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it… just don’t fret yourself.”
    Urbanas slowly hit the disconnect button on his phone. Kennedy Maina insulted him. The bastard will blab. He had to take care of him. It was necessary – damage control. A single word from Ken and the whole hell will break loose and fall on Urbanas like tons of a million bricks. He could not afford such fiasco. SANU Leader a Coffin Robber, or something like Student Robbing the Dead. The newspapers will carry the headlines on the front pages; all television networks will be broadcasting him as breaking news of the day. No, he could, and would not, allow that.
    Urbanas checked his Omega wrist watch. It was about time he had an outing. Today he had a mission to accomplish. And he was going naked. A clean lightning job and he would be hundreds of thousands richer by morning.
    Garbed in tar black clothes, Urbanas slid into his sedan and drove into the streets of Nairobi.
     

CHAPTER 24
     
     
     
    Edna applied more mascara on her eyelashes. They looked strangely darker than they were naturally. Though she was not used to wearing makeup and her skin appeared wonderfully clear, this time round she did.
    Edna always put on makeup whenever she was flying. Her employer had sent her to deliver some cargo to a friend of his in Pakistan.
    She was still putting on her makeup when the car that was to take her to the airport arrived.  The driver hooted to alert her. She did not have much luggage. For austerity, she travelled light.
    To her astonishment her employer was in the back seat. She had not expected this development. She already had other plans. She was to tell the driver to pass by her boyfriend’s home and pick (surprise) him to see her off at the airport. Her employer’s presence was an unexpected development, and an inescapable impedimenta.
    “I didn’t know we were going together,” Edna said as she slid in beside her boss.
    “Change of plans. We are a couple.”
    “Oh… really?”
    “Not in the sense you think,” he said. “There’s something I need to tell you.”
    “I am all ears.”
    “I’m having this strange feeling that something will go wrong. Not that I don’t trust you, but I feel that something is wrong somewhere with this trip. I have to be with you, feign husband and wife.”
    Samson’s voice echoed inside Edna’s boss’s mind.  Break your principles, trust somebody. He could not trust anybody with his business. Not after Grace. Trust was a problem for him albeit Edna had proved worth trusting. Furthermore, Samson had insisted that he take care of everything himself. Samson did not tell him what it was, but he had said it was worth millions of money. Last minute change of plans.
    “This is ridiculous. I am engaged,” Edna said.
    “I did not ask you to sleep with me… feign is the word…”
    “Even if…”
    “Not what you think, Edna. If I do anything sappy sue me.”
    “You bet…”
    At the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport all was well until when they were pulled from the checking-in queue.
    “Is there anything wrong?”
    “No, it’s just procedure. Your luggage has been delayed a bit. Just be patient with us… everything is going to be alright.”
    Up ahead Edna and her boss saw one of the airport security agents unhook the stanchion belt, motioning for someone to step out of the line just as they had been removed. It was a young woman.
    The young woman was escorted away just as three airport police officers appeared from the entrance of the hallway they were being led to. That’s when something registered in his mind. “But no, it can’t be,” he said a loud.
    Before Edna asked her boss what couldn’t be realization hit on her like a volcano. She reached for and grasped her boss’s hand tighter. His own hand was wet with sweat.
    The police officers made a bee-line for Edna and her boss.
     

CHAPTER 25
     
     
     
    It was in the news – television, radio, and newspapers. The President sent condolences immediately he got the news