Beep. Beep.. Beep...
The only sound of life assurance. The sound of hope, of which Orion had relied on. He didn't know what other attachments worked for, but he knew that sounds only indicated life. Anything else doesn't matter as long as that sound kept beeping.
'Mama will wake up to see me here, she will. I believe". Orion had sobbed.
A knock from the door.
'Who's that'?
The door opened without permission, a man entered. Dressed casually, black shades and a black hat. Dark skinned, flawless skin in contrast to the natives.
The man sat down on the chair opposite Cinderella's bed, heaved and removed his hat.
'I know you, I've seen you before'. Orion thought.
"My condolences, take heart Boy". Akomolafe Jayden disrupted Orion's line of thoughts.
"It's a heavy thing to take in all in one day, both parents, one dead and another in coma. I came to tender my sympathy". Jayden continued.
"How did you know my parents? Do you know anything about the shoot out?" Orion asked.
Clears throat, "Hrgg hrgg, I actually..."
The television thrummed with a breaking news appearing on the screen. It displayed a newscaster, and beside a CCTV coverage of the shooting incident at Hampshire garden. Orion and Jayden watched the news. Jayden face was indifferent while Orion face was crimson red from anger.
"I'll find this person or people that sent this man, and I will kill them" Orion said curling up his gist till it hurts.
Jayden studied him.
"Boy, you got some balls. Are you sure you can do that?" Jayden asked laughing.
Orion got riled up due to Jayden laughing.
'Cough'..."My bad, My bad, Man. Apologies". Jayden submitted.
"If you know anything about this, I'll come for you too" Orion thundered. "How did you know we are here, or how did you find out about this incident".
"Your dad and I just happened to know each other, nothing serious" Jayden responded.
"Ever since you came to my house, my mom and dad had changed. What did you tell her, what was inside that parcel?" Orion asked with rage.
Silence.
"I'll get behind this matter and I'll find anyone behind this, and I'll avenge my parents' death".
Jayden clears throat, stood up, adjusted his clothes, "What has happened has happened, there's nothing we can do, Boy". He walked to the door looked back one last time and said, "Those in power controls this world, boy. For now, I got another person to meet. Have you heard from your class teacher, Rodrygo?".
Chase jerked open his eyes, found himself in a well furnished room, his body cleaned and his wounds tendered to and bandaged. His head felt light and he could see an I.V. line passed into his arm. With a questioning look, he observed and slowly digested his current situation and where he was.
'I am not dead, whew!'.
Slowly, everything started settling in. It started making sense. Instantly , he bounced of the bed.
'Shrieks'. He felt hot pain emanating from the bullet wounds. His abdominal muscles cramped so hard, he fell to the floor in anguish.
'This place is familiar, how did I get here?'
'I have to get out of here, now'.
He placed his hands on the bed, and tried in vain to lift himself up. He had no ounce of energy left in him as he had previously lost too much blood. Accepting his fate, he laid down there, waiting for his doom or whatnot.
The noise attracted her, and she came to check, carrying a cup of herbs and tea in a tray.
"Shit, shit, what did you think you're doing? Where were you running to?" She asked.
"Martha". He said with a shaky voice, "What the hell am I doing here?".
"Just shut the f*ck up and heal up first. Anything you want to do, you can do after". Martha retorted.
"Now I have to carry your heavy ass back to bed". Martha hissed. "You wanted to run away with your state? Funny, Egoistic ungrateful man". "You think you can just go away without a pay back for saving your ass". Martha poured out.
"So, I should be grateful that you saved my life? The same life you wanted to take? Ehn" Chase said.
"Cut me some slack, you know the reason I wanted to do that. You know too much now" Martha replied.
"I don't know shit about you, don't bring me into your dead ass circle" Chase barked.
Silence.
Each looking at each other, dead in the eyes, breathing hard. Martha lowered her gaze and instantly assumed a sorry look.
"The reason I wanted Rodrygo out was because he knew about the Animal Laboratory while we were dating. I'm hurt I lost him because of my selfishness, but that wasn't the reason I wanted to take him out" Martha said .
"Oh! Confession time huh" Chase quipped.
"Please! Can you just stop, Okay. I'm trying to make things right" Martha clapped. Tears welling up in her eyes.
"I...I really loved Rodrygo, man. I do. I know it didn't work out, but he knew about the Lab, and I know those people will find him and use him to track me down. I left the organisation because I can't cope with the evil they were planning on".
Chase shrugged.
"See, these people are planning a world wide murder, mass genocide, I mean a crime against humanity. I just couldn't agree. I had to leave. While trying to run I met you on my weakest day and that's how we happened. I wanted to kill you because I don't want to be exposed". Martha confessed.
"Then why did you submit the original forensics report if you didn't want to be exposed, knowing I'll be arrested?" Chase queried.
"I wasn't the one who did. I gave Cinderella a falsified report to submit. I was surprised you got your hair and prints there in the first place. I wanted to call but it was too late. I also noticed someone tampered with my office PC. I don't know who but I realised our pictures and video were opened. I saw it cause I actually zipped it. The person extracted the files to view them".
"Shit, you still had those files?". Chased alarmed.
Martha blushed, avoided eye contact. "Yes, I do. Some things can't be deleted. I still wanted more. But I can't say who touched my PC, Cinderella or maybe I have been tracked".
"What do we do now?". Chase asked.
"I think we need to work together now, as a team. Don't worry, I won't bother you with personal desires. We need to expose these guys ASAP. Also, I heard Cinderella had a son. Can we see him?".
"Hmm, you want to bring that young boy into this?".
"His parents died, we can use him. We will feed him with the truth, and his drive for revenge will make him want to expose them".
Both exhaled, seeing some sense into what Martha just said, Chase agreed to work with her, as a team, nothing more, nothing else.
"First, let me carry you up, you've been down too long" Martha said.
After setting him up on the bed and giving him his tea, Martha watched as Chase sipped his already cold herb tea. Martha observed how strikingly cut handsome the man in front of her is, despite his status. 'I've missed seeing this every morning...' she thought.
She moved to plant a kiss on Chase lips.
Chase looked at her with disdain, "You said nothing more than a team, you can't even keep to your words".
"I'm sorry Chase, I'm just realising how much I've missed you". She said as she collected the cup from him and pushed the tray side ways. She climbed on him, sitting across his lap. He winced, but she pleaded.
She looked him in the eyes and planted a kiss on his lips.
Chase, (shake my head), moved his finger to grab her ass, as he settled for the long-awaited kiss.