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89|Collateral-Part 1
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Save Him 90|Collateral-Part 2
As soon as Natalie stepped out of the gate, she called Aunty Viv. "It's done. I have the envelope.""You've really outdone yourself, doll!" she showered her with compliments she didn't want or need before issuing more instructions. "You're holding a lot of money in your hands. Be careful with it. You have to deliver it to its rightful owner now. I'll send you the location."Natalie didn't know where she plucked up the courage to refuse, but she did. "No, I'm not delivering anything until I get what I want.""Excuse me?" Aunty Viv was outraged by her audacity and flabbergasted that she would dare defy an order.This time Natalie was more adamant and vocal in her refusal. "I said I'm not doing it. I'm not going to the second location until you reactivate my profile.""Are you out of your mind?""I've never been more clear-headed. How do I know you'll stick to your end of the deal? I need some sort of collateral. It's amazing how much one can learn in one morning.""Natalie, Natalie, Nat
Save Him 91|Rosewood Motel-Part 1
Natalie didn't realise how far Rosewood was until they were actually on the road, with Josie splitting her attention between driving and stealing anxious glances at her the whole time.Eventually, Natalie got tired of her unspoken questions. Turning to her, she asked, "what is it?""Rosewood is pretty far.""So?""So, I'm just wondering if you'll be able to pay for all these trips. I mean, I've just been driving you around the whole morning."Natalie laughed and stared outside her window. "Don't worry, I may be an idiot in a lot of ways, but I'm not a thief or a liar. I'll pay you.""That's good."Happy with her assurances, Josie relaxed visibly and increased the volume on the stereo by just a notch. "So why are we going to the back of beyond?"Natalie wasn't in the mood to chat, but she mumbled anyway. "Work.""What kind of work?""The kind I regret."And that shut Josie up.The next time she spoke again was exactly two hours later when they pulled into Rosewood Motel, a shady place
Save Him 92|Rosewood Motel-Part 2
Natalie didn't know how long she stood there and watched Igor and his cleanup crew efficiently wrap Ethan in the now bloody rug and bag him up in black refuse bags.It all felt so surreal. But even in her dreamlike state, she knew she was next. There was no way Andrei would let her leave alive now. Not when she'd just witnessed a murder.Did this make her an accessory to murder?It wasn't hard to figure out where the cops would stop first once Ethan's body turned up somewhere. After all, she'd delivered his finger to his residence. Even with her pathetic disguise, she had no doubt in her mind Mrs Wilson and the housekeeper would easily pick her out in a police lineup. She didn't have that familiar grocery store face look. She stood out in a crowd.While she was still processing the craziness in front of her, the door burst open, and in came two middle-aged men, dressed in casual clothes, with comms pieces looped around their ears and their weapons already drawn.She wanted to shout wi
Save Him 93|Lived To Tell The Tale
Seconds after Andrei left the room, Zachary and his partner came in."Ms Taylor, we have to take you home," he said as he gently picked her up and carried her down the two flights of stairs and into the back of the car parked in front of the motel's office.With Natalie safely strapped in, Zachary slid into the passenger seat, and a moment later, his partner joined him behind the wheel.He turned around in his seat, passed the handbag to her and introduced himself. "I'm Carlos; I believe you met Zachary last night."A still shell shocked Natalie nodded. "So it's real.""What?" Both men gave her a questioning look."Your name."Zachary smiled. "Yep. As real as this fleabag motel.""But you're not a detective?""Ex-detective," Zachary replied. "Both of us."They were pulling away from the motel when Natalie suddenly remembered Josie. "Wait, we can't leave."Carlos hit the brakes, bringing the car to a screeching halt."Why? Did you forget something?""Josie, my Uber driver," Natalie rep
Save Him 94|Some Of Us Are Atheists
Emily jumped out of the car, her face flush with outrage and disapproval."So this is Sparrow Beach?" she demanded as she grabbed her backpack and a few grocery bags from the back seat and locked the car."How did you even find out about that?" Natalie asked as they took the stairs to her floor."Norah made all of us pray for Jamie at the daily catch up, never mind that some of us are atheists." Emily rolled her eyes and carried on. "But when I checked you on the 'Find My' app and saw you all over the map, I knew something was up.""So you cut work just to catch me in a lie?""Yep," Emily nodded. "I had to see for myself what sort of mischief or trouble you'd gotten yourself in."Natalie unlocked her door and led her inside, irritated at the intrusion. She really should disable that app. But it was one of the rules in their companions' chat to always have it on because it was their way of looking out for each other, however passive."So, what the hell were you doing in Glen Eagles and
Save Him 95|Lil Baby
Natalie didn't understand what the heck was going on.One minute she was watching WrestleMania in her living room with Emily, and the next, Andrei's goons had stormed her place, threw a pillow slip over her head and drove her around for hours.Now she was back at Rosewood Motel, in room 233 where Andrei sat in his chair with the sunlight streaming through the window like a halo around his golden head.She had no frigging clue what he wanted with her this time. She'd done everything he'd asked. Hadn't opened her mouth about Ethan to anyone. Not even to Emily. So this meeting made no sense, and as she stood paralysed in place, she was so afraid to breathe, let alone ask why he'd summoned her.Andrei quickly put her out of her misery and took control of their meeting like he'd done earlier. Was it earlier or yesterday? Natalie honestly couldn't say what day it was; time and space seemed to have converged into one gigantic mess of hallucinations and warped reality."Did you know Noelle is
Save Him 96|Like A Phoenix
On Thursday, the day after his last conversation with Natalie, Levi was still fuming. The idea that she thought she could end things with him, over a phone call at that, was laughable in itself. But her fearlessness was mind-blowing, to say the least. He couldn't understand how anyone so tiny could get herself into so much shit in just a matter of days, especially when he'd given her strict instructions to stay out of trouble while he was away."And what the hell does she do?" Levi turned to Mark for the hundredth time since his check-in with Zachary and Carlos over an hour ago."Exactly what you told her not to do?" his partner replied for the hundredth time as he moved through his adjoining room, picking up his toiletries and stuffing them inside his luggage bag. He paused and frowned at him through the open doorway. "Shouldn't you be packing?""I was done with that yesterday morning when I was ready to fly back home, remember? I only have a few items to put away," Levi reminded him
Save Him 97|We All Are To A Degree-Part 1
By the time they landed at the airport in Rock Union, just after 10:00 AM on Friday, Levi was already highly annoyed at everything and everyone.Their flight out of Ghana was delayed by two hours. The layover took longer than the hour the airline had promised, and he hadn't had any sleep in over fourteen hours.To say he was irritable was an understatement. But he was really more on edge than anything else, and he wanted to know if his weekend was bound to be a bust or a success.So as soon as they jumped in his car parked at the airport for almost a week now, he called his staff at the house in the Blue Mountains just to make sure they were indeed hard at work, getting it ready and preparing everything just the way he'd told them to. He wanted everything to be perfect for Natalie's first visit.Mr Ackerman, his butler, assured him everything was on track, and by the time Levi arrived after his meeting, everything would be to his liking.Pleased with the progress report, Levi reclined
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