The Voice - Episode 23

Nora opened her eyelids for the umpteenth time in the day. Everywhere was dark and vague the last time she opened her eyes that was due to the blindfold that covered her eyes.
She blinked her eyes and closed it afterwards, her pupil was just adapting to its surroundings. She opened it the final time, now conscious to her environment.
The room was empty as usual but it looked dirty as though a broom never touched the plastered floor
for once.
She heard footsteps from a distance coming to the room she was kept hostage.
She still couldn’t visualize how she got there but she knew better.
she was kidnapped! But to be killed?
She can’t really tell.

The footsteps stopped at the doorstep and the door knob turned open.

Nora quickly closed her eyes pretending to be unconscious though she hardly breaths. She could hear the sound of the footstep stopping just before her. She felt tempted to open her eyes but she resisted the urge.

“Stop pretending and open your eyes” Nora was surprised. She never knew her pretense would be known so soon.
She opened her eyes to see a man dressed in an all black with a mask covering the face.
He wasn’t tall and wasn’t short just average like every other normal person.

“Who the hell are you?” Nora shouted but it was more of a whisper.

“Wrong question” The man in mask replied.

“Please! Why are you doing this to me?” Nora asked after finding her voice back.

The man grinned through the open holes of the mask.
“That’s a good question” The man circled Nora who was strapped to a wooden chair and stopped at her front.

“Cole caused this” The man looked away like he was hurt trying to hide the pain that engulfed him.

“He killed my wife.

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. ” he said tentatively in a low tune. “He killed her and I will have my revenge”

“But Cole never killed anyone” Nora retorted.

The man laughed and didn’t stop until he thought he had enough of it.

“Cole never killed anyone?” he mimicked Nora then laughed for a while.
“Well, I don’t blame you because you never knew who he was before you met him.”

“And who was he?”

“He was a monster, a deadly one at that. He was thevone that compelled me to kill too”
Nora found his words meaningless, it doesn’t make any sense to her.

How could cole be a killer and the monster that compelled him to kill.

“He was an hired assassin, he kills without leaving a trace” the man started circling her again. “No one knew him to be a killer not even me.”

The man again stopped at her front, “He was popular in the game and they respected him a lot. Cole was a carefree type. he made life convenient for people but once you’re on his death list… You
die and no one would find his trace.”
The man squatted in front of Nora and placed his two hands on Nora’s thighs.
Nora twitched her legs trying to snap the hands off but she couldn’t.
Reason? 

She was tied.

“I had been wondering who this smart dude is and why he was never caught.

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. My curiosity got the better of me when he killed my wife.” The man smiled in his masked face. “She was beautiful like a goddess and I really do love her.. I loved and I still love her. That's’s why I can’t stop until I have my revenge.”

“After the death of my wife, I became determined to know who the killer really was but then, Cole suddenly stopped being an assassin. He became a better person and joined the CIB bureau with a new identity. Cole wiped off his memory himself to keep the past away from haunting him and then he became something else. he became a detective, trying to keep the state peaceful but my main objective is to make life a living hell for him after which I will kill you just as he killed my wife”

Nora froze at the point of being killed.

What?

Cold was once an assassin?

“I will kill everyone he loves starting with you. I will….” a sound interrupted him.

He brought out a small device from his pocket and saw it blinking red.

Oops! Cole has found him!

~

Cole locked his office door and pressed the combination codes to permanently lock it.
He stepped into the elevator and pressed the exit button.
He walked out of the elevator as it opened.
Cole jumped on his powerbike and sped off towards the location blinking on the tracker.
He loved speed and it helped clear off his head.
Backups were just getting ready and he couldn’t wait.
He really needed to teach the son of a bitch an indelible lesson.

Cole noticed a truck on his trail through the rear view mirror.
The black truck changed Lane and started speeding towards him in the opposite direction.
He always had very sharp Instincts, he trusts his guts so much.
He quickly slowed and jumped off the bike into nearby shrubs before the truck made impact.

The noise was deafening. Cole rolled far away from the collision deeper into the shrubs.
He quickly pulled out his phone and speed dialed a code.
It sent a signal to the CIB, indicating that he was in trouble and they could track his location.

A team was sent to his location immediately. Cole's eyes were closing and he was fast losing consciousness. He barely heard what was going on around him.

The last thing he heard from the crowd confirmed his fears.
The driver of the truck was no where to be found.