As Marvin and William were chatting in his office , William's phone started ringing. He checked it and saw that it was from Helen.
" Okay , it's now or nothing William , I will literally fire you if you don't sleep with her today," Marvin said after sneaking a peak and seeing who the caller was.
" There are so many things wrong with you man , maybe she just wants to talk , " William brushed Marvin off.
" I literally have HR on speed dial right now , drop everything you're doing , take my driver , and off to her house you go . She's calling you at nine o'clock at night , no one just wants to chat at this time. Well , anyone that's not you apparently , " Marvin got up and walked around to where William was seated .
" Marvin I know Hellen , she just wants my help with something , " William pushed Marvin away as he answered the call.
" Hey Helen , how are you doing? The party was great and I really enjoyed meeting up with old friends. Oh , I almost forgot about how I left a bit early …" William immediately stopped talking when he heard gunshots from the call.
A group of men was yelling out her name and firing off what William deduced to be AK-47 rifles all around the place. A woman was panicking and breathing heavily through the call and William automatically deduced that it was Helen , dead scared for her life and unable to speak so as not to reveal her position to her attackers.
Turning around to face Marvin , William continued speaking , " Okay calm down Helen , everything will be alright. I am hearing gunshots inside a building , quickly breathing heavily three times if you are inside your house .If not , don't breathe for the next three seconds. Try to make me hear it ,"
Following his order , Helen breathed three times , all the while placing her hand close to her mouth in case she panicked and accidentally screamt. The whole situation had ambushed her and instinct had driven her to take cover under one of her kitchen's tables.
After the day's launch event had been concluded at the conference centre earlier on , Helen had gone off to a massage parlour to relieve the day's stress and then passed by a mall for some groceries. She had planned to see an action movie afterwards at the local cinema house but her tired body couldn't take her there. She therefore drove back to her place , taking great care while parking the car to avoid hitting the other vehicles owned by the tenants who shared her gated community complex.
All her concentration had been fixated on her iphone as she went through the day's photos waiting for the elevator to reach the fifth floor. The ones she had taken with William were the best ones and she couldn't help but smile at one specific photo where one of their campus friends had smeared William's face with pink and blue icing that had been on the cake.
Because of this she failed to notice that her apartment's door had been unlocked and she just walked straight in and threw her bag on the couch. Helen was just about to pick up the remote and turn on the television when she heard something heavy drop up stairs in her bedroom and then a few muffled voices started arguing. Like any other person would when faced with intruders , she went to the kitchen and grabbed one of the knives just in case the need arose to actually have to put someone down. She was about to walk back to the living room and head upstairs when a man with a pistol walked in through the door.
She was lucky to have ducked under a table right before the man turned to face the direction of the kitchen .
Seeing nothing , he started surveying the rest of the living room and that was when he saw the pink handbag that Helen had dropped.
" Hey Katrina , did you're dumb ass carry a fashion handbag on the job ? What is the fucking problem with women these days , try and be fucking serious for once !" the man who had entered with a pistol started yelling as he examined the handbag.
" That's not mine you fool . Maybe if you actually had a brain instead of a fucking vacuum up there , you'd probably realise that the bag belongs to the woman who lives here. Fucking start using your brain for once Saber , muscle alone will only get you so far ," a woman in a mask descended down the stairs , her heavy boots crunching down heavily with every step.
" And you two have already revealed your name's to our target , just brilliant. But anyway , back to business.
We did a full sweep of the living room and that bag was not there when we came , that means that she's entered the house. Close that door and then turn this whole place upside down from carpet to ceiling until she has nowhere left to hide , " a tall skinny man followed the woman called Katrina down the stairs.
After listening to them speak , Helen immediately understood how seriously the situation had just escalated. William's name jumped into her head instantly and she immediately rang his phone as the invaders started firing their guns at random to smoke her out.
Her heart leapt with joy when he finally picked up but just as she was about to start talking to him, the man who had noted the odd presence of her handbag walked into the kitchen , firing off his rifle at the cutlery and shattering every piece of glass and ceramic in sight.
It did not take a lot of time for him to finally look under the table and with a content smile he pulled Helen out like a rag doll by her left leg. He then grabbed her blouse collar and roughly pulled her to her feet.
" Hello you eavesdropping bitch, thought we wouldn't find you down there?" he sneered , spraying bad breath all over her face.
In self defence Helen pushed the knife she had been holding deep into his chest till it hit his right lung. As the pain hit the man , he violently threw her across the table and fell on his back trying to pull out the knife. The woman , Katrina, responded immediately , knocking Helen out with one hit from the back of her gun.
" Let me put you out of your misery Marcus , that thing has your lung staked like a vampire on fucking wood. There's no way you're making it out alive and we won't run the risk of you ratting us out to the police ," Katrina offered , already pointing the muzzle of her gun at the man's head.