Must Read: Secrets – Episode 11

 

Episode 11

 

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01:13 am, A Mansion outside

 

the City.

 

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“Whoever made the videos

 

knew what she or he was

 

doing. I can tell you that I and

 

my wife have been framed up.

 

Someone wants us to take the

 

fall for their sins…” Stanley said.

 

Eve, Stanley and the three

 

doctors were startled with the

 

sudden entrance of Maxwell’s

 

armed men into the room. From the look of their faces, they were angry, afraid and surprised. Stanley did not know what might come next and so he shielded Eve with his body, just in case the men were to pounce on them. “Stanley, you are right.

 

Mayo knows something about the videos,” one of the armed men stated with the

 

gesture of a man who had just uncovered a great secret. “Where is he now?” .

 

Stanley asked, expecting the

 

men to lead Mayo into the room.

 

“We did not find him in his

 

house, but we found enough to know he knows much,” the armed man said with a sadistic smile on his face. Breathlessly

 

Eve and Stanley waited for the man to let the cat out of the

 

bag. “Someone made it to

 

Mayo’s house before us. We

 

found two dead masked men in his house and two na.ked girls in his bedroom.

 

There were bullet holes in some parts of his house. Clearly there was a shootout in

 

his house. We didn’t find Mayo. He may be on the run. Someone wants him dead.”

 

Eve, Stanley and the three

 

doctors took sigh of relief.Kindly share out more interesting stories from generalloaded.com using the floating social media icon buttons below

 

Stanley had given them Mayo’s

 

name because he was the one

 

who told him about the videos

 

and was the person Maxwell

 

wanted to have a chat with.

 

Stanley did not know how it

 

was going to go down if they

 

had found Mayo, but he had to

 

give them his name to save

 

himself and his new wife. “What we saw in Mayo’s house confirms what we have always feared; there is someone or

 

some people out there who do

 

not want the videos found. They want you, all your friends and whoever knows about the

 

videos and how to find them

 

dead,” the armed man said and

 

stepped closer to Stanley.

 

Like a bolt from the blue, he stretched his hand toward Stanley for a handshake and said, “You have just saved yourself and your pretty wife by narrowing down our search.”

 

Stanley shook his hands in spite of himself, wondering what would come next. The man brought out his phone, fiddled with it a bit and showed Stanley some pictures.

 

“Do you know any of these

 

men?” The pictures were those

 

of two dead men on the floor.

 

There was way too much blood

 

on their faces. Stanley and Eve

 

studied the images for a while

 

and said, “No, we don’t recognize any of them.”

 

“Then they are just who we think they are, assassins sent to kill Mayo. They are the men we found

 

dead in his house.”

 

Stanley already knew that. He

 

recognized some of the

 

furniture in the pictures. The

 

man swiped the images,

 

revealing new ones. “How about these na.ked ladies, does any of you know them?”.

 

One look at them Stanley said, “They are students and must be around eighteen and twenty

 

years. Mayo has a bent for tender girls. He must have given them Pendulum. Did you get the girls to a hospital?” Stanley asked with alarm in his voice.

 

The armed man nodded and

 

said, “Yes, we did. My daughter

 

is about their age. I could not

 

leave them to die there.” “Thank you sir.” “You are welcome Stanley.”

 

The armed man’s phone rang and he moved a bit to take it. He didn’t talk long before he came back and handed the phone to Stanley and said, “My boss wants to speak with you.” Stanley took the phone from him and said,“Hello.”

 

“Mr. Stanley, I am grateful for how helpful you have been to us so far. How is your wife?” “She is fine.”

 

“You must be wondering who I am. I am Maxwell. I understand my men have mentioned to you who I am. I have an offer for you,” Maxwell said and paused as if to read Stanley’s mind.

 

Stanley on his part waited with

 

bated breath to hear the offer.

 

“I want you to help me find the

 

videos by finding Mayo. He was your friend, if he is still in the city, he might be willing to meet with you if you can convince him to meet up with you.”

