Deep Secrets

Episode 6

Lizzy got in her car and drove off. About
fifteen minutes away from her house she
noticed that a black Mercedes SUV was
following her. To be sure she was actually
being followed, she turned off into
another street and sped off. About ten
minutes later the black Mercedes SUV
showed up behind her. She could tell
whoever was in the SUV was following
her. She panicked and dialed her husband,
“Baby I am being followed by a black
Mercedes SUV. Did you send anyone to look
after me?” “No I did not. Are you sure you
are being followed?” Steve asked. “Since I
drove out of the house the black Mercedes
SUV has been following me. I have taken
several turns to lose it, yet it keeps
popping up behind me. I don’t know what
the driver’s game plan is. It is looking like
he wants me to lead them to someone.

Who did you say sent you the picture?” “A
stranger… this is what I want you to do.
Find the nearest police station around and
drive into it. Do you have the Sony
camera?” “Yes.” “Make sure no one takes it
from you.” “Okay, I will do that.”

A Day Later
Steve was in a car driving his four children
out of the city, since the last time he spoke
with his wife and asked her to drive into a
police station, he had not heard from her.

He was sure that whoever was following
his wife must have abducted her. He had
so much dirt to hide and for that could not
go to the police. His best option was to get
his children out of the city before coming
back for his wife. The stranger who sent
him the nude picture of his wife had not
responded to the several messages he sent
to him.

Three Days Earlier

Clara was still in the bathroom letting a
cold shower run through her body. She
was expecting that after Steve must have
finished with whoever called him, he
would return to join her in the bath. He
had mistaken Steve’s entry into the
bathroom for an intent to have s-x with
her in the bathroom. She had no clue he
actually came to kill her for what he feared
she knew. Clara had spent about thirty
minutes in the bath when she began to
wonder what was keeping Steve. She
called his name, “Steve!” There was no
response and so he called him again,
“Steve!” When Steve did not answer her
second call, she came out of the bathroom
to know what was wrong with him. There
was no Steve in the bedroom, his clothes
and laptop were gone. She had heard his
voice talking to someone over the phone,
but could not tell when he left the
bedroom. Shockingly there was a jackknife
on the bed, the very one with which Steve
was going to kill her. Clara could tell
something was wrong. She ran back into
the bathroom, dried her body, came out
and quickly dressed up. Taking her bag,
she took the jackknife she saw on the bed
and she sneaked out of Steve’s bedroom.

In the living room there was still no sign of
Steve. She dialed his number and it was
switched off.

She was almost going to have a panic
attack at this point. She remembered that
there was a back door Steve gave her key
to. She only made use of it whenever
Steve’s wife came home suddenly and was
going to catch the two of them in bed. She
searched her bag and found it. She had to
head back toward the bedroom so to use
the door. When she glanced at her
watched it was 1:55 am. She had never
been alone on the street by that time of
the night. Steve had invited her over
because his wife and children had gone to
see their relatives who had returned from
Germany. Quietly she inserted the key on
the door and opened it. When she stepped
out of the building, she turned and locked
the door. She measured the distance
between the building and the wall. She
must get to the small gate on the wall to
use it to exit the compound. In the past,
she had covered the distance in a flash, but
that night she was afraid. She did not
know who or what might be lurking in
Steve’s compound. She waited for some
minutes and listened for any sound
around, sure there was none, she bolted
toward the small gate. When she opened it,
she disappeared into the street. Steve was
the one who usually came to lock the gate
from inside.

A Mansion in the City

“This man is as good as dead! If we don’t
get him to a hospital, I doubt we will be
able to revive him!” One of the three
doctors said. The man holding an AK 47
rifle, cocked it and pointed it to the
doctor’s face and yelled, “Revive him here
or I blow your brains out!” “I am sorry,
there is nothing I can do for this man
without any medical equipment. If you
want to shoot me go ahead and do it,” the
doctor said digging his feet in. The man
holding an AK 47 rifle stared at the doctor
angrily and looked at his colleagues who
were also armed with assault rifles. One of
them called him aside, after a momentary
chat, the man came back to the doctor and
said, “I will let you and your colleague take
him to a hospital, but I will be keeping the
woman right here. She won’t be going
anywhere.” “Look at her, she is already
bleeding to death. She re-opened her
wounds trying to save her husband. I
doubt the man you are working for will be
happy when he finds out that you let the
two people who could have helped get
what it is he is looking for die under your
watch,” the doctor goaded him
psychologically, hopping he would fall for it
and let them leave also for the hospital
with Eve.

The doctor signaled to his two colleagues
and they lifted Stanley, put him on a
stretcher and hurried to the door. “Wait!

You can take her along, but if they escape
or anyone of them dies, I will hunt you
down and force you to kill your wife and
children to amuse me!” The AK 47 flinger
warned the doctor. Eve was unshackled
from the bed and was asked to follow the
doctors. Four armed men accompanied
them to a van and drove them to a
hospital. The doctors were careful to take
Stanley and Eve to the hospital which the
men who called them while they were still
at Briggs Clinic wanted them taken to.

