Still on CASSANDRA
Season 2
Episode 15
David’s side of the story;
As narrated by David
We got to Avutu town around 10:15am and with a little asking around we were able to locate Edwin’s family house which was strangely built in an isolated location.
The house was a massive one storey structure which sat like a king in a vast sparse of land with no other houses surrounding it. It was just as if the owner of the house bought all the lands surrounding his property in a bid to turn the whole area into a super estate but ran short of money before being able to complete the project. The whole area was overrun with weeds and trees but the path leading to the main gate of the house was well maintained and clean which made us to believe that someone was inside the building even though the environment looked deserted.
I was unable to drive any nearer to the house to avoid being noticed which made me stop my car a distance away from the house.
‘’now we have seen the house, I think it’s time to get the police involved. The house is bigger than I thought it would be and there is no way we are getting into it on our own’’ Chinedu breathed with resignation while I shook my head.
‘’I’m going to take a closer look at the house, just stay behind in the car. I’m coming’’ I said courageously, opening the car door.
‘’you can’t be serous!’’ he exclaimed with disbelief.
‘’the whole area looks quiet and deserted. What if we come with the police and find the house locked?. I have to take a good look bro, just to be sure.’’ I said seriously. He shrugged and nodded.
‘’just don’t be long’’ he begged. I smiled at him, alighted from my car and quickly headed to the house, using the trees surrounding the driveway as cover.
I grew up in the village and I was very much used to such surroundings. I used to steal mangos, pears and even coconuts back then from houses with even higher fences. But this time around age really wasn’t on my side and so I had to be overly cautious.
I slowly headed towards the back of the house where I knew I could find a second narrow gate. I knew such houses always have a second gate hidden at the backyard. Moreover I knew backyards to be the easiest way to gain access to a house. It equally could be a place to know if there is any activity going on in a building.
I slowly found the second gate and placed my ear on it to see if I could hear any voice coming from the building but I heard none. I wiped out sweat from my face as I thought of what next to do. That exact moment, I heard Edwin’s voice from behind.
‘’Mr. David what a surprise!. Are you so stupid or what?. What are you doing here?. Trying to rescue Cassandra, I guess?’’ he asked with a sneer while I faced him with great fear. I really wasn’t expecting to confront him so soon. I never even knew where he emerged from.
‘’you suddenly can’t talk huh?. Haven’t you heard that heroes get killed in real life?. Are you really so dumb to even come here alone?. Tell me what you can do supposing you find Cassandra in my house?’’ he asked while I silently weighed him. I just couldn’t say a word. My head suddenly went numb.
‘’you want to see Cassandra?. Fine, let’s go inside’’ he said with a smile, opened the small gate and virtually dragged me inside the building. I tried my best to remain calm as I slowly built back my confidence.
‘’after all it’s only him. I can’t beat him in a one on one fight’’ I reasoned as we headed into the big building.
‘’Welcome to my castle, Welcome to my palace where my beautiful queen resides. Here is Cassandra!’’ he exclaimed as he opened the door leading to the sitting room. My eyes instantly enlarged as they fell on Cassandra sitting on a couch with her attention focused on the TV she were watching. She instantly froze with surprise on seeing me, quickly sitting upright while i swallowed hard, unable to say a word.
I couldn’t help but notice that her face was very swollen and deeply colored. Yes she wasn’t in chains and appeared to be free but one look at her told me that she was definitely under captivity.
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‘’my love, your David came to save you. Can you believe that?’’ Edwin said to Cassandra as he kissed her on the cheek while I watched on silently.
‘’you can’t imagine how much I have yearned for this moment. My greatest wish has always been to kill you before my Cassandra. To see you die before her eyes and I can’t wait any much longer’’ he said, grabbed a big kitchen knife and walked towards me with a murderous smile.