 

 

“You said it is an offer, what am I going to get if I do it for you?” “Stanley, you will get to walk

 

free with your pretty wife. Also

 

you will have your account

 

credited with twenty million: and here is the best part,

 

we will make sure no one

 

harms you. I hope you know

 

that there are people out there

 

who cannot wait to blow your

 

brains out. They have been

 

fooled to believe that you made the videos and that the videos are in your possession.” Stanley felt boxed in. He loathed being drawn into a battle he knew nothing about and also being put in a position to work against his friends. Already he and Eve had taken bullets for what was none of their business.

 

“I don’t expect this decision to be hard for you Mr. Stanley, you don’t have much

 

options here. Your friends have

 

sold you out and there are

 

many who can’t wait to put

 

their hands on you. Don’t forget you have a pretty wife.” “Are you threatening me Mr. Maxwell?”.

 

“No, I am not. I am only helping you to see things as they are. Help me by helping yourself. Don’t you want to find out who framed you up and almost had you and your wife killed. Are you aware that the man who shot you and your wife has escaped from the hospital?.

 

Ehmm… what’s his name

 

Leroy! Yea, that’s his name.”

 

“Give me time to think about

 

your offer Mr. Maxwell.”

 

“Okay, Stanley.”

 

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3:45 am, Oak City Hotel.

 

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A yellow cab pulled into the

 

hotel premises. Inside was Lizzy.

 

Since the previous day when

 

she drove away from Apple Bar

 

and headed toward a market,

 

she had not slept a wink. She

 

had been dodging and hiding

 

from the man she spotted at

 

Apple Bar. She wanted to make

 

sure she had not been followed to Oak City Hotel. Steve had been there for about thirty minutes waiting for her. Certain there was no one watching her, Lizzy stepped out of the cab and walked into the hotel lobby.

 

Steve had told her to introduce herself to the receptionist as Mrs. Bernard. “Hello, I am Mrs. Bernard. I am here to see my husband.”

 

A porter walked up to her and said, “You are welcome Mrs. Bernard, we have been waiting for you. Come with me.”

 

Lizzy followed him into the elevator. At the fourth floor, they stepped out of the elevator and began to walk to

 

Steve’s room. Intermittently

 

Lizzy looked behind her shoulders to make sure she was not being followed. When the porter reached a certain door, he stopped and knocked once. After a seeming long wait, the

 

door slowly creaked open and

 

Steve peeped at the porter and Lizzy from the opening on the door.

 

Seeing the porter and his wife,

 

he swung the door wide open

 

and grabbed his wife. As he

 

hurried to close the door, he

 

said to the porter, “You have

 

done well, I will see you in the

 

morning.”.

 

The porter nodded and walked away. There was so much to talk about, but first Steve had to fulfil his conjugal responsibility to his wife. He

 

knew Lizzy, when she was going through so much stress,

 

the best way to connect with

 

her was to give her a good sex.

 

Like a hungry lion, Steve ripped off her clothes, being a maniac as well and having gone for days without his regular steamy sexual sessions was a tough ask for him. In a matter of moments, the two of them were pouncing on each other like lions fighting to protect their territories. Two hours later they lay on the bed spent. “Where are our children, Steve?” Lizzy asked sounding exhausted.

 

Steve rolled over to her spot,

 

took her in his hands and said,

 

“They are in Ghana.”

 

“Thank God… what is going on, baby?

 

Who are the people who took

 

me?. Why did they strip me

 

na.ked?. Why…”

 

“Slow down baby. Let us take them one after another. Tell me what happened in Sun City. I want to know how the stranger got your nu.de picture.”

 

Lizzy stood up from the bed and went bring her Sony camera over.

 

“Here is the camera you asked me to bring.

 

Let us start from it. See if you

 

can find the picture the

 

stranger sent you amongst the

 

ones in it.”

