Melina - Episode 27

 

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MR MAXWELL'S POV
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Three cars after us was the last thing I could remember, I regained consciousness in a room, a stuffy room that's in a basement somewhere I don't and can't really recognise, the room was scary, had just one window at the top that brings in little amount of sun rays .

I tried to struggle but I was hand cuffed to the chair I was sitting on.

"Don't even try to move " ...  A voice thundered.

"Please let me go, I will pay you any amount you want, but please spare my life " .... I pleaded without even seeing who was talking, I only saw shadows.

Before I could open my mouth again, I was landed slaps upon slaps, blood left my nose and then he hit a gun on my head and then I passed out.

"Ahhhhh urgh!!!! Argh!!!!" .. . I tried jumping up as they poured water on me, on my attempt to jump up, I fell on the ground and one of the muscular boys who was looking multiple in my not clear eyes carried me up.

When I got up I saw a female  bossing them around , I could remember her.

"Grace" ... I said with my already fainting voice ..

"Senator maxwell, you thought I would forget so soon??, my dead mother won't forgive me" .. She let out an evil smile.
"Well I have come to have my pound of flesh, I have come to avenge her blood"

I could remember her, the day I took her mother from her, I had ordered my boys to kill her mom, she was a journalist that the state respected and a news from her could wipe me into jail, when I looted the last 5billion naira I looted, she got involved and was made to write to the state about it, I tried to pay her off but she wouldn't collect bribe, I had no option but to get rid of her .

"I am really sorry I didn't mean to, I was forced to, you know I can give you anything you want, I can make up for your moms death, please don't harm me " .

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. I pleaded.

"You are enjoying your family right, your daughter cruising in a blue Porsche, why you kept me an orphan, knowing fully well that my dad left us,   you still decided to kill my mom because of a money you looted, wow that's the most amazing thing to do on earth you know right?" ... She said, being sarcastic and emotional at the same time.

"I am really sorry, there is what you don't really understand about politics, if she had leaked it up, I would rot in jail and watch my generations suffer in abject poverty, being in my shoes you shouldn't want that" .. I tried to explain .

"I can remember she agreed to you paying her off but you didn't claiming the money she was demanding was too much, like wtf!!! You looted 5bllion naira and she demanded just 100 million naira which was just 5% of the money you looted and you called that big money, you know what !!! You are ungrateful, insatiable, greedy and wicked, you disgust me !!!!!!".... She spat on my face .

"I am really sorry grace, you don't understand how money works, it was the devils plan, the money controlled me " .. I pleaded on a closed ear.

"I understand, I really understand, there is what you don't know too" ..

I looked at her with my bruised face, waiting for her to continue.

"Uncle max " ... She said with a smile.

I felt a little bit relaxed as she let out the smile, maybe she was going to have a second thought.

"You don't really understand how it feels to loose a loved one" .. She said bending down and hitting her hand gently on the table.

"I know how it feels, I can feel it now, I have seen it now " ... I said fast

"You don't know, so, we are gonna make a video, you said I don't understand how money works right? You don't really understand how torture works too, so I am gonna torture you single handedly, video you and then send the video to your family, so that they can feel  a little of what I felt, then I will let you die in pains " ... She winked like she was making a romantic advance.

"Grace please"

"Guys get the iron" she said to her boys, then turning back to me "let's start from there, that's the day one torture, you know, I used my time to draft out this torture plan, to fit in for three days , then I will send them the video and inject the snake's venom in you and allow you die with the pains"... She said laughing.

"Grace please, I will pay you any amount you want in as much as you will let me live" .. I pleaded .

"Okay let's do business" ...she brought a seat and sat in front of me handing me my phone and a paper.

"Which business" .. I asked as the one of the boys untied me.

"you have how many foreign accounts?" .. She asked

I was surprised at the question, I use the foreign accounts to store looted money.

"ERM three" ..I said

"Are you omitting  the one you opened with FREDERICK FERGUSON, yes the one you opened in Croatia, that's four of em I think " ...
I was surprised, the account she mentioned, even my wife that knows about all my moves doesn't know about this one.

"Yes four of them, I am sorry I omitted them" .. I said.

"Don't worry and the statement shows that the one you own at England has 1.2million dollars, the one of USA has 1.8million dollars, that of Canada is reading 2.5million dollars and the one with the different name is reading 4.5million dollars, I don't need you to confirm, I am right" .. She surprised me, how did she make all this findings..

I just nodded my head.

"Let's do this, I have opened accounts in this four banks in this for different countries, so it will make the transfer  easier, so let's begin" ... She said and let out that evil smile again.

She made me transfer every penny I had in my account, when I was done doing the transfers.

"So when am I going ?" .. I asked her after letting out a sigh of relieve.

"Sorry max we just begone" she broke my heart with those words" tie him back and get the already heated iron" ..she instructed the boys.

They tied me back and sealed my mouth, and then she removed her coat, put on a mask, switched on the video camera  and pressed the hot iron on my cheek, I tried to cry but I couldn't because of the mastic, she kept on pressing the iron on every other part of my body till I passed out.