‘’a knife is a very silent killer. It lets you watch your blood as you bleed to death. I so much love knives. You can’t imagine how many people I have used it on’’ he breathed, drew back and tried to drive the knife into my stomach with a fast t----t but I already was waiting for that moment. I quickly drew back, narrowing escaping his blow. My swiftness left him stunned for some seconds. He raised his hand with the knife, this around with the intention of stabbing me with it from anywhere. I tried stopping him by trying to grab his hand but miscalculated. His knife almost slit my right hand into two while Cassandra screamed, rushed forward and dove at him from behind, pushing him forward and sending him flying towards me.
I ducked as he fell on a chair, and quickly plunged at him to finish him off before he could recover from the shock. But unfortunately he never let go of the knife as he fell and as I plunged at him. He buried the knife into the left corner of my chest, leaving me immobilized.
‘’Die David. Die you b-----d’’ he breathed as I fell backwards.
He licked his lips, got up and watched me bleed while Cassandra cried from a distance, too scared to attempt attacking him again.
‘’it’s now time to finish you once and for all’’ he breathed, bent over and pulled the knife from my body, ready to stab me one last time.
Episode 16
David’s side of the story;
As narrated by David
‘’no please don’t do it. Do you really want to kill him?’’ Cassandra suddenly begged, coming to my defense once again. Edwin hesitated for a moment, turned and stared at her.
‘’yes I’m serious about killing him. I’m going to kill him and nothing will happen’’ he threatened viciously while I struggled to regain my strength. I couldn’t believe I was going to die like a fowl. I couldn’t believe I was doing to die by Edwin’s hand. I muttered quick prayers, begging God to forgive all my sins.
‘’I hope you have made peace with your creator?’’ Edwin asked with a smile, slowly positioning the knife he held for the kill strike. I breathed deeply, expecting to the worst. Fortunately for me, my phone rang that very moment, breaking the tension in the room.
The ringing phone gave me the opportunity to play a dry trick as I noticed the suspicious look Edwin gave me as the phone rang.
‘’you said I was silly to come here all alone to confront you but I think you are the most stupid boy I have ever seen. How on earth could you believe that I came here all alone in the first place?. Your house is already surrounded by the police. I was just sent in to distract you. So you better finish what you started and get ready for a lifelong time in jail’’ I managed to mutter with all my strength. For the first time Edwin looked totally terrified. It was very obvious he was scared of the police.
He quickly grabbed my phone from my pocket, switched it off, tossed it away and ran to the window where he took a quick look outside before returning to face me with a weird look on his face.
‘’no one can stop me, not even the police’’ he breathed fiercely, headed to one of the rooms and returned seconds later with a small travel bag. It was as if he already was ready to flee even before I got to the house because the swiftness by which he emerged from the room with a fully packed travel bag aroused my curiosity.
‘’this isn’t over yet. I’m coming for you. I’m coming for your family. I’m coming back for my Cassandra. I won’t kill you now because it isn’t worth it at the moment’’ he threatened, took a quick look at Cassandra before disappearing through another door. Cassandra quickly rushed to my side, stopping the bleeding with a handkerchief.
‘’you are quickly losing blood. Please don’t breathe too fast, close your eyes and relax. I can stop the bleeding. Thanks for risking your life to save me’’ she muttered quickly, trying her best to control the blood which was dropping from my wounded chest.
‘’get my phone. I think the caller was Chinedu. I came only with him. I didn’t come with the police’’ I struggled to breathe as Cassandra quickly grabbed my phone from where Edwin tossed it minutes ago.
‘’Call Chinedu, direct him to the house and let him in. he knows what to do’’ I managed to breathe.
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Hours later, I opened my eyes to see the police inspector and Chinedu smiling down at me.
‘’Hey strong man, you are back in Owerri. Cassandra managed to control the bleeding and we safely got you to this private hospital. The police are now in charge of the situation’’ Chinedu said with a smile while the inspector nodded.