About an hour later the doctors revived
Stanley. Eve’s wounds were also attended
to. Two of the four armed men were close
to keep an eye on the doctors to make
sure they did not invite the police or called
for any sort of help. While Eve and Stanley
were allowed to get some rest before
being taken back to their holding, one of
the doctors went into the restroom and
removed a phone from his underwear.

When he had switched it on, he dialed a
particular number and said the man on the
other end of the phone, “Eve and Stanley
are in the hospital now. You were very
right. What they want from Eve and Stanley
is a video. I understand someone
important is in the video, and from the
look of things there might be more than
one.”

“Doc, have you heard the name Mayo from
any of the men or from Stanley and Eve?”
“No, I haven’t. Who is that?” “Don’t worry
about it. The less you know the better. We
will storm the hospital in the next Seven
minutes. Make sure you keep Eve and
Stanley from harm’s way, we will come in
hot. There is a change of plan, once we
rescue Eve and Stanley we will leave them
in your care. You must make them trust
you and tell you all they know about the
videos.” “How about my family, are they
safe now?” “Yes, they are in Ghana now.”

“How about the families of my colleagues,
are they safe?” “Yes, they are.” The doctor
was forced to turn off his phone as a
result of a loud banging on the door.

“Doctor! What are you doing in there?! Did
I hear you talking to someone?!” One of
the AK 47 flingers demanded. “No! I wasn’t
talking to anyone one! I am having a runny
stomach!” “Open the door!” The man
outside demanded. The doctor panicked,
threw his phone into the toilet and flushed
it down. He stood up from the toilet and
went to open the door.

As soon as he opened the door, one of the
men holding them hostage pushed him
back into the toilet and asked him to strip
down. The doctor hesitated and he
smacked his gun butt across his face and
demanded, “Remove your clothes!”

Bleeding from the face, the doctor began
to undress. The man was careful to search
each piece of wear the doctor removed
from his body. He was sure he heard the
doctor talking to someone, he wanted to
find his phone. When he had searched all
the clothes the doctor removed from his
body and did not find any phone, he asked
him to dress up and began to look around
the restroom for any phone. When the two
of them stepped out of the restroom. He
found his colleague lying dead on the floor
with a gaping hole in his head. Before he
could raise his gun, a bullet went through
his head, leaving a hole the size of a baby’s
hand in it. The doctor behind him was
stunned as a splash blood covered his face.

A man wielding an assault gun menacingly
stepped into view and asked the doctor,
“Are you doctor Larry?” The doctor
nodded shaking terribly. An hour later, Eve,
Stanley and the three doctors were driven
into a mansion at the outskirts of the city.

12: 22 pm, Chucks’ Apartment
Bimpe, Chucks, Clara and Stella were in a
meeting. Clara was narrating her
experience of what happened in Steve’s
house. “When I came out of the bathroom,
I could not find Steve. He simply
disappeared. I only found this jackknife on
his bed. I haven’t been able to reach him
on the phone. His wife and children are
gone too. Do you think Mayo took them?”
“Clara, nobody knows what is happening.

But clearly we are all in a mess. The so
called video must have all of us in it. And so
far none of us has accepted he or she
made the video,” Bimpe replied. “The video
doesn’t just have all of us in it. There are
many more people in it, important people
and relatives of important people…”

Chucks explained. “But how did those
important people get into the video with
us? Haven’t we always had our orgies by
ourselves?” Bimpe asked. “The guy who
turned you inside out and had you
screaming for hours some months ago
was he one of us?” Stella asked, looking
like she was going to start a fight. “Oh! I
forgot,” Bimpe said and covered her face
as though she had just realized how much
a s-x maniac she was.

“Chucks, you sound like you know more
about the video, can you fill us in?” Clara
asked. “After Eve and Stanley were shot, I
became very troubled. Stanley is one of us
and whoever killed him in that manner
must have an axe to grind, I figured. So I
hired a detective to work on the case and
find out why our friends were shot. A few
days later he came back with a video clip, it
had most of us in it and some of the
people we often bring in from outside to
s-x with us. You know what we do, so
don’t be ashamed. There were some faces
in the video I still don’t remember when
they joined us. I have been told there are
many more videos. It is not just one. There
are perhaps two groups out there, they
are looking for the videos. One wants the
videos and those in them destroyed; while
another wants the videos as a weapon
against some people in it. If we don’t make
a move out of the city in the next few days,
we are sitting ducks. They are going to
come for us.”

“I don’t understand, why didn’t they come
for us in the first place. Why shoot Stanley
and Eve. They are innocent! Stanley hasn’t
been part of what we do for a long time
now. So why shoot him and his new
wife?!” Clara asked looking bemused. “My
private detective thinks they may be the
ones in possession of all the videos. In fact,
they believe they have the videos,” Chucks
said. His friends were astonished to hear
Stanley and Eve had the videos. “Now that
they are dead, what are we going to do,”
Stella asked. “You are wrong, Stanley and
Eve are still alive. My source said they are
still living. Somehow they survived the
shooting,” Chucks explained further. The
others were further shocked by that
revelation. Immediately Bimpe stood up
and went to use the restroom. In the
restroom, she quickly typed the following
message in her phone, “Chucks knows too
much already. A detective is working for
him. Stanley and Eve are still alive.” She sent
the message and rejoined the group.