FACELESS?
DEMON?
(A Life For A Life)
©️ Chidimma Christine✍️
EPISODE 65?…..
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“Come with me sir…..” One of the guards said ushering me in, I followed him and he directed me to the same dark room I had meet Rhea the first day.
“I wonder what he is up to” I said swallowing ha-rd , I walked in alone only to see Rhea tied to a chair…. She was bleeding.
I wanted to run towards her but st©pped, that would make chief Varna suspect me and that won’t be good for me at all.
“Welcome Son…..” Chief Varna said behind me, I turned, he was holding a wh!pon his hand.
“Good Morning Dad….” I said with a bow.
“You are here…. Congrats once more” He said with a smile.
I smiled getting really impatient, he walked towards a table behind Rhea and took a h0t iron.
He walked to Rhea, “You are not re-ady to talk yet” He asked but Rhea didn’t say a word.
“Okey…. He replied raising the h0t iron up.
“Wait…..” I st©pped him, like seriously he can’t use that on her.
He turned looking at me superstitiously, “Is anything the matter” He asked.
“Nothing….. I was just wondering what crime she committed that deserved such beating, I thought she was your mistress” I said.
“Good Question son…. It seems I haven’t introduced you both properly” He said dropping the h0t iron.
“Meet Rhea Phogat the only surviving heir of the phogats family…. Rhea meet me son in-law and heir, Rocky Devi” Chief Varma said with a smile.
I stared at Rhea…. She didn’t find it funny at all, she was looking at me with so much hatred.
“Is that her crime” I asked now staring at Chief Varma.
“Off course not, you see… Rhea was her fathers favorite child so am sure he must have told him where he kept their family treasure” He said.
“Family treasure…..” I said staring at Rhea.
“How come she never told me about this…. Even father, he didn’t tell me their was any family treasure”.
“What makes you think she knows where the treasure is” I asked.
“She said it herself….. That’s the only reason I kept her alive all this years”.
“So…. You want to kill her now” I asked.
Chief Varma stared at me and smiled…. “Come with me…. I have something to show you” he said leaving the room.
I stared at Rhea, I wished there was something I could do but not yet…. She just have to stay strong for a while.
I turned and fellowed chief Varma… We walked to his room, he locked the door and I bec@m£ scared.
He walked to his book shelf and raised The first book up and a bu-tton c@m£ out.
I swallowed ha-rd watching him just then I remember what Andris had told me about her fathers secret chamber….. By any chance is that what he wants to show me.
He pressed the bu-tton and the book shelf turned upside down revea-ling another thing.
“Input pas-s code plea-se”
“567430” He said and it beeped, just then I heard a very loud noise and turned to the direction of the noise only to see the ground open.
“Come with me…” Chief Varma said walking down… I followed suit, it was actually a secret stairs.
“You are the first person am letting in here…. I just hope you don’t betray me” I heard him say.
“Indeed…. After you betrayed my father and now trying to steal my family treasure”
“I won’t….” I said.
We walked down and saw a door, he pressed it and a f!nger print pattern c@m£ out… He placed his hand on it and the door opened immediately.
“Welcome to my secret world” he said.
I smiled…. Finally, he showed me the path, Andris was right after all.
I used my eyes to scan the whole place…. There was pictures on the wall and alot of arranged things on the chief.
My family picture was also on the wall and father, mother and my picture was marked bad with a red ink aside from Rhea.
“What’s this place” I asked pretending not to know.
“My secret Chamber…. This is where I hide all my secrets, on the wall are pictures of people I have delt with…. People I have killed and still planing to kill”
“Wow…”.
“Yes… Wow, get used to it… You will continue from where I st©pped, now that you and my daughter is expecting a child, I thought I should show you this”. He said.
“the shelf… What are on it” I asked.
“Do¢v-ments of all my dark businesses…. Investigation information of the people I have killed…. And much more” he said.
“I hope I become an expect like you” I said.
“You will….. The drugs would be coming in soon, once you do the business well with no trace I will register your f!ngerprint and tell you the master code pas-sword” he said.
“What’s the master code pas-sword” I asked.
“It opens all the door here its a strong and powerful pas-sword” he said.
I smiled…. I just have to do the drug business well… And all this would be mine, am sure the evidence in this room would be enough to put him behind bars for ever”.
“What are you going to do about Rhea then” I asked.
“I don’t know…. That girl is far too stubborn,” he said.
“I can help you get the information you nee-d from her” I said not sure if I was actually doing the right thing.
“You would….” he asked.
“Yeah…. Since you trusted me well enough to bring me here, I see no reason why I won’t help you…. Just give me five days and every information is yours” I said.
“Five days… That’s a short time but let me just trust you…. I would s£nd her to you tomorrow” he said.
“Thanks dad” I said with a bow.
