THE KILL JOB

THE KILL JOB EPISODE FIVE

The following day I stayed at home cooking another strategy knowing if I failed this time it was a done deal. I called Tom asking if he could add me just one more day so that I could go see my daughter then come complete the mission but he didn't have ears for it. "24 hours Henry, that's all you've got. I hanged up a devastated man. Did this Tom guy even have a heart or he was just some robot without feelings?

My next plan was to wait for Peterson by the road leading to his home and finish him off. Mariko called me with a reminder that I only had that day and asked if I needed help but I declined. My plan was to do the mission alone and if I failed, I would just kill Mariko instead and disappear. The fact that Betty and the kids moved out meant Tom had no idea where they were staying.

In the evening at around fifteen past five o'clock I left my house and drove off knowing Peterson had already left the office. I drove to a junction and parked my car waiting of cause having put my ski mask on so that no one could recognize me.

Peterson's car took long to pass or could it have been that he had already gotten home, did he leave office earlier that usual,.... I decided to exercise my patience and wait for a few more minutes.

As I was waiting, I had my gun in hand visualizing how I was going to do it. Peterson's driver was an experienced shooter and that meant I was going to have to take him out first.

A few minutes later, I saw Peterson's car approach and when it was nearing I drove mine and blocked it's way then shot at the driver through the windscreen and because I wanted to make sure the driver was dead, I got out, went to the car and pulled the door finishing him off completely but when I checked the back to kill Peterson, he was not there and infact the driver that I had shot dead was not the same one that shot me the other day.

Having had a silencer on my gun made me carry out the shooting with no one noticing and whoever got curious did maybe because of how I had crossed the other car right in the middle of the road. After realizing I had gotten the wrong person, I quickly got in my car and took off.

What had just happened, I asked myself driving into my compound and after I got out I took off the black tape altering with my number plate and went inside to drown my frustrations. The reason for covering the number plate was so that no police would trace me just in case someone took note of my number plate.

Before I got hired by Peterson I was a gangster, I killed and robbed for a living and my name then was Bunde which is slang for gun and the people in my inner circle knew just how dangerous I was. I had graduated with a degree in engineering but I looked for a job for like two years without a job and with all the demands in life, I had to make things happen. I got in touch with some of the baddest crew there was at school and formed a three men gang. We raided a police car one evening during patrol and stole their pistol and that's how we began our job.

We would h****k rich men vehicle and Rob them off money and anything valuable they had, we were not petty thieves as we had a goal by the end of the day. I was the leader of the squad but there was nothing big to that because whenever we went for a mission, the cut would be equal for all of us.

Money is sweet and it's also the root to evil. If you love money you have to work for it and for me it didn't matter how we would get it as long as it was there when I needed it. Like I said, we were not petty thieves so trust me we would dress in suites presenting ourselves as rich business men looking to do business with the top notch business men. We had connections and whatever we needed to pull such stunts were available. The business men would eventually trust us and a few weeks later we would strike. Sometimes we were very discreet on how we went about business but sometimes it would just turn out messy if the guy wasn't cooperative.....

I lay down on my bed staring at the ceiling wondering what I would tell Ndege in a few hours. Why was Peterson not in the car and who was that guy I shot? The car was Peterson's and I made sure of it because I had previously noted his number plate. Could he have known about my plan and if he did then how?

ELSEWHERE

Tom had one of his guys follow Betty at the hospital and when he got there, he pretended to be having a patient in one of the wards so he went around and took note of the ward Aliyah was in then left the hospital for his car and waited for Betty and Brandon to leave do that he could follow them.

Betty had to watch over Aliyah during the day, then pick Brandon from school and take him home in the evening as she had to make sure he was ready for school the following morning.

Betty drove off to her sister's place, her sister had gone to the UK for a few months and she had asked Betty to check on her house severally until she got back. Betty's sister had a fiance whom she was intending to marry so he had called her over to shop for her gown and a few other things.

After the guy saw Betty's new residence he did not make himself noticed but left eventually. He drove back to the hospital to go pay Aliyah a visit.

I called Tom at a few minutes past 9:00pm and I wasn't sure what I was going to tell him but I needed to give a report anyway. Never in my life had i felt this helpless and pushed to the wall. They said loved ones were liability and somehow I began to think it was true, if only my wife and kids were not in the picture then they wouldn't have a gun to my head threatening life out of someone I loved.

Tom: what do you have, is he down?

Me: no. I need more time

Tom: I don't have more time, what i have is deadlines to meet and a business to take over.

Me: you want to kill him and take over his business?

Tom: why else would you think I want his dead, that bastard took everything from me.

Me: I attacked his car today and thought I had killed him only to find the driver dead but he was not there. I have been trying for a whole week but he has been so slippery.

Tom: perhaps you didn't understand the terms I laid down before you started this job and it looks like you need some motivation.

Me: motivation.... See I know you read my files before forcing me into this job and you should know that no one threatens me regardless of who they are. You touch a hair on my wife or kids and I promise to rain hell on you.

Tom: such a confident speech on some who has a lot to loose. I want Peterson dead by morning and I don't know how you are going to do it but if I find out he is still breathing when I wake up, you better start planning for a funeral.

