Belle got off the bed and headed outside the bedroom, she had to check for Brie and Cherry. She didn't see them when Ben's call woke her up. Opening the door and walking to the living room, she saw them both sitting side by side on the couch with their eyes glued to the TV. Cherry turned in her direction when she heard Belle footsteps as she approached where they sat. "Belle, come sit, the series is finally about to end." Cherry urged from where she sat with a cushion pillow over her crossed legs. "You guys stayed up to watch it?" Belle was actually surprised. She knew about the series, they had started it together; all three of them. "Yes, it's the last part." Brie made space for her cousin sister to sit and join in finishing the show. *** MORNING "Belle? Belle?" Brie shook her cousin sister by the shoulder, trying to wake her up. "Whatttttt?" Belle covered her head with a pillow, she didn't want to get out of bed. "Get up Belle." Brie shook her again but she grumbled with a
"Belle?" Nathan caught up with her and tapped her shoulder as he called her for the second time. Belle knew she had no other choice than to stop."Sir!" She acted surprised to see him like she didn't hear him call when he was still in the car."Come on, I told you before, call me Nathan." He smiled."You are walking to work now? Do you do this everyday?""No, I didn't see any cab to take so I had to walk." She explained."All the way to the media house? Do you know how far it is from here? I mean it's not very far but it's not something you should trek through. Come get in, let's go together in my car.""I think I can just go on foot, I already started." Belle told him because she knew very much how she would rather go on foot and be late than drive with him."No you can't, I mean you shouldn't, damsels like you shouldn't have to go through such trouble, come on, let's go in my car." Belle sighed when he said that. He was smiling while trying to help her and she didn't want to say no
"Brie, I'm leaving!" Belle stood at their apartment's door ready to leave for work the next morning. Cherry had gone to work earlier than them both that day."Wait for me please, let's take the bus together okay?" Brie begged while taking out a pair of black flats from the shoe rack in their shared bedroom."Alright, hurry up.""I'm here." Brie panted, slipping her feet into the flats and hurrying to the door to meet Belle.After locking the door, they both made for the stairs leading downstairs with Belle leading. Brie was texting a coworker quickly when she bumped into Belle at the stairs' entrance."Why did you stop?" Brie asked and poked her head outside to see for herself and saw a man standing outside. She remembered seeing him once. It was the guy who had brought Belle's shopped clothes upstairs the other day; it was Randy."Good morning ma'am." Randy smiled politely. After saying his greeting, he opened the door of the left side of the car parked behind him."Did Ben ask you t
"You are already getting that, I don't have to sign a contract besides you don't love me, do you?" After her last two words, Belle felt like she shouldn't have asked that.The car stopped suddenly, they were now in front of the Crisp-tv media house. Belle sat on his thighs still, with no words and no action, just sheer silence."I will think about it, Ben." She said oddly before picking up her purse and leaving the car.Nathan was just about to walk into the building when he saw her alight from an expensive car parked right outside the office; he couldn't tell if the other cars parked behind it were escort cars or not because they also looked pretty expensive. He wasn't generally into cars but he knew this one Belle came down from was a new model.He hid when she was about to enter the building, he was still too shocked to talk to her. She seemed to be more affluent than he thought. ‘Maybe I should heed Laura's advice, maybe I should stay away from Belle.’ He began to think after rem
"Heyy Belle," Cherry came back from keeping the jumpsuit she just acquired from Belle."Yeah?" Belle answered inattentively, still deciding which clothes to take and which not to."What about the red stiletto heels, the one with the....." Cherry was about to ask for another of Belle's belongings when Brie stopped her."Really Cherry? Is that all you care about right now? Do you even care about where she moving to?""What? She already said it, she moving into a house Ben Larkson got her, there is nothing to worry about. You need to relax a bit on this, let her live her best life if she can, I mean you did so when you were still with the Lumre family's only heir, you had your fun right? Let her have hers.""Let her have hers and get hurt in the end?""Come on Brie, not every man in city S is like Carl Lumre; I usually won't say this because I have had bad experiences with men but it's true, not all men are the same. Ben's probably different....."Belle sighed as she heard Brie and Cherr
The first thing Belle did after she woke up was fo check her phone. She wanted to know if Ben had called while she was asleep but there weren't any missed call(s) on her phone.Taking her phone with her to the bathroom like last night(just Incase he called)she showered and got ready for work.She stood in front of her new place and smiled when she could easily see the Crisp-tv media house's building from there, that was how close it was. She smiled at herself again, satisfied with her decision to stay at her place, now she could walk leisurely to her workplace.On her way there, her phone rang and she answered immediately thinking it was Ben but it was just Brie checking up on her. A mini bus suddenly pulled up by the roadside while she was on the phone with Brie.She didn't give her attention to it, thinking they had some other reason for stopping their vehicle there but someone took her phone from her hands forcefully, throwing it to the floor.She turned to react but a masculine ha
When the boy left, Brie looked at Belle's phone now in her possession. The screen of the phone cracked to her observation."She decided to call Cherry to come to where she was because now there was a higher chance of finding out anything about Belle's disappearance on the side.*****Belle opened her eyes slowly. She couldn't see quite well, her vision was blurred but she could hear some noises.She closed her eyes after a while; her head was aching and her arms were hurting. She knew from the moment she regained her consciousness that her hands were strongly tied up behind her back as she lay.She knew she was on a bed, a soft bed at that, not very comfortable but it was a bed one could sleep in. She was laying on her side so some of her hair was in her face and it contributed to why she couldn't see clearly when she attempted to open her eyes. She would try to free herself of the clothing used to tie her hands behind her back but she was too weak for that."I think she's awake." She
As soon as Tiger left the room and Belle heard him lock the door, she got up with sudden inspiration and determination to find a way to escape.She looked around the room, and it was then she noticed that there wasn't a window there. It was just the bed and its thin sheet, two wooden chairs where Tiger and the other man had sat before now, a short bedside stool for which the food was kept for her, and the scarf used to tie her hands.Her determination died just as quickly as it came after she saw that there was nothing to make a plan with. ‘Of course, they knew I would try to escape.’ She thought to herself with a sorrowful sigh.Sitting back on the bed, she remembered when the man who brought her food threatened to force all of it down her throat, a pervy thought dominating her mind.It made her rewind to moments when she was alone with Ben and he would say things like that. No doubt, she enjoyed it whenever Ben says he would shove himself down her throat but it was a different feel