Chapter 3

Mr. Tyler while on the hospital bed was visited by his wife and children, he looked at them lovingly and saw that they were shedding tears at the sight of his bandaged amputated hand. He couldn't bear to see his family in years especially his lovely wife Gloria, he looked at her and smiled.

"My beautiful treasure, my priceless jewel, I know and can see your sorrow at the sight of my hand but I do not wish for you to shed tears. I love you with all my heart and will always do, please wipe your tears and smile for me." Mr. Tyler said looking at his wife and stroking her hand which lay on the bed beside him with his.

Mrs. Tyler on hearing this words come out from the mouth of her husband gave a small smile to which Mr. Tyler was pleased. Her husband's words has a way of cutting deep into her heart, making her fall in love with him all over again.

Mr. Tyler is a very loving, caring and understanding man despite his job, whoever he falls in love with should count herself as an extremely lucky woman. The reason for Mr. Tyler having this type of heart is not far fetched, he had loving parents especially his dad who unfortunately due to a plane crash died when he was fifteen years of age. Haven seen the love his father showed to his mother and their family of four in general he decided to show the same amount of love to his family and whomever he married.

Mrs. Tyler who had been calm for some minutes suddenly burst into tears and started sobbing.

"I told you to drop this stupid case when they gave you that warning but you wouldn't listen to me, now look at where your disobedience and stubborn attitude has landed you." She said between sobs.

Mr. Tyler who was used to his wife's occasional emotional outbursts and mood swings kept mute.

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At The Avengers headquarters in a secluded part of the city, a beautiful mansion stood in a huge compound with an underground garage full of exotic and expensive cars.

The environment was quiet until there came the loud blaring of the horn of a car from afar, the gatekeeper who was used to such type of entrance ran and opened the gate from which a Toyota Camry sped right through not stopping until it reached the entrance to the underground garage.

Python alighted from the car, tossed the car keys at the gatekeeper who was about to welcome him and said, "You know what to do."

Python walked around the huge mansion, until he got to the rear end where he met two guards in front of a door and greeted them with a sign only a true member of the gang would know. They opened the door they were guarding and let him through. He went inside, walked down a narrow hallway, turned right when the hallway split, got into a room by his left, walked straight to the elevator disguised to look like a part of the wall in the well furnished and expensive looking room and clicked on a button to open the elevator and got in. He was starting to feel nervous as the elevator was going down, down to his ruthless and unforgiving boss.

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One week later, Mr. Tyler has just been discharged from the hospital. He left the hospital after a discussion with the doctor who told him he would have to come for rehabilitation every Saturday. Well God will put me through. He thought.

His wife and children had earlier left the hospital saying they would come pick him up in the evening. It was now six o'clock and they were nowhere to be found. He called Gloria's phone (his wife) but she wasn't responding.

"That's weird," he said to himself, since his wife do pick up her calls on the first ring. He waited for a while and then decided to take a cab home.

Through the journey from the hospital to his house was less than 2 kilometer and took them no more than five minutes to get there, it felt like an eternity to him. His heart was having a marathon in his chest, he was worried.

"What could be happening right now?" He asked no one in particular. The taxi driver paid no attention to what he said, he ignored him completely.

When he alighted in front of his house, he paid the driver, who zoomed off, from the little cash he had on him.

He knocked on the gate but found it open.

Something is definitely wrong somewhere, Gloria never leaves the gate open. He thought before rushing to front door, he found it unlocked and opened it.

Immediately he opened the door, his pet dog started running towards him, but the dog wasn't showing any signs of happiness towards him, it was trying to tell him something or rather show him something, but Mr. Tyler didn't understand the strange behavior the dog was exhibiting at the moment. The dog bit his trousers and started pulling him towards the bedroom he shared with his wife, Mr. Tyler was surprised by this action but decided to follow the dogs lead and he moved towards the bedroom.

The dog led him to the door of the room and placed it's paws on the door knob trying to show Mr. Tyler that he should open the door. Mr. Tyler opened the door and he was shocked by what he saw.

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Python got out of the elevator which opened to a large living room and sitting on one of the obviously expensive and beautiful sofas was his boss Bohlex, he was watching a program on a huge flat screen TV with his legs on a glass center table.

Bohlex was backing him and didn't move a muscle to acknowledge his presence but asked him plainly, " how was the operation without?" lifting his eyes from the TV.

Python walked round the sofa and stood in front of him without blocking his view of the television. He then narrated the ordeal he went through while he faced the police detective, pausing a few times to see if he would get a reaction from his boss but Bohlex kept his face expressionless with his eyes still fixated on the TV. But when he got to the part that the other guys that went him to the operation have been arrested, Bohlex suddenly sprang up from his chair and faced Python squarely, with his eyes blazing.

"What did you just say? The guys that went with you to the operation were busted, Don't you know that those guys would rattle us out and ruin our life's work, I thought you were competent enough to do this job but unfortunately I was wrong…" Bohlex who was fuming and swelling with anger would have rattled on if Python hadn't interrupted him.

"But am sure that he would drop the case since he was involved in an accident during the operation and he is definitely lying in pains in an hospital bed now that so if he isn't already dead."

"Shut up idiot, don't you have any sense of reasoning, all he would want now is revenge and he would stop at nothing to get it." Bohlex continued with his booming and deep voice, "Moreso, our organization is at stake here, those boys would tell them all about us, our hideouts, our cash houses, everything."

"Boss, I can still fix this, if only…"

"Shut up!" Bohlex interrupted Python who was now fidgeting, he knew where this was heading. "I think you have fixed things enough for us, your time here is up."

