The Voice - Episode 13

 

The door opened and a man in hood stepped in, his face was covered with the hood but his gun was pointed at Emily.
Cole knew danger when he saw one and right there before him was one. He couldn’t take the risk of shooting the man as he knew well enough that the man could also retaliate and by so doing, Emily might go for it but he doesn’t want Emily to be the bait.
Cole watched as the man proceeded walking towards him and Emily, he also had his gun pointed at him and his fingers were on the trigger ready for any foul play.

“Wow! impressive” the man exclaimed clapping his hands, “but am sorry, you have to try more”

“Who the hell are you!?” Cole asked angrily.

The man chuckled, “wrong question”

“Just answer the damn question!” Cole snapped at the man as he clutched more tightly to the gun in his hands, he could shoot any moment.

“Oh no detective, don’t do that_” he smirked in his concealed face.. “it’s at Emily risk if you do, I do realize you do not want her to die, you will be blamed if she dies”

“Shut up! you jerk!” Cole screamed.

“Oh, you call me jerk?” the man chuckled again.

Cole looked behind him with an eye and kept the other eye on the boogie man, Emily was still on the chair cowering, her legs were tied and she dare not make a move to untie it or her hands will go for it.

“Hand over the gun” the man ordered Cole.

Cole shook his head, the man is playing smart contrary to what he thought . He handed him his gun and almost immediately, he brought out his shortgun from his holster and shoot the legs of the man, the man went down but not without retaliating as he fired a shot at Emily.

But where?

Cole couldn’t be sure as he heard Emily screamed, he felt like knocking himself over and over again for being so silly.
First, it was their stupid plan which went wrong and now, his stupid decision to shoot the man which led to Emily being shot

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. He had to get over with this, he released two quick shot at the man hands,
The gun fell off the man’s hand and he sprawled on the floor face down though he wasn’t dead yet.
Cole moved over to the man, he kicked the gun far away, bent low and unveiled the hood from the man’s face.

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. He stared blankly at the face for a moment, it was Alex Dollinger. He had suspected him but he never knew he could go this length.
Cole rose Alex up on his haunches, Alex grunted and winced in pains, blood gushing out from his legs and hands and he was fast losing consciousness.

“Why did you do it?”Cole asked.

“No, I didn’t do it, it wasn’t me” Alex replied in a low pitched voice.

“Then who did?”

“It was him” he said and paused.

“Who is the him!” Cole barked.

“Bamidele Williams”

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Minutes ago

Agent Bola stood gobsmacked, it wasn’t Emily as she had thought, it was someone else, someone she never expected. Her kid sister was trapped on the chair, blindfolded and mouth gagged. And on her stomach lay the dreadful bomb with the timer reading fast.

A tear dropped from her eyes as she felt the pulse of the young girl, it was weak, very weak as she was unconscious. What could she do to save her, she knew she had failed her city and most importantly, her family.

Some years back, Bola was a young naive girl who loved anything to do with gun, she grew the zeal to study criminology from watching movies, especially the crime/action genre. Her parents objected to this but she still went on and here is where she found herself.
She checked the timer, she had less than five minutes to do something but what could she do?

Nothing! Absolutely nothing!

She ran her fingers through her hair as she paced the room. She couldn’t touch the bomb, in as much the bomb was a sensitive one, it would blow off if it comes In contact with a human skin.
Emily dropped down and sat on the dusted tiled floor, she threw away her gun and waited for death to come, she knew Cole would be safe since she hadn’t heard any gunshot.

00:03

She closed her eyes and covered her ear, it would all be over in a matter of seconds now. She waited, nothing happened.

No explosion?

She opened her eyes when she was sure it was way past five seconds, she looked at the timer, it had stopped blinking but there was no explosion. She heard sounds of gunshots as she made to stand up, but she was taken aback by the gunshot.

Was Cole shot?

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Continued from the last scene
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Cole wasn’t surprised, he had suspected the forensic man too but he hasn’t gotten enough evidence to put him behind bars but now he had gotten what he needed.

“He sent me, he killed them and her” Alex continued, his voice now fading off.

“Why are you telling me this?” Cole asked.

“Because…” Alex drooled on the word as if he was considering something. “Because I want to help you, he killed Cora, my girlfriend” he said it in a way that seemed it was the most painful thing that ever happened to him.

“Please, don’t kill me” Alex managed to mouth the words, he was barely audible. He had lost too much blood, he closed his eyes and embraced the darkness.

“We have you surrounded, drop your weapons now and surrender” a voice said, it was from a mega phone.
Cole smiled, the backups weren’t needed after all.