The Blue Dress - 2

Piece by piece like a 7-year old solving a jigsaw puzzle,  Jeremy's memories came to, not like he had a choice as he single-handedly realised these henchmen were ready to kill him at any moment if he didn't give them something other than the colour of a dress and he began remembering what happened at the club. Like an hypnotist snapping his hand to bring his assistant out of the dream world , everything suddenly became crystal clear to Jeremy and he heaved a big sigh and nodded his head with his face down as little beads of tears rolled down his swollen eyes and travelled the long way down his bruised cheeks to settle on the deep recesses of his bled-out lips ~ yeah, he was in the bad shape ~ It seems the jolts of electricity had jump started his memories and in a way , Jeremy was grateful for that torture.

He had truly went to the club with Sean and they met with a girl in a blue dress but it wasn't anything to write home about as the meeting with the girl started the domino effect of their unforseen misfortune which has led to Sean losing his life.

The girl in the blue dress name was Amber and she was a thief ; a digital thief to be precise... at least that was what Jeremy had pieced together considering his situation. Jeremy remembered that she came up to them and proposed them with a business of drop-off. They were to help her deliver an hard disk containing details and data of several wallets with seed phrases to an Arab Mogul who wants to buy such from her. Apparently , that was what Amber does for a living ; she generates and revenues income in terms of coins,NFTs and tokens ( from all sources legal and illegal which might include initiating rug pulls and scamming people) and store them in hard drives and sell to Moguls and rich people who want to buy for seemingly lesser price than the value worth of its content and hold on till the market price increases and sell so they can profit or probably also sell at an elevated price to a fellow companion- apparently , Amber doesn't belive the Cryptoverse prophecy and wants to make profit as soon as possible. Sean had asked why she can't deliver it herself and she replied, "This is how I do my business" ; Sean being skeptical about her left the table leaving Jeremy and Amber sitted. After long talks , she left and Jeremy was able to convince Sean to follow him up on this offer that she pays a good percentage to them and Sean agrees to Jeremy.

Little does Jeremy knows that Amber was a thief who had stolen the Arab Mogul hard disk and since it was encrypted and any attempt to decrypt or force the data out of it would destroy the content, she was only left with an option of accepting ransome and she needed someone to spear head for her. That was where innocent Jeremy and Sean came in. Even though Amber knew her plan had a success rate of less than 5% as the Mogul might try to hold Jeremy and Sean and force out her location from them , she still risked their lives and gambled ~ seems she had the minting spirit in her ~

Amber was right after all as her plan fell through leaving Jeremy and Sean in the Lion's den as they were ambushed at the Drop-Point and in a bid to escape out of fear and panic, they had an accident. Their bodies were retrieved from the damaged car by the henchmen and brought back with them for torturing . It seems Sean came to, his senses, earlier than Jeremy and couldn't keep up with the torture and pretty seemed he wasn't much of a useful resource to the henchmen anymore as he said he only knew the girl name and that she wore a blue dress the day they met at the club and that Jeremy was the one who finished the deal.

The day passed by without the henchmen visiting Jeremy and on the next day , he was woken by the loud sound of the Catholic Bell and he knew it was Sunday ... that he had spent two days in captivity , all for greed . Had he know he should have listened to Sean. The henchmen visited Jeremy and as he had figured out , they filled him on the details and he knew he had fell victim .

"Where is she ?!" ... the henchmen asked again with a gun pointed to Jeremy's head who had his eyes closed and uncontrollably tears running down his cheeks. Unfortunately, what he knew was what Sean knew also -no more, no less - Amber played her game well . Saying silent prayers to himself and pinning the death of his best friend to himself , Jeremy bellowed " I don't know" and with a bang that even Jeremy didn't hear , his story came to a halt. Greed and negligence to DYOR fated Jeremy's doom .