Vincent was in his office, his legs crossed on top of his desk with his phone to his ear, the pose of a man at ease which he was anything but."Mr Chika, you gotten my message i hope. Lets meet up, you and i have l look to discuss."
Mr Justin Chika answered angrily " you have the nerve to demand an audience with me . Whoever you are i will find you and when i do you'd wish you never messed with my family."
" Mr Chika , i really do not think you should be threatening me, what you saw in that video is only a little of what i can do , don't push me. Why don't we meet up , so we can talk one on one. Like i said in the video, the time and place have already been set, you need only to be available at the said time and at the said place. What do you say , do we have a deal? "
Chika was seething with suppressed anger, he wanted to tell this man to go to hell with his demands.But then he remembered his daughter and granddaughter , the only family he had left in the world. He would do just about anything for them, he felt no longer angry but frustrated and pained that he could not find his daughter and free her from her captor fast enough. If this was the fastest way to save her , so be it . He would meet up with the bastard and hear what he wanted if that was the only way to save his child and grandchild." Let's meet up , just tell me the place and time and I'll be there."
" How about right now? Come out of your house Mr Chika." Vincent said , a note of excitement in his voice ,the most crucial part of their plan was about to be executed. " Tell the police you're going shopping or make up any believable excuse so they don't have to follow you then hail the first taxi you see coming down your street, get into that taxi, sit back and enjoy the ride. I offer excellent chauffeur services. I will see you in 30 minutes time and don't bother trying to trace this number." Vincent switched off his phone.
Mr Chika didn't waste any second, he put the tracking device the police gave him for situations like this into his pocket and walked out of his house. The police men who were put to guard him wanted to escort him but he dissuaded them saying he was just going out to clear his head. As the man on the phone said, a blue taxi drove down the street. He flagged the taxi and got into the car but not before giving the guards a subtle hand signal that he was in danger.
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"We are on our way Mr Vincent." The man driving the taxi informed his boss. " Okay good . You know the drill Bruno, Justin Chika isn't a man to be underestimated, he wouldn't comply that easily." " No worries I've got you Mr Vincent." Bruno drove for an hour then stopped in the middle of nowhere, he got out of the driver's seat, opened the passenger side and told Mr Chika to come out of the car. He got out of the car perplexed was this where he was meeting his daughter's captor. He tensed up when the taxi driver began to run through the car with a bug detector. When the man couldn't find anything in the car, he turned to Chika and began to run the device all over his clothes, the bug detector made a beeping sound close his trouser pocket. He didn't even blink as he retrieved the tracking device, as if he had expected it. He placed the device by the side of the road so that on coming cars wouldn't crush it then he ordered Mr Chika back into the car. Bruno made a u-turn and followed a completely different direction.
Justin Chika couldn't help it, he chuckled softly, he wasn't dealing with a fool. The tracking device was going to lead the police on a merry chase.
Vincent was sitting in a restaurant in a remote part of the city. It was the less likely place to be at the moment given the situation, except it was empty just him, Mr Chika and Bruno acting as the watch guard at the door. Vincent and Justin Chika sat facing each other, Vincent face twisted in what was in between a smile and a sneer.
" From the look on your face i would say you know me , but i don't think that's possible since we're meeting each other face to face for the first time." Vincent said a false smile pasted on his face. " Cole .... how are.....? " Justin Chika stuttered. Vincent felt anger boiling in his heart , he felt like punching this man to a pulp for his audacity in uttering his brother's name but he put a check on his anger, he was so close to vindicating his family and he wouldn't let anything thwart his final plans.
" Am not Cole if that's what you are trying to ask, am his twin brother Vincent. You probably didn't know my parents had another son . I suppose i ought to thank you for not checking thoroughly if they had another child apart from Cole, probably that's why am still alive, but you see am not feeling very grateful." Mr Chika continued to stare in bewilderment, he was sure this was an apparition come to hunt him from his nightmares. Except he was wild awake and the person in front of him very much real and he had come to make him pay for his crimes.