CLIFF

Immediately I dropped the call, I sensed something was wrong. Checking through the text, the place seemed unfamiliar and I wondered how she got there 'cause Jabal's place wasn't there maybe that was where her dad was buried but I doubt it. The beep from my phone brought me out of my thought.

Looking at the screen, I realized it was Tenola, she was probably worried 'cause it was getting late already and Priss wasn't back. After picking up, she asked if I knew Priss's whereabout and I told her all that Priss had told me earlier, she told me to send her the address and I did.

Minutes later, I drove to the place with the guidance of the map, the place was a secluded cul-de-sac, it was eerily quiet as I pondered on what Priss was doing in this kind of place.

My eyes scanned everywhere as my eyes landed on Priss's car at a corner with her resting on it with folded arms.

"How did you get here?", I questioned immediately I got to her place. Her face lit up as she didn't respond but rather threw her arms at me, she hugged me tightly while she sobbed.

What went wrong? What's going on? What happened to her?, Thoughts like this raced through my mind as I couldn't settle on any answer.

The next thing I knew was my head feeling heavy with my eyes closing slowly as everything went blank.

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My eyelids opened slowly till I regained my senses back, looking around me I noticed Priss was tied to a chair beside me, looking down at myself, I was also tied to a chair, my brain registered what had transpired earlier.

"What happened?", I asked Priss whose eyes opened widely as soon as she heard my voice.

"You're awake, thank goodness", she smiled at me but sadness was evident in that smile.

"What's going on?"

She looked at me for some seconds before deciding to talk but the sound from the door stopped her. We both turned our head to the door.

My eyes widened and my expression hardened immediately my eyes made four with Jabal. Instantly, I understood what was going on.

"Our Prince is finally awake, welcome to the beautiful world", Jabal said with a stupid smile.

"What do you want?"

"You're perfectly aware of that"

"Well, I don't know what your talking about"

"Do I have to make myself clear again?", he snapped.

He signalled to the useless guys behind him and they handed over some documents to him.

"Now let's start with the queen, my lovely sister, you know what to do", he threw the document on Priss's laps.

She made an eye contact with me and I shook my head.

"What should I do with it?", Priss asked with a smirk.

"Are you this dumb or is it in your vein?", Jabal snarled.

"In our vein, in case you've forgotten we're of the same blood, you chucklehead!"

Colour drained out of his face as he chuckled.

"You have no right to be disrespectful", he warned and Priss pursed her lips.

"You just proved that your brain is full of sawdust, I'm older than you and you deserve no respect from me"

Jabal raised his eyebrows as he squinted his eyes.

"I know your mouth is really sharp and you're as obdurate as your mother"

That word got Priss blue in the face.

"Don't you dare disrespect my mother, you clot! I can't blame you, your mother passed down her foolish behavior down to you and now it's running in your vein, it's in your Gene, no wonder you have no sense of reasoning other than to behave stupidly, you muddle-headed son of a gun!", Priss bursted and the next thing that happened was a resounding slap.

What! That son of a bitch really slapped my Priss.

"You fucking asshole, you'll surely pay", I roared while Jabal smirked.

Priss's face turned red as she screamed.

"You animal! I'll surely pay you back , is that the way you beat Zuleha? No wonder you guys are lunatics, awon family were buruku, oloriburuku, asiiere, bea....", another slap landed on  her face again and I couldn't help but yell while I struggled to free myself from the chair.

My...
"Utter any rubbish and I blow your head", Jabal shouted as he pointed a gun at her.

My heart raced as my skin almost jumped out.

"Now sign it", he ordered with the gun pointed directly at her forehead.

"Use your common sense", Priss bellowed.

He scoffed before ordering his useless guys to untie Priss.

"You need to untie Cliff too or else I won't sign this thing even if you shoot me", Priss announced.

