Chapter 49 - Who is this stalker?

Who is this stalker? Darkness visited and roamed the streets that night in Ontario, A town and a county in New York city. It was eleven In the night and the road was seen to be busy as always with people walking and scurrying on it and cars and buses driving at full speed. Shops, pharmacies, clubs, cinemas, restaurants, cafes and streetlights had their lights on. There were electric boards on the streets with neon lights for advertisement display. A young lady, Leslie, in her mid twenties was selling at a small pharmacy which was at the end of the street that night. Just then, a man with glasses and a hood on his head entered to get a drug. She put his ordered items in a carrier bag and handed it to him while he gave her the dollar bills in his hand. "Thanks!" She said as she smiled to the unfamiliar face in the hood. He should be a new customer, she thought. The man with the hood smirked at her as he turned to leave to God-knows-where. As more customers trooped in, Leslie attended to them all within a couple of minutes and was done for the night. Her boss was not around and had gone on a vacation to another state in the United States. Leslie glanced at the wall clock and saw that it was quarter to twelve. She tidied the pharmacy, clutched her bag and was ready to leave. She closed the door and headed through a crooked silent street which was quite secluded from the main street. Since her home wasn't far from the pharmacy, she doesn't seem to need a taxi. As she headed down that silent crooked street, her phone beeped and she saw it was a text message from her boyfriend. She got distracted by running her pretty fingers on her phone to chat with her boyfriend. Unknown to her,that the man with the hood had been stalking and following her secretly. She smiled as she continued to text her boyfriend. To make matters worse, she attached an ear plug to her ear so that she could converse with her boyfriend. That is, speak with him orally rather than texting him. She wasn't aware that she was being followed by someone. God-knows-who?. Just then, she changed direction and turned left, she noticed a man was behind her but she didn't suspect a thing. She was all deep in the conversation with her boyfriend. As she turned again, she noticed the man was still following her. This time around she got herself. She realized she was in the middle of a silent dark street, people hardly passed there and neither had she seen one passed by, ever since she was on the phone with her boyfriend, and now, a man was following her from behind or should we say stalking her. As she turned again, she saw the man again. This time around, she saw his face a little clearly. He was wearing a hood and eyeglasses just like the man she attended to at the pharmacy. This time around, he was moving faster and approaching her with a machete in his hand. "Oh! No" She screamed as she took to her heels. Her phone fell off her hand and she dared not turn to take it. Which Is more important?Her life or her phone?. As she ran, the man was also running towards her. "Help!!!" She screamed as she dashed to the main street and stood at the middle of the road at the front of a taxi. "Hey! You, Get away from there, I'm trying to move". The taxi man yelled at her. His car was filled with people already and he doesn't seem to understand why she tried to stop him stupidly by staying at his front. "Sorry!" She replied and noticed that she could no longer see the man with the hood again. She took a taxi immediately and headed home straight. **************************** Vicky sauteed a food by frying it quickly in a little hot fat. Their breakfast was new potatoes sauteed in butter and thyme. She thought about the incident that happened that night when she went out with her friends to the recreational building for their 'ladies night out'. Just then, her mind drifted to Fabio, yes Fabio. She remembered when she told him she was being spied on by someone and nearly knocked down by a motorcyclist and he had shown concern by asking her for important details about the spy and she was able to give none. What made her think about him all of a sudden?, She remembered she had told him she was nearly knocked down by a motorcyclist and a shot of her and Adams was taken by someone. And Fabio had asked if Adams was able to describe the man in the car who had taken a shot of them. But the question there is?, How did Fabio know the man who took a shot of them was in the car?, when she hadn't mentioned to him earlier that he was in a car. What exactly was going on?, Judith had said to her that night, the first day she saw Fabio that he was handsome but acted weird. Yes, that's one thing about it. Something's weird about Fabio, something's not right somewhere, but where?. Vicky thought and became confused. "Mom!" "The food is burning". Josh said to her with a sniff as he tapped her laps. "Oh!" Vichy exclaimed as she left her thought zone. "Thanks Josh". **************** After cooking, Vicky and her son went to the dining room to have breakfast. Mike had gone on a trip with his father to Australia and would be back tomorrow. As they ate, Vicky's phone rang and she saw it was Adams calling. She picked it and he asked how she was. He