With those words he hanged up and having been so angry by everything he said I left the house, got in my car and drove off. Tom had woken a beast in me, a beast that by the time I would be done with him, he would have wished he never crossed my path.

I got in my car and drove off to Mariko's room and when I got there he was with some girl as usual. He opened the door half way and asked me what I was doing there but instead of answering I pointed the gun to his head and asked him to get in. The lady screamed and I shot her I the head. The last thing I needed was her drawing attention before I was done with my reason for paying Mariko a visit.

Mariko: what the hell did you do that for?

Me: I will be doing the questioning. I want to know everything there is to know about Tom

Mariko: am telling you nothing, you have no idea who you are messing with.

Me: no I don't but that's why am here and if you don't tell me that i need to know, you will be making headlines in tomorrow's news. Man kills girlfriend then kills himself, how about that?

He looked at me nervously and by the way he was looking around I could tell he was searching for his gun with his eyes but I had put him in a tight spot.

Mariko: Tom has a wife but they don't have any children.

Me: where do they live?

He gave me the address of both where Tom lived and where his wife worked.

Me: why does he want Peterson dead?

Mariko: it's just beef they have had for sometime. Peterson's dad was Tom's father too but he failed to recognize him as his son and when he died, Tom was not included in the will. That made him mad and decided to go after Peterson who also stole his girl and left him with nothing.

Me: how many guys work for Tom?

Mariko: me and three others. Drop the gun man, I can help you get Tom?

Me: i know what loyalty means and I know that as soon as I let you go, you will either put a bullet in my head or tell Tom what I'm up to.

Mariko: and what the hell are you up to?

Me: let's just say you will never find out.

I pulled the trigger and shot him in the head.

I picked Tom's shirt, held his gun with it and put it in his hand placing his finger on the trigger and pointing it at his head then slowly walked out as if nothing happened.

I had been trying to do stuff the Tom way but I realised I was becoming his slave, Tom had just got the wires crossed and this was me waging war on him.

The following morning I was woken up at around 9:00am and when i checked the caller it was Betty. My head was a bit heavy having taken a lot if whisky the previous night so i lazily received the call and put the phone on my ear will my eyes still closed.

Betty was crying and that immediately got my attention so I got up and sat.

Me: what's going on, why are you crying?

Betty: it's Aliyah.

Me: what about Aliyah?

I asked with a beat in my heart thinking I knew exactly what she was going to tell me.

Betty: Aliyah, is gone.... My baby is dead.

Then she broke down again and on hearing that, I hanged up still trying to process what I just heard.

No. My baby girl couldn't be dead... Not Aliyah!

I quickly got out of bed and walked to the bathroom, watched my face and stared hard at the mirror having a flashback of one of the best moments i had with my princess.

Aliyah: dad is having a boyfriend a bad thing?

Me: no it depends,

Aliyah: on what?

Me: let me get this first what do you understand by having a boyfriend?

Aliyah: I think it's just the same as having a friend who is a girl.

Me: that's very true Aliyah. It's okay to have a boyfriend but right now you are growing into a young beautiful lady and you need to be careful as far as boyfriend is concerned.

Aliyah: my teacher said we are in an adolescent stage and our body is changing.

Me: your teacher is right.

Aliyah: what is our bodies changing into?

Betty: Aliyah, your dad is not the right person to ask those questions.

Me: why not, she needs to be aware of these things lest she ends up making mistakes we can prevent.

Aliyah was a rare breed. She was indeed my daughter because she was the one who made me stop being an ordinary man to dad. She gave me a different title from the gangster everyone knew and because of her, I became a better man. She was a go getter, very fun to be around and she was the comedian of the family, a smiling machine that lit everyone's moods however crappy the day had been. Death had robbed me off one of the priceless things I had in life and what I have left is the last moment I had with my daughter on phone as she said I love you Dad, come home soon...

Yes I was preparing to go home but for what if I wasn't going to see my princess again, why wasn't she given a second chance like anyone else to live her dream, why did she have to die at 16?

All that were interrupted by a call that came through from the hotel that Mariko had been staying in and when i picked, a young lady spoke to me telling me Mariko was dead and when i asked what had happened to him, she told me he killed himself and my number was among the frequently called numbers in his phones do she thought I was close to him in some way.

I told the lady I was not in town at the moment so that they could do whatever they had to do, I mean that was now the work of the police since I had done my part, yes I killed him and there wasn't any big deal about his death as he was just another criminal dead infact I had done the police a favor and after that it was their mess to clean as long as the narrative on my end was in controlled.

I hanged up, got dressed but just before I could leave the house i got a call from Tom.

Me: I haven't killed Petersonif that's what you called to ask.

Tom: yeah, I knew you wouldn't so incase you haven't heard, you will be hearing bad news soon.

Me: you killed my daughter, that was you?

Tom: I told you I would take down your family but you though I was calling bluffs.

Me: you don't know what you did, it might interest you to know that Mariko's body is headed to the mortuary as we speak and am on my way coming to put a bullet in your head just like I did mariko. Wait for me!

I got in the car and left for Nairobi to spend the last moment with my daughter before permanently saying goodbye to her. As for , my kill job target had changed from killing Peterson to hunting Tom down. He was going to pay for my daughter's death...