CHAPTER TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY EIGHT

Ludo walked out of the house and found Hunter standing at the gate confused. She ran to where he was. He looked at her and told her to wait for him. She watched him go back to the house. After some minutes he came back looking even more confused. She didn’t want to say anything yet. He left her again and went to the car park and came back with her handbag and his bag.

“How did you find me?” she asked as they started walking out of the yard.

“Your phone,” he pointed at her handbag.

It then dawned on her that her parents must have been calling her. She quickly searched her bag and removed the phone but it was switched off already.

“I overheard them talking about taking the boy back to the village,” she sighed.

“I am going back there.”

She didn’t say anything. They walked to the taxi rank and got a cab. Hunter wanted to make sure that Ludo had reached home safely. They reached Ludo’s place. Whilst in the car, Hunter felt something was not right. He got out of the car and told Ludo to sta