Far away.

**Alfredo Mafia Empire**

"She has escaped again, is this girl a witch or something? That you cannot find her? Is that so hard for you to do?" Alfredo yelled.

"We tried our best boss; we didn't even know she escaped." The gang leader replied.

"Just get out of my sight now!" He ordered and they bow before leaving, lucky for not to get killed.

He walked around the room; his fears are not because he cared about Sergio and his reputation, but about himself too, because before Sergio attacked Carlos, Alfredo attacked him first, so his own reputation is at stake if that girl escaped alive.

He called Sergio.

"Man, that girl has escaped, again, I'm so sick and tired of this, I decided to go find her myself." Alfredo said loudly, more like yelling.

"That girl is so stubborn, but Ricardo got this, he is working on his laptop 24/7 searching for her, I'm sure he will...."

"Please, don't talk about your coward brother, he has been searching for her all his days and no news from him, my reputation is at stake right now and I will have to find her myself, if you are interested, meet me at my Empire tomorrow." Alfredo cut him off, ordered and hung off then smashed the phone on the wall.

He immediately called for an emergency meeting.

"This work is special since all of you have proved to be incapable of getting a girl, I will do it this way, the first person to inform me of her whereabouts will get a huge amount of money and a new gun." Alfredo said and they rejoiced with the spirit sure that they will find her.

**Two weeks later**

Mama called Akina and told her to meet her at home and when she arrived, she greeted Mama, and the other lady she saw her with.

"Akina, meet Dije, my daughter, Dije, she is Akina, the girl I told you about." Mama said.

"Nice to meet you Dije." Akina replied.

"Thanks, and saw, Mama has informed me about you, so in the compound, I'm staying, there is an available room, you can rent and leave the hotel, and I also work as a cooker in a local restaurant, if you can work with me, you can earn something for yourself, that's only if you are interested." Dije said.

"Of course I am, thank you so much, this means so much to me, thank you." Akina said happily.

She turned to Mama.

"You are the best Mama; I thank my stars for bringing you to me when I needed you the most." Akina said and hugged her.

**One month later**

Ricardo became restless as he completely lost track of Akina, he had so many thoughts in his brain like what if Sergio killed her, but when he confronted Sergio, he told him, he is also searching for her, and he agreed because they are always on phone with Alfredo discussing finding her.

He decided to search everywhere; every corner in the street, every village but it yields him nothing in return.

On the other side, Alfredo and Sergio never stopped searching too; they are looking for every town, village, street, corner, and hotel around and outside South Africa but to no avail.

As Ricardo continues his investigation, he gets to find out where she lives with the help of a secret spy he assigned to look for her, he wasted no time as he drove his car to the address sent to him.

On arriving there, the house was empty.

"This place is empty, no one lives here." Ricardo muttered and decided to leave; maybe it was the wrong address.

"Young man!" Someone called him and when he turned, he saw an elderly woman.

"Hey ma, Please I'm looking for a girl with short hair, is she around?" Ricardo asked.

"Akina, right? She lives here with her mom when she ran away to Kenya without any reason, and her mom returned to her family since she has nobody now, I'm her neighbour." The woman replied.

"That's sad, but how did you find out?" Ricardo asked.

"Her mom told me before leaving, it seems like the girl is in some kind of danger, she told me she is leaving for Nairobi Kenya, are you her friend?" She replied.

"Yes, I am, and thanks for the information." Ricardo replied and quickly left, he knew he had to follow her to Kenya for her protection and he would try all ways to avoid his brother from finding out.

He left for Kenya that same day, without knowing that Alfredo had gotten that news already and he set to leave for Kenya that same day.

Antonio's secret spy also informed him about Akina's whereabouts and he took a flight to Kenya immediately.

**Nairobi, Kenya**

As Alfredo arrived in Nairobi, his search for Akina continued, he thought she may have gone to a hotel, so he connected with every hotel agent till he found the hotel and room she settled in.

He attacked the hotel that night but to his surprise, she packed out just yesterday.

*

Antonio also arrived in Kenya and he also got the hotel address she lived through his spy, but just as Alfredo left, Antonio entered the hotel and he was disappointed to find out she packed out just yesterday.

*

Akina was on her way to the market when Alfredo saw her, he followed her down and inhaled some chemical into her nose, she struggled to breathe and he took her away.

He was about to put her in his car, satisfied that the witness would be no more when Antonio appeared with a gun. He placed Akina on the floor and they started shooting at each other.

Akina opened her eyes and slowly escaped from the scene, her heart beating, she thought her problems were over but she was wrong, she continued running and without knowing, someone came behind her back and hit her with a stick on her back head, she passed out and fell on the floor.