Deep Secrets

Episode 4

Leroy was quick and methodical in his
search for Eve and Stanley. He was
determined to find them no matter where
they were in the hospital. Thankfully the
hospital management had tucked Eve and
Stanley away in some room the emergency
ward, it will take Leroy some searching to
find them. While Leroy looked around from
ward to ward, he glanced regularly at his
watch; the hospital was waking up for the
day’s work. He knew it won’t be long
before someone would find the policeman
whose body he dumped in the restroom,
unknown to him, the body had already
been found. Far behind him policemen
searched frantically through the hospital,
hoping to find him before he would take
out Eve and Stanley. Inside a room in the
emergency ward, the three doctors taking
care of Eve and Stanley had woken up.

Around the couple they stood, observing
them with happy faces. They were glad to
see the improvement they had made.

“They are going to live through this, thank
God,” said one of the doctors. “We are on
the brink of stardom in this city for saving
this couple. The news out there is that they
are dead, imagine what would happen
when people get know we managed to
bring them back to life,” the most senior of
the three doctors said with a grin on his
face. “Perhaps we should release the video
of how we worked for hours to save them
to a major broadcasting organization and
have them make a reality show out of it.

The public are already in love with the
couple. At Queen’s square, they are
dropping flowers in respect to them,” the
youngest of the doctors said.

The three doctors exchanged looks,
seeming to like the idea of making a reality
show out of how they saved Eve and
Stanley. By now Leroy had made it into the
emergency ward. Under his breath, he
cursed himself for not to have
concentrated his search on finding the
emergency ward, he should have known
that Eve and Stanley would be there. When
people ran into him, they looked at him
curiously. No one could remember the last
time they saw a policeman as well dressed
as he was. Taking his time, Leroy looked
from patient to patient, searching the faces
of those in the ward. When he drew closer
to a young female patient, whom he
thought looked like Eve; he pulled out his
gun and pointed it at her. That was his
mistake. The sight of a police officer
pointing his gun at a patient on a hospital
bed, threw the patients into panic. Their
shouts drew the attention of nurses and
non-medical staff to the ward. When
people ran into the large hospital room
where the patients were, they saw Leroy
holding a gun at a patient. Sadly none of
them knew what was going on in the
hospital, the police officers at duty had
chosen to keep what was happening to
themselves so not to cause stampede.

The sight of a policeman holding his gun
at a patient was unsettling for the nurses
and staff of the hospital, they joined the
hysterical shouts. Leroy could see he had
made a mistake, the lady wasn’t Eve.

He had to lower his gun and try to calm the
crowd in the room. Inside the small room
where the three doctors where with Eve
and Stanley, they heard the frantic shouts.

The youngest doctor yanked the door
open to see what was happening; the
oldest of them pulled him back, but by then
he had already opened the door. Leroy
turned and saw him before he shut the
door again. In a quick move, Leroy fired
two shots in the direction of the young
doctor; the bullets went through the door
and ricocheted off an infusion stand
before lodging into the wall. The three
doctors panicked; they could tell someone
had been sent to finish off Eve and Stanley.

They rushed forward, locked the door and
piled sofas on it to stop the assassin from
gaining entry into the room. Leroy tried to
open the door, but could not, so he fired
more shots at it, kicked hard at it and it still
would not open. He had to shatter the
glass windows by the door and fired in
shot into the room randomly.

Thankfully the doctors had moved Eve and
Stanley away from their beds and lay them
on the floor in a corner of the room. All of
them lay on the floor and prayed for help.

Leroy was beside himself, he was angry he
could not gain access into the room. The
patients and staff of the hospital behind
him had fled from the room. Those who
could not because they were too ill to
move cried in fear. He had to point his gun
at them to shut up, and then tried once
again to force the door open. This time the
door creaked a little open, he stepped back
to lunge a heavy kick on the door and
suddenly went down to the floor as the
sound of gunshots filled the air. Seconds
later, there was eerie silence in the room
as Leroy lay down on the floor bleeding.

From the door a squad of policemen
moved in with their guns pointing at
Leroy.

12: 15 pm, Ocean Grey Oil & Gas
Company – Steve’s Office
Steve, one of the six friends of Stanley is
typing a message on his laptop computer.

A stranger had sent him a nude picture of
him and some unidentified lady. He was
scared stiff, he was randy just like his
other friends, but he could not tell who the
woman next to him in the picture was.

In frenzy he typed, “Who are you? How did
you get that picture? That cannot be me! I
don’t know the lady in the picture!” The
person on the other end typed, “That is
certainly you. The lady in the picture is my
wife and I am going to return the favour.”
Steve was scared. He typed, “What are you
going to do? Believe me I don’t know the
lady! There might be a mix up
somewhere.” “Hahaha! You sound scared.
I was only joking. The picture was mocked
up with Photoshop,” the stranger replied.
“But how did you get a nude picture of me
in bed?” Steve asked anxiously. “How
would you like this?” was the stranger’s
reply. Steve asked, “How would I like
what?” A nude picture of Steve’s wife, lying
on a bed with a smile on her face, was the
stranger’s last message before he went
offline.

