Crash!! Boom!! Thud!!

I covered my ears cause the noise was unbearable and I was finding it hard to sleep.

"Ahhhh! Deji sssstop!! Please sstopp!! Please... Please Deji- Ahhh!"

I heaved they were at it again will all these ever end? Really when will it?. I sat down there on my bed, Seventeen-year-old me thinking of what I could do to help the situation. What could I possibly do, the last time any of us tried to do something to stop Deji, he ended up dying. That's Toby, my older brother, many a times Deji found himself throwing the same threat at me, he'd say "be a good girl Annie, or else I'll send you to where I sent your brother". And believe me, I'm not ready to go yet.

Arike was the cause of all this, it's all her fault, what on Earth did she see in him. Arike was a sixteen-year-old runaway from an orphanage, when Deji found her, he was just twenty four years of age then, then a street lord. They took her in and nurtured her, maybe that's why she felt indebted to him. That, I understand, but really why fall in love with him, why give birth for him, that accepted to, then why give birth me for him, which expects me to refer him a way I so much detest 'father'.

   After a few years on the street, which he was so much used to since Deji was an orphan himself, he got into drugs, formed his gang and excelled wonderfully at it. The bastard was crazily rich, lots of money built on crime, drugs, sweat and blood. He was ruthless and showed no mercy, he didn't hesitate to drop anybody who showed incompetence. Crack and boom! Was the order of the day.

    Anybody who knew Deji, would think and would find it hard to decipher his weakness, one would wonder if he even had a weakness, the answer is yes, the bastard did have a weakness, his weakness was me, his daughter, Annabelle Tolani Atiwaye. Deji loved me as much as I hated him, he took me under his wings told me things, shared a lot of things with me that he will normally not share with anyone else. He told me about his warehouses, safes, combinations to all those safes, I believed he loved Toby too, but if he did, why kill him, I guess he put his lifestyle before his own child.

Crash!!!

"Ahhh Ahhh Ahhh!" The cries we're still on... I blocked my ears with my fingers. I didn't want to hear any more of it.

"Ahhhhhhh!!! Help!!"

That was it, I jumped out of my bed and ran downstairs, the noise had been coming from the kitchen, I wonder what she did this time. I found Skibii and Jimoh two of Deji's men they were standing by the door, pity written on their faces but they dare not interfere, they scurried away when they saw me.

I walked into the kitchen, the sight there was scary, there were a lot of broken plates on the floor and everywhere, and blood, blood was also oozing out from Arike's face. She was in pain, I felt like pitying her.

"Bami!" I called him, he didn't seem to here me. "Bami stop it you'll kill her!!"

"Get out of here!" He roared at me, pulling her hair so hard that she screamed.

"Stop it Daddy!!!" I shouted at him, firstly, I was taking a lot of risks coming in here, no one has ever dared to, then secondly yelling at him? What is wrong with me?

I don't know my period is about to start in days do I believe its my hormones or something

Such nerves.

"Annie go!!!" My mother yelled at me even in her intense pain "leave here please... Go and sleep"

He kicked her back making her cough out blood that splattered on the wall. I got pissed

"Well I can't sleep cause you guys are making a hell of noise... Bami!!!!"

He had kicked her again even while she was coughing, that was inhumane, was he trying to kill her? Seems he was cause he just kept kicking and kicking her over and over...

"I'm going to kill this bitch! She's going to die!" He roared

I looked in horror at Arike, she was slowly loosing it, so was I...

Boom!!!

Tbc