chapter one
Chapter One.
"Open the door and see who's there “Mirabel yelled at her daughter Celestine who was busy reading a mafia book online.
"I don't think anyone is there. No one knocked" Celestine responded.
"Please check well, I'm sure I heard the sound of someone knocking" Mirabel argued.
Celestine then went out and saw no one standing close to the door. Just when she was about to back out, she was interrupted by the beatings and continuous slapping of hands on the ground. It scared her to hear such, but she picked up courage and traced the direction of where the sounds were born. Just at the corner of the house, she found Gregory; her father sitting on the ground and shedding painful tears. She looked around to make sure they were safe then hurried towards him.
"What's the matter, dad?" She sympathetically asked as she raised him and helped him to the sitting room where every member of his nuclear family rushed.
"I am sorry, I never planned this" Gregory finally spoke, but his words sounded mysterious to them.
His wife Mirabel, was speechless and more confused. Celestine’s junior brothers Remy, Julius, and Celestine her twin, were all frightened at the appearance and manner in which their father was sighted.
"Wait! Just calm down. It will be well" Mirabel said to the devastated Gregory who wanted to hide his unhappiness.
"Bring a glass of water for your dad" Mirabel instructed Remy, who brought a bottle of table water with a glass of cup and gave it to him.
While he was about to drink it, a piece of white folded document fell from his left hand and the moment it fell, he lost his appetite to drink.
When it was noticed by his wife and children, Mirabel quickly opened it and couldn't believe her eyes. She will need a proper explanation of the words she just read. She dropped it and packed the clothes she was sewing, then sat on the sofa. Celestine and her three brothers also went through it and backed down just like their mother.
After about ten minutes of general silence in the parlor, Mr. Gregory finally spits it out.
"I wouldn't want to beat around the bush as my words will be a straightforward one," He said.
"Hmmm," The children sighed as they patiently waited to hear the type of rhythm that would tone out from his mouth.
Mrs Mirabel is already perplexed. She knew something was wrong. Ever since Gregory was dismissed from the Mexico Police force, he has been wangling his way to survival, by using his previous para-military training and skills to work for private personnel.
"This document….
He raised it for them to freely see.
"It's an evidence"
"What do you mean by evidence?" Remy asked.
"I am sorry, I have sold your sister 'Celestine' to my boss.
"Why," Celestine, Celestine’s twin asked.
"I made a painful mistake that cost my boss and also, is costing me now. I was to guide a consignment with the worth of 'Two hundred million dollars'.
On that fateful day, my boss entrusted me with thirty-five gang fighters to cover the successful shipping of the goods and promised me the sum of five hundred thousand dollars if successful and if not successful, he would fist on my head.
Unfortunately, the operation was interrupted by the Don Alphas gang. All the gang members that went with me, suffered fatal injuries, and the goods were navigated to an unknown location. To reinstate my loyalty to him and not choose to run, I went straight to my boss who already seemed to know the situation on the ground better than me. Without much delay, he handed the original document of this to me, giving me the liberty to sign it or thirty bullets of AK-47 gun would be roasted on my forehead". He explained, and as he stopped, his body systems began to irritate him. He vomited uncontrollably and was helped by Mirabel and the rest. He informed them silently about the mysterious injection he was given. It was not meant for his death, but to disrupt his body.
"Celestine looked at her mother with an unhappy one, brought down her head.
Gregory was washed and made clean by Mirabel who finally took him to the bedroom. While in the bedroom, he begged for Celestine’s forgiveness.
He informed them also, of a breach of the agreement.
"Everyone of you would be killed if Celestine refuses to follow him; 'The Don' and if she escapes before three years of the elapse of the contract, the same fate will happen".
"Is there anything that can be my remedy?" Celestine asked.
"Yes, there is. If I could pay the consignments worth of 'Two hundred million dollars, and pay the promised money of 'One hundred million dollars they offered to award him if the goods was successful under his watch" He responded.
"Ok, you should have said it since. I have a fiancé who is capable of paying your debts within seconds and freeing me from your ruthless boss agreement" Celestine confidently speaks.
"You have a fiancé? " Remy who was about to laugh, asked.
"She probably thought we were acting 'Hollywood Dreams'" Julius makes fun.
However, she dialed the supposed lover's phone, but he was switched off. She tried the three lines she knew him with, but none was on.
She then thought deeply and navigated through her mind before deciding to visit him in person. Due to the urgency of the situation, she wasted no time.
It was already evening, so she took her bath and set to go.
"Where are you heading to? "Mirabel asked as her heart pumps out blood with a high velocity, due to fears.
"I will be right back before the close of two- hours" She informed.
"But… Where exactly? " Mirabel persuaded.
"I said I will be back" She repeated.
Her father raised his head and told her.
"Be watchful! Some persons might be following you"
"I understand Dad"
"You may go now"
Just when she went out of the building, her father's phone rang and he answered