Dangerous Entanglement

episode 47

/KELVIN’S POV/

“Get up lazy ass…” I heard from my dreams, but the call was definitely not from my dreams rather it was from the room.

“Hey get up…” I heard again, this time it came with a pillow landing on my face bringing my awake fully.

“I am not going to miss my run today” I finally got my had my consciousness in the room and there was Janice sitting on the reading table I never ever get to use to lace up her boots as she placed her legs on the chair.

“So what have my sleep got to do with you missing your run?” I asked her surprised as to why she has to wake me up because she was going for a run.

“What do you mean by what have your sleep got to do with my run?” she gave me back a rhetorical question making me wonder what she was driving at.

“Yeah, you should have just left me sleeping in peace while you go run for all I care.” I said to her a bit angry about the waking me up.

“We supposed to go together…” she says still sitting on the desk with her boot laced foot still on the chair.

“First of all, I am not going for any run, I never said I was…” I clearly stated.

“Secondly, can you please get down from the desk…?” I like to keep the house as clean as possible, you can’t blame me, was raised by a black woman. Jumping out of the bed I headed straight to the bathroom, initially I went in only to ease myself, but on the long run while I was in there, I decided to have a bath before coming out.

“Alright I am sorry I woke you up, I thought you would want to go together like the other day.” She apologised and I heard doors opening and closing from inside the bathroom.

‘Why will I want to go with her?’ I questioned myself. I hope she isn’t getting attached because this is just a little fling and the fun I expect to end anytime soon, yeah the s*x with her is great and fun, but s*x and just s*x but nothing more.

‘‘Hey man, what’s up, its Dexter, I just wanted to say hi and ...” the voice from my phone was saying when I stepped out of the bathroom.

‘s**t Dexter, I cursed under my breath as I hurried to the get the phone, but I couldn’t find it, I checked around and finally raised the trouser from last night up and I found it in the pocket.

“Sorry for being away for so long man, I didn’t mean to but I had no choice…” Dexter was still saying when I picked the call.

“Yo man, what’s up with you?” I greeted him not sure if I was to be pissed with him for abandoning me with the responsibilities of the club all alone or be happy I am finally hearing from him. After all, that’s what I needed.

“I good for now.” He said pausing a bit.

“For now… what do you mean by for now?” surprised with his choice of words, I was curious as to why he choose that words.

“Well, do not worry my man, I just had to stay away for some time in order to put something in place for my political ambitions you know.” The explanation he gave was not really convincing enough, but I had to accept it.

“Is that why you needed to be away for so long?” even though I accepted the explanation I still needed some clarifications.

“This is your base, why are you not here putting whatever you are putting in place here, which is your base?” I am sure he now knows I am not that dumbed and can’t be fooled with some silly explanations that doesn’t add up.

“All right man, this is will be over soon and I will feed you in on every detail…” he promise.

“Oh yeah, you bet you will…” I confirmed to him.

“Allot has happened here to man, and have got loads of gist for you.” I chuckled as mentioned to him, in a million years, he can’t expect what my stories entails.

“Oh really…?” he enquired.

“I swear to you man…” I affirmed to him.

“But most importantly, you need to know about this…” I mentioned wanting to let him know about the remodelling of the club.

“What’s that…?” he was anxious to hear obviously.

“I am not sure if I have mentioned to you about the plans to remodel the club…” I started to explain.

“Oh that, I already told you, you are in charge, run it as you deemed fit.” He assured me of not having any problem with any decision I make for the good of the club and his business.

“I trust you that is why I have you there and that is why I am free enough to go weeks without caring about what decisions you make.” He added

‘This dude must really trust me’ I thought to myself.

“I was actually thinking you wanted to talk about the FBI you mentioned some time back.” he concluded.

“I haven’t heard from him for some time now, we haven’t seen any more of him since I informed you about him actually… I am guessing you took care of him from that end.” It was something I know he could do actually.

“Nah, I haven’t made any moves on him yet…” he declared.

“Well, I went to the bank and they made it known to me that no one has come in to question our accounts” I wanted to feed him in on my own findings, if he hasn’t made any moves maybe it is because he has nothing and I had to give him anything.

