The Blast

Addy kept running, putting all his effort, looking back and hoping no one was coming after him. It was late in the night. The first time he would see the outside wall of his dungeon since he was captured about a month ago. He was terrified, jittery and shivering. What? He quickly took a cab, knowing he had no money, but was desperately trying to leave the vicinity. As the cab moved on, he began to behave as if he wanted to puke.         

“Hey, you drunk? Wanna puke? You can’t do that shit in my car. Lemme pull over and give ya the chance to do that shit.” The cabby said. Immediately Addy alighted and moved to the roadside as if he wanted to puke, he broke into a run.                  

“Hey! My money!”                 

But Addy was not ready to come back. He found a telephone booth. He begged a lady for some coins which he used.                 

“Hello..”                 

“Addy!” Aminu said with excitement. “What happened? Thank God! There has been a serious search going on for you…”                 

“I was abducted by Mason. He thinks I am Justin. God! He has most of the information about the Evolution. He just needs one or two more elements to succeed. He wanted me to find it.”                 

“Did you not tell him you are not Justin?”                 

“No.”                 

“Why? Why should you bear the cross?”                 

“He must not know that I am not Justin. He must not get to Justin, What he plans is bad. I have lived as Justin for years, all my life, deprived him of his privilege. I got all the things I had as claiming to be Justin. I plan to do this even when it is going to cost me my life. Mason must not get hold of him. If he gets him, it would affect humanity. I will do just this for him. I planned to kill him, yet he did this for us.’                 

“Not for you. He did it for his wife. His in law. Do not be soft now.”                 

“Softness is hiding under someone else’s shadow. Like we have done. I am not ready to go with this again. I give up on the TCO of a thing. I am just warning you; do not reveal Justin’s identity. Mason is worse than we think.”                 

“What does he plan to do? What is the Evolution all about?”                

 “God! It is……Oh my God! I have to go. I see his men coming.”                 

He left the booth and began to run.  

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Sule was sitting in his office when he received the call.                 

“Hello.”                 

He listened.                 

“Inna lillahi wai nna ilaihi rajiun.!” He got up abruptly. “ When, how?” He said as he ran out of the office. “I am on my way!”                 

He ran downstairs.

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Lori felt a stream of chilly wave crawling up her spine as she heard the sound of the door. Before she could scream, she saw Addy rush inside, all looking agitated. He looks messed up, his usual air of confidence and authority vanished. What she saw was a jittery man, befuddled and nervous.                  

“Addy!” She said.                 

“Hey.” He said coldly. “I just came to say I am ready.”                 

“Addy, what happened? Ready for what? We have been on hell looking for you! The police….”                 

“I don’t think the police can help me now.” He said. “I am ready to let you go.”                

“What?”                 

“That is what you wanted, right? The relationship is all about money and power and it seems I just lost them. Okay, I am not who or what you think I am. You can’t be with me because I can't give you what you want. You can go back to your modeling, get another big guy, just live your life. I will get to my lawyer before I leave. He would help with the process.” Addy said and went to the clothe closet, opened it, picked some bundles of money and put in his pockets.                 

Lori just stood gaping at him without a word.                 

“I have been worried all about you, and you just come back to say these?”                

“Lori you were worried because we had a deal. Now the deal failed. You don’t need to give a hoot about me anymore. I don’t know if I give a hoot about myself. I have being a jerk all of my life, now I think I know better. If there is one thing I don’t need in my life right now, it is a conditional love.” He said, carried his extra phone, charger and put in the pocket of his winter jacket.                 

He gave her a look.                 

“Besides, I am a fugitive. Not running from the conventional law but from a law underground. I don’t know if I may be useful to the world before I am killed. I gotta to face my problems. I don’t think I have much time to hang here. You saw how I was kidnapped. My life is dangerous. Lori, I loved you, I love you but the feelings were not reciprocal. 

I went out of my way to keep you, worship you and just pretend it was a sizzling love affair. I got to face the facts. I guess you would be happier without me. Do not worry, the alimony will be swell.” He opened a drawer and removed an AMT Automag ii pistol, and packs of bullets.                 

“I gotta leave, Lori.” He said.                 

“Where?”                 

“I don’t know.” He said. “I got no time. You can never tell with these people.”                

He went out of the room, checked left, and then right before he covered his head with the hood of his jacket and walked briskly down the corridor.                 

“Addy!”              

Addy turned to see Lori behind him. Her eyes were sulky, and she was breathing harder.                 

“Just like that? That’s it?”                 

“Do we have an opinion ? That’s it Lori. I explained it all.”                 

“You just can’t leave like that. I don’t want you to leave.”                 

“Lori, I am in trouble. I don’t want you to be part of this.”                 

“But I am part of it. I am part of your life and I love you.”                 

“You what?”                 

“I love you Addy.” Her eyes were now wet, “I want to be with you.”                 

“It is dangerous.”                 

“I know how dangerous it is. Why did you think I came after you before you entered for the test?”                 

“The test? How did you know it was a test?”                 

Lori’s lips twitched.                 

“Addy, get down!” She screamed before she fired a shot, Addy threw himself on the floor as a bullet zipped passed his head.                 

There were three men all in black suits coming from behind. These men were professionals.                  

“Come on!” She said. Addy got up, fired two shots and they went into hiding. He held Lori’s hand and they ran down.                  

The men came out of hiding.                 

“Kimmon!” One of them said. “Let’s go.”                 

Addy and Lori were down already. He opened her car door and got under the wheel while she jumped in, started the car engine by breaking the ignition and joining wires. He reversed, pulled out then asked, “What is going on Lori?”                

She glanced back.                 

“Mason Ford is my father!” she said.

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Sule watched Sa'ima crying and arranging her clothes into her box. He stood behind her, confused and nervous.                 

“Sa'ima, I have apologized. I did all I could to make sure it is over and I promise that it will never happen again.”                 

“I have forgiven you both.” Sa'ima said.                 

“Both? Me, inclusive?”                 

She tuned at him.                 

“Yes, Sule. You know the kind of wife you have and you brought me in to be killed. What if I died? You would mourn me for days and live on. I am not ready for this. I did not bargain for this. I love you but I will not let her kill me.”                 

Sule took in a deep breath. When he was called that day that Sa'ima was rushed to hospital, he had run out of his office. He had rushed to the hospital like a man chased by a raging fire. He was shocked to see Sa'ima in an agonizing state, wriggling in pains and psychologically derailed.                 

“What happened? What happened?” He had asked. The doctor had asked him to calm down because the patient was not in the state of explanation. The doctor explained using some medical terms Sule did not understand. What Sule deduced was that she almost lost her life but she would be okay. 

Sa'ima stayed in hospital for three days. When he asked her what happened, she refused to talk but just kept crying. It was after she was discharged, and they got home, she talked. Before she talked, Sule pounced on Mercy for not visiting her at the hospital. He said she was praying for her death. It was then Sa'ima began to cry, begging Mercy to forgive her.                 

“Please forgive me.” Sa'ima begged Mercy. “I am sorry for everything. If I had known, I would not have come into your lives. Please spare my life. I will leave your husband….”                 

“What are you talking about, Amina?” Sule asked.  

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