"Please don't do this, have been loyal to you for the past five years have been working for you and I never made a mistake. Please forgive me this once and I would fix this I promise." Python pleaded, he was now sweating profusely even though the air conditioner was on.

Bohlex in one swift motion, bent down and took out a magnum 44 pistol from underneath the sofa and aimed it at Python.

"You know the rules Biola, one mistake in this world and you are gone." Bohlex said as he put the in gun in level with Biola's forehead.

At this point Biola knew he was finished, Bohlex only used their real names when he was about to punish them.

"Any last words?" Bohlex asked, his face twisted in a furious expression.

"Please Boss." Biola said as he went on his knees, his eyes teary.

Bohlex kept aiming the gun at his forehead as he went on his knees and pulled the trigger, but there came only a soft click, the gun was empty.

"Shit." Bohlex cursed has he looked around for extra bullets.

Biola used this opportunity that presented itself to escape, in matter of seconds he was out of the house moving like a whirlwind, there was only one car parked outside and fortunately for him it was a fast car, his boss's. He got into the Lamborghini Aventador, got the keys out of the dashboard and ignited it. The car immediately roared to life, he put the car into gear and rammed the gate at a dangerous speed before the gatekeeper even had the chance to get off his seat.

"Meanwhile, Bohlex who was about to alert the guards at the door to stop Biola from escaping suddenly had a phone call.

"What is it?" Bohlex asked angrily as picked the call

"I found him boss." A voice at the other end said.

"Found who?" Bohlex asked still burning with rage.

"I found the police detective handling the case." The voice at the other end replied in a hushed tone.

"Who is it?" Bohlex asked in a voice suddenly a little calmer than before.

"His name is Tyler or rather Mr. Tyler." The voice answered.

*Him! Again!"

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As Mr. Tyler opened the door of the bedroom, the scene that met his eyes could only be described as one that came from his deepest darkest nightmare.

He saw his two children with large holes in their body lying in the pool of their own blood right beside his bed, he looked around and saw his wife tied up in a corner of his room crying. He quickly climbed the bed and untied her, he hugged her and kissed her. He looked back at his dead children lying on the floor and burst into tears, his wife also continued crying. Their sorrow at that moment could not be measure, they were stricken with grief, even Mr. Tyler who was not a man to show his emotions was crying, though silently. He just lost his two sons in a day and there is no possible way his wife can give birth again since she had reached menopause.

The dog was now letting out a painful sort of whimpers trying to show its emotions.

The couple's tear ducts had burst open with tears just like a cloud bursts open with rain, for them the whole world was now an ocean of sorrow and sadness. They just lost two children on the same day, isn't that enough to make a person run mad.

Mr. Tyler had to act like a man and control his tears in order to console his wife who was now swimming in the deep and murky pool of sadness.

Meanwhile, the dog had now stopped whimpering but still had a sad-like expression on its face. It got up from where it was sitting near Gloria and went to where a note was lying, picked it up with it's mouth and pointed it at Mr. Tyler, who collected it and positioned it in his hand so Gloria could also read it.

'Hello Mr. Tyler, you have seen what we can do, you have seen just how powerful we are, but this is just a tip off the iceberg, you have felt our wrath and if you don't want anymore tragedies to befall on you, you have to do as we say, or else we would make your life miserable, all we want from you is to drop the case you are currently handling but if you decide not to heed our warnings, your wife is next.

P.S. We left you a gift basket in your bathtub and you have a lovely wife.'

Mr. Tyler and Gloria looked at each other still crying, then got off the bed together and went inside their bathroom. True to the words in the note there was a gift basket in the bathtub, and in it were two hearts, four lungs and four kidneys all of which were of their sons.

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As Biola sped out of the gate, he maintained a dangerous speed between 250km/hr to 300km/hr. When he had got out of the secluded area in which the mansion was located, he looked at the rearview mirror and he saw that no one was following him, he was appalled because his boss would have sent some goons to kill him on a normal situation but this came out as a shocker to him.

This is really weird, why am I still alive? I just can't believe this. Those were the thoughts that ran through Biola's mind as he drove the car onto a highway leading to the heart of the city.

"Something is definitely wrong somewhere or how else would I still be alive, I think he is planning something, I have to be extra careful now." Biola soliloquized as he started driving at a cruise speed and checking the rearview mirror every few minutes.

Meanwhile, after Biola sped out of the gate, the two guards mentioned earlier on hurried inside out of the elevator into Bohlex underground room, telling him what they just saw.

"The greedy son of a bitch still took my Lamborghini, that was my favorite car." Bohlex sweated still angry but much more calmer than before. He then told the two guards what transpired between him and Biola. When he was done, one of the two guards whose gang name was Scorpio started flexing his huge biceps gotten as a result of spending too much time in the gym.

"Boss should we go after him and make him evaporate." Scorpio said with a straight face as if killing a human being was as normal as killing a chicken.

"No, not yet, I already have a plan." Bohlex said and stopped to drink from the glass of wine he was holding and then continued. "Scorpio, I have an assignment for you and I want it done with no traces."

"Boss, trust me, have been here for the past ten years and I have never disappointed you." Scorpio said while cracking his knuckles menacingly.

"I trust no one, I want it done on the day the detective is discharged unfailingly." Bohlex said with an expressionless face still holding the wine glass.

"What do you want us to do?" Scorpio and the other guard asked at the same time.

"I want the detective two sons dead, don't touch his wife, knock her out before killing the children and leave them this note." Bohlex said handing over a note with a gloved hand to Scorpio who also had gloves on.

"And you can leave him a surprise of your choice, just don't touch the wife. Understand?" Bohlex asked with an intimidating expression.

"Yes Boss." The two guards chorused.

"Dismissed." Bohlex said waving his hands signaling for them to go.