Chapter 178

They soon went down to meet with Elder Maxwell.

"You don't need to open the door for every person that comes, you can just stay where you are and look if you need to answer the door or not". He warned, he was not even looking happy.

"They just would not stop knocking and Anna became worried, I did not want her to worry that is the reason". He defended.

"Whatever reason you have, please do not open the door for anyone, I told you already, this place is secure, they cannot even come in, so you need not fear.

"What do you mean by the place is secure? Anna interrupted.

"I mean, Joseph is here, he is strong, he will know how to protect you, and if you must run away, there are so many roots to escaping that you may not have noticed'

Anna and Joseph exchanged glances, before speaking up.

Uncle, that was why I called, I wanted to tell you that we discovered a, a...(he did not know what to call the place, so Anna called it out for him) 

"We discovered a treasure house". She said, searching his eyes, he looked shocked, but he was quick to hide his feelings,  and then Joseph continued. " The place is filled with Gold and bronze, with just a handful, one can become really rich, i don't know how come about that house in this house". 

We did not touch anything, we said we needed to tell you about it first.

Elder Maxwell cleared his throat and instead of talking about what they just told him, he started saying something else.

"Andrew is now on the road to finding you, he is very close, your aunty told me that they came to knock on every door, which I guess was what, thise guys came to do, you two need to be very careful".

He said and swallowed hard, Anna looked his way and was about to ask him the question they had asked earlier, when he spoke up.

"That house was built inside this house by your father and myself. You know my life style, you know what I do or what I did back then.

I took your father to work in the state treasury, one certain time and we discovered a hall filled with Gold, there were valuables, everywhere. We just couldn't look away.the place was discovered by mistake, because it was buried in an underground hall.

It was actually your father who dis overed it, which made us,  after working there, we started thinking about it.

We dreamt about having a handful, just a handful was enough. Your father needed to send you to med school and it was really expensive, you were, also constantly bullied, because of your eye issues, your father wanted to give you the best, so when I came up with the option of stealing from there, just a little, your father jumped at the offer.

"But we have finished working and they have paid us, are we going to be able to go back there? He asked looking worried as if our hopes were lost, but I had planned it all along.

"They will call us back, because there is something that j was supposed to fix, but I fixed it wrongly, they will have to call us, for a second visit, this time, we will loot all we can and go away.

surprisingly they called us again, it was less than two month, I was supposed to work on the lick for the underground, it was a stolen treasure, we did not plan to steal much.we went back there, with a plan and very prepared.

I have never seen your father that desperate before, he wanted so much to do better for you, we had planned to get a handful, but I never knew your father came with a trolley, and a big bag.

While I was working and distracting them with electrical explosions and all, pretending to be really working, he was busy packing the money.

I never knew he discovered another underground gate, that was the root used to exit, without their notice, your father packed all that treasure you see in that house, I also did not know, I thought we were gathering a handful.

Anna kept adjusting. Joseph could almost not believe his ears, he was wondering when his father became so smart, to do things like that.

He used to see his uncle as the smart one and his father the dull one, not like they were related by blood, they were just best friends and Joseph grew up calling him uncle, Because he was the only family he sees.

Elder Maxwell asked for water and Anna got him a glass, he cleared his throat and then continued.

I finally finished the work, when I saw your father come out. they paid us and we left, but then they called us back to search his bag, I was so scared, I was very worried, I thought our plan had been discovered, but when I saw the way your father moved towards them, not caring if they wanted to throw him up and down all in the name of searching him, I became relaxed.

They searched us thoroughly, almost stripping us naked, but they found nothing. 

I released a breath I never knew I was holding, when we got outside, we got to our car and I stood to look at your father.

"What happened to the gold? I asked, he smiled at me and pulled me aside to whisper into my ears, but he had not finished talking when we heard a blast.

Our car hit exploaded, we started running.

They wanted to kill us, they must have suspected that we have discovered something and so they wanted to end us before we leave.

If your father had not, pulled me aside to talk to me for a while, I would probably be with him now.

We ran for our lives, till we saw an old man driving, we snatched his car from him and raced home.

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