"You'll always be an idiot", Jabal spat before obeying Priss's wish, after the guys untied me, he threw another document at me while his guys stood standby with their gun pointed at us, they were four in number.

PRISS
"Now do as I say", Jabal ordered.

My eyes went to the documents on my laps as different thoughts jumbled in my brain.

"Will I use my teeth to sign or what? Are you this stupid?"

He gritted his teeth and gave me a wry look.

"Get a pen, no, two", he ordered one of his slaves who walked out of the room to get the pen.

He moved closer to Cliff who was taking a good look at the documents.

"You actually believe I'll sign this thing, use your brain guy", Cliff said with a smirk.

"Let's see who wins, it's either me or you"

"I can't sign this, so fuck off!"

Jabal had wanted to say something but the entrance of the guy he sent to get a pen hindered him.

"Give it to them", he ordered and the slave obeyed.

I took a good look at the pen before looking at Cliff who gave me the look of 'don't you dare'

"I'm not signing this thing, you don't deserve it", I explained as Jabal walked over to Cliff and pointed the gun at his forehead.

"It's either I pull this trigger or you sign the documents", Jabal said menacingly, fear lodged in my stomach as I looked at Cliff who shook his head in response.

But I can't allow Jabal to kill Cliff just because of meaningless properties or shares. Another glance at Cliff who still gave me a warning look which I decided to ignore, I grabbed the pen and flipped through the pages to sign, with my eyes buried in the paper, the next thing I heard was a gunshot.

My mind travelled far immediately as I feared to look up. Who could have fired the gun? Who was shot? Different thoughts raced through my mind.

CLIFF

While Priss decided to sign the documents, I looked up at Jabal who was grinning with his eyes focused on Priss, seeing he was focused on Priss, I thought of the next move as I noticed his slaves were also focused on Priss.

Snatching the gun from Jabal who looked at me with mouth agape. I stood up and pointed the gun at him but the next thing I heard was a gunshot, I looked at Priss with fear before looking back at myself as I realised I was the one that was shot, I'd been shot at the right leg.

My leg felt weak as I tried to remain on my stand but the leg failed me, I fell to the floor and shot the slave that had shot me.

The other two looked at me in fury while Priss screamed. Glancing at her, Jabal used the opportunity to snatch the gun from me.

"What the hell!", I roared.

"Don't be stupid!", Jabal warned while Priss ran to me.

"Are you okay?", she questioned with fear evident in her voice. I nodded and she heaved a sigh of relief before turning to Jabal irately.

"Why did you shoot him? I agreed to sign, why did you go against your word, you useless thing!" she screamed as Jabal ignored her and ordered the slaves to carry the one I'd shot out of the room leaving only the three of us in the room.

I clapped  and smiled mentally.

"Now get back to what you were doing", Jabal barked and Priss took another look at me before scrambling back to the documents.

"Where will I sign?", Priss asked and Jabal frowned as he moved nearer to her to show her.

I looked around me to check for anything defensive but didn't find any
as my only hope was the wooden chair, I grabbed it and crawled silently towards them in complete silence, I knew I was acting stupid but I really had to do anything to save us.

He squatted in front of Priss and pointed at the place, she glanced at me while I signalled to her.

"Where?"

"Are you this foolish? You can't expect me to show you in every single page", he shouted angrily and I did the deed.

After hitting the wooden chair on him, he turned instantly while wincing in pain and....

PRISS

Gunshot.
I heard that sound twice,no, thrice as I squeezed my eyes shut while I covered my ears.

Opening my eyes slowly and removing my hands from my ears, my eyes went to Cliff who was covered in blood.

"Cliff!!!", I shouted as I rushed over to him and in that instant, the door opened to reveal the entrance of Tenola, Davies and some other guys.

"Clifford!, Mofe!, please wake up", I shook his body vigorously before everything went blank.

Dun dun dun
Priss and Cliff are in danger. What do you think will happen to Cliff now? Is he dead or not?
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