‘’yes Mr. David we are now in charge of the situation and we are sure of getting Edwin in few days. Cassandra is at the station, helping us with investigation but you really did a brave but foolish deed. You civilians should always leave us the police to do our job instead of interfering. You almost got killed. You also allowed a hardened criminal to escape justice’’ he said softly, leaving a great fear all over me.
‘’please protect Nora. Please protect my son. Edwin threatened to come after them. I hope he hasn’t gotten them already. I have to get out of here’’ I suddenly breathed, struggling to sit up while the inspector and Chinedu quickly held me down.
‘’please don’t let him get to them’’ I passionately begged, too weak to do a thing.
Episode 17
Nora’s side of the story;
As narrated by Nora
I woke up that fateful morning with fear in my heart. I had a very terrible nightmare which looked so real that I had to spring up from sleep with great fright. I dreamt seeing David lying helplessly on the road begging for help as he bled to dead. The dream of course made no sense to me but then it scared the living daylight out of me.
I had to quickly call Dave to make sure he was alright and his response that morning told me that all was well with him. Nevertheless I begged him to pray or better still to remain at home, something I knew he would never do.
On a very good day, I would have rushed over to his apartment to be with him, to stop him from leaving the house but with the present condition of things, I had to restrain myself to avoid him reading unnecessary meaning to my action.
The last thing I wanted was appearing too cheap or desperate to him like I did in the past.
All through that day my mind never was at ease. It was just as if a shadow of darkness fell over me. I never relaxed for a moment. I finally had to take pills to calm my nerves.
By 3:30pm I got a strange call from Chinedu, asking me to come over to a private hospital located at ‘hospital road’. My heart instantly froze because I knew my fears were eventually coming to past.
‘’don’t tell me Dave is dead or badly injured?’’ was the exact question I asked Chinedu the moment he delivered the message, leaving the young man stunned with my question. He kept quiet for some seconds before clearing his throat.
‘’I never said David is in a life threatening condition, I only asked you to come see us there for a reason’’ he replied and hung up, giving no further explanation. I quickly left my little baby with my sister and rushed over to the hospital with a fast beating heart.
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I arrived at the hospital to see David, Chinedu and the police inspector chatting like old pals. I slowly heaved a sigh of relief as I approached them.
On seeing me they all kept quiet while David smiled at me.
‘’your David finally succeeded in rescuing Cassandra today but unfortunately got hurt in the process. I had to ask you to come over because he has been very worried about you and his son’’ Chinedu said softly while I held David’s hand, staring at him with disbelief.
‘’Cassandra isn’t worth your life. You shouldn’t have gone this far’’ I said softly, so touched and so surprised with what I just heard.
‘’I know my dear but I had to do everything to clear Cassandra’s issue from our lives, though I ended up messing things up. Edwin is still free out there and he swore to come back for me. I’m so scared of what he could do to you or my baby. We have to start living together. We have to become the couple God destined us to be. Please I beg of you’’ David managed to mutter while I stared at him with eyes filled with tears and great emotion.
I so much was in love with David, I very much was willing risk everything for him. I desperately wanted to start living with him but then I still was scared of acting out my true feelings. I was scared of being treated like s--t for the second time.
‘’are you really serious?’’’ I asked, holding his hand tightly. He nodded softly, struggling to say another word but his emotions wouldn’t let him talk.
Just that moment, Cassandra walked in with her usual grace and charm, gaining everyone’s attention.
She ignored every one of us, brushed past me and sat beside David.
‘’Thanks for taking the highest possible risk for me, Now I know who truly loves me and what real love is all about. I’m so sorry for all I did in the past and I promise to correct all my wrongs. Staying with Edwin was hell. I was brutalized, threatened and denied freedom. Each passing day brought me closer to a terrible death until you showed up. You gave me a second chance to life. I owe you my life. Thank you for saving me’’ she poured out as tears fell from her eyes.
The young girl was such a good actor that she virtually got the feelings and sympathy of all the men in the room with her convincing act of repentance.
I wasn’t supposed to be threatened by her presence but unfortunately I felt extremely threatened.
