Deep Secrets

Episode 5

Lizzy honked her car repeatedly as she
pulled up in front of her house and waited
for her gateman to open the gate for her.

The two shooters with automatic rifles in a
black Mercedes SUV, slowly began to drive
toward Lizzy, the gate to her house swung
open and she drove in hurriedly. Jumping
out of her car, she ran into her house and
scaled the staircase in a flight. Outside, the
gateman curiously watched the two men
in a black Mercedes SUV as he closed the
gate. The shooters had their gaze fixed in
his direction, they didn’t look like those he
had seen before. Lizzy rummaged through
her wardrobe and found the Sony camera.

She sat on the bed and went through the
pictures she took in that hotel room in Sun
City, there were some she would not like
her husband to see. She had snapped a
few pictures with some nudist men and
women. There was nothing more to it, but
if Steve were to see her nude with those
nudists, he would think there was more
that happened in Sun City than Lizzy was
willing to let out. Finding the pictures, she
erased them and bolted out of her
bedroom. Lizzy had developed her bent for
nudity back in her university days, when all
her friends, both male and female, raved
about how curvy her body was. Now
which seemed harmless might ruin her
marriage.
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Harding Street
Mayo was still in his car shaking. What the
mystery caller said about Eve and Stanley
had left him stunned. He had recalled who
Emilia was, about a year earlier, they had
spent a few weeks together in Accra. Mayo
had for long forgotten the things he said
in anger during the weeks they spent
together. Now he must find Emilia and
convince her that he did not mean them. If
Emilia would not listen to him, then he will
have to kill her to stop what had begun.

Mayo pulled himself together and drove
off.

7:28 pm, Stella’s House
Stella was in the kitchen cooking up a
storm for her husband and children, the
words of Mayo the last time she spent time
with him at Eden Crest Suit had left an
impression on her. She had grown up
dreaming a perfect marriage, but all she
had done since she got married was to
jump from man to man, doing things she
had thought she was incapable of. Mayo
had told her she was going to have a front
row in hell; that was too unnerving for her.

She loved her husband and children, but
somehow she could not stop her
unbridled desire for s-x outside of
marriage. She had tried a few times but
failed woefully. While she cooked, there
was sadness all over her face. Her husband
who stood and watched her from the door
could tell something was wrong. He came
from behind and put his hands around her
waist and slowly worked them up her
chest and fondled her amorously. “What is
wrong, you don’t look happy? Have I done
something to offend you?” he asked. With
his hands still running amok all over her
body, Stella quivered and whispered for
him to stop. She felt guilty for being loved
by an honest and committed man as her
husband was. Her husband would not
stop, unlike her usual self who would have
locked the kitchen door and pulled off her
clothes, rather she peeled away from him
and left the kitchen.

Her husband was surprised; Stella was a
d–n s-x maniac. He knew that and
somehow like her for it. For her to reject
him meant something was wrong. Eager
to find out what was wrong, he followed
her into the children’s room. Stella was
standing before the pictures of their two
children, she seemed to have her interest
in their last child, a three-year-old boy.

Mayo had claimed he might be his father.

She didn’t like that. Mayo was only good
for s-x; he cannot be the father of her son.

Right there she decided to do something
about it. She removed her phone from her
hip pocket to make a call and just then a
message flew into her phone. While she
read it, her husband who stood by the
door watched her closely. Stella’s face was
so much riddled with fear that one would
have thought she had seen a ghost. The
message read, “Mayo is going to kill you all.
He has just found out from Emilia that
there is a tape about the sexual orgies you
all often have together. He knows why Eve
and Stanley were shot.” Stella did not know
who Emilia was and had not heard of her.

Concerning the tape, she had no clue
about it. Without her consent, hot tears ran
down her face. Stella’s husband drew
closer and asked, “What is it baby? Is
someone blackmailing you?” Stella was
shaken down to her bones by her
husband’s use of the word blackmail.

11:00 pm, A Mansion in the City
Eve and Stanley were on hospital beds in a
room which had just a ceiling fan and a
light bulb on the wall and had no
windows. The two of them were
deliberately knocked out with drugs
administered to them when they were
taken from Briggs Clinic. Eve looked around
the room and felt something was odd
about it. She turned and looked at Stanley,
he wasn’t moving. She looked hard at him
to observe if he was breathing. She wasn’t
sure he was. Her heart began to beat fast.
She tried to get up from the bed and then
found her feet were chained to the bed.

