COUP DE GRACE

Chapter 1: Pain and Payback

coup de grace

Genre
. Action
. Crime
. Thriller
. Mystery

Characters

. Dr. Philip Solomon (the main protagonist)
. Benjamin Solomon (protagonist)
. Paul Price (the main antagonist)
. Lady Katherine Price (antagonist)
. Haggai
. Grace Crawford
. Dr. Enoch Gera
. Dr. Noah
. Nurse phoebe
. Mr. Joseph Job
. Apollo
. Mr. Herman
. Captain Titus

"My name is Doctor Philip Solomon I am a former military service man, I left the National service to pursue with my profession as a Medical Doctor here in my home town but unfortunately, I was framed and wanted dead by my colleagues and other unknown people for the crime I did not commit. But I'm going to make sure I prove my innocence to the jury and find out who wanted me put down for good"

After Grace had finished using the treadmill, she then shifted towards the water rower to continue with her exercises, but unfortunately, she couldn't use it properly, Benjamin rushed towards her to help her out (Ben was a gym instructor at the "sleek physique" which his father owned). Grace was very delighted when Ben came to her aid. All the time when Grace was doing her exercises Ben was staring at her but when Grace looked at his direction, he looked away in a hurry pretending he was helping out other people. After he finished aiding her on how to use the machine safely, Grace while smiling told Ben ''I saw you staring at me'', Ben now was feeling a little bit shy and was struggling to find the right words to cover up for him, and unfortunately Paul interrupted them and said hi to Grace, standing in front of Ben. Grace responded to him, but she didn't look happy, pleased or comfortable with Paul around her, so she continued with her exercises, Ben told Grace that he would go on to help other customers. Paul continued talking to her and asking how she was doing but Grace remained silent, Paul asked for her forgiveness and promised her that he would change his behaviors and attitude towards her if she gives him a second chance, but Grace told him that, he should leave and stop following her, its over between them, they broke up and it'll remain that way. Paul was now angry and feeling embarrassed stopped on her workout and grabbed her arm tightly, and told her he wasn't through with her yet until he said so, she might have broken up with him but to him, they are still dating. Ben seeing the situation going on came by and told Paul to take his hand off Grace and leave. Paul released his hand on Grace and turned to Ben, and told him what he was going to do about it. Ben replied to him "I don't know I'll overfeed you", Grace seeing the situation was going to get worse because of her came between them and told them to stop, then she told Paul to leave immediately, Ben told him to listen to Grace if he doesn't want any more trouble. Paul acted like he was leaving, he turned back and threw a punch at Ben, but Ben dodged it successful and grabbed his armed behind him and pushed him away and told him to leave. Paul seeing everyone at the gym was looking at him, he felt embarrassed and told Ben that he was going to pay for what he just did to him and he was going to pay for it dearly, after saying that he left. After Paul left, Haggai started clapping for Ben and everyone at the gym continued applauding to Ben for standing up for his gym. Haggai was Ben's best friend. Grace thanked Ben for being there for her and Ben told her it was nothing, that it was his job. After that incident, everybody went back to continue with their workout.
The next day on Monday at school, the news spread all over the school on what happened at the gym the other day. People were talking about how Benjamin man-handled Paul at the gym and made him look like a freaking doofus, other people were exaggerating the news to whatever they wanted to add to the story. They went to the same high school but Paul was on a higher leveled class than Ben [Ben was in form 5 together with Haggai and Grace while Paul was in form 6]. Paul got the news and he was very furious and angry that he was the school's topic, thus he told his friends that he wasn't going to keep quiet on this and he was going to give an unforgettable comeback that Ben wasn't going to handle at all. He didn't tell them what he was going to do or when he was going to strike but he told them it was going to be big. Then a week passed, "Dr. Solomon should I bring the papers in your office" asked nurse Phoebe in the hospital, Dr. Philip Solomon was talking at the corridor outside his office with a patient's relative and replied to the nurse "yes please" and nurse Phoebe entered his office to put the papers. While Doctor Philip was talking to that patient's relative, sirens of the ambulance were heard loudly at the reception and the patients were carried by stretchers towards the ICU and Dr. Philip rushed into the ICU to provide medical assistance. It was heard by the ambulance driver talking to his colleagues outside the hospital that the victims were from the fire accident. The doctors did their best to keep the victims alive. It was mentioned in the news that day that an oil truck had an accident and exploded thus causing few deaths and severely burnt victims, and the victims were sent to the nearby hospital, but the police were still trying to find out the main cause of the accident and that once it's found the media will be informed immediately. Some victims were badly burnt ranging from 90 to 100% but some weren't burnt to that extent and were almost 1 to 5%. Mr. Price who was Paul's father was amongst the severely burnt victims and was in the ICU. As soon as they got the news, the Price family (Katherine (his wife) and Paul) went to the hospital immediately. After reaching the hospital, they were told that their patient was in the ICU and they weren't allowed to see him due to his critical condition. The whole time Katherine was crying, she loved her husband so much and didn't want to be a widow. At that time Paul was blaming himself for what happened, but his mother told him that it wasn't his fault and there is nothing he would have done. Then Paul left the hospital with tears subside from his eyes, and entered inside his car and started crying hard while remembering hiring someone to cause the accident to the oil truck when it reached near the hospital so that it would explode and cause casualties which would be brought to that same hospital, his plan was to get his revenge on Ben by framing his father Doctor Philip Solomon for a mass murder which he planned to undertake, but he never knew his father would be a victim of that accident. After a long period of crying, he was in deep pain and anger and blamed it all to Benjamin, after he finished planning his next moves he drove home. Four days passed he went back to the hospital, he asked the doctors about his father's developments and the doctors told him that they were doing their best to make sure he gets better, and Paul asked Dr. Gera how bad was his father burnt, Dr. Gera didn't want to hide anything from him and told him that his father was burnt 91% and his internal organs were severely burnt too but Dr. Gera told him they'll do whatever it takes to help him get better. He begged Dr. Gera to allow him to see his father but the doctor didn't allow him to see him directly and told him he'll give him few seconds to see him via the glass wall. Paul thanked the doctor and was shown his father from the outside, he saw his father who was helpless and knew it was all because of him, he started crying again in pain and wiped off his tears and silently blamed it on Benjamin. After he was told that his time was up, he walked away out of the hospital, but inside his head, he was telling himself that he has to finish what he has started and that if he accomplishes it, it'll be for his father. He returned in the hospital to meet up with Dr. Gera, on his way he met Nurse Phoebe who he asked to take him in Dr. Gera's office. When they entered the office, Dr. Gera showed him a place to sit, then asked him what is it he wanted them to talk about (Dr. Gera was the head of staff). Nurse Phoebe wanted to leave the office for them to talk privately, but Paul told her to stay. He asked what her name was and she told him her name, after hearing her name he told her she has a beautiful name. He told them he had something he wanted them to do it for him, something he would offer a lot of money, he was willing to pay them 100 million shillings (43497 USD) each, if they do what he asked of them perfectly. After saying all that Dr. Gera asked him that, before he continues where is he going to get that kind of money and probably he doesn't have a paying job that can earn him that kind of money. Paul told him that he was right about it and truly he doesn't have that kind of salary or any job, but also told them to remember that his name was "Paul freaking Price" and that his father was a freaking millionaire.