“The address would be s£nt to your email…. Some where secure” he said as we headed out of his secret chamber.
FACELESS?
DEMON?
(A Life For A Life)
©️ Chidimma Christine✍️
EPISODE 66?…..
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“Five days…. Do you think Rhea will tell you anything about the family treasure” Mrs Blake screamed.
“That’s why I c@m£ to you…. You have to help me talk to Rhea…. If she tell me the truth about the secret treasure…. Siddarth knows a blacksmith that can forge fake treasures and we would deceive Him”.
Mrs Blake exhaled de-eply staring at me “I doubt if Rhea will buy that” she said.
“We still have to try…”.
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I slumped into the be-d feeling very tired… I closed my eyes to rest a bit but the picture of Rhea suffering and that of chief Varma’s secret chamber kept coming into my vision.
I sighed getting up “I hope this goes well”.
My stomach grumbled… I gro-an ed in pain, I haven’t eaten anything since morning and the worms in my stomach are alre-ady protesting badly against it.
I walked towards the kitchen to make myself lunch since Andris wasn’t home and Shaina was the last person I wanted to see.
I cracked the kitchen door open only to see Shaina cooking…. I scoffed, what does she know she’s cooking.
“Hey….” I said stepping my feet on the floor.
She turned and stared at me and turned again without saying anything.
“prepare noodles am very hungry” I said ignoring her attitude.
I left the kitchen and went back to my room waiting patiently for her to finish.
My phone beeped, it was a text from Siddarth “The blacksmith is re-ady….. Have Chief Varma s£nt the address yet” I re-ad.
I quic-kly checked my inbox…. He s£nt it some hours ago, I quic-kly forwarded it to Siddarth and Mrs Blake.
I got tired of waiting and walked back to the kitchen but I didn’t see Shaina nor my noodles.
“What the heck….” I said and headed to her room, she was there busy with her nail.
?SHAINA?
I heard footsteps coming towards my room, I knew it was Rocky…. Ma’am Andris had went to the grocery sto-re with Olly even if she was around, she would never walk that way likewise Olly.
I took a de-ep breath expecting the worst to happen, to be sincere am alre-ady feed up with Rocky and whatever revenge he is taking….
If he can’t feel in love on his own accord, I have to f0rç£ him to do so and am going to start by telling him everything I knew about his identity.
The door cracked open and his voice followed suit “Hey…. My food” he said.
I breathed in and out before I chuckled giving him the “Meaning” kind of look.
His face squee-zed I guessed he noticed the look on my face.
“I hope you remember am your boss so I have all the whole right to sack you” I threatened.
“That is if I don’t sack you first” I snapped eyeing him…. I glanced at him, he was astonished, it was written all over him… “Good For him” I thought.
“Meaning??” he asked and I scoffed.
“Really Shaina…. Don’t worry, you would have alot of confession to make to Andris” He said and turned to leave but I quic-kly replied him before he left.
“And you would have alot of questions to answer and confession to make to Andris and Chief Varma”.
He thinks he is the only one that knows how to threaten people.
He stared at me for a while, I returned the stare…. We spent five minutes having a staring competition, before I knew what was happening he gr@bb£d me ti-ghtly.
“Let go of me” I said forcing myself out of his grib but I lost control and tried to fall down but Rocky held me.
I opened my eyes only to see him close to me, my heart was beating extremely fast, fas-ter than it has ever beaten.
We were in a bridal style position and it really made me extremely uncomfortable.
The staring competition started again, we stared at each other for close to ten minutes before the door cracked open.
We dis£ngaged looking surprisely at Olly.
“Go…od After…noon sir” she stuttered, I guess she was still surprise on what she saw.
Rocky didn’t say a word and walked out on us….
My heart kept pounding and beat, I tried the breath in and out exercise but I didn’t st©p beating.
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I hurriedly felt the room, my heart was beating ha-rd and I think Shaina and Olly must have heard it beat too.
I tried calming myself down that I didn’t look at where I was going, the next thing I collided with Andris… Her purse feel down ex-posing everything inside.
“Can’t you see….” She screamed picking her purse hurriedly.
I used my eyes to scan everything inside and my eyes caught something quite unusual….. a small ch!p.
“Sorry….” I said bending down to help her pick the things in her bag but before I reached for the ch!p, she alre-ady took the ch!pand putted it inside her bag.
“Where are you off to in a hurry” She asked staring at me.
“Outside…. I have an urgent call to make” I said
“And you…. Where are you coming from” I asked.
“Uhhh…. I went to the grocery sto-re with Olly” She said nervously.
Yeah… I knew she was nervous, she hesitated before answering the question.
“Okey…” I said and she left…. I stood there staring at her.
“There is something really fishy going on here, Andris is up to some mischieve and I must find out”.
To Be Continued……..