She almost fainted with fear. Raising her
voice just a little she called at Stanley,
“Baby! Baby! Get up baby!” Stanley did not
move or answer her. At this point she was
getting beside herself; she whispered to
herself, “This is not the way it should end.

Please baby don’t die on me. Please.” Tears
welled up in her eyes. Determined to get to
Stanley, she dragged her bed closer to
Stanley, using her legs which were
shackled to the bed.

12:34 am, Steve’s Bedroom
Clara and Steve and sitting on the bed
naked. They had just been rattled by the
message Stella forwarded to them. As
though their phones could explain the
message, they stared at them in shock.

Over and over again, they read the
message Stella had sent, “Mayo is going to
kill you all. He has just found out from
Emilia that there is a tape about the sexual
orgies you all often have together. He
knows why Eve and Stanley were shot.”

Turning to Steve, Clara asked, “Steve, do
you know who Emilia is?” “No, I don’t.”
“How about the tape, do you know
anything about it?” “I don’t,” he lied. “We
often made videos of ourselves together
making love, but they never make it out of
the room. If someone outside the seven of
us knows about the videos. Then one of us
is responsible for that… Christ! This is not
happening,” Clara said as she got out of
the bed and went into the bathroom to
clean herself up. While she was in the
bathroom, Steve placed a call to a friend of
his, a retired military officer, “Someone else
knows about the videos, who did you talk
to about it.” “I didn’t talk to anyone about
it,” replied military officer. “Why do I feel
like you are lying?” “Because you don’t
know who to trust now. Believe me man, I
did not tell anyone about the videos.”

“Well, whether you did or not, some
woman called Emilia knows about the
video and she has told Mayo about it. Get
out of the city now. I will go under by
morning.” “Steve, how about your f**k
mate, did she make it?” “She is here. I will
fix her before I leave the city. She knows
the buyer; it won’t be long before she
figures out what this is all about.”

Steve got out of the bed, stark nude and
went over to his wardrobe and removed a
jackknife. Hiding it behind his back, he
went toward the bathroom. Clara was in
the shower with her hands around her
neck, thinking about what was happening
to them. Steve opened the door and
entered the bathroom. Clara saw him
coming, but had no reason to be afraid of
him. He stretched his left hand toward her
and she yielded her body to him thinking
he wanted them to have a round in the
shower. Just then, Steve’s phone rang in
the bedroom. He knew the ring tone was
assigned to a particular caller, he retreated
from the bathroom still hiding the
jackknife behind his back.

01:40 am, A Mansion in the City
Eve held Stanley’s body firmly in her hands,
hoping her touch would wake him from
death. While she cried over his body, the
door to their room creaked and opened
slowly. One of the doctors who treated
them at Briggs Clinic came into the room.

Another man with an AK 47 slung across
his shoulder followed behind him. Seeing
she had dragged her bed closer to
Stanley’s bed, the man with AK 47 yanked
her off Stanley’s bed and pushed her bed
back to its position. Eve fixed her gaze at
the doctor, to make out what he was
saying with his eyes. He was saying
something to Eve by winking his eyes
repeatedly, but she wasn’t getting it.

Seeing Eve wasn’t getting his message, the
doctor gave up and turned to the man
with AK 47 and said, “If you want to find
whatever it is you want this man to give
you, you have to help me get him to a
proper hospital.” Eve looked from the
doctor to the gunslinger and yelled, “He is
dead! He is not breathing!” The man
holding the AK 47 rang an alarm on the
wall before bolting out of the room. Seeing
the man had left the room, the doctor
whispered to Eve, “Stanley is not dead, we
knocked him out with a drug. The people
holding you here are looking for
something, but someone else doesn’t want
whatever it is found. Whoever that is, is the
person who tried to kill you two. Keeping
acting like Stanley was dead. We will get
you out of here.” “Who are the we?”

“Those who want you and Stanley alive.

They called us while you were still in Briggs
Clinic.” The door jangled and some men
came into the room with the other two
doctors.