[STORY] BEHIND THE SMILE (Episode 22)

Episode 22.
By AMAH’S HEART.

He checked again but he still wasn’t sure.
The red Honda kept a far distance but from his side mirror he noticed every turning he makes the Honda follows and still kept a distance.

He was not certain if he was being followed or not.
It could be a coincidence, maybe the Honda driver happens to be going the same direction with him. Is nothing serious.

Benny said a very silent prayer while driving
No words was heard, only his lips were moving.
He prayed that God will put an end to all this trouble and give them victory. He also prayed that God will protect Dorcas and give her the strength to carry on. He asked God to bestow more wisdom to him so that he will be able to defeat Bianca and all her tactics.

After two turning the next will be linking to the police station. He needed to do a duplicate of the recording card. He will keep a copy and give them the original or better still keep the original and give them a copy.
He will do all of that at the station.

Benny checked his side mirror again and noticed the Honda was still driving behind him.
Different thought crossed his mind.
What if Bianca sent somebody to monitor his movement.
She is capable of anything and very intelligent in her dealings.
She is evil genius, one of the smartest person he has ever come across.

Benny gave her lots of credit, he never thought she will be a hard nut to crack, she is even harder than he thought.
He also needs to upgrade his game plan because soon Bianca will be going down.

Ones he hand over the whole recording to the police, which is filled with strong evidence that will nail her for life.
If that is accomplished, Bianca will be apprehended and that will be her very end.
Benny took his phone to update the police of his coming but felt awkward and decided to wait.

He try calling again but network failure, the call was not connecting.
he decided not to try again.

The last turning leading to the station was in view.
He changed his mind from going to the station.
Benny thought of what to do, he saw another unfamiliar road and entered, he doesn’t know where it will lead him to but he will keep driving.
He drove out to an express road that he was familiar with and continued from there.

He head straight to the hospital instead.
He was not going to blow off his cover just yet.
He can’t take any chances at all.
Even if his thoughts were wrong he won’t let down his guard.

The Honda driver maybe an innocent person going on his own, yet is better he restrategies before every information he suffered to gather up goes in drain.

His life and that of his wife are all at stake and Bianca will carry out her threat if she discover the truth.
Benny try calling the doctor to update and inform him that he will be coming over but the doctor wasn’t picking up.
He tried again, no response. Benny angrily threw the phone aside.

He drove straight to the hospital.
As he was driving in, he checked his mirror again, this time he didn’t see the Honda.
Maybe he was wrong in thinking the person was following him.

Since he was already around the hospital premises he drove in, parked and just then his phone rang.
The doctor was calling back.

“Hello Doc, I’m already at your hospital. You will see me in few seconds…”

He came down from his car, locked it before walking in to see his doctors who already had an idea of what was going on.

He sat with his doctor in his office discussing, the doctor apologies for missing his calls, he was attending to a patient and couldn’t take any call. He said.

Benny decided to call one of the officer to come meet him in the hospital.
Within an hour the officer, who was not on uniform came.

They sat in the doctor’s office talking.

“…i was afraid that Bianca sent somebody to follow me, I’m not certain but I couldn’t wave off the dreadful thought which was why I came here straight. I told Bianca that I was going to the hospital, so this is just a cover. I want to be extremely careful now that we are almost at the edge of this whole investigation. I don’t want anything to happen to my wife because Bianca threaten to shoot her dead if she sense any cold feet from my end. The next step is going over to where she kept my wife as her prisoner. That will be tomorrow and I need the police to be at alert. Please carefully avoid her smelling your presence for the sake of my life and that of my wife. The “she devil” is super smart and she scared me to death today when she asked if I was recording our conversation. I was stunned at that spot but I managed to act my way out. We need to be vigilante and careful when dealing with Bianca. Officer, please handle this with care, the whole evidence is here, I will like to have a copy of everything…”

Benny handed over the whole recording to the officer in charge.
They talked and marked out how they will apprehend her.

Benny was given another new recording gadget to wear whenever he will be going with her to where Dorcas was kept, which will be the next day

He was also given a modern tracker, in that way police will be able to know the exact place they will be going.
He was asked to place the tracker on Bianca’s car.
It will trail them to her destination.

Seven officers will be stationed around the building where her victims are kept once the the dictate the place through the tracker.
they also asked Benny to wear one that looks like a wristbands. If one malfunctioned then they will follow the second one.

They talked until night came. Benny and the officer left the hospital.

Benny thanked the officer but he returned the thanks saying Benny was doing great with helping them with the investigator’s work.
He asked Benny if he will love to Join the investigating department in the police force. Benny laughed at the joke.

Benny head to his car
Just as he was about going into his car the officer called him back.

“My work phone is surprisingly getting alarmed from your car, there is an unlicenced censored tracker button glued to your car…”

Benny was shocked as the officer searched around the car until he was able to pull it out under his car bonnet.
It was exact color with Benny’s car. Which makes it appear invisible.
Is like a camouflage and still very active.

Without the help of the officer Benny wouldn’t have been able to know.
The officer disabled it.

“This girl is indeed smart head like you said. This cost a fortune and record any conversations convers inside the car. Hope you didn’t make any suspecious call while in the car? Oh no, did you call me while in the car or from the doctor’s office because Bianca will be listening to every conversation you make in the car through this means…”

Benny’s jaw dropped to the ground as he began to think hard.
He remembered the only call he received was from the doctor.
He try making calls while in the car but none went through.

Benny fell on his knees and muttered “thank you Jesus”
It has been God all the way that made none of his calls to go through. He had felt frustrated and threw his phone aside not knowing it was all the handwork of God.

He later stood and asked the officer to fix the censored tracking button.

The officer asked why, Benny gave his reasons. Now that he knows that Bianca was monitoring both his car movement and conversation he will be saying the exact thing she will love to hear and acting according to the game script.

The officer agreed to his plan and abled the tracking button before putting it back at the same spot where Bianca fixed it.

He informed him that the battery will need changing soon because the working limit is three days. so is still very active today and tomorrow.

Benny thanked him. He entered his car and drove off.

While going home, he pretend to be on a call with the doctor as he talked on how the injection was taking serious effect on him. He pray not to have an accident because his eyes were closing up.
He talked about how much he detest Dorcas and love his new woman, called Bianca.
He said Bianca makes him so happy and he can do anything for her.
Benny suddenly screamed, and later said that he almost hit an incoming car because he was struggling to keep his eyelid open.

Surprisingly, his phone began to ring and it was Bianca.

“My love are you alright, where are you… will you like me to come get you? the doctor attended to you well…i believe. and hope the drugs are not affecting you…”?

Benny informed her that the drugs are actually affecting him and thank God she called
She does not need to come rather she should continue talking to him over the phone until he gets home in that way he will remain awake.

Bianca kept talking to him and Benny will laugh at her dry jokes.
They kept talking untill Benny got home, he thanked Bianca.

She blew him a kiss over the phone as they bid each other goodnight.

Benny laughed sarcastically after the call ended

“Two can play this game…so help me God…”
He said quietly and went his room.

The following day, he drove off to meet her.
Bianca will be taking him to see Dorcas.

He made few fake calls in his car before getting to her.
To Be Continued…. . . .