Dressed in a pair of black suit and his hair neatly styled, Nick walked majestically into the arena. The whole place was already filled up and as the star of the show, he made the last appearance.

“Welcome sir” the host whose name was Kyla greeted all smiles.

“Thank you” Nick replied, lowering himself on the sofa.

“We will go live in three” Kyla added again and he nodded before turning his attention to his phone.

And after three minutes, Kyla introduced the show and everyone’s attention was turned to Nick who had an expressionless look on his face since he entered.

“My good people of London, welcome to another episode of the Kyla perry show and with me In the studio is Nick Furgesson” she announced looking straight at the camera and the hall erupted in applause and cheers while Nick just nodded to them, “ thank you once again mr Nick for gracing our show with your presence”

“I should be thanking you” he answered in his deep husky voice and she smiled.

“We will just go straight to the point, you are a busy man and i will not want to keep you more than necessary”

“Right”

“So Mr Nick, everyone including myself have been curious. Five years ago, you were the talk of the town as the son who helped his father climb the impeccable height which none of his counterparts have reached even up to this day but you suddenly disappeared from the limelight all of a sudden, can you tell us what happened?” The smile didn’t leave her face as she kept asking her questions.

Leaning a little on the sofa, Nick crossed one of his long legs over the other before turning towards Kyla,

“I went to Africa, Morocco to be precise”

“Africa?why”

“ let’s just say that was the only Place that was safe for me five years ago, my life was being threatened so I had to take refuge in a place where I know I wouldn’t be found out”

Murmurs went up from the crowd. Did Nick Furgesson just say an attempt was made on his life?His family was an unreachable piller in the world, who dared to do that?

“When you say your life was being threatened, what do you mean?” Kyla asked.

Smirking, Nick sat up and disengaged his leg from the other.

“Can I ask you a question, Kyla”

“Sure” she nodded.

“If the closest person to you makes an attempt on your life, will you take it lightly?”

Kyla smiled awkwardly, “of course not”

He opened his mouth to say something when he heard Ashey’s voice through the Bluetooth in his ears and his eyes darkened as he listened to what Ashley had to say.

“Is there a problem?” Kyla asked, noticing the dark aura emanating from him all of a sudden, he looked angry.

“Not at all” Nick replied, masking his angry face with a fake smile but deep down he was fuming with an unfathomable anger and he was ready to erupt at any time.

“We will go for a quick break and be back shortly” Kyla announced after a while and the show finally went off air.

“ I really have to leave now Kyla, something very urgent came up” Nick said as soon as he noticed they were no longer filming.

“It is okay sir, you owe me another show”

“I will make it up to you” he answered and hurried out of the room, his car was already waiting for him and it immediately zoomed off as soon as he boarded it.

“What is the status?” He spoke into the Bluetooth in his ears.

“They took everything, boss, we can’t find a single thing. Only the bodies” Ashley answered from the other end.

“I will be there in a few” he retorted and angrily

removed the bluetooth from his ear, “Gregory Furgesson” he hissed angrily under his breath. This man sure knew how to do his homework.

“Step on it Alvin and stop driving like a snail” he blurted and the man behind the wheels stepped on the wheels.

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The car hardly came to a stop before Nick came jumping out of it and stopped when he got to the gate of the orphanage, everything was burned to the ground and he could make out a few bodies that were sprawled on the ground a few meters away from him and the cops were going in and out of the building.

“Boss” Ashley called, walking up to him.

“When did this happen?”

“The cops estimated it to be after midnight yesterday”

“Fuck” Nick cursed, “Gregory” he muttered again pinching the space between his brows.

He didn’t know that this was the extent they were willing to go to push him to the edge. He just got back yesterday and people were already dying.

“Any survivors?”

Ashley nodded his head in the negative, everyone including the kids were killed and the orphanage was burnt to thr ground.

“Hello sir” a cop walked up to the both of them, “who are you?” He asked further.

“A friend of the old nun here” Nick answered,

“Nothing could be recovered but we found an old CCTV In the middle of the room where the fire started. We are having the technical team come here to check it out. Maybe we can find something but I think it is just a mere fire outbreak seeing that there was no sign of a struggle”

Everything the cop was saying didn’t matter to Nick, he was interested in the cctv that was found.

“Can I perhaps see the cctv?” He asked.

“That is evidence, we can’t give it out” the cop replied,

“She is related to me and I have every right to see the evidence, should I ask your superiors then?” He said raising an eyebrow at the cop who shifted uneasily and Nick quickly caught onto something, the cop seemed suspicious.

“Ashley”

“Yes boss”

“Call the police commissioner and have him…..

“No need for that sir” the cop quickly interrupted,” the cctv is just in the living room”

“Good” Nick replied, “keep an eye on him” he whispered to Ashley before going towards the burnt house.

…..

The rescue team were still searching around in the room as he entered and he had to cover his nose to stop the smell of burnt flesh from penetrating his nose.

“April” he called after a while through the Bluetooth and she immediately entered.

“I am sending you the number of a CCTV, I don’t know if for works but we have to watch it before the cops get their hands on it. I think Gregory is working with them”

“Let us hope it works” April replied professionally, she was already set to work.

On getting to the living room, the smell there was too much and he almost puked. Up to persons were burnt alive In that room and this was the most disgusting thing he had ever seen in his life.

“Boss, this cop seems suspicious. He keeps glancing around” Ashley spoke to him.

“If he tries anything funny, get a hold on him”

“Yes boss”

Finally he found the CCTV and as if he was looking for something not wanting to alert the rescue team, he took a picture and sent it to April.

After waiting for a few minutes, he finally heard her talking.

It is an old model Nick, only the cops have the equipment to make it work now”

She hated when she couldn’t get a job done.

“What do you suggest?”

“Just wait until they can open it and bingo but I also found something suspicious from the picture you sent me” her voice was sounding more serious than ever.

“What?”

“I can’t actually fathom it yet but I think that old lady would have hidden something seeing the direction of the camera, it is directly above that sofa Nick, check under”

It dawned on him too, that it was the same sofa she was sitting on the day before but it was badly damaged.

“Sir, we are done and there is no more victim” the leader of the team said as he walked up to Nick.

“I will be out in a while” he answered and the man nodded before walking out with his men.

After making sure there was no one else around, he slowly bent down and moved the sofa out of the way a little but he was disappointed. There was actually a space under there but it was empty and he could see traces of blood on the ground.

“That bastard,” he hissed.

“Did you find anything?” April asked from the other end.

“Whatever it is, Gregory has it, '' Nick answered in frustration. The only clue he had in finding his parents was almost gone.

“Just get here and we can plan this out Nick, Gregory would keep whatever he took from there with him”

“Yeah”

The cops and rescue team were already gone as Nick walked back to where his car was parked,

“Station someone here at all times, whoever it was will still come back to check if they made a mistake”

“Yes boss” Ashley replied respectfully.

Taking one last glance at the house, the car zoomed off but Nick had a lot on his mind. What secret was the Furgessons hiding that they had to kill the old nun and everyone around her?