THE KILL JOB

THE KILL JOB EPISODE NINE

Kepha rushed out to meet his wife before she got inside the house and saw the mess, am not sure what explanation he was going to give for the screaming but I hope Angie bought whatever it was.

I wanted to silence Sabina for good for getting us in trouble but on second thoughts i thought of what would happen if Angie insisted on coming in. We wouldn't want her meeting a dead body as that would raise alot of questions and it would breach the trust between her and kepha and who knows, maybe it would land us in jail which was the same thing we had been trying to avoid.

I grabbed sabina's neck and pressed her on the wall and watched her fight for her breath. I had warned her against doing anything stupid and it's like she really wanted to die by my hands and clearly she had no idea of who i was or the fact that i kept my promises.

Kepha: Angie baby, you called?

Angie: I thought you took so long, what's going on back there?

She asked craning her neck to get a glimpse of who had screamed but Kepha kept her at bay.

Kepha: nothing you should be worried about really.

He turned her away from the servant quarter and walked with her towards the main house but she stopped abruptly and looked at him.

Angie: what's going on with you and Henry?

Kepha: what do you mean?

She walked towards the house and got in then kepha looked behind to make sure everything was okay and followed her in immediately.

Kepha: Angie what is it?

Angie: I heard a woman scream. Are you going to stand here and lie to me?... since Henry came back into your life you have been different.

Kepha: nothing has changed. You heard a woman scream alright and it's true only that it was in some video on Henry's phone and you can ask him to show you tomorrow if you want to confirm.

Angie didn't seem like she had bought that lie but left him and went to bed without speaking another word to him.

Hoping kepha had taken care of his wife, I only had that night to know all the information I needed to get from the two before I got rid of them. I can't believe I had gone my way protecting someone I thought was worth protecting only to find out he had been playing me along.

I let go of Sabina and she started coughing.

Me: how did you know about their brother yet you are not the wife, does he discuss all his issues with you?

Sabina: that's none of your business.

Me: oh yes, it's my business because if he tells you everything, it means he told you where they are holding my wife and son.

Sabina: I don't know anything about your wife or son.

Me: then that automatically makes you useless to me and do you know how i handle useless people?.

I grabbed her jaw and squeezed it fir an answer and she managed to push my hand off her jaw claiming i was hurting her and when i let go I shot her on the arm just to torture and get information from her. I knew the pain would eventually make her talk.

Me: where are they?

She didn't say a word but held on to her arm with tear rolling down her cheeks. I wanted to hear from Peterson so I untapped his mouth and he laughed, something that made me think I was dealing with a psycho.

Peterson: you are stupid if you think you will kill me and get away with it.

Me: I can get away with anything. You read my profile and you know how good I am. Thats why you hired me right? Who was your brother?

Peterson: Daniel Doka, C.EO of Doka oilers Ltd. You murdered him in cold blood and stole millions of shillings from him.

Me: I remember Daniel, he was tall, light skinned very dangerous and do you know why I killed him?

Peterson: I don't care of your reasons for killing him, all i want is justice for his death.

Me: no, if you want justice for his death then you should care enough to know why i killed him unless you are just interested in his money. See if you wanted justice served, I wouldn't be here right now, you wouldn't have employed me to work as your right hand man. What did you want to achieve by all that?

Peterson: ever heard of the phrase keep your enemies closer, I wanted to study you and know the type of a person you were before getting rid of you for good.

Me: wow, so much for the person I trusted But wait, why did Tom ask me to kill you because am trying to make sense out of it but it's not coming together.

Peterson: I wanted to know if you would really kill me so I asked Tom to kidnap your wife who by the way you shouldn't be calling your wife ... I asked Tom to give you those instructions and give you a motivation to push through.

Me: you killed my daughter!

Peterson: the accident wasn't part of the plan but we somehow needed to provoke you just so that you could do what we wanted.

First we needed James dead because he was a nuisance to the company and Tom told me to be alert because you wanted to kill me your way. Mariko told us about the poison and I knew it would somehow end up in my tea.

That came in as another shock. These guys were so idle that they would play with each other's lives just for fun and for what?

Me: what about the the first attack at your place, did you know about it too?

Peterson: I was aware of that too. That's why I was not at home.

Me: so who sounded the alarm and why dud they if you knew everything that was going on?

Peterson: Mariko did, on my orders of cause. He was also the guy on the bike you remember?