told her they were both needed at the station concerning their report and she told him she would be there. After breakfast, Vicky cleared her plates to the kitchen and tidied up the whole house. She intended to drop Josh at a babysitter but he had insisted on following her to the Police station. "Hello Mrs. Vicky smith". Ronald, the cop who investigated the incident at Josh's birthday greeted her with a smile as she walked in. "Hello Ronald" Vicky greeted as she took a seat. "Hello Josh, how're you doing?" Ronald greeted Josh with a grin. "I'm good". He responded cutely. "So," Ronald said, facing Vicky and Adams. "You and your friend here, Adams, made a report last two weeks. Isn't it?". Ronald began and cleared his throat. "Yes!" Vicky and Adams chorused. "You both have no clues on what the spy and the motorcyclist looked like?" Ronald asked as he furrowed his brows. "No, all I know is that the motorcyclist was wearing a helmet and the man taking the pictures was in a black SUV car, we couldn't see their faces clearly". Adams explained further. "Hmmm…interesting". Ronald said as he placed his hands on his moustache. "And all these happened at the front of your house" . "Yes!" Vicky answered. "Okay, now let's take a look at this". Ronald said as he connected a CCTV to the system at their front and they all watched the scene that happened that very day. "Yeah!, That's me, I was standing right there". Vicky said as she pointed to herself on the screen. "Wow!, I can see the motorcyclist had a deal with the man in the car, look, they both nodded". Ronald said as he watched closely. A man was busy watching them as he was fixing a particular cable right there at the station. "Now, they went separate ways". Adams said as he saw exactly what happened that day on the system and how they parted ways. "But where could they have gone to that day after the incident?, we need more proof of who they really are?". Vicky said to Ronald. "That's what I'm trying to find out" . Ronald said as he typed on the keyboard. "First it was Josh and now you, we really need to find out who these people are". Adams said to Vicky. "We need to send more cops and security personnel to that area and security must be tight". Ronald said to Vicky and Adams as he squinted at the system. The man fixing the cables had a smirk on his face as he looked at Ronald, Adams and Vicky. He could hear all they were saying. He placed a small device on the wall secretly and no one noticed. "I'm done with my work here." He said and smiled at a cop who shook his hand. He was an electrician and had come to fix and replace a burnt cable at the police station. As he left, Josh saw him went outside and spoke to a man beside a car. The man he spoke to was quite tall and black haired with blue eyes., Just like the man who abducted him on his birthday. Josh was confused because the face looked familiar but he couldn't remember where he had seen the man. The electrician and the man exchanged some words with a giggle and hopped in the car beside them and with the twinkling of an eye they were gone. Josh was right, the man not only looked like the man who abducted him on his birthday, he was actually the one. Oscar montes, one of Kelvin's men. But what was he saying to the electrician earlier?, Why was the electrician needed in their mission?, And what were they up to?. Vicky and Mike were still talking to Ronald when a young beautiful lady entered. It was Leslie. The girl who was being followed and watched that night after her work at the pharmacy. "I have a report to give" She said panting and Ronald furrowed his brow as he looked at her. "Okay," He said. "Last night, I was followed and stalked by someone". Leslie said, still panting. "Who?, I mean, can you describe the person in any way?" Ronald asked her. "Yes, I worked at a pharmacy and there is this new looking guy, this was the first time he bought some things at the pharmacy where I work. He was dressed in a hood with baggy pants and wore glasses too. I …I couldn't get a proper view of his face". Leslie explained. "So how do you know he was the one stalking you?" "When I walked through the crooked dark street, I was so engrossed in my phone as I chatted with my boyfriend that I didn't even notice I was being followed and when I noticed, the man following me was also wearing a hood, exactly like the man I saw at the pharmacy". "Is this the first time someone's stalking you?" Ronald asked her. "Yes, he was with a machete and I had to run as fast as my legs could take me". "My phone slipped from my hands and I dare not take it". "Okay, thank goodness you're safe now, I'll get the other cops and we'll look into it". Ronald assured her. ********************* Oscar montes and the electrician, Bob drove to the fine terrace mansion with beautiful flowers. They alighted and approached the porch and saw Kelvin seated and sniffing some cocaine. "Hello boss". Oscar greeted him with a grin. "Hello", Kelvin turned to greet Oscar. "Oh! Bob, you're right here" Kelvin stood and shook him. "Yes, and I am done with what you asked me to do". "Good one!" Kelvin smiled with a smirk on his face as he tapped Bob's shoulders. But who is this Bob?How does Kelvin know him?, And what has he got to do for them?. Well, Bob was