Season 2
Episode 15
David’s side of the story;
As narrated by David
We got to Avutu town around 10:15am and with a little asking around we were able to locate Edwin’s family house which was strangely built in an isolated location.
The house was a massive one storey structure which sat like a king in a vast sparse of land with no other houses surrounding it. It was just as if the owner of the house bought all the lands surrounding his property in a bid to turn the whole area into a super estate but ran short of money before being able to complete the project. The whole area was overrun with weeds and trees but the path leading to the main gate of the house was well maintained and clean which made us to believe that someone was inside the building even though the environment looked deserted.
I was unable to drive any nearer to the house to avoid being noticed which made me stop my car a distance away from the house.
‘’now we have seen the house, I think it’s time to get the police involved. The house is bigger than I thought it would be and there is no way we are getting into it on our own’’ Chinedu breathed with resignation while I shook my head.
‘’I’m going to take a closer look at the house, just stay behind in the car. I’m coming’’ I said courageously, opening the car door.
‘’you can’t be serous!’’ he exclaimed with disbelief.
‘’the whole area looks quiet and deserted. What if we come with the police and find the house locked?. I have to take a good look bro, just to be sure.’’ I said seriously. He shrugged and nodded.
‘’just don’t be long’’ he begged. I smiled at him, alighted from my car and quickly headed to the house, using the trees surrounding the driveway as cover.
I grew up in the village and I was very much used to such surroundings. I used to steal mangos, pears and even coconuts back then from houses with even higher fences. But this time around age really wasn’t on my side and so I had to be overly cautious.
I slowly headed towards the back of the house where I knew I could find a second narrow gate. I knew such houses always have a second gate hidden at the backyard. Moreover I knew backyards to be the easiest way to gain access to a house. It equally could be a place to know if there is any activity going on in a building.
I slowly found the second gate and placed my ear on it to see if I could hear any voice coming from the building but I heard none. I wiped out sweat from my face as I thought of what next to do. That exact moment, I heard Edwin’s voice from behind.
‘’Mr. David what a surprise!. Are you so stupid or what?. What are you doing here?. Trying to rescue Cassandra, I guess?’’ he asked with a sneer while I faced him with great fear. I really wasn’t expecting to confront him so soon. I never even knew where he emerged from.
‘’you suddenly can’t talk huh?. Haven’t you heard that heroes get killed in real life?. Are you really so dumb to even come here alone?. Tell me what you can do supposing you find Cassandra in my house?’’ he asked while I silently weighed him. I just couldn’t say a word. My head suddenly went numb.
‘’you want to see Cassandra?. Fine, let’s go inside’’ he said with a smile, opened the small gate and virtually dragged me inside the building. I tried my best to remain calm as I slowly built back my confidence.
‘’after all it’s only him. I can’t beat him in a one on one fight’’ I reasoned as we headed into the big building.
‘’Welcome to my castle, Welcome to my palace where my beautiful queen resides. Here is Cassandra!’’ he exclaimed as he opened the door leading to the sitting room. My eyes instantly enlarged as they fell on Cassandra sitting on a couch with her attention focused on the TV she were watching. She instantly froze with surprise on seeing me, quickly sitting upright while i swallowed hard, unable to say a word.
I couldn’t help but notice that her face was very swollen and deeply colored. Yes she wasn’t in chains and appeared to be free but one look at her told me that she was definitely under captivity.
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‘’my love, your David came to save you. Can you believe that?’’ Edwin said to Cassandra as he kissed her on the cheek while I watched on silently.
‘’you can’t imagine how much I have yearned for this moment. My greatest wish has always been to kill you before my Cassandra. To see you die before her eyes and I can’t wait any much longer’’ he said, grabbed a big kitchen knife and walked towards me with a murderous smile.
