Vialla locked eyes with her grandfather unblinkingly. Nka saw immediately what Kate was talking about. This baby, surely will be something to be recon with someday. As evil as a lot of people thought him to be, Nka admire power in all its many varieties, even in a kid. And this kid has something perculiarly dangerous. Nka love danger even better. Nka liked his granddaughter. She maybe a dangerous foe someday, a worthy advisory indeed.
Vialla smiled, purged and cackled. Nka chuckled with her. "Yes my little one, your light is so bright it illumines everything on its path, but always remember; all the lights emanating from the stars in the dark void of the empty skies can't brightens it up.
Lyza watched in fascination, the strange man who took Vialla from her. Who is he? She quried in her mind. One of the gaurds, maybe. He dressed like one of them. She had found him smoking in the balcony, and insisted to take the little one, and she couldn't refuse him. She was so mesmerized by his presence to even react.
The man is beautiful in a dark mysterious way. Like an angel, ageless, and daunting. But there is more. He is a devil, Lyza thought. A most tempting devil out in this world to make women sin. Yes, his vibe is pure lust, and Lyza could sensed it.
His pale skin seems to glow under the gloomy Sky. He instantly had a rappore with the little thing. Lyza studied them smiling at each other like lovers. She grinned with them.
The words of the man to the child sent however, prickles through her bores to the flesh, triggering her body to shiver unnaturally.
Nka looked up at Lyza and studied her for a breath length of time that felt timeless to her as she held herself hypnotize by his aura. Dark. Mysterious. Untamed. Compelling....
Despite her immunity to flattery, Lyza blushed like a little girl on her first crush.
"You're the new lady of the house?". He made the statement looked like a question. Commanding, yet ambiguous.
He didn't call her a maid, Lyza noticed. Perhaps, it's the gown she wore. Ruby, the true lady of the house repulse seeing her in made clothes " feel at home, Lyza. I need the human in you, not the service you're contracted to offer me", she had said.
Lyza truly felt at home in this particular garb. It fit her very well, and she likes it that the man took notice, and considered her lady of the house.
"Yes, it fit you well miss. It accentuates your curves perfectly….". Lyza felt spell bound not knowing what to say. Her body tingles with the surge of hormones at those words.
"umn,.. I'm the new maid." "No, you aint. There are no servants here, only family my dear. Sit with me please."
His manner and whole relaxed attitude made her change her mind about him being a guard. Who is the man? Lyza wondered.
"Ask him…" Nka said. Lyza gasp, taking a seat beside him facing the wide expanse of the yard, where exotic trees blossoms with flowers on top, a variety of vibrant colors on the canopy almost turns Lyzas eyes hazy from the top balcony where she now sat with Nka.
Lyza noticed, the man had read her mind twice.
"I've not seen you around anywhere in this house." She said.
"You wouldn't, I don't stay here often."
"who are you, sir?" Lyza asked, a little alarm now, at the presence of the man.
This close the tingling and prickles only builds up.
"ly…" Slash paused momentarily on entering the balcony. He saw the boss sitting with lyza, their backs facing him. He shewed his jaws ruminatively.
"Don't just stand there Slash, come join us."
"I didn't know you have come my lord…."
"oh, I have come to see my beautiful princess here. Isn't she beautiful?" Nka quried laconically.
"she… she is my lord", slash managed rapidly as Nka handed Vialla to the now surprised Lyza.
She has met the master none dare speaks about. No one dare mention him. When its about him none will say a thing. Here she was sitting and chatting with him. like an ordinary security guard, he did masquerade himself well. But she had known he was special. He was expecting the master to be some old man though, not this elegant dashing fellow.
"it's an honor to meet you, Lyza." Nka extended his hand with a bright grin, turning his beautiful face handsome. Lyza took the hand offered her with a shaky hand. She was in a daze.
Ruby walked into the green grass garden balcony, and the air went motionless. Lyza not knowing what to expect knew one thing for sure. An invisible fire was burning, and mere mortals may get burnt.
"umn if you will excuse me, lord, my lady…." She walked into the house with Vialla, feeding her from a bottle of milk. Slash followed her back inside without words. He knows those two will not even notice him leaving.
"Come on, Ludy, I am trying here."
"I don't want you to try, father. I want freedom from you. let me go, that's all I ask."
"And that I can't do. Where will you go, Ludy?"
"Back to the city? to civilization? We don't belong there."
"I am building a new world here, for us, for our family."
