Crime To Love - Episode 20

Jennifer had been very uncomfortable since the day she heard that her beloved Cyril was to be killed. Her problem was in two dimensions in the sense that she loved Cyril so much; she really didn’t want him to die. Chike was her brother and she didn’t want her brother to be implicated and sentenced for any punishment by the law. The only remedy to that situation was reporting to the police thereby making Chike be charged with a case of attempted murder. She was now tensed up; this is the only thing she finds very difficult to tell Chizoba her best friend even when Chizoba was so curious to find out why she was always moody and scared.

She was now in Cyril’s home a night before the proposed killing is to be carried out. She begged to join Cyril to Enugu, for the case; Cyril refused at the first time and later accepted to travel with her. She was happy that at least she would do something to delay their time which would make the assassins go after waiting.

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The cloud gathered northeast of the city in a manner that usually preceded a rainy day. The sunrays romanced the clouds as a somewhat in despicable atmosphere pervaded the Enugu road

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. The traffic congestion seemed to be heightened by the increase in number of road users fling out from the joining roads. Cyril and Jennifer had finished preparing and drove to Enugu road. After few minutes of drive Jennifer cried out that she had forgotten her phone at home. He had no option than to revise the car and move back from the same direction they came from. When they reached, they searched for the phone everywhere but could not find it. Jennifer who was shedding crocodile tears knew that she silenced the phone and hid it inside the seat of the car. Cyril didn’t know it was just a set-up and was busy searching for it, dialing the number. This made him forget that he was travelling. Jennifer looked at the wall clock and the time was still 11:15am she was happy because Chike’s plan would no longer work. After some minutes of searching for the phone Cyril asked Jennifer that he was already late that when they were back, they would search for it very well, she momentarily refused but later she accepted the suggestion. They left for the garage and entered the car. Cyril sped off to get to Enugu before 1:00pm, which was the time for the case.

An ash colored Volvo car with tinted screen was parked along Enugu road at a lonely spot. Inside the car, four boys had been waiting impatiently to terminate Cyril. After sometime, Stagger their main man who was at the steering picked his phone and dialed Onyeka’s number.

“hello guy we  never see any brown Toyota Camry along this road since today, wetin I want tell you be say, we have  other jobs at hand to handle if we wait for another fifteen minutes and no show we go move  from here I don’t tell you. And remember no refund of money” Stagger said pressing the red button.

“After making the call, Flash saw a brown Toyota Camry coming close to them, he informed his men.

          “Ibi like say the idiot don dey come  ...o...”

          Stagger looked through the rear mirror and nodded in affirmation.

          “Brother’s it gonna be a clean job”. Stagger smiled

          “I think all of you are ready” asked Flash.

When the car drew closer to them flash shifted to the other end of the back seat and straightened his leg. He zipped down his boot and fished out a revolver.

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. It had an incredible size of seven centimeters. Holysin held out a holster and slowly pulled out pistol from it. He looked into the mouth as though he suspected some mechanical fault. Assured of it condition, he held the pistol down and patted flash on the back. Cyril and Jennifer had finally arrived while Stagger drove the car and blocked their way, Cyril stopped his car confused on why the car blocked the road, Jennifer who  knew what was really happening was just shedding tears and remained speechless. Flash and Holysin came down from the car, Holysin with his pistol pressed the trigger at Cyril’s forehead. All Cyril heard was a thundering sound of the gun; they jumped into the Volvo and sped off. Jennifer’s lifeless body hung before Cyril. His shirt was stained by the blood gushing out of Jennifer’s body. He couldn’t bear the shock of Jennifer’s death in cold blood. Cyril cried and cried for help but it seemed to him he was in a desert because he only heard the echoes of his voice in a very far distance.