‘’a knife is a very silent killer. It lets you watch your blood as you bleed to death. I so much love knives. You can’t imagine how many people I have used it on’’ he breathed, drew back and tried to drive the knife into my stomach with a fast t----t but I already was waiting for that moment. I quickly drew back, narrowing escaping his blow. My swiftness left him stunned for some seconds. He raised his hand with the knife, this around with the intention of stabbing me with it from anywhere. I tried stopping him by trying to grab his hand but miscalculated. His knife almost slit my right hand into two while Cassandra screamed, rushed forward and dove at him from behind, pushing him forward and sending him flying towards me.
I ducked as he fell on a chair, and quickly plunged at him to finish him off before he could recover from the shock. But unfortunately he never let go of the knife as he fell and as I plunged at him. He buried the knife into the left corner of my chest, leaving me immobilized.
‘’Die David. Die you b-----d’’ he breathed as I fell backwards.
He licked his lips, got up and watched me bleed while Cassandra cried from a distance, too scared to attempt attacking him again.
‘’it’s now time to finish you once and for all’’ he breathed, bent over and pulled the knife from my body, ready to stab me one last time.
Episode 16
David’s side of the story;
As narrated by David
‘’no please don’t do it. Do you really want to kill him?’’ Cassandra suddenly begged, coming to my defense once again. Edwin hesitated for a moment, turned and stared at her.
‘’yes I’m serious about killing him. I’m going to kill him and nothing will happen’’ he threatened viciously while I struggled to regain my strength. I couldn’t believe I was going to die like a fowl. I couldn’t believe I was doing to die by Edwin’s hand. I muttered quick prayers, begging God to forgive all my sins.
‘’I hope you have made peace with your creator?’’ Edwin asked with a smile, slowly positioning the knife he held for the kill strike. I breathed deeply, expecting to the worst. Fortunately for me, my phone rang that very moment, breaking the tension in the room.
The ringing phone gave me the opportunity to play a dry trick as I noticed the suspicious look Edwin gave me as the phone rang.
‘’you said I was silly to come here all alone to confront you but I think you are the most stupid boy I have ever seen. How on earth could you believe that I came here all alone in the first place?. Your house is already surrounded by the police. I was just sent in to distract you. So you better finish what you started and get ready for a lifelong time in jail’’ I managed to mutter with all my strength. For the first time Edwin looked totally terrified. It was very obvious he was scared of the police.
He quickly grabbed my phone from my pocket, switched it off, tossed it away and ran to the window where he took a quick look outside before returning to face me with a weird look on his face.
‘’no one can stop me, not even the police’’ he breathed fiercely, headed to one of the rooms and returned seconds later with a small travel bag. It was as if he already was ready to flee even before I got to the house because the swiftness by which he emerged from the room with a fully packed travel bag aroused my curiosity.
‘’this isn’t over yet. I’m coming for you. I’m coming for your family. I’m coming back for my Cassandra. I won’t kill you now because it isn’t worth it at the moment’’ he threatened, took a quick look at Cassandra before disappearing through another door. Cassandra quickly rushed to my side, stopping the bleeding with a handkerchief.
‘’you are quickly losing blood. Please don’t breathe too fast, close your eyes and relax. I can stop the bleeding. Thanks for risking your life to save me’’ she muttered quickly, trying her best to control the blood which was dropping from my wounded chest.
‘’get my phone. I think the caller was Chinedu. I came only with him. I didn’t come with the police’’ I struggled to breathe as Cassandra quickly grabbed my phone from where Edwin tossed it minutes ago.
‘’Call Chinedu, direct him to the house and let him in. he knows what to do’’ I managed to breathe.
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Hours later, I opened my eyes to see the police inspector and Chinedu smiling down at me.
‘’Hey strong man, you are back in Owerri. Cassandra managed to control the bleeding and we safely got you to this private hospital. The police are now in charge of the situation’’ Chinedu said with a smile while the inspector nodded.