 

The two of them snuggling in

 

each other’s arm began to go

 

through the pictures together.

 

Lizzy had not had time to look

 

at the camera since she was

 

released by her captors. As she

 

and Steve went through the

 

pictures, they stumbled on

 

shocking images which she

 

could not explain how they got

 

into her camera. Steve felt his

 

heart almost jumping out of his mouth when he saw the pictures.

 

“Jesus!! What is this, Steve?” Lizzy asked in disbelieve.

 

Steve’s hands shook and the

 

camera fell on the bed.

 

Steve did not know how to explain what he and his wife had seen. He never had

 

for a moment planned to explain his

 

adulterous life to his wife. He

 

had been very careful and was

 

certain she would never find

 

out.

 

“Steve!

 

Answer me!! What is this?”

 

“I… was… I… don’t

 

know. I am sorry. I was drunk,”

 

Steve stuttered, sounding

 

stupid. The picture they saw

 

was Steve and Bimpe in a sexual act. Lizzy picked the camera from the bed and began to skip from one image to another. The images she saw were worse than the first. She saw her husband in sexual acts with Clara, Stella, Bimpe and some unknown women.” Lizzy went numb with shock. She knew her husband had problem with keeping himself in check when standing in front of a pair of breasts, but to have sex with his friends, some of whom were married was beyond her

 

imagination. While they sat on

 

the bed, staring at each other

 

speechlessly, a deafening knock was heard on the door. Steve was not expecting

 

anyone and neither was the knock in tandem with how he told the maids and

 

porters in the hotel to knock on his door. They were still wondering who that might

 

be when the knock came again, this time louder. Lizzy leapt on her husband and

 

began to tremble.

 

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08:30 am, Clara’s House.

 

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“I think Steve is not on the run from anyone. He may be on the run for what he knowns and might have done,” Clara said, her eyes darting about. She had remembered what Steve was going to kill her for some weeks ago.

 

“Six months ago, my account was credited with three million. I got the three million two days after I accompanied Steve and Bimpe to a meeting. I could not make sense of the things that were said in that meeting until now. I think Bimpe and Steve sold false

 

information to a man about Eve and Stanley. I know it was

 

about a video. I was asked if

 

Stanley had made sex videos

 

before and could make some

 

and I said yes. Steve even

 

showed the man the video we

 

made about that time in Mayo’s house and said to the man that Stanley made it.

 

The video was not meant to leave Mayo’s house and yet he brought it out.

 

Stanley did not make that video, Mayo did. They were making money by betraying

 

one of us. I was paid three million for my part in the meeting!” Stella and

 

Chucks were shocked and

 

confused.

 

“Does anyone know where Bimpe and her family are at the moment?” Stella asked

 

after a long silence. No one

 

answered her.

 

“Why didn’t you tell anyone

 

about this before now?!”

 

Chucks yelled, finally uttering a

 

word after what he had heard.

 

“I didn’t see anything wrong

 

with it then. I thought Bimpe

 

and Steve were using Stanley’s

 

name to pitch for a job. We have all at one point or the other used university students to make sex videos and sold them to foreign buyers. Believe me I did not know it could be worse.”

 

“Could it be that Mayo is innocent?.

 

Quite frankly since all this began, I haven’t seen Bimpe acting like she was concerned.

 

What could she and Steve have done?”

 

Chucks’ phone beeped

 

and he picked it. It was a text

 

message and it read, “Chucks,

 

you have been marked, get

 

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Calmly he stood to his feet

 

and said, “Ladies, I forgot, I

 

have something to pick up for

 

my brother. I will meet you

 

again in the evening. Make sure you stay safe.”

 

Clara had her eyes fixed on him, she had the quickest mind amongst all of her friends. Immediately Chucks left her house, she said to Stella,

 

 

“I don’t trust anyone anymore. I have a feeling Chucks just told us a lie. Did you notice, he no longer tells us much about his investigation. Let us follow him and find out where he is

 

going.”

 

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