Set me free - Episode 55

 

Rory:

"This is the address. I'll park on the other side of the road." I inform the nervous Michelle beside me. She nods without saying a thing, her eyes never leaving the house across the road.
"You ready?" I ask as I cover her hand on her lap with mine. I squeeze it lightly. 
"Yeah." She gently pull her hand away and my hand fall down . I look out of the window to hide my pained expression. I can't believe I'm in Nigeria trying to hand the woman I love to another man. Hardest thing I've ever done in my life. 
"We don't have time. Are you coming out?" Michelle calls from outside the car. I realize she's alighted so I put on my brave face and alight as well. I look to the back seat to make sure the rascal I caught earlier was still unconscious. He's breathing steady but motionless aside that.
"Who do you think live there?" Michelle asks. It's a house not bigger than the one William lives with his family but it's a far cry from how welcoming that one felt. This was is far from civilization, in literally in the middle of nowhere. It's a wonder the GPS got us here.
"I don't know but whoever it is would certainly not be happy to see us." I retrieve my gun from the car and walk over to Michelle.
"Here." I push the gun into her hand. She gasp.
"Rory! You brought that?!"
"Take it." I force it into her palm.
"I am letting you go to William but I'm not letting you get killed in his fight." I grumble

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. She goes to say something but I cut her off. I don't like the look in her eyes. It's pity.
"Let's go." I walk in front of her towards the house. The light is on inside but I don't see anyone from out here.
"Let's take the back door." I whisper as we get close.
"We meet lose him. Take the back. I'll take the front." Michelle whispers back. I start to shake my head.
"Hey, I'm not some defenseless woman. I learn from the best." She's trying to flatter me so I'll take her idea.
"This could be dangerous. They could be waiting for us." I argue.
"They can't possibly know we would come for them. We have the element of surprise."
"But--"
"Stop arguing with me and just go in through the back door! " she snaps. I know she's not going to relent. Stubborn woman. 
"Please be safe." I say. She nods before walking on tiptoes away from me. I watch her until she goes into the house through a front window. I take a deep breath before making my way to the back of the house.
  Thorns from the bush surrounding the house tear into my cargo shorts and I bite my teeth in frustration. 
"Stubborn woman!" I grind out as I stump on the grasses. I finally make my way to what seem like the back door. I look around to make sure I'm not being watched. No one's in sight. I pull the tiny pin off my trouser pocket and push it into the key hole.
"4,3,2,1!" The door clicks open. I turn around to make sure I'm still alone and I nearly stopple over and fall on my ass. 
"William!" I whisper yell. 
"What are you doing here?" He narrows his eyes at me, his arms are folded across his chest.
"Shhh!" I look past him to make sure no one else is here. How did I not see him.
"Where's Michelle? Did you involve her in something dangerous again!" His voice starts to rise.
"Don't be so loud!" I snap.
"She's fine. She went in throu---"
"Arrggghhhhh!!! " a shrill shout rings into the quiet night. William and I freeze. 
"Michelle!" William snaps out of his shock first and push past me through the door I opened earlier. My brain finally gets the signal to move my legs. I bolt into the house behind William.
"Oh my God." William stops as soon as he enters through the messy sitting room door. He stops in his track and I nearly run into him. I push past him to see what his looking at. Michelle is bent over someone, her hands bloody. A woman lie motionless and bloody on the floor.
"William." Her eyes finally sees us and she sob out loud. William rush to her side. 
"I didn't kill her. Someone. From the bush outside. I--. She---She--- God, William." More tears. My hands hurt from how hard i'm gripping the door frame just to stop myself from going to her. She isn't mine. William engulf her in his arms. I turn around from the spectacle. I feel like an outsider all of a sudden.
"Baby. Shhh. I know. I know." I hear William coo to her.
"I thought I was going to die." Michelle sobs out. I start walking away from them. It's my fault. I shouldn't have let her go in alone. I'm almost out of the house when I absentmindedly pull my phone off my pocket. It's been beeping for a while now, it was getting annoying. 
 Graphic pictures of the scene I just walked in on stare at me from my phone. A picture of Michelle pointing a gun to the woman who was lying dead in the sitting room earlier makes my brows shoot up to my hairline. I stop in my steps. 
 More pictures making it seem like Michelle shot and killed the woman enter my phone in quick succession.

  THE POLICE GETS THESE PICTURES IF WILLIAM SHOWS UP AT THE SHAREHOLDER'S MEETING TOMORROW. JUST A FRIENDLY ADVICE, TELL HIM TO GET LOST WITH HIS RABID FAMILY OR THE PRETTY GIRL GOES TO PRISON. 

 My hands start to shake as cold sweat rush down my back.
 My phone starts ringing. It's the number sending the messages. 
"William!" I yell as I hurry back to the sitting room. William is still wrapped around Michelle who's shaking.
"You have to take this." I push the phone in his direction. He frowns. 
"They're going to frame Michelle for all this!" I snap and Michelle's hanging head snap up. William bolt off the floor at once and grab the phone from my hand. 

William:

"Hope you got my message? Your girlfriend seems quite shaken." A cherry voice says from the other end of the line. I remember it. It's the same that warned me many years ago when I came to find my father. Mrs William. Every bone in my body contract.
"Don't you dare talk about her!" I snap. She just laugh like she's enjoying this. 
"Oh my. There's blood everywhere." She tsk. Can she see us. I rush to the window to look out. It's pitch black. 
"Would you stop moving around! It's making me dizzy." She snaps. Anger boils inside me.
"I guess you already figured everything out. I'm watching you. Your daughter and your stupid mother." Her laugh grate on all my senses.
"Not for long, you bitch!" She continues laughing. 
"In two days, I'm going to beat your ass in that shareholders meeting and then I'll have all the power I need to finally get my revenge on you!"
"Oh you didn't get my message then. It's never that easy to win me. Didn't your mother or silly wife tell you?" She sneers. All my senses become alert at the mention of my wife.
"Why would Dawn know you!" I snap. 
"Oh forgive my manners, she's dead. Tsk. She was just too stubborn. Just like the pretty little thing you brought with you from the states." I see red at her words. She met Dawn?! Was that why Dawn made sure to ask her sister to get the company from her? 
"I swear to God, If I get my hands on you at that shareholders meeting I'll ---"
"You don't seem to get it. You aren't attending the shareholders meeting." She cuts me off. 
"To hell, I will! "
"Your little girl friend goes to jail then. She shouldn't have brought a gun to a defenseless woman's house." She tsk.

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. My eyes move to Michelle who's just behind me. she's shaking her head slowly. She must have heard.
"I trust you'll make the right choice lest your girlfriend turn​ out like your wife."
"Fuck!!!" I scream as I smash the phone against the wall which seem to be closing down on me. I fall slowly to my knees on the floor. This woman has made my life hell even before I was born. She could even have a hand in Dawn's death.
"Arrghhhhh!!!" I scream again. My chest hurts. 
"William-" I push the hand from my shoulders. My head is spinning and the hurt gasp behind me echoes through it. I turn teary eyes to see Michelle crying. She steps back from me.
"Michelle --"
"I'm sorry." She sobs before she takes off out of the room.
"Michelle!!" She doesn't stop. 
"You should think about what you want." Rory grinds out before he goes off after her and I'm left alone in this room. What a royal fuck!