CRAZY SIDE CHICK
#Chapter_22
“Mwaka?!” Mwewa was mesmerized.Mwaka’s face appeared begrimed,and her hair uncombed and scruffy.She had a gauze pad on her forehead too.
Astonished,Mwaka uttered aloud,”Mwewa!you are alive?”
“That’s not important right now,who is pursuing you?” Asked Mwewa anxiously.
“I don’t know,” replied Mwaka,” some guy kidnapped me from the hospital and locked me up in a dark room but I managed to escape and now he is after me…I think it’s Daniel!”
“Daniel is in police cells,” said Mwewa.” And why do you think Daniel would be after your life?”
“It’s a long story,my love.But I will tell you everything when it’s safer for me.Please move the car the person coming after me has a gun!” Warned Mwaka.
“Move the car!” Mwewa ordered Mr Binwell Tembo’s driver.
Wayward with Mwaka’s thought Mubita occasionally moved with the pistol Mwaka had seen him use to break the door to Daniel’s house, especially when he had a robbery operation with his gang.Right now there was no gun on Mubita.He reached the spot a little late and he watched the car speed off with his hands gripping his knee caps, panting heavily.But the number plate flashed in his eyes and he mastered it up and recognized it too.The number plate was a simple tag _’SD RIDES’ and he immediately knew whose car had fled his target away_ the famous wealthy man,Mr Binwell Tembo’s car.
If the target got away and made it to the police station alive,Mubita knew Daniel would not trade his signature for a deal not done and he would loose Daniel’s million Kwacha house.Morover he thought there were chances things would get ugly for his kidnapping crime,and the disposing of the police guy n***d and handcuffed in the bushes,if he let loose the girl(Mwaka).He vowed to get Mwaka at all cost before midnight or before she could reach the police.So he removed his phone and called his robbery gang:
“Find me in the main road coming down to the City Hospital right now!Come armed and don’t waste time it’s an emergency,” he directed his gangsters.
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“Are you taking me back to the City Hospital?” Asked Mwaka as the car pulled into the City Hospital parking space.
Mwewa explained to her that he needed to check on his sick father_in_ law and that he would be back soon.Mwewa also called Mr Binwell Tembo’s personal driver outside and cautioned him to keep an eye on Mwaka while he was inside the hospital.
“She won’t get away,sir” assured the driver.
Then Mwewa hurried towards the entrance of the hospital with a parcel in his hands.And he was soon guided by the reception to take stairs up to a high cost sickroom his father_in_law was admitted.As expected,he found Majorly already there.She was seated in a bedside chair,resting her upper body over the sickbed,next to her laying father.
“Hi,” Mwewa greeted after a minute of staring at his wife while he stood in the centre of the room.He knew she had heard him but she kept silent.
“Father,said I had to come so he could tell us something,” he reminded her.
“You know you can’t disturb him,” she finally spoke,still bent over the sickbed.”He is sleeping.”
“Yeh I thought as much,” agreed Mwewa.Not knowing how much he needed to say next,he just tapped his lap with his hand and said,”well ,I will be leaving then.I will check on him tomorrow.”
Majorly was silent again.
“I brought you guys something,” said Mwewa as he unpacked some food stuffs and drinks and put them on a bedside table.Majorly was still silent and it was obvious her mood could not be tempered.What was he not to understand her feelings after all he knew that he was involved in her traumatized state.She looked emotionally weak .
“Oh ,” said Mwewa, searching his pockets,” I brought his phone too.” He put the phone on the same table.
She never responded to whatever else he said before he gently opened the door of the sickroom and closed it back softly.He went back to the car thinking on anything he could do to take away that gloominess on his wife.But he was cut off thoughts by Mwaka.
“Please take me to my apartment,” said Mwaka.
Mwewa told the driver to excuse him with Mwaka.The driver stood a distance away from the car to wait up.Then Mwaka lowered himself in the driver’s seat next to Mwaka in the front passenger seat.
“Am sorry for your miscarriage,” said Mwewa.
“You wanted the baby dead,so stop faking those condolences,” she told him.
Mwewa took a deep sigh as though to calm himself.Then he said,” It wasn’t yet a baby,was it?”
Mwaka gravely looked him in the eyes with a wrinkled face and said,” you and your friend are more e.v.i.l than the de.v.i.l himself.But I promise you,I will avenge the death of my baby!Thanks for the ride…” She tried to open the door to step out of the car but Mwewa locked all the doors.
“Open this door and let me go,” she told him.
Calmly,Mwewa said,”You promised to tell me everything.I know why Daniel beat you up.But I don’t know why you hired thugs to attack me and my wife.The same thugs you hired to attack us,ki.lled a police detective and a doctor.How could you do all this evil,Mwaka?”
Mwaka was dumbfounded,”what are you talking about?”