"By keeping me prisoner? Under different circumstances I probably would have loved it here. And yes I want to raised my daughter out in the real world, in society, among normal kids where she truly belongs."
"You know that is impossible. Vialla wouldn't last in that world."
"And assuredly not in this one. I won't let her repeat the whole traumatic vicious circle, I and Kate went through. That wouldn't be natural. We can't even walk out of this yard."
"And do you know what lurks outside this walls my dear?."
"In my guess, nothing as lethargic as you father."
Nka gave a sinister chuckle.
"Oh,that is what you think, but trust me there are monsters out there to outclass me, haha."
A gun went off at the main entrance and some of the guards went out of the yard to accost whatever that was posing a threat over there.
"Go inside my dear, I will be right back."
"I am going nowhere" she replied boldly and watched as Nka jumbed from the elevated balcony down to the ground below and she rushed to the iron railing, edging her body forward to look down. He wasn't there. she looked at the gate and there he was amidst the commotion.
She looked at the shore, and what she saw there gave her a thunder strike thought. Boats and masked men, armed to the bone, embarking on to the shore.
This must be the moment she did been waiting for. There is no time like now. She rushed into the house hastily, as men at the gate exchange fire with the approaching arm men.
Rygna had Nka in his snipper apparition on top of a tree more than 50meters away. They had to create a commotion at the gates to get Nka to come out.
The problem with Nka is nothing misses his attention, and this caught his attention. His gaurds and soldiers are not the ones keeping him safe, he keeps himself safe. Like Richard the lion heart, he led from the front. Rygna was counting on that.
Kanka is behind this mission, and he knows his man so well. Unlike Nka, Kanka play behind the shadows, he is the enforcer of their clan, their order, and Nka had been a rebel against all that from the very start.
He is a law unto him self. But poisoning those poor maidens had been despicable. Nka must be broght to book, like Kuga the Alpha.
Nka sense the approaching force way too late, but whatever it was , he knew it couldn't kill him. The bullet slammed on his chest inches away from the cleavage line.
The force of the skeng send him flying to the ground as the gaurds rushed to shield him from another hit from the snipper.
Rygna's men hiding in the brushes a couple of yards away took the advantage to attack the gate. Shooting a guard from the hidden groves had been the key.
Five of Nka's men who were trying to shield him, were shot down from the impact of the 9mm silencers. Their comrades dive away for cover, while releasing their mugs at the mask men assaulting the gates.
Three mask men went down from the defending retreating guards. Nka tries to get up and get moving but the bullet in his chest turn his mind foggy, his movement grumpy.
Strong arms seized him, masterfully handcupping him as more of Rygna's masked men create a thick wall around him.
Nka knew what was happening. He didn't fight the men. In his weak state, these men were still like flies. But he is not one to shoee away flies.
"Here I come brother. Perhaps, I am the one who did been itching to meet you with you.." Nka whispered in a smile to the mask men, closing his eyes like an actualized man going to sleep, as the men shackled him to a gurney with chains.
The men nimbly escaped with the prisoner into the woods, where a truck was waiting to transport the prisoner to Kong island far west of this Place.
Instead of escaping with the boats they did came from, they created a diversion with the truck. They are not taking any chances. Once Nka's men regrouped, their main focus will be to chase the escaping empty boats.
When the gates opened again, the men came out on heavy duty electric bikes speeding to the shore on a wild chase.
The escaping boats fire away on full blast, bending the curve on the south side of the island towards Aljamian. They know route through the vortex; they don't know about their pursuers. Either way they are on a wild goose chase.
Nka's men on hitting the water, the bike automatically turns amphibious on the surface of the water gassing way. Behind each rider was gun men with two silencers in both hands.
30mins to the west however, Nka was on a boat with his distant nephew, Rygna, in route to Kong island, where a verdict awaits him.
"Rygna my boy, you've been well?" Nka stated.
"Always unc., always been well. It's always been an honor having you around."
"I have nothing against you, my boy. I have been expecting a visit from Kanka. It's always been about us, brothers squabbling. Stay out of the cross fire, my boy." Nka sniggered.
"I will remember that, when we meet again, Nka." Rygna said, before sticking the needle into the mans shoulder and released the urine colored fluid into the shoulder, putting the man to sleep as swiftly as the mind numbing juice defuse into his blood.
Next, Rygna wore the unconscious man a black leather mask trapping his jaws, restraining his mouth from opening.