Me: wow!

Peterson: that's not the best part of it. You might think you are holding me hostage but by the time am done with you, you will have nothing to go back to.

Peterson's words sounded more like a threat. It's like he was so sure he was going to leave that place a live. I pulled the chair and sat right in front of him tapping the gun in the palm of my hand.

Me: Daniel was a fraudster. He stole huge sum of money in my father's company then killed him. I had no idea of what went down between them but after that my father's company crumbled and all the employees left. Soon after Daniel started his own, employing most of the people that worked for my father.

Being a gangster was not by choice. I came out of college knowing my father was going to hand over the company to me only to hear of his death with his most trusted employee having taken off with everything that was supposed to be mine. I joined the gang to earn a living but most specifically to hunt Daniel down.. something that took me a year and some months.

Peterson: my brother was not a murderer. Daniel could never harm a fly.

Me: yeah we all know that is bull s**t. You didn't give a damn of what your brother could or could not do because you were only interested in getting your hands in his money, my father's money. What you don't know is the same gang he hired to kill my father is the same gang I joined a few months after that kill job of cause not knowing but I found out when they revisited their old missions. Daniel became my point of interest and when I got a chance to kill him I didn't hesitate.

All that talk got me a bit emotional by just remembering how I found my dad after he was killed. It was horrible.

Me: I have told you why I killed Daniel so I want to know, why are you after me?

Peterson: haven't you been listening to me talk, I want revenge for my brothers death.

You might think you played your cards well but you underestimated my power.

Me: what does that even mean?

Peterson: the day you poisoned my cup, I asked someone to hide a camera in that kitchen without anyone's knowledge and it caught you doing your business. So knowing I wanted to get rid of James and we had an appointment, I had him drink from my cup. I loved the way you pretended to know nothing about the situation, that was perfect performance.

Me: so why didn't you turn me in to the police and get rid of me for good because you had the chance to?

Peterson: it was not yet time. I needed you to do some other criminating jobs.

Me: did you know i was going to save your life?

Peterson: no, that move really surprised me. The moment the dog started barking, I called tye police to get you arrested since I had reported all the attempts on my life but I wanted them to catch you in the act so that I would not have to do alot of convincing but you were fast to get out of there.

Me: who the hell are you?

Peterson: you have a weakness. You are too trusting. Things happen right under your nose and you are so damn clueless.

Peterson parables were getting me worked up. What wasn't he telling me? First he mentioned my wife not being a wife, what did he even mean with that phrase.

Me: I'm just realizing how crazy you and your brother are and you are not going to make me part of your madness. You can settle your s**t elsewhere and i will let you go. All i need you to do is let go of my wife and son.

Peterson laughed looking right at me and I felt mocked so I grabbed him by the collar of his shirt, hoisted him to the wall and gave him several blows before letting him drop but to my surprise, he was still laughing. "You can't kill Peterson" he said crawling to the corner and I kicked him in the stomach then hoisted him up again and threw him on the floor.

Sabina: (shouting) stop it!

I turned and walked to her and grabbed her arm pushing her towards Peterson.

Me: you care so much about him, then how about you became his body shield?

I said picking my gun from the beg and pointing it at them. Sabina knew I wasn't going to joke about spraying bullets on them so she asked me to stop for she was going to tell me where my wife was.

Me: start talking.

Sabina: you think your wife was kidnapped, well she was not.

She shouted that then went silent for a while and I was patiently waiting to hear the other bit of it.

Sabina: way before Peterson employed you, I met with your wife Betty in a hospital and she had gone for her prenatal check up. She was nervously waiting at the bench when a guy joined her and after they embraced each other then they went in to see the doctor together. I got interested in whatever that was because I knew who the man was and I knew he had a wife. I pretended to be one of the nurses and went into the doctor's office to collect some patient files and I overheard the guy telling her that they were keeping the baby and they would figure out what to tell Henry. By then I didn't even know who Henry was until 7 years later when you came to my boss's house for dinner and mentioned you had a wife called Betty. When you showed her photo I remembered it's the same lady I had seen a while back.

Me: where is this conversation going?

Sabina: if you are going to put a bullet inside anyone's head, you should put one inside your wife's head first. She betrayed you.

Me: now I know you think am joking.

Peterson: before you pull that trigger, you might want to have a DNA test done on your son...