The Voice - Episode 16

 

Cole opened his eyes slowly as the sun penetrated into his eyes, he knew immediately that it was morning. He rolled the duvet away and made to sit upright but felt a body resting on his legs. He turned his head sideways to see Nora.
Nora was still sleeping peacefully half naked, the duvet did a little with covering her body. Cole remembered their last night sex escapade and he smiled . It was mind blowing and he couldn’t get enough of it until he was exhausted. It was such a great night that he decided within himself that he would take a week off at work, its worth it and he had to succumb to Nora’s pleas. He smiled again, inspector kunle wouldn’t bug him anymore for any case whatsoever, he had already handed the case over to him and he never thought he would be glad for it until now, he was more than glad.
Cole stood up and covered Nora with the duvet carefully not wanting her to wake up. He yawned hard like a dog waking up from its slumber as he peered out of the Louvre, the sun was shining brightly as it illuminated the room. He could see houses of different sizes and shapes right from where he stood, his house was a four storey building which was the tallest in the entire area. He narrowed his gaze on people walking along the ever busy city road of Calabar, different car horns blared loudly and hullabaloo of vast activities soared high in the whole city

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. He dropped the curtain and walked to the semi bathroom which was attached to the bedroom.

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. He was about to take his toothbrush which was hung in its case when he heard his phone ring.

“My problems are over now” the speaker of the phone resonated to the music.. The song was Cole’s best music, he usually put the music on repeat whenever he turns on the car’s stereo. The song was sang by his favorite musician, holmie bliss as he was fondly called.
Cole wondered when his problems would be over, he had always believe in the song and it became an incentive move to him which taught him never to give up until his problems are over. Cole checked the caller as he got back to the room with a towel tied to his waist. It was agent Bola, Cole knew she would call as it was uncalled for him getting late to work but he wasn’t going anyway.

“Hello”, he said immediately he answered the call.

“There is another murder”, her voice sounded terrified.

“What?” Cole gasped.

“And…”

“And what!?” Cole shouted over the phone which woke Nora up.

“The culprit left a note for you”

"A note?”

“Just turn on your TV, the news is on", agent Bola said and hung up on Cole which angered him.

He doesn’t know what infuriates him more, the murderer? or agent Bola’s rude behavior.
Cole switched on the TV with the remote control in his hands. The noise that emanated from the TV was deafening that Cole had to low the volume.

NEWS at 10am.

A lady was shown casting the news and then the scene was shown. A burnt car was shown, and then five burnt bodies, three were burnt beyond recognition and the remaining two bodies had some part not burnt.
inspector kunle was also shown talking to a reporter.

“Good morning people of Calabar, we are sorry for the loss and the family of the deceased should please accept our condolences.
I and my team are working tirelessly on this case and am sure the culprit would be brought to book. You have nothing to worry about because these killings would be over soon, we the state police CID would ensure the perpetrators meet their waterloo.
Thank you.” he said and the scene faded away and the lady continued casting the remaining part of the news.
Cole found his mouth opened wide agape throughout the speech of inspector kunle. He wondered the type of game inspector kunle is playing, he is giving the credits to himself and his team and not the CIB.
Cole shook his head, well he got what he wanted and that was good for him.

“What’s going on?” Nora’s voice sounded behind Cole.
Cole looked back, she was already walking towards him and was just inches away.
Nora had changed into something more flexible and coverable, she was putting on bumshort and a blue armless top.

“I'm sorry babe, I have to get to work now” cole said and hurried back into the bathroom to take his bath.
Nora shook her head, this ain’t gonna go down well… Not for once.

She locked all doors including the door out of the sitting room and sat down on the bed awaiting Cole’s arrival.
Cole came out in a jiffy, dressed up and made to leave, he looked back at nora, his hand was on the door handle. He turned, walked up to her and gave her a peck on her cheeks.

“I will be back soon babe” he said glancing back at Nora who never smiled.
Cole turned the door knob but it didn’t give way, it was locked. He shook his head and looked back.

“I'm sorry, you ain’t going anywhere throughout this week” Nora said as she stood up and cat walked towards Cole.

“Oh No! Nora please I have to go” Cole begged.

“I guess you already promised me you gonna stay for the whole week”

“Yeah I did but plans do change, and this is one.”

“I don’t care, just make love to me baby” Nora said unbuttoning his shirt.

"Oh my God!” Cole gasped