few good ones…look, whenever he
pops up, ping it to me, i have to go do
something for the Boss..put your head down
and coordinate those boys to keep searching
…Miss Alexander’s attacker may sli-p and pop
up.”
”Alright”
”Thanks Man, i owe you”
”Yes, plenty. You know we, a few of us don’t
believe that shit that he did kill that woman,
good thing you alerted me about what’s
happening, tell boss we got him covered”
”Yes, would do”
Line dies, Adam is lost in thought.
He would go check on the Wellingtons and then
he would find Steve. Something does not feel
right.
”Sir, you are not eating?” The Chef observes as
he was already close to the door
”Later, tell Mr Jaime i left already incase he
asks” Adam was out the door .
*
Fear grips Christine as her eyes darts to the
gun Kennedy shows her, she saw his finger
care-ss the trigger.
”Don’t even think of screaming, before that
sound comes out of your mouth you would hit
the floor with a thud and it’s a silencer, they
wouldn’t hear a thing, your securities. So dumb
those ones, just because they saw me with the
lady of the house, your mother once they think
it’s okay to let me in when i spin a good yarn”
He smiles ”So, why am i here Christine, i think
we should have that talk now shall we?”
Her eyes darts to the gate ”I told you, you
would be dead before you know it, invite me
and have your staff serve me tea, been too
busy thinking alot i didn’t have nothing to it”
”Christine, who is at the door?” A voice was
heard behind them
”Ahh, Mrs Barlow…” Kennedy smiles and
covers his gun ”I stopped by to say Hi and
look who i ran into, i didn’t realize that Miss
Christine , this beauty was your daughter” He
smiles at the woman behind Christine, she
walks to them
”Oh, she is an angel that one, do come in ,
Christine, where are your manners, allow the
gentleman to come in”
Christine steps aside, Kennedy grabs her hands
and pulls her with him
”Do what do we owe this visitation, i thought
since you were done with the Mayor you would
be back to work”
”Well, Mr Kelvin ask that i stay awhile, just to
make sure all is well down here”
”Yes Kelvin, he is a caring man. He and the
Mayor are good friends” She stares at his hand
holding unto her daughter
”I didn’t know you knew my daughter and so
close?”
Anderson notice her observing his hand to
Christine’s, he smiles ”Yeah we are such close
friends aren’t we Christine, we met something
out of states and hit it off, and then imagine
my surprise to come down to this city and met
her again, it was joyous”
Her mother has a questioning brow up ”Are
you both? But you look too old to have ..i
mean Christine?” She looks at her daughter
”We are not anything, Mother, would you
excuse us for a minute, and kindly ring up the
chef to prepare something delicious for our
guest”
”No Mrs Barlow, i am fine, but i would do well
to speak to your daughter, matters of the
heart” he smiles
She stares at them, ”But what about Jaime,
have you finally let go? Oh, in as much as i
would be happy to see that you have let the
feelings you have for him go and allow him to
be happy, i also want you to be happy not to
settle for anyone, no offence Mr Kennedy
but…”
He laughs ”No taken, but the heart wants what
it wants does it not my beauty?” He raises her
hands to his li-ps and ki-sses it, Christine tenses
”I lost her once, this time i am all in, all in” he
smiles
”Oh..well, you are a big girl Christine but..” she
sighs ” But you i ha-rdly know Mr Kennedy”
”In due time”
”Very well, let me give you both some privacy
while i ensure the table is set” she walks away
”Tell me what the hell you want so you can
leave my home you bastard” she hisses as
soon as her mother had gone.
”What i want is that woman Alexander, and you,
Jimmy and you are not making it possible for
me to get what i want”
”We do not know where that witch is!”
Whamp!!
Christine holds her face in shock,
”I told you before, no one has a right to speak
ill of her, no one”
Christine blinks back tears ”You bastard, i will
kill you! You dare touch me, hit me?” Shock
viBr@tes throu-ghher body
”And i would it again, hell i intend to do much
worse. 24 hours elap-sed hours ago and i am
still here and no Alexander, i am not happy, my
window of escape is narrowing me down. I
nee-d to leave before i am found out and i told
you, if i am found, so would all of you. Now, i
nee-d her like breathe to life. Even Jimmy is
avoiding my calls, like he isn’t scared i can
ruin him? I just nee-d to whisper to the right
ears about his involvement and he is gone,
literally. Look, words on the streets have it that
the primaries for the Mayor’s company
presidential election comes up in the
morning..here is what would happen, if i don’t
get Alexander before then…i would ensure the
whole world knows what really happened that
day and whose plan it was to nib Miss
Alexander. So, you should tell Jimmy i would
be there…if i don’t get her today. And after
tomorrow, it would be raining blood and yours
seems to be more fetching at the moment. I
know where you live, i see your mother, pretty
lady is caring and stuff, i would try to make
her death painless, but you wouldn’t be so
lucky, and Jimmy, i would make it so painful
he would wish he never met me…and then i
would go on and find that Jaime and i would
continue until i get her”
”Why is she so important,” she blinks
”I like her, i want her and no one gets away
from me , no one” He gets up, touching her
face, she slap-s his hands away, he grabs it
”Tonight, if i don’t get good news tonight, no
one would be safe” he squee-zes her face ti-ght
and then walks away. ”Don’t think of screaming
and you know you cannot report me to the
police, see how narrow your situation is?” he
laughs exiting throu-ghthe door.
She counts to five and then rushes to the door,
she saw him driving away throu-ghthe gate.
She rushes up stairs and grabs her phone, her
hands shaking ”Pick up Jimmy, pick up!!!!”
*
The Phone viBr@tes inside his pocket, he
ignores it. His eyes not leaving his face
”I asked what you are doing here?”
