" Cara listen to me, you have to get out of here! We can't both die here, you must survive to avenge me!"
Before I could reply anything, he was shot again on his stomach. He groaned with pain and held his wound firmly to minimise bleeding. I looked at him and painful tears trickled down my cheeks. I hugged him and spoke
" I can't leave you alone Nath"
" Damn ! You need to run.... You need to survive!"
More tears continued to flow and I replied
" we need to run... We need to survive"
" Cara please.... I beg you, this is not the time to be stubborn."
" I won't go anywhere Nath"
We were still arguing when we heard a voice
" Mr Nathaniel, I have chosen you to be my messenger to angel Gabriel. Tell him that, I will make love to this beautiful lady over here the whole night "
It was Mr Hutchinson himself!!! And that lady he was talking about was me.
Nath spoke furiously " you mother fucking traitor! "
He forcibly pulled me to him and spoke to his men
" make sure that your guns don't have bullets anymore "
I witnessed Mr Hutchinson's men shooting Nathaniel like a dog...they kept putting holes in his body parts. I screamed
" Noooooooo!!!! Nath!! Please stop shooting him, I beg you"
They kept shooting him without listening, and for each gunshot sound my heart was ripped apart. Each part of his body was lodged with a bullet and... He was no more. I knelt down and bursted into tears, I held his hand but it felt cold like an ice.
" Nath wake up please, you promised me to make it out alive."
Something hard hit my head strongly and I lost my consciousness.
I woke up after cold water splashed my face. I opened my eyes weakly and felt the chills. My head was aching so hard and my eyes were still adopting to the light present in the room. I looked clearly and saw that I was inside a room, and I was laid on the bed while my hands and legs were both tied to the four sides of the bed. I saw Mr Hutchinson on top of me, he smiled while removing his pants and spoke
" don't worry it won't hurt that much.... And I promise you that you gonna like it." He took off his pants and I saw him naked
I spoke weakly " please don't do this to me... You are like a father to me"
He smiled and took a sole tap nearby, He then sealed my mouth and spoke
" I prefer not to hear those sounds from you when I'm doing my job!" I tried to kick and shout but it was not useful... I was firmly tied and I could barely move an inch of my finger.
He finally entered me!!! I cried with pain, blaming myself why I was still a virgin. It felt so painful and that dog from hell enjoyed torturing me. I was raped, yes... I was raped by the person that I considered my own parent. I cried and cried while hopeless tears streamed down my face.
After he was done he untied me and ordered one of his men to kill me
" take this bitch and make sure to bury her alive"
I was taken by the guy and he put me into the car boot. He drove many miles away and after approximately one hour the car stopped. The car boot flew open and he carried me out of the car. He dropped me down and spoke
" I was told to bury you alive but I can't do that yet... I still have a conscious soul in me" he removed the sole tap from my mouth, I gasped rapidly and spoke weakly " thank you"
He untied me and spoke again
" please make sure you start your life afresh, don't get involved with Mr Hutchinson anymore just, live your life."
He got inside the car and drove of. I tried to stand up and saw blood flowing through my legs, I realised that it was the blood from my pubic and I felt the pain continuously. I tried to stand at the road and stop any passing car but no car was passing by. I felt strength less than what could be imagined, I felt dizzy and I finally fell on the road. Everything became blank.
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I opened my eyes weakly and the light from the bright sun hit my eyes making me feel the little pain, I knew it was still morning yet I didn't want to wake up .... I didn't want to live in the world that had cruel people, I didn't want to remember that I was raped, I didn't want to recall the death of Nathaniel.... I just wanted to feel numb from every pain.
" where am I?"
I asked myself and tried to seat upright since, I wanted to know where I was. I sat upright though I still felt the pain and realised that I was in a small room with medium sized windows. The walls were painted light blue colour and a small table with a chair were besides the bed. While I was still seating, I allowed my feet to step on the floor ready to go outside the room and explore the area. I stood up and took light steps towards the door, I touched the cold doorknob and opened the door. I finally realised that I was just inside a room and not a big house as I was thinking.
I saw a guy seating on the stairs outside... He was bare chest and had a black jeans on. His whole body was tattooed and from first appearance, I knew that he was a bad boy. I guess he heard my light steps and turned to face me. He had a light skin, black eyes and he had pierced his upper lip. I couldn't find any word to speak, he finally stood up and spoke to me
" You are awake?"
I didn't reply anything but found myself hating men. He climbed the stairs towards me and spoke
" they call me Alexander Collins" he smiled a bit and continued
" if you don't mind, can you tell me who are you and what happened to you? "
I pulled myself together and spoke" I'm Cara... Cara Hutch-" I paused first because I wanted to say that monster's name. I carried on
" just Cara is more than comfortable" I kept silent for a while and Alexander asked me
" so what happened to you?" I kept quiet without replying anything, I only allowed tears to fall from my eyes because I was reminded of the past pain that I had faced. I tried to speak
" I....I... I.. -" I just couldn't speak. Alexander looked at me and wiped my tears away. He spoke
" it's okay.. Calm down. Uum can you recall any phone number of your relative?"
I swallowed the lump and spoke " I don't have any relative. They are...all...dead"
Alexander pitied me and hugged me. After few seconds he let me go and spoke to me
" uum it's okay, you can stay here for the meantime. I have a shop nearby for selling flowers, you can help me out there."
" thank you so much Sir"
" it's Alexander not sir.. Cara"
" okay... Alexander"
" where am I?"
" You are Still in the Philippines, to be specific I can say you are still in Manilla"
I sighed and he spoke
" come on, don't worry you are safe here. Let's go inside... You need to eat something."
I went inside with Alexander ready to eat anything that he had prepared.
After 1 year Passed
Time passed quickly like a running river or maybe a great blowing wind, I can say that living with Alexander helped me to move on. I was able to tell him what happened to me, and though I was being cautious about trust issues with him. I didn't want to trust anyone especially men, I just hated them so much.
Whenever I saw a man I was pissed off and maintained my distance. When I was raped by Mr Hutchinson, I conceived. I didn't want to abort the baby since I knew that the baby was innocent so, I carried the baby for 9 months and unfortunately when I was giving birth.... The baby died. This was another painful event in my life, first event was being raped by Mr Hutchinson and secondly was loosing my first baby though Alexander always convinced me to abort it.
Maybe, God wanted me to start a new page of my life and thanks to God for giving me Alexander who was always there to make sure that I pick up myself from pieces and become whole again. He showed me how to become strong enough to face any storm in life.
As how Alexander promised me to help him at the flower shop, I used most of my time to help him out at the shop and sold flowers. We earned a little and through that little amount of money we got we were able to survive. I did my best to make sure that I help out in anything that Alexander needed because I didn't want to disappoint him at all.
Some days later, he received a letter telling him that he got accepted at the company he had applied for being a security guard. He explained to me that, he had applied for being a security guard in Russia and since he got accepted, he needed to go.
He booked a flight ticket to Russia and before Alexander left, he gave to me his apartment and the flower shop. On Saturday morning he bid farewell and left the country. I was finally left alone and trust me, I missed Alexander already.
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