“Seriously…?” he asked with a bit of surprise.

“Yeah, and the bank manager let me know it could be a political attack” I stated letting him know what we up against just in case the matter continues.

“In fact, that’s why I thought you have taken care of it already...” I added waiting for him to say something.

“Nahhh, I haven’t…” he mentioned again confirming his earlier statement.

“But I think I know where this is coming from” he finally said after a bit of a pause.

“Well good, at least that’s a progress, we now know where to block the attack from.” I said to him in relief.

“Yeah we do.” His response was weak and lack enthusiasm, but I let it slide and didn’t want to question him much.

“Honestly man, I can’t wait for you to be here man, at least I can go home and spend more time with my mother…” I try to change the topic a little bit.

“What you want from your mamma, are you a baby?” he asked me laughing at what I just said.

“My mother is dying Dexter…” In a simple word with a sorry tone, I cleared out to him.

“Oh s**t man…” were the words that flew out of his mouth the very next second.

“I thought I already mentioned that to you…” I asked him though was also not sure of what I have told him haven’t.

“Did you…” he fired back a question.

“Yeah, I guess so…” was my response because I wasn’t sure at all.

“Okay whatever man, I promise to be there as soon as I can.” The promise didn’t really sounded reassuring but I had to hope onto it.

“Yo man, the reason I called is because I want you to wire me some funds” he finally came out clean with his request and main reason for calling. No matter where he is or why he is there, he only just decided not to contact me, and him contacting me this early seems cunning and suspicious, but finally he has come out clean with why he really called.

“Wire you some cash man…?” I was shock he was requesting for cash, he has access to two other accounts, the last time I asked checked the account, they both had about a hundred thousand dollars in them each.

“Yeah, I have already sent you the details of the account you will wire the money to before placing this call.” he dropped another shocker.

‘Why do I have to send it to another account?’ That question ringed in my head but I didn’t want it to seem like I am prying, I wouldn’t need to ask if he wants me to know, he would just tell me willingly.

“Okay…?” I questioningly responded.

“I need to go now, please make sure to wire me the money manually.” He instructed…

“Why is that…?” I questioned, this time I was unable to resist questioning the manner he wants things done.

“Come on man, the account is obviously under surveillance by people we do not even know whom they are at the moment”

“Sooo…?” I still enquired as I was still not sure of why we had to make the transfer manually.

“Bro… just do what I asked you to and I will explain to you what this whole charade is about when the time is right.” He ordered with a little anger in his voice.

“Okay… okay, I rest my case…” I finally said succumbing to his request.

“Thank you man...” He calmly said.

“Alright I need to go now…” He finally said.

“Please I will need the cash as soon as …” He was about to say something else but disconnected immediately after the creek sound of an opening door.

‘Wow, that’s surprising, after so many futile attempts to get to communicate with him, and this morning he came though himself.’ I thought to myself as I walked out of the room heading to the kitchen to get something to eat. I used so much energy the night before, Janice still had to come back home with me after so many tricks to avoid she coming back to the apartment with me, I even tried to cook up an excuse but she still wasn’t ready to listen.

“What the f**k happened here” I furiously asked rhetorically because they was no one there to respond, I got to the kitchen area and it was all a mess, they were litters or flour powder all around.

“Did Janice try to cook?” Another question was the next statement that flew out of my mouth. Yeah she made pancakes.

“Hmmmm, not bad…” I munched on my first bite and went in for the second one.

“What tha f**k…” the second bite was awful and I just could not understand what happened. The first bite was nice but the second which I actually dug in for an actual mouthful of bite was bad and really really an appetite killer. I quickly settled for a bowl of cereal because that pancakes will definitely have a bad impact on one’s health.

While eating I decided to go for a entertain myself with my phone, I saw the account details Dexter wants the money to be wired to. Saved the number he called with and moved on to check new updates on i********:. Low and behold, Hanna’s pictures flooded my story, mostly she was been tagged on the posts by her friends.

“Las Vegas huh…” I murmured while munching on my cereal.