an electrician who installs, repairs and maintains electrical wiring and equipment at the police station. He was a trusted Friend of the cops and was also known by Glen. Glen was a member of a gang who steals and smuggles drugs in Tennessee. He and Kelvin had met each other after his college studies and had worked together with some others until he left their gang to work with Elian and Chriss and later on, moved to New York. Kelvin had Informed Glen about his mission and had sought any help of sort from him. Glen had told him about Bob, the electrician and how he could be useful to them. Indeed, Bob was quite useful. He helped with attaching a device which is a CCTV camera in the police station. Kelvin needed to watch and be updated on the activities and plans of the police with the aid of the CCTV device. "I heard some people talking to the cop, Ronald, about being stalked, watched and spied on by someone". Bob said to Kelvin who only smiled. "Do you have a hand in it?" Bob asked as he furrowed his brow and looked at Kelvin with distrust. "No, why are you asking me?" Kelvin lied and folded his arms as he stared intensely at Bob. "Nothing, but why did you ask me to fix the CCTV camera in the police station?" "Nothing" Kelvin said to him with folded arms. Bob looked at him with distrust. "We had a deal, didn't we?You did it In return for money, so why ask those questions?". Kelvin said as he looked at him in the eyeball intensely. He couldn't trust Bob too. "I have been a trusted person and have worked as an electrician for the cops for some years now, what if they noticed there was CCTV there?They will think I have some plans up my sleeve against them and have been spying on them. I will be called for interrogations. Oh! Why didn't I think about this first?" Bob said regretfully. "Calm down bro, no one will suspect a thing". Kelvin said and turned to Oscar. He gave him a sign language and he understood. Oscar went inside the building and came out not quite long with a bag of money In hand. Kelvin opened the bag and handed four thousand dollar bills to Bob. Bob was to be paid six thousand dollar bills for his mission which involves fixing the CCTV camera at the police station. "Have this" Kelvin said as he handed a four thousand dollar bill to him. Bob took it from him and counted the money. "This is not complete". Bob said as he looked at Kelvin with furrowed brows. "Well, that's all I have" Kelvin said with a shrug and smiled. "I can see you are not to be trusted. This wasn't part of our deal kelvin". Bob yelled at him. "So what do you wanna do?" "You are such an idiot!" Bob spat back while Kelvin laughed stupidly. "Give me my complete money and do as you have promised kel" Bob said angrily as he gave him a glare "Easy..easy easy man. I told you that's all I got". Kelvin answered him with a smile. "Or I will have you reported to the cops myself". Bob threatened him. "Are you threatening me now?" "Yes I am" Bob said, holding his clothes roughly. "That's all I have for you". Kelvin said again to him and Bob got angry, he dropped the money and hit kelvin on the jaw with his fist while kelvin kept Smiling and giggling like a psycho. When Bob saw Kelvin's reaction, he got furious. He knew that Kelvin was not interested in paying him his full money no matter what he does to him. Bob gave him a look of disdain and decided to leave the building, probably to report him to the cops. He knows reporting Kelvin to the cops would affect him too since he was the one that fixed the CCTV camera at the police station. He knows the cops wouldn't trust him anymore but he had to. He regretted helping Kelvin anyways and he had no choice but to report that criminal to the cops. As Bob was still moving away from him with the intention of reporting him to the cops which kelvin knew would definitely happen as soon as he Left the terrace mansion, kelvin called out to him. "Hey man! Where are you going?". "It's none of your fucking business". Bob turned and replied to him out of anger. "I know you're probably going to the cops to tell on me". "Shut the hell up, you fucking idiot". Bob yelled at him still on his way. Kelvin was no fool to watch him leave that mansion alive. No Bob can disrupt his well planned mission. Kelvin dipped his hand in his pocket and brought out ….. "A gun," Oscar said with a grin where he stood. He knew he should be expecting to see Kelvin bring that out. "Bob! Stop right there" Kelvin called but Bob refused to obey his stupid order. Kelvin pointed the gun to an unaware Bob. A silencer was attached to the muzzle of the gun so as to reduce the sound made by the gun as he triggers it. In a couple of minutes, Bob found himself falling to the ground helplessly. He had been shot by no one order than Kelvin. Kelvin smiled as he returned the gun back to his pocket and gave a signal to Oscar to clear his corps that very evening. Oscar did as his boss had Instructed and in no time Bob's corpse was cleared. Kelvin smiled as he removed his gun from his pocket to have a good look at it. He was well prepared for Bob anyways. Even before he left the police station to his terrace mansion, Kelvin had kept the guns in his pocket and wanted him dead because he couldn't trust him since he worked with the cops.