21/08/2024
FALLING FOR HIM
BY: Novelist Eshy
Episode 3
"Ransom?" Nickson asked
"I think it's a good idea. We can still get money after all" Leone said
"Are you ready to meet up with the police?" Dylan asked
"Come on, you are a master of plans. We leave no trace of evidence after everything we do. How can that happen?" Asked Leone and the rest agreed.
"This is not robbery, this is kidnap. You say where you will drop the girl and where they will drop the money. Obviously you will ask them not to involve the police, but what if the family member is a police officer? They may still bring police officers secretly with a bag full of clothes, rather than money. We'll obviously get attacked in the process and we'll win the fight but..." Dylan said and paused
"What?" The others asked
"We will be a target of the police from then on. They won't stop there and that will be a delay to our missions" Dylan said and they all reasoned with him.
"So what do you suggest we do?" Phoebe asked and there was total silence from them, except that Kate kept calling for help.
"Someone shut her up already! She's getting on my nerves" Leone said getting angry.
"Let her go" said Dylan and his friends answered in unison,"What?"
"Do you have any better way to do this?" Dylan looked at them and they all looked away.
"How do we let her go? Should we tell her that it was a mistaken identity?" Eliot asked
"That way, she will report us to the police as kidnappers bro" Phoebe said
"Let's open the door and hide until she runs away" suggested Nickson
"Does this place look like one with hideouts? Try hiding yourself first" Phoebe said again but Dylan stood up dropping the phone on the table.
"Let's just open the door, scare her not to mention this place nor us and then let her go. Girls get scared easily" Leone said
"I don't get scared so easily" Phoebe said
"Are you a girl? Do you even behave like one? Not just behave, do you even dress like one?" Leone provoked Phoebe and then almost got into a fight but they were stunned to see Dylan hanging timer bombs all over the house.
"Dude, are you trying to kill us? We can get out of this mess. We can think of another way" Eliot said in panic
"This is the only way out" Dylan said
"Bro, I'm yet to marry Niffah. I don't want to die yet" Nickson said
"Do you all really think that Dylan will commit su***de because of fear of police?" Phoebe asked
"Then why is he setting the bombs?" Leone asked
"He might have a plan" Phoebe said smiling and truly, Dylan had a plan.
After setting up all the bombs, Dylan grabbed his things including the phone and left the house.
"Bro, did you mean letting her go to heaven? The girl is innocent. We can't just kill her" Eliot rushed to Dylan and begged him.
Dylan just kept walking away.
They were in the middle of a forest, where they had built that small hideout they kept Kate in.
"You guys reason with him. We can't kill the poor girl. She just arrived in the country to meet with her family. They must be so worried about her" Eliot said to the rest who were all outside to see what Dylan was up to.
And truly, the whole family had known that Kate was missing from the airport.
The police asked them to go back if she didn't show up after 24 hours.
Andrew had checked the cctv footage only to find out that everything was deleted.
The security men kept saying that no one entered the server room to delete anything.
When they called Kate's school in Canada, they said that all the graduates left the school already.
Mrs Martin was already in tears and she kept trying to call Kate but her number was off.
"Let's just wait a little longer. She might have gone to see some friends. How about this, Millan, you know most of her favourite places. Why don't you go and try looking for her. I'll ask some of my department friends to help me look for her in suspicious places. If she has been kidnapped, the kidnappers will ask for a ransom so don't switch off your phones" said Andrew and left the house.
Tessy stood in the kitchen with a glass of water and some documents in her hands.
"Kate you are my sister, but I don't wish for you to come back today. If you can't stay in Canada, Then I wish you could just die!" She said thoughtfully as she crashed the documents in anger.