BEAUTY AND ASHES PART 3

He had never seen anyone so beautiful; she seemed to glide on an air of power. Ben picks up his champagne glass and in a few strides is by her table, he stands behind her elegant frame for a few seconds, mesmerized. “You could drool or order me a drink” Nneka retorts, she tilts her head slowly towards him while still poised on the tall bar stool with her legs crossed sexily revealing her thighs through the long slit of her turquoise dress.

She leans behind he’s ears, whispers, and then struts out to the lobby. Ben is transfixed in his thoughts but soon wakes up and orders a bottle of champagne, takes two glasses and zooms out of the Federal Palace Hotel in his Cadillac CTS Coupe with Nneka.

She folds her arms around him and lets her lips rest on his lips as she unbuttons his shirt…Ben feels the adrenaline rush through his brain, he had never felt this way with any woman. But he his eyes becomes heavy, he can’t move his hands and suddenly his feet can’t hold him up and he crashes down to the ground. The Diprivan she applied to her lips did it; he will remain unconscious for some hours, enough time for Nneka to execute her plan. Ben Ugbewke, CEO, Germane Finance Alliance, lay sprawled on the floor as Nneka searches his body uncovering, his wallet, Cigar, gold watch, etc. She uncovers it: it is a gold key. She had had her eyes on this key for months, since she started her heist of wealthy men. She had only been able make away with a few millions without being detected but she was desperate and resorted to this drastic method of drugging Mr Ben. He wore on his neck the key to 15,000 troy ounces of pure GOLD!

She un-wraps her tools, hidden in her hand bag and with her electromagnetic rod, she scans the vault. The scanners direct her to the indoor pool of Mr Bens Mansion. Scanning through, she uncovers the key hole underneath the pool. With one quick turn the water floods out of the pool and a huge platform emerges with a 3 large metallic cases filled with gold.

Was it excitement or fear that she felt, as she drags the last case inside the black tinted Range Rover. She didn’t see the lorry coming as she reversed in speed, the impact was like the crunching of metal and glass. the back of the SUV is under the lorry, the Range Rover is crushed. Suddenly, she could see them, Mr Ben’s Goons running towards her…she had made the wrong man for an enemy but she didn’t care all she wanted to do was to get to Benin Republic the next morning and trace her way to Ghana and then off to Brazil.

She turned the key in the engine and it roared to life. Accelerating the tire it screeched but the car wouldn’t move because of the weight of the lorry on the back of the SUV. The two tall men, weighing over 200 pounds were coming closer and they unsheathed their 9x19mm Parabellum automatic pistols. She pressed the accelerator harder and it screeched even harder but still nothing. The men opened fire…she screams and lowers her head as glass shatters over her. She steps on the accelerator and this time it moved crawling out from under the truck. She drove straight at the men and they scampered into the garden.

TO BE CONTINUED...

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