‘’yes Mr. David we are now in charge of the situation and we are sure of getting Edwin in few days. Cassandra is at the station, helping us with investigation but you really did a brave but foolish deed. You civilians should always leave us the police to do our job instead of interfering. You almost got killed. You also allowed a hardened criminal to escape justice’’ he said softly, leaving a great fear all over me.
‘’please protect Nora. Please protect my son. Edwin threatened to come after them. I hope he hasn’t gotten them already. I have to get out of here’’ I suddenly breathed, struggling to sit up while the inspector and Chinedu quickly held me down.
‘’please don’t let him get to them’’ I passionately begged, too weak to do a thing.
Episode 17
Nora’s side of the story;
As narrated by Nora
I woke up that fateful morning with fear in my heart. I had a very terrible nightmare which looked so real that I had to spring up from sleep with great fright. I dreamt seeing David lying helplessly on the road begging for help as he bled to dead. The dream of course made no sense to me but then it scared the living daylight out of me.
I had to quickly call Dave to make sure he was alright and his response that morning told me that all was well with him. Nevertheless I begged him to pray or better still to remain at home, something I knew he would never do.
On a very good day, I would have rushed over to his apartment to be with him, to stop him from leaving the house but with the present condition of things, I had to restrain myself to avoid him reading unnecessary meaning to my action.
The last thing I wanted was appearing too cheap or desperate to him like I did in the past.
All through that day my mind never was at ease. It was just as if a shadow of darkness fell over me. I never relaxed for a moment. I finally had to take pills to calm my nerves.
By 3:30pm I got a strange call from Chinedu, asking me to come over to a private hospital located at ‘hospital road’. My heart instantly froze because I knew my fears were eventually coming to past.
‘’don’t tell me Dave is dead or badly injured?’’ was the exact question I asked Chinedu the moment he delivered the message, leaving the young man stunned with my question. He kept quiet for some seconds before clearing his throat.
‘’I never said David is in a life threatening condition, I only asked you to come see us there for a reason’’ he replied and hung up, giving no further explanation. I quickly left my little baby with my sister and rushed over to the hospital with a fast beating heart.
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I arrived at the hospital to see David, Chinedu and the police inspector chatting like old pals. I slowly heaved a sigh of relief as I approached them.
On seeing me they all kept quiet while David smiled at me.
‘’your David finally succeeded in rescuing Cassandra today but unfortunately got hurt in the process. I had to ask you to come over because he has been very worried about you and his son’’ Chinedu said softly while I held David’s hand, staring at him with disbelief.
‘’Cassandra isn’t worth your life. You shouldn’t have gone this far’’ I said softly, so touched and so surprised with what I just heard.
‘’I know my dear but I had to do everything to clear Cassandra’s issue from our lives, though I ended up messing things up. Edwin is still free out there and he swore to come back for me. I’m so scared of what he could do to you or my baby. We have to start living together. We have to become the couple God destined us to be. Please I beg of you’’ David managed to mutter while I stared at him with eyes filled with tears and great emotion.
I so much was in love with David, I very much was willing risk everything for him. I desperately wanted to start living with him but then I still was scared of acting out my true feelings. I was scared of being treated like s--t for the second time.
‘’are you really serious?’’’ I asked, holding his hand tightly. He nodded softly, struggling to say another word but his emotions wouldn’t let him talk.
Just that moment, Cassandra walked in with her usual grace and charm, gaining everyone’s attention.
She ignored every one of us, brushed past me and sat beside David.
‘’Thanks for taking the highest possible risk for me, Now I know who truly loves me and what real love is all about. I’m so sorry for all I did in the past and I promise to correct all my wrongs. Staying with Edwin was hell. I was brutalized, threatened and denied freedom. Each passing day brought me closer to a terrible death until you showed up. You gave me a second chance to life. I owe you my life. Thank you for saving me’’ she poured out as tears fell from her eyes.
The young girl was such a good actor that she virtually got the feelings and sympathy of all the men in the room with her convincing act of repentance.
I wasn’t supposed to be threatened by her presence but unfortunately I felt extremely threatened.
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