Chapter 3: A vow!
Her phone beeped few seconds after the call dropped. Everything to her seems real now. "Okay, okay, where would she begin now?" She asked herself solemnly.
"I just have to look for somewhere to stay tonight, then tomorrow I'll think of what to do next".
She moved into a remote area with her luggages, her little finger toe kept on bleeding because she had a cut while walking for a long time. The area was bushy, filled with thorns and silence. She came across a building, an uncompleted one surrounded with bushes.
She decided to spend the night there, not even thinking of the food to eat. She entered a room in the building, dropped her loads and spread a cloth to lie on the ground. Luckily for her, the room she choosed had its windows fixed. She lied on the cloth, the memories of her with her parents flooded her mind and brain, she immediately drifted off to the dream land.
"Don't be stupid, you can never get pass him, you know he is the king of his jungle". A tall guy shouted.
"I don't believe that, boss had told us to track him down, then why waiting?". Another short man replied.
"You fools, no one jokes or play games with Stafford Raymon. As your leader here, even when our boss isn't around, will I ever lead you astray? Let's just find a place to hide, we can retreat after then, when we are sure his men are gone". The leader said.
"Okay, we understand you Kay. So what if we get caught before we could retreat? what are we to do?" The short man questioned.
While they were talking, the tall man already move closer to where Frances had slept. He walked into the same building she was and begin to check everywhere, to find a place for them to hide, so their opponent won't find them.
"Where is Slaughter?" Kay asked?
"He was here with us while talking, I don't know where he had gone to". Fire arm answered him.
"Guys, I went in to check everywhere if it is safe for us, I got to find a young lady sleeping, what do you all think?".
"What are you thinking with your stupid brain? we are here for something serious, we have no business with any lady". Kay replied him.
"Leader, Slaughter might be making some sense. Have you forgotten Stafford Raymon is known to be neutral to women, or have you ever heard of him being with any woman? Likewise, I also heard that he doesn't harm or kill women. What if we use this woman as a bait to trap him, what do you think?
"Wow, Fire arm, I never know you could be this sensible". All of them laughed.
They all went in to where Frances laid. "Wake he up" . Their leader commanded.... "Hey, pretty lady, you are welcome to our world". Fire arm used the cutlass in his hand to tap her leg. Frances who was deep asleep woke up with the voice of the man she heard, fear gripped her as she opened her eyes.
She quickly adjusted to the back, looking for a place to hide. "How..w..w..how can I help you, please don't kill me". She started shouting and begging.
"Eishhh, young woman, it better you keep quiet. Listen to me very well, we promise you, if you cooperate with us we will surely let you go in peace, but if you act otherwise, you are a dead meat then".
Panic gripped her upon hearing what the tall man had said. What was she suppose to help them with? She didn't know robbers do attack at this time of the day, this is just 6pm, she had only thought they operates at night and midnight.
They took her and tie her down. Tears of sadness and turmoil begin to gush out from her eyes, her temple throbbed from different spices of aches. "Ohh, Marcus and Charlotte's are not satisfied with the pain they brought her, they still want to get rid of her?
Thoughts of revenge couldn't flow in her head but thoughts of regret.
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After several minutes of waiting, Slaughter became impatient.
"Leader, till when are we doing this? Let's just get rid of her since she had seen our faces, she can be a problem at the end". Slaughter asked their leader.
"Why do you think Stafford Raymon would even take pity on her? Kay, I don't think Fire arm's idea will work".
"Shut up and continue watching the woman, she must not escape. Alright?" Kay demanded
"Okay Leader". He replied in a grumble tone.
Frances was just getting more and more confused. Every of her pain and betrayal by those people she loved replayed in her head again. This is when she started to make a vow to herself, making promises she wants to fulfill in the future, no, even starting from now on.
"If I can get out of here alive, to all who hurt me, I'll revenge you all in ten folds, even in million folds. I promise you all, nothing will be able to stop me, I'll a able to correct it.
I'll rewrite my heartbeat myself and no one would be able to calculate it. For all the pains you have caused me, I'll trample on you all.
She began to make different vows of her comeback to everyone who had hurt her. Her emotions of revenging got stronger and stronger.