Steve stares at the Mayor , Gem and then back
at Jimmy, he puts the envelop back into his
pocket. ”I was in the neighborhood and
stopped by to check on the Mayor”
”You have no right to ask who comes and
leaves Jimmy, this is my house and i should
be asking you why you are here” Jacob steps
forward
”What do you have in that envelop Steve?”
”What envelop Sir?” Steve asks
Jacob frowns ”He said something about the
forensics reports and the Chief of police just
called me to tell me that there was a fire in the
lab and they couldn’t get the report”
Steve is surprised ”But..i gave the report to-”
he trails off as it dawns on him. Now it made
sense, it made perfect sense.
Last night he had been the one sent to pick up
the reports at the Lab and Gareth, his boss had
insisted that it was sealed and untou-ched till it
got to him, he had been curious why but he
didn’t question it knowing that by right it would
be given to his department to peruse and narrow
down the attacker so they can clear the case
soon.
But Gareth had told him not to go back to the
station but to hang around at the bar and he
would come get it. While he sat down waiting,
thoughts went though his head. He was
tempted to open but thought against it.
Then Gareth’s call had come in again ”Mr
Jimmy would come pick it up, i hope you didn’t
open it” Then his curiosity had peaked.
Why was he not taking it to the district, why
send him alone to pick up the reports and why
telling him that Mr Jimmy, who he really does
not like because of his sour attitude was
coming to get it. Why? What does Jimmy have
to do with this?
Yes! Jimmy seems to be in the close circle
with the Mayor and one of the aspirants for the
seat, but he was no detective, nor was he the
one spearheading the case..so why send him to
get it and telling him to be discreet?
It didn’t make any sense.
That was when he decided. He went outside,
got another envelop, went into a geek shop,
asked them to customize it to sooth a forensic
enveloped reports with seal as the one he
carried. Then he had gone back to the bar, and
waited. When Adam had walked in asking
questions, he had figured he was being Adam,
protective of the man he was playing
bodyguard for.
But when Jimmy walked in, the way he spoke
and asked that he get lost literally when he
asked his own questions..then his antenna went
up. Giving him the wrong envelop never felt
certain then, now it did.
He had gone home after then, opened the
reports, and then he saw the reason why Jimmy
was concerned about it.
And he knew he had to let the Mayor know, and
fast.
”No Sir, what i meant was that i came to see
how you are doing and to tell you that we are
working ha-rd to investigate and-”
”But you were going to show us something
where you not?” Gem steps forward pointing at
the envelop he had sli-pped into his pocket,
Jimmy follows her hands,Steve shakes his
head ”No, you are mistaken Ma. I would be on
my way” he nods, ”Mr Mayor, Ma’am, ” he
turns to Jimmy ‘Mr Jimmy” then he makes his
way out of the room.
”What are you doing here Jimmy ?”
”Hold that thought father” Jimmy says turning
and following behind Steve, stepping out and
following him to his car
Steve opens his car and was about to sli-p in
when he heard him behind him
”What the fxxk did you come here to do, and
what’s in that envelop?”
Steve turns to him ”I told you already, i came
to-”
”Shut up!! Since when is the Mayor and you
chummy buddies? i won’t repeat myself, what
are you doing here and what’s in the envelop?”
Steve sighs looking around, securities were
positioned in every corner , he smiles ”What
are you going to do Jimmy..maim me?”
”What the hell is that supposed to mean?”
”It means sir, you know what’s in that reports
don’t you”
”Speak English!”
”Your prints are a 99.9% on it. And then i did
some more investigations, i hear you both had
a bad run in the first time she showed up in
public with the Mayor’s son. Eye witness says
you were all fired up by the woman who didn’t
take your bullshit, and then the recent event-
another eye witness claimed she saw you
manhandle her in pas-sing, ..”
Jimmy smiles ”You think i had something to
do with her death? 99.9% finger prints on the
door handle?”
”Who said anything about the door handle”
Steve smiles ”But thank you, i wonder..where
did you bury her body? Because with this
evidence and what you just said, it’s enough to
tell that Jaime Lockswire was set up..and i
would inform the mayor.”
Jimmy steps forward ”Give me the reports!” he
folds his fist
”Why? So you can get rid of it?. And come to
think of it, you didn’t open that report last night
if not you would have realized that it was
empty, fake. I have the original reports, and a
few other evidence here too. So, i would advice
that you come in and we would take it up from
here .”
”Let me give you an advice..give it to me and
you would live”
”You are threatening an officer of the law?”
”One who would die foolishly if he doesn’t give
it to me” he reaches out for Steve’s pocket,
Steve hits his hands away. ”Maybe, i should
just tell them, the Mayor and his wife already”
he made to leave, Jimmy grabs his arms ”You
do not know what i am capable of do you?”
”Let go!”
”Do you have a family Steve, kids, lover?”
Steve pauses ”What does that mean?”
”It means that you should get them coffins,
because i would ensure none of them is still
alive by tonight. But if you give me that
envelop…i would take it easy on you”
”You touch my family, you are a dead man”
Jimmy laughs ”Give it?” he hisses
”No! Now let go off me-”
”Is there a problem here?” Three men walk
towards them, dressed in black suits and dark
shades.
Jimmy drops his hands and then steps back
”None, we were just having a talk, right?”
Steve smiles opening his car and entering, he
drives off in another minute.
”Damnit!!” he curses un-der his breath
”Sir, is everything okay?”
”Yes yes, fine, was just having a talk”
They nod disappearing back to where they
came from. Jimmy walks to his car, enters
and zooms off to the direction Steve went,
speeding.
*
There’s part 2
TO BE CONTINUED…