There enemy was not within them.

"What are you trying to insinuate?" Antonio shouted back. Now Rashuel and Doctor James pointed their guns at the minister of affairs.

"Everyone exit the building, now!" Someone shouted from the emergency room. Wails and cries of people rose in the hotel.

Smoke began to spread in the building and some began to cough including the three men in the room.

A surprise understanding and unexpectedly very co-operative union happened in the room as three of the men put their guns down understanding their enemy was not within them.

"Protect the minister!" A voice shouted from outside the room.

"Move! Move! Move!" The guards continued to shout.

Rashuel now thought that he was not the only one seeking someone's death but he won't let anyone beat him to it. He needed to take the action first.

He covered his nose as he went through the enormous smoke flaming in the corridor and he headed towards the secluded elevator with Doctor James and Antonio thrilling in front. The three men went inside the elevator heading towards the ground floor with two of Antonio's bodyguards with them.

As the door of the elevator was about to close, Rashuel gunned two of the guards down and pushed Antonio out of the elevator and the door shot close.

Before Doctor James could ascertain what was happening, a strong hand rammed into his chest, sending him whimpering on the floor. He saw Rashuel moving like a figure in a close-up slow motion.

Rashuel secured Doctor James' gun in his hands and he pointed the two guns at him.

"I think it's best to say nice to meet you again old friend now," Rashuel said sarcastically in a tormenting voice that made Doctor James protruding stomach creep in fear and he felt the need to remove the excessive water threatening to come out which was making his legs shake and if the police didn't show up to save him, he might release it here, right in front of Rashuel.

Well, the police were coming but not to save him rather to arrest him after the video of him drugging his wife had spread in the whole city.

The ding-dong of the elevator sparked a flash of new hope that he thought at the opening of the elevator, he would see people who would save him. But was wrong, his hope shattered when Rashuel was ordering him to go to the left deserted corridor where he noticed the CCTV was off.

"You're gonna regret doing this to me. The police will surely come for you. You will surely go back to the prison where you belong."

"Shut the fuck up and keep moving!" Rashuel bawled.

James felt the impact of a blow throughout the length of his jaw, jarring his flesh as he rolled on the floor.

He knew he was rolling and going down the staircase and he waited to roll and reach the point of his death.

That's the prize he had to pay for his sins and if the police were not coming faster to save him, he wished Rashuel would end him quickly without letting him go through so much pain.

He didn't have the time to feel the pain of torture as he never gave people time to feel it when he dealt with them, so no one should make him feel it.

"Shot the trigger if you're so eager for it, there's no need to waste time on it," James shouted when his body had stopped rolling and the air that met him told him they were outside the building.

"I said, shut up!"

"Hit me and kill me if you're a man!" He said the words as he let it come out as a grunt, which was a blending of curse, a prayer, and a groan. Though he manned his fears in front of Rashuel, deep down he was praying for his dear life.

****

As Roselle had watched the three men go into the hotel, she set her timer and ordered her men to station in their assigned posts.

"We've got an issue here," Sebastian said as they were about to go to their designed location to carry out their plan.

"What's the problem?" Roselle's voice hushed.

"It seems it's not only us who got an enemy here. In fifteen minutes, the police might arrive here, there's a video of Doctor James drugging his wife, and it's spreading so fast that I doubt the police will take time to arrest him."

"That man is truly a dawn bastard. Keep tracking him."

"Yes, I'm on it." Sebastian's hands were tapping hastily on his tracking device and laptop as Roselle put the smoke right inside the room the men had gone into in order to get them out of the room.

She ordered her man stationed in the security room to off the light in the room.

Sebastian watched the men on the three screen point guns at each other.

"What's happening in the room?" Roselle inquired.

She had entrusted Sebastian to control the monitoring and tracking of Doctor James.

As he relayed the information, she added more smoke in the room.

"They're exiting the room, their elevator is going down the ground floor."

"Keep your eyes on him."

"Sure." As he replied this, he saw Rashuel, kill and push the minister off the elevator. He saw it, but he didn't let Roselle know about the presence of Rashuel.

Roselle and Sebastian ran into the corridor which had been deserted after security measures had been taken in evacuating the people to safety.

They swiftly made their way towards the direction Doctor James was dragged to, tracking him through his phone number, aiming to door-step him before he could escape.

"He is going outside the building." Sebastian alerted and they took a swift turn and busted the left-ajar door open and badged into the room.

The couple in the room shuddered in fear as the man curdled his wife in protection and Roselle didn't miss to hear the woman scream, "Is that not the city bitch? It's her, I'd seen her on Tv. Hurry call the police!"

Roselle and Sebastian jumped off the window.

****

Rashuel still with Doctor James, he watched James crawl backwards as he gagged him. About to shoot the trigger, Rashuel felt a harsh pain in his head.

For a split second, there was doubt, anguish and suspense as Rashuel lifted his eyes to see who the hell was stopping his long dread revenge.

To Rashuel's greatest surprise, the city bitch was pointing her gun right in front of him.

As if Roselle had gone through a sudden tremendous transformation when she had run in and kicked the man gagging Doctor James, she felt a new anger brew in her heart. The man she held responsible for the pain and mystery in her life was looking at her with cold eyes that she felt to release the trigger on him.