"sorry we meet under such dicey circumstances kuga…", Ludy's papa extends his hand in greetings and sat across from me on the same spot Ziggy was sitting a while ago.
The guards had silently came forward with body bags to drag the bodies and moved them out of the space.
Traitor or not, a brother is forever a brother. I feel sorry for Ziggy, but grateful I am still alive.
I took the hand offered me and shake it gracefully.
I felt lightheaded and my sight begun to wane. Perhaps, it's because of the concussion I suffered earlier from the head injury, or the unforeseen turnout of events. Perhaps, it's the oomph of the man sitting opposite me.
"pleasure is all mine Sir," I managed trying very hard to think straight, or at least keep my head empty. But all I try to do seem futile.
"call me Nka…". "that sound anciently African". "yeah, it does." "are you south African or something?" I said drunkenly. I wouldn't give up on wakefulness…
Nka didn't answer, instead he said coolly "what an unpleasant happening we did share just in our first encounter…. We could have save each other the trouble had you come to me as instructed."
I didn't respond to this statement because I didn't know what to say.
Mike and momma were still standing terrified. The gunman stood beside his boss with the nuzzle of his weapon facing the ground.
I saw Diana emerging from the door I came through with the women earlier, walking towards us, sky walking right behind her.
"come here Mikey" Nka called, and Mike stepped forward, shaking feverishly as though about to vomit.
Nka stretched out his hand and Mike took it in a hand shake, although his faced show that is the last thing he wanted to do.
It didn't take long before I understood why.
Maybe it's my woozy mind, or what was happening goes beyond my comprehension. Diana and sky came in time to see what was happening to mike.
His arm was literary breaking, twitching and snapping effortlessly. Mike was forced to come down on his knees, panting and sweating profusely. He wanted to cry, but he couldn't.
I shake my head in hopes of clearing my vision, for I didn't trust my eyes in this state.
But nothing helped. I turned to look at the people present. Diana and the guard looked unmoved.
momma and sky however, looked pale and frozen as though trapped in a Siberian snow.
"you killed the two men Mikey, because they were bad for business," Nka rasped, and mike nodded, and repeated "I killed the two men, because they were bad for business."
"good, good Mikey, now go and play in the pool, will you?". mike nodded again, "I will go and play in the pool, thank you master."
He stood up and walked into the noon sun.
"now, that was easy, don't you think kuga?" Nka said, and a shiver snaked down my spine.
he continued… "now back to my question, why didn't you follow the lady's instruction and bring the women to tang palace?"
"perhaps you had a plan, and you played it so innocently no one noticed what you actually did. You wanted Felix and your traitor of a brother gone but you don't have the balls to handle it.
You put my girls in peril coming here, you wanted me here. Now that I have given you what you wanted, how much are you willing to pay kuga? And; think carefully before you speak."
My throat has gone dry, and I had nothing to say. Executing this whole plan to me had been second nature.
I didn't want to keep running, while looking at my back at every turn.
I brought the two giants to slaughter each other while I escaped. But the way things turned out now, I was caught in the massive jaws of the beast itself.
"you are not going to say nothing? Well, good for you," Nka said and turned to Diana, "why did you do it? betray us to an outsider…. Why did you tell him things he supposed not to know?"
Diana went down on her knees immediately, "forgive me oh father." Angered by this impulse of the frighten woman, He quickly edged her to stand up..
"how much are you willing to pay for all this graces I bestowed upon you?" Nka asked gravely like a discontented father displease with his adolescent boy.
What guts the man has, for the first time since I arrived in the yacht, I got uptight. And the man seems to enjoy the expression on my face. he wants to have my spleen in his bloody hands, he need a reason to kill me.
"'Graces bestowed upon me';" I quoted and laughed, and he surprised me with a smile.
"you see how it's so easy to get you talking kuga.
"perhaps, I must show you what I mean, and that I will…".
Nka's voice seem to be coming from a faraway place, mere echoes in my foggy psyche.
It was at this time my body gave in to what I know so well, darkness. The man was saying something I couldn't comprehend. Whatever he was saying in that moment didn't register in my mind as a particular language.
it was coming to me in vague images as I began my journey into darkness. I managed a smile. It will be a toothless Smile no doubt, that I am sure.