CXXXI
CXXXI
"You can still run. You should not stay here. Leave the country immediately, if you leave now, you can get to Canada in a few hours. Lay low there for a few days before leaving to Africa, I know a few guys down in South Africa that can help you lay low." Jonathan speaks fast as if scared that he is running out of time.
"It's too late."
They look at me stunned. I offer them a weak smile.
"What do you mean too late? He does not know where you are." Jonathan argues.
I redirect my gaze out of the window, the black van had already disappeared, must have driven away as I was distracted.
"He found me already."
Cam and Jonathan run toward the window, they both look out, looking for him. But like me they find nothing.
"A black van was parked there. It's driver stared directly at me."
"Was it..?" Jonathan pauses, he doesn't know what to call him.
I shake my head, "No, it wasn't him. He must have people keeping watch. I remember being followed the day I ran into Lisa."
Cam curses.
"You mean there has been someone on your tail all these while?"
"I have reasons to suspect so."
Jonathan curses this time.
"This is insane. If he has known who you were all this time, why kill the other Clydes? Why wait? Why did he not take you at once?"
I knew the man like the back of my palm.
"To show me that he can, and he will. He likes to play with his prey. He was always watching, he wants me to know that he is always watching."
Cam collapsed to the ground like the very life was sucked out of him. I felt the same way. My chest hollowed and empty. I wanted to hug Lisa, my strength. I wonder what she was doing now. Unfortunately, she and i cannot be together until the devil was dead.
"I never knew you had to live with such a person. Your birth mother must have felt so trapped."
I chuckle.
"I really don't feel so much pity for her. She saw the signs and she stayed."
"She was in love." Cam defended.
I snort, "Well her great love cost her everything did it not? At least she came to her senses."
"That is not the issue here. The issue here is how do we take this to the police and have them believe us? We do not have any solid evidence and if we make the wrong move he will know we are on to him." Jonathan interrupts.
"I still say we trap him. Force him out. That or we set a trap using myself as bait."
"Not a chance."
"Don't even think about it."
They spoke at once. Both of them glaring at me so hard that I'm forced to raise my hands in mock surrender.
"It was just a suggestion."
"Yeah, suggest something that does not have anything to do with your life."
"But I am the one he really wants. Nothing better than to dangle someone's most innermost desires in their faces. He will do anything to grab it."
"Exactly. He will do anything. Including killing you. Do you think he has waited patiently all these while, found you before the reporters did for him to lose all rationality because you offered yourself as bait?"
I grin toothily.
"That is exactly what I think will happen. If I suddenly disappear, even after everything he has done to find me, he will lose his shit."
"Do you know how many guys are working for him and with him? No. We have no idea about him. Heck he could have the president on his side."
I spread out my arms in frustration because they were not seeing the big picture as I was.
"That is exactly when we will use the other plan. Choke him out."
"This is madness. I'm telling mom, if I can not talk you out of it, she will."
I squeeze my eyes shut. Jonathan just had to be a tattle tale right now.
"Jonathan you know I would not do this if I had other choices."
He raised his hand as if to tell me to save it as he put his phone on his ear, he was serious. I turn to Cam for back up.
"We can do this without involving the parents."
"I am with Jonathan on this one. I can't let you risk your life. You won when you left him. You won whilst living your life, a life without fear. I won't let him take away anything from you. We can take this to the police, if they don't believe, you can leave the country and never come back. I will come with you, Lisa too."
He looks at me with so much sincerity and hope in his eyes. I almost agree but I know he will follow me, or at least he will kill every male in his path that bore the name Clyde. I don't want to be the reason more lives will be taken. Already I can feel myself being eaten inside out with the guilt of the lives already lost, if more lives were to be taken, it should be his.
"You were right, only his mother can talk him out of this. He did not bulge." Cam tells Jonathan whilst eying me like I was the scum of the earth.
"Do not worry your little head, she was on he4 way here already when I called."
I sink into the sofa, it should be lunch time now. Lisa would be wasting lunch with Zach. Or I hope she is eating lunch with Zach. I'm tempted to text her again but I hate the feeling of rejection I get when she ignores me so I don't.
"Have you heard from Zach?" I ask Cam.
He pauses his conversation with Jonathan and blushes a deep red. Okay, somebody has a crush.
"How should I know?"
He hurriedly continues the whispering with Jonathan, but it was unnecessary, my mind was far away, I could not even hear their conversation if they shouted. I was thinking of different ways to convince my mother that my plan was the best. After all i knew him the most.
Sebastian Hansen, you just wait. I'm coming for you.
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