“You know exactly what am talking about,” said Mwewa.
“I can’t believe this,” said Mwaka,” who said I committed such crimes?”
“The criminals you hired confessed and the police have been looking for you since,” said Mwewa.
“What?Which criminals?”
“You’ll see them when we get to the police station,then you can explain yourself,” advised Mwewa.
Mwaka appeared even more confused.Puzzled,she tried to figure out what was going on for a moment.Then she said,”Mwewa I promise I didn’t hire anyone to attack you and your wife.Infact Daniel your friend came to my house and told me that you had tried to kill your wife so that you could marry me before you went missing from my house.I didn’t do anything to harm anyone!”
“Daniel told you what?” Asked Mwewa,” If Daniel told you that I attacked my own wife and went missing then why did he come to confront you over my disappearance from your house?”
“Daniel beat me up because he wanted to sleep with me that evening but I refused!” She told him.
Mwewa laughed,”ladies ladies!I can see you, like most women do,are ready to defend yourself using false sexual allegations against my friend.But I must tell you the truth,as things stand now,no lie will help you.The people you used to commit those crimes are in police custody and they have confessed their dealings with you.”
“Mwewa,those are Daniel’s companions!” Said Mwaka after a thought hit her mind in relation to a Daniel she really knew and what he was capable of doing.
“You know what, let’s get to the station so you can explain yourself better,” said Mwewa.
“Mwewa,please hear me out,” she said, trembling.”Your friend Daniel is not a good friend.He can even kill you.”
“Ki.ll me over you?You are crazy!” Mwewa laughed.
“Am serious,Mwewa,” said Mwaka solemnly,”Daniel could be behind the attacks.I know he is.He started this by hiring me to blackmail you with that nude video because he knows how much I Iove you and how much I want to be your wife !”
Mwewa paused as he was about to call the driver to take them to the police station.”Enough!You won’t implicate my friend for your crimes!If you think you will,then let’s get to the station!”
“Daniel used me to record that nude video because he wanted to break you and your wife up so that he could get your wife,and I wanted you!He might be the person behind the attacks.I also know of some dangerous guys he uses to attack people who stand in his way.They might be the ones making false confessions to trap me into their crimes with Daniel!Please believe me!” She confessed.
“Like have told you,try your luck by telling those lies to the police maybe they will believe you cause I don’t!”
Mwaka got scared because she knew Daniel was never going down a fight.She thought he would trap her into his mess if he failed too.So she shivered in the car and her voice trembled.
For now she had less to say as she kept begging Mwewa to believe her and understand what kind of a friend Daniel was.But Mwewa maintained that he was not going to pay attention.He called the driver and directed him into the way to the police station.
A few minutes away from the city hospital,the driver almost collided with a mini bus that blocked his way by stopping across the two lanes of the road.Two men came out of the mini bus, frantically.
“We are under attack!” Exclaimed Mwewa.
“That must be him!” Mwaka recognized Mubita’s body size and somewhat the way he walked.It was surely him coming towards the vehicle with one of his two gangsters.
Mwewa, quickly pulled the carrier tent in the back of the car and made Mwaka jump into the carrier,and hid there with her.He got the driver’s phone to call the police when he had the chance. “Tell them you dropped Mwaka at her house,then pretend that you have a break down so you can use the mini bus.I will then call the police and follow you up.Keep on showing fake directions until the police comes,” Mwewa told the driver.
Mubita came and jumped into the vehicle right behind the driver’s seat,and pointed a pistol to the driver’s head.
“Where is the girl you picked?” Asked Mubita.
“I dropped her by her place,” said the driver.
“Take me there,” said Mubita.He then instructed his gangster to go back to the mini bus and tell his colleague to drive after this vehicle.He kept his gun pointed to Mr Binwell Tembo’s driver’s head.
The bus unblocked the road and Mr Binwell Tembo’s driver turned the car backwards and pretended to be driving back to where he had fictiously drove Mwaka to.
While in the carrier,Mwewa thrusted his body in a wheel spanner and that changed his plan.He was not going to wait until the driver did as he had told him:stop the car and pretend it had a fault.
Mwewa reached his hand for a wheel spanner,and courageously sneaked his head out of the carrier and hit Mubita’s occiput with the wheel spanner,and knocked him off by adding to the beating.Soon enough,he called the police and a siren came wailing behind the mini bus.
Eventually and in a swift act, Mubita’s two gangsters were blocked and fished out of the bus by the police,drawn down the ground and handcuffed.Mubita woke up in the CID chambers,with two officers commanding him to confess why he had been hunting Mwaka.
“Who sent you!” Yelled the officers.
Mwewa,Mwaka and the driver were all in there, curiously listening when Mubita groaned for his head and confessed:
“There’s a guy called Daniel in your custody.He sent me!”
To be continued…
