DUVET DAY

Chapter Two (The Duvet Day)

"Good morning, Mrs. Garnahweh", Joe greeted.

"Joe, I want a perfect work done. Kill that b***h as clean as you can, make it look like a suicide. Make sure there's nothing for the police to work on because her father will try to investigate the case, you heard me right?", Chioma mumbled hastily. She turned around to make sure no one was watching them.

"Ok Ma", Joe rolled his eyes.

Chioma had been telling Joe the same thing over and over again since the previous week. They'd been planning to execute her stepdaughter. He had asked for the reason she wanted to kill the girl. She told him the girl has also been trying to kill her and her son because she wanted all of her father's properties.

Joe had been watching the girl since the last five days as she leaves for work and comes back home. But, something makes him feel connected to the girl and makes him think she can't do any of those things her step mother had been accusing her of doing. So, he cooperated with her with his own agenda. He had planned that he would find out if the girl is really innocent and then, plan a way of helping her.

He really wasn't an assassin but situations pushed him to it. He was rescued from a bomb blast in Liberia. He lost all his relatives to the blast. He suffered from amnesia after the blast and he had been trying to remember someone. He felt that person was important and loved by him.

The memory kept fading away anytime he tried to remember. He had once forced the memory but he passed out and was unconscious for days.

His guardian, Makanaki, had warned him never to force the memory ever again. Makanaki was the Good Samaritan who found Joe at the verge of death. The Liberian police had reported that they found no survival at the blast but, they didn't check well. Makanaki was checking around if he would find any trace that would lead him to the terrorists who initiated the blast. But found Joe instead.

He made sure the health sector did everything possible to save Joe's life. Joe got well and Makanaki took him along to his country, Nigeria. He treated Joe like his own son and gave him all he needed. He sent him to study in the UK. But, he had just one request from Joe, he wanted Joe to be part of his dirty works.

Joe's car halted at the front of Ceci's apartment. He had planted a chip that records every conversation in her house. The chip is connected to his phone so, he gets to listen to her conversations on his phone. He had planned to carry out his operation on Saturday morning. Mrs. Garnahweh had informed him that Ceci stays at home almost every Saturdays. Joe actually had to change his plan that Saturday morning when he listened to Ceci's conversation with someone he guessed to be her boss.

"The girl is really crazy to fool her boss", he said as he listened to her conversations back at his apartment. He started liking her from the day he started listening to her conversations. He liked her voice too. "Her voice sounds good and she looks good too, I like her", he thought.

"Joe, you can't start liking her," he told himself as he played her conversation again.

"He-hello boss, erm..", she said. He smiled listening to her feigning a sicky voice.

"I'm not feeling well, Sir".

"I'm serious, boss. I'll try to come tomorrow sir". He guessed her boss was doubting her.

"Ugrhhhh! Why does he always have to be a jerk? He already made this coffee taste sour in my mouth. Yuck!!". He smiled again and got out of his car.