Steve’s mouth hung wide open. The beat
of his heart was so loud it drummed out
every other sound in his office. Feverishly
he picked his phone and dialed his wife’s
number. “Hello honey, where are you?” “I
am in my office. Is anything wrong?” Lizzy,
Steve’s wife asked. “Where are the kids?”
“What is wrong with you? Where would
the kids be by this time of the day? Tell me
what is going on?” Stanley pondered how
to explain what was going on to his wife.

“Are you there Steve?” Lizzy asked. “Yes…I
am here. Baby, someone just sent me a
nude picture of you in a bed; and the bed
is not ours.” Lizzy went cold with fear.

“Baby, did you hear me?” “I…I did. But
how did this person get a nude picture of
me in a bed?” “Calm down, I am not trying
to accuse of infidelity. You like to strip
down when you are at home, especially
when the kids are not around; tell me
when you attended a business conference
in Sun City, did you strip down in your
hotel room?” “Oh my God!! I don’t
remember having clothes on when I was
in my hotel room!”

“Did you take any pictures in your hotel
room?” Lizzy went silent momentarily and
began to sob. “Hey! Hey! Baby, stop crying!
I am not accusing you of any wrong. From
the picture I have here, I can tell you did
not take it yourself, so in Sun City, did
anyone help you take pictures of yourself?”
Lizzy went silent once more. “I haven’t got
much time to work on this case! Tell me,
who took the pictures for you?!!” Steve
yelled. “A maid… a maid in the hotel I
lodged in. She saw me naked and
commented about how great my body
was, and so I asked her to help me take
some photos of me. I swear by God, I did it
for you.” “Where are the photos you took
right now?” “They are still my Sony camera
at home.” “Go get them for me now! Make
some excuses and leave your office. I am
waiting for you in my office.” Lizzy didn’t
have the time to find an excuse for leaving
her work place. She ran out of her office
and went straight into the elevator.

Minutes later she was on the road
speeding home in her car. A few blocks
away from her house, two shooters with
automatic rifles waited in a black Mercedes
SUV.

2:25 pm, Chucks’ house
Chucks one of Stanley’s six friends was at
home. The shooting of Eve and Stanley had
left him jaded. He had become wary of
leaving his house. He could not wait to get
some information about the shooting.

Already without telling his other friends, he
had hired a private detective to look into
the shooting. He and his friends had done
lots of bad stuffs together; he wanted to
know who might be after them. The idea
of waiting till someone comes and blows
his brains off did not appeal to him. A
knock on his door had him flying into the
air in shock. He dashed to his bar and
removed a loaded automatic handgun
from behind a collection of drinks.

Meanwhile the knock continued. Picking
his steps like a cat, he drew closer to the
door and asked, “Who is that?” “Chucks, it
is me.” The voice was that of Bimpe one of
the six friends. Chucks had hardly opened
the door, when she leapt in, kicked the
door shut and grabbing Chucks by the
waist, she wrestled him to the floor. She
was strong like an ox, Chucks tried hard to
keep his clothes on, but she ripped them
off and hurriedly undressed herself. The
sight of her naked body left chucks weak.

Lamely he tried to give the reason they
should not have s-x that moment. “Bimpe,
my wife is returning to the city today.

Please go meet your husband.” “My
husband is worse than a dead man. He
doesn’t know what to do with me!” Like a
ravenous wolf, she overcame him and
began to satisfy her depravity.

4: 16 pm, Harding Street
Mayo had left a bank and was walking to
his car when his phone rang; the call was
from an unknown number. He picked it
anyway, “Hello who is this?” “Mayo, the
bitches are dead. Emilia wants you to come
in for a celebration.” “Who are you? Who
are the bitches? Who is Emilia?” “The
bitches are Eve and Stanley. Aren’t you
happy for that?” Mayo could not stir a limb.

He went numb for moments before his
hands and feet began to shake. Like a man
suffering Parkinson disease, he shook
toward his car.

5:30 pm, Briggs hospital
The hospital was slowly recovering from
the shooting which had taken place in it
earlier in the day. Eve and Stanley were
grateful they had survived the ordeal. They
had not begun to speak freely, but every
now and again, Eve would raise two
fingers to say she was fine. Stanley on his
part would move his eyes about and
manage a smile. Their beds had to be
brought closer to each other to help them
connect physically. They would stretch
their hands and hold each other’s fingers
for some moments. That evening, while the
patients and staff in the hospital were
happy that the sad events which happened
in the morning were over, for no reason at
all, the policemen in the hospital began to
leave in groups. The hospital management
didn’t like that and so began to make calls
to have the policemen redeployed to their
hospital. While they were at it, am armed
group of sixteen men broke into the
hospital and took Eve, Stanley and the
three doctors who were responsible for
their treatment away.

Gan gan!