ALL FOR MONEY

ALL FOR MONEY

Title: ALL FOR MONEY

EPISODE: 14

the door was opened and Jeremy stepped out and watched them drive away. The guards asked him if he knew who those guys were since they had been camping there for a while but he said he didn't know them. He went to his apartment and gave me a call to inform me that Bosco was already aware of where we lived and that meant we had to rent another apartment but he said he would work on it.

the following day Jeremy came for me in the evening. we both did not have a car so we took a cab to his new place. Jeremy always rents out furnished apartments. it's easier for him incase he needed to go out of the country he had Nothing to worry about. he sold his home after the wife died as he said it was full of things that were a constant reminder of his wife and little girl.

we got to the apartment at around 7pm. He had me lay on the couch then took my bags to my new room. He came back and removed the sling from his hand and prepared dinner. I got up to help him but he escorted me back to the couch and covered me with a blanket. he gave me strict warning not to get up until he said so. Such a gentleman i thought.. this was the sweetest version of him i was seeing after a the crazy things we had done. Had someone told me that Jeremy and I would be fighting this crazy battle together, I would not have believed him. I felt his pain after he had told me about his wife and kid i mean who would have imagined that he had gone through all that..was that the reason he couldn't keep a girlfriend, was he still holding on to the memory of his wife and kid?..

See all that stubbornness was just me trying to test his patience and figure out how real he was or how far i could go with it but so far, he was handling me just fine.... him standing by me at the funeral gave me confidence that he had my back and when I dipped his phone in a jar of water he didn't slap me like most men would do. was he acting or was this really him?...telling me about his family erased all doubts I had of him and all this time he was just a wounded man who had his emotions burried deed inside.

half an hour later the food was ready and he brought it to where I was. he helped me get up and him pampering me was a bit awkward on my end.

Me: I didn't break a bone you know, if you continue treating me like this I might get used to it.

Jeremy: that's actually the plan.

he served me and put the food on the table infront of me. I sat there staring at it but the appetite wasn't there at all.

Jeremy: you don't like the food, I can make something else.

Me: No, the food looks good, you don't have to stress yourself. can I ask you something?

Jeremy: sure.

He stopped whatever he was doing and shifted his focus on me..

Me: am I a bad person for killing all those people I killed?

Jeremy: No, you are not a bad person. you did what many people wouldn't do just to have that last moment with their family. it was so wrong for your mother in law to deprive you of that.

Me asking that was guilt of all the things I had done kicking in. I felt bad for the killing at the police station. We would have had a smooth escape had it not been for the police who drove in. I was unsettled in mind.

I heard Jeremys voice commanding me to eat my food then I snapped back.

I took a few bites of my it then placed the plate on the table.

Me: can I ask you something else?

Jeremy: yes

putting his plate down and giving me attention yet again..

Me: How comes you never married again after your wife died?

Jeremy: why do you ask?

Me: curiosity.. you are a good man. You deserve to be loved and I'm trying to find a reason why you haven't been in a stable relationship..

Jeremy: I have never found a woman who can take the place my wife had in my heart. everyone I meet has this certain expectations of me but she loved me for who I was. she loved me before i started making lots of money and she was there with me in a bed sitter and stuck with me when I didn't have anything to give. the rest, it's just about the money. Don't get me srong..am not complaining but there's no heart to heart connection with any of them.

There was a bit of a silence..

Jeremy: anything else you would like to know about my past?

Me: No, that's all for now.

Jeremy: so what's the plan with Bosco because he is pursuing you at a different level now and am afraid i might not hold him off for long before he gets me figured out. We need a plan

Me: let's work on getting better first then plan on the attack. report to him as usual as we buy some time for your arm to heal properly. I need to get in my right state of mind first before i pull that trigger on Bosco's head. I want to be sobber when I make him pay with his life for what he did with my family..

it's three weeks now since I got out of the hospital. Jeremy took leave from work to help me with the training. the kicking and the boxing. i had to get ready for this mission.

Jeremy came back from seeing Bosco and I was washing some new wine glasses he had bought the apartment had everything else except those. He came and took the kitchen towel to help wipe the glasses as he told me about his day.

Me: wait, you don't wipe glasses with that.

Jeremy: why not?

hanging the towel back.

Me: because the rug leaves some tiny particles in the glass so at the end of the day you will have to rinse the glass again before use.

Jeremy: okay...so what do I do?

Me: you take a clean rug, wipe the shelf then place the glasses facing down like this.

Jeremy: I see.

taking both my hand and the glass and looking me in the eyes. I blushed.

He stepped close and I stepped back then he smiled before arranging the glasses as I had shown him.

A few minutes later, I got a call from Mercy my employee at the botique. I received it and put the call on speaker as i continued cleaning the dishes..

Mercy: Madam Linda

Me: yes Mercy, is everything okay?

Mercy: No, some men came to the botique and set the place on fire.

Me: what was that?

Mercy: thank God I wasn't inside. I had to run for my life. everything else is on fire.

turn on the news, I can see a few journalists here

I hanged up and rushed to the living room. Jeremy was right behind me and when I turned on the tv, the place was on fire like she had said but the cause of fire was unknown according to the journalists.

I was startled. I had invested alot of money in that botique. I rushed to my room and picked my handbag but when I came back Jeremy stood in my way.

Jeremy: where do you think you are going?

Me: did you skip the part where Mercy said my botique is on fire?

Jeremy: I heard that but it's a trap. think of it this way, Bosco has not been able to lay his eyes on you or even get hold of you. he has run out of options and he has decided to burn the botique to lure you out of your hiding place. if you go there you will be dead because his men will shoot you on sight.

I walked back to the living room and put my bag down and gave what Jeremy had said a thought.

Me: you are right. Jeremy?

Jeremy: yes,

Me: what if Bosco is playing us again?

Jeremy: How?

Me: do you remember the day Bosco called me and asked me to say hi to my husband's friend?

Jeremy: yes, I do now..

Me: what if he knows about us working together and has been playing us all along?

Jeremy: The threat to put a bullet in my head if I failed to find or kill you.....oh s**t! he knows!....He would not have set the place a blaze if he didn't.. he actually knows!....