When my phone started ringing, I had the least intuition that it was going to be another twist of events.
Now my brother is taken. Since I came to know about this paper, it has been nothing but heartache.
“They have my brother,” I announced to Sebastian and Walter after getting off the phone.
“Shit!” he cussed.
We drive silently for a while, no one was talking. My mind was on freeing my brother and nothing else. They had asked for the Rubik’s cube and the necklace in exchange for him. I have nothing to lose if I hand them over to them. They said they are calling in the next two hours to tell me where to meet them and I must come alone and tell no one. That’s exactly what I am going to do, not even Sebastian would stop me from this.
“Don’t worry. I will get your brother back to you with no harm done to him,” Sebastian had assur
In the bar.The figures before me appeared in twos and three. All the bodies moved in sync with the music blaring from the loudspeakers which I cannot see. Given their sound prowess, I can only imagine how big they must be.Never have I been in a place like this before. You'd find me in coffee shops and libraries and in fact, anywhere else but a club. But I ended my housemanship yesterday and Sophia, the bane of my existence insisted on taking me out to celebrate. "Girl! You need to get out there and start living. You can worry about when to start your residency and whether to spend the rest of your life dealing with mental people or touching people's brains later on but right now?! Prepare. I am taking you out. No worries, it's all on me." She had said, in response to my question of what field to specialize in after I practice general medicine for a while. Of course, I knew what Sophia's idea of a celebration is. This is it. Or maybe it is just the kind she thinks I need right now
"Sure." He said, the small smile still on his lips. "But if you ask for a favor like that, you're not going to get it."I laughed. Favors? I was the one doing him the honors here. He is going to be the very first man that slept with me and I bet the joy will be akin to that of opening a brand new car. So I voiced out my exact thoughts."I am the one doing you a favor here. You're going to sleep with me.""Exactly my point. I am going to sleep with you but I don't have to if I do not want to. You, on the other hand, must find someone to sleep with you before dawn. By the way, are you on some ultimatum? What's the rush to find a man to sleep with you for?"I struggle to wrest my hands free of his hold. He didn't budge.Sophia did not say it'll be this hard. According to her teachings, men do not even care about anything else once you're offering them sex. This one was asking too many questions and I am too tired to engage him. "I am 25." I manage to say. "I ended my housemanship yester
Hurriedly, I fixed myself up and burst out of the restroom, in a sprint. Momentarily, I wondered where Sophia was. She was probably high on something and on top of a random man's cock, riding away into ecstasy.I have to catch the bastard.He led me outside, past the bouncers that stood guard at the doors while I followed, jogging in between my walk. The wreakin' was an enormous place covering a large area of land. It could contain hundreds of people, most of which were willing women.And this crude idiot thought he could come sneak long looks at me in the bathroom and go free? Jokes. I'm going to hand him over to the police.I walk along the lobby of the club, yelling at his form that was now running ahead of me. He seems to recognize that I didn't give up and was still after him."Come back here you pervert! Come see more. Let me your eyes with more." I yelled. Yes, more slaps and blows to his head."Come back here, you pervert!""Get him. He's a pervert!" I kept yelling, while a
I tethered in the barrier between wakefulness and slumber. It was plain black and then suddenly, the image appeared. Colors of blood and tears, with the smell of antiseptics, filled my vision and olfactory. I saw her, sitting in that white chiffon dress and bawling out her eyes, wailing uncontrollably. Then it came, in one swift movement, and went through her form, leaving splashes of blood and a loud harrowing scream.I woke up with a start, panting heavily.A slight wave of pain hit me as I opened my eyes. This was coupled with the stream of light that came from the window my face was directly facing. I turned away while covering my face with my hand. My breathing slowed down as I took in my surroundings. This is Sophia's room. The largeness, alongside its rich aura of it, gave it away. But the owner was not here. So, I began scrambling for my phone that I saw in the bedside drawer. Just when I reached it, the door flung open and she appeared.She was holding in her hands a smal
"The police station?" I asked, eyes wide open. "What for?""We have a couple of questions for you miss." The man stated."Why can't you ask me them now? Is this regarding what happened yesterday night at the club? I already told security what happened. You could even take a look at the cameras.""About that, you will have to give an official statement at the station. But that's not why we're here.""Why then are you here?" I asked again, my eyes darting around. There were two of the officers, apart from the one talking to me. Even without uniforms, they still looked very much like uniform men, scary and full of command."Exactly my point Debby. I do not know what you were up to yesterday but I was surprised to see the police pull up here looking for you. Did you get into something bad?" The hospital director asked before I had the chance to say anything. "This has never happened.""I was at the club," I answered. I heard him gasp. As well as Beverly and Tristan, who were the receptio
Fear enveloped me. My bag was taken from me before I was brought here.I suppose there were rummaging through my things now and most probably, going through my contacts and everything they could lay their hands on.That was not much of a worry, I know they would not find anything. The bigger problem was what I was to tell officer Steve when he came back. Was I to tell him that I was trying to get fucked by a strange man and I did not know that this said man was the thief he is looking for?How was I to utter such gibberish? Most importantly, would he even believe me?When the officer that warned me earlier came to get my statement, I asked him if I could make a call. He said yes and so, when officer Steve came in a while later, he brought my phone.I grabbed it immediately and put a call through to Sophia. She told me we would be here in a few minutes but I am yet to see her.Officer Steve sat before me and peered into my eyes, like a predator that was sure he had his meal right befo
There was something eerie about my place as I approached it. The entrance door was ajar.I walked closer and stepped foot into the rooftop apartment. Since we didn't have a living room, I walked through the lobby between my room and Jake's and I was in my room instantly.I knew it when I saw it.I had been mugged.It was obvious from all indications. The littered papers all over, the upturned shelf of books, and opened drawers told of a person's frantic search.I quickly threw my bag on the floor and ran into Jake's room. It was the same. No difference at all.Whoever came in here must have been looking for something.This surprised me because what could anyone be looking for in a house like mine? I did not own a lot of valuables but I began checking for stuff that could have been taken away.I could not find anything missing so I returned to my bag and fished out officer Steve's card. He did say I should call whenever something suspicious happened and this, this was hella suspicious
Slowly, I turned around and met his gaze. He stood still, in the blackness of his clothing and peered into my eyes.Holy fuck!I recognize those eyes. Those empty eyes sucked a looker in. My face cream fell from my hands and I jerked. "What do you want?" I said, stepping away from his front. He doesn't say a thing. The mask over his face does not let me see any expression on his face. "You got your jacket, so why are you back here?" He took a step toward me and instinctively, I made a dive for my phone that was on the bed. I began to frantically punch on the screen, looking to call officer Steve. "How did you find my house?" I asked again. Maybe I should have called Sophia and slept at her place.He kept walking toward me and my hands trembled as I continued to back away. "Stay away!" I yelled.Then I hit the wall next to the dressing mirror and stopped moving. He was before me in a blink of an eye. My mind was threatening to burst with fear and so, I let out a scream. He stampe