WORLD APART - CHAPTER 13&14
5pm
Edward’s Estate
It was past five when the assassins arrived at the estate. They were putting on a pizza company uniform so as not to cause any suspension movement. They were four in number,three successful passed the entrance while one remained outside for security purposes.
The three armed assassins surrounded the house of the Edwards.
Ixora came out of the bathroom,she stood by her dressing mirror and applied her lotion to her skin. She heard faint footsteps coming from downstairs but she ignored it. Perhaps it would be one of the securities,she thought.
She wore her clothes and heard a closer footstep,she looked through her window and saw some figures running by.
“Who are they? Invaders!” She panicked and reached for her phone,she called the cops.
She ran to the sitting room to alert her parents but she found out a window was already manipulated meaning they were already inside. She ran back to her room and woke her sleeping brother. She closed his mouth and they walked towards their wardrobe.
“J-boy do not come out of here no matter what until I come to bring you out okay?”
“But why?” He asked curiously.
“Shhhh..” She placed her finger on his lips and looked backwards before looking at him.
“Don’t ask questions just do as I have said” she warned and he nodded. She carried him up and kept him inside her wardrobe. She pecked his cheek before closing the doors of the wardrobe.
She took her pepper spray and left the room,she saw their foot prints and she could tell they were three in number. She went into the kitchen and turned on the tap and hid at the back of the door.
The assassins heard the sound of the water and paused,they turned to each other.
“I’ll check what it is” one said and walked into the kitchen,the door was wide open. He walked towards the kitchen sink, Ixora tiptoed out of her hiding place and she hit him with a roller and he slumped instantly. She dragged him and tied him with a rope. She turned to leave and she met one pointing a gun at her.
“What did you do to him?” His thick voice asked.
“Please don’t ki|| me” Ixora pleaded.
“Raise your hands up” he ordered and she did so.
Ixora being smart enough thought of a plan to trick him.
“Sir…” she called.
“What?” He barked.
“There’s a rat on your pant”
“Huh… A rat?” He looked down, immediately Ixora sprayed the content into his eyes. She snatched his gun and hit him really hard that he bled from his nose. He kept screaming and she knocked him out with his gun. She switched off the kitchen light,locked the kitchen door and kept the keys in her pockets.
“I have one more rat to tackle” She mocked and she headed to her parents room. When she arrived at their door she heard the groaning of her mom. She pushed the door and the masked man ran towards her direction with the aim of escaping but she sprayed the pepper spray into his eyes and hit him off with his gun which fell on the floor. In aim of searching for his sight, Ixora placed her legs on his way and he tripped and bumped his head to the floor before blacking out.
“Mom” Ixora ran towards Aurora who was bleeding seriously.
“Dad what happened to her?”
“An invader came in and before I could do anything he stabbed her with a penknife” Richard said wiping off the sweats on his forehead.
“Oh my God,please call an ambulance” Ixora said.
Richard searched for his phone and called the ambulance. Aurora was running out of strength as she struggled to keep her eyes open but she couldn’t,her eye lids closed and Ixora’s heart sank.
“Mom!! Wake up please!!!” She screamed.
“Baby girl stop screaming,mom wouldn’t die okay, she’s gonna be okay. Where’s Jerry?” Her anxious father asked.
“I left him in…” She turned around sharply and saw him grazing at them. he walked closer when he saw his mom in pools of her own blood.
“J-boy I remembered warning you not to come out of the hidden place,why then did you disobey?”
“I’m sorry big sis,I heard you screaming and I became terrified so I sneaked out” he said with his little eyes glued to his mom.
“What happened to mom” he asked curiously.
“Mom is gonna be fine” Ixora said pressing her lips together cause she wasn’t sincere with herself.
They heard the siren of the cops and the ambulance same time. Richard quickly carried Aurora gently in a bridal style and went outside. She was taken and the ambulance moved. The cops matched inside the house and bundled the three assassins into their van down to the station.
Zack Rowland underground Mansion
Zack was seated on his rocking chair smoking a pipe. High music was been played while girls danced and whined their body before him. He watched them and kept smiling foolishly,the room smelt choking and suffocating but non cared cause they were all drunk except Zack. He continued feeding his eyes with their dance moves.
A guard walked in bowing his head. His face wasn’t looking bright at all.
“Master there is a problem”
Zack drew a long straw of smoke from the pipe and released them slowly. He ordered the music to be stopped and dismissed the girls.
“What’s the problem?”
“Master the operation didn’t go as planned”
Zack adjusted himself on his chair.
“Speak out!!”
“Master the three other men didn’t do their jobs well. I was inside the car few meters from the house waiting for them to come out successfully but I was surprised when I saw the cops van together with an ambulance. I tried calling their lines but no one picked up” The guard enunciated.
“What about the woman and the kids uh?” Zack roared.
“The cops took the men into their van,the kids were untouched but the woman was taken to the hospital” he said.
“What!!!”
“I’m sorry master”
“Gosh bunch of fools,is there anytime you do a job without messing up uh?”
“Sorry master”
“Shut it up fool,get out before I take out your d@mn brain!!” The guard ran out.
Zack broke the bottles of alcohol as he continued smoking.
“I’ll ki|| them myself” He said with his eyes filled with fury and hatred.
TBC..