CHAPTER TWO

Still, on that spot, Althea cried out in pain as the spray was burning her eyes but no one moved forward to help her. Soon she felt herself being lifted off the ground and carried away by one. she presumed it was one of the hefty men harassing the girl earlier.

"Let me go," she screamed as she was being carried on the shoulder, she kicked and struggled on the man's shoulder but he wasn't even moved a bit as he didn't drop her down.

"Let me go this instant you bastard." she screamed again but the man didn't react or say anything. A van was opened and she was tossed inside it where she was still struggling to get out but she couldn't see.

Suddenly someone wiped her face for her, the spray was gone and she could see but there was still this burning sensation in her eyes. After scratching, she opened her eyes and stared around her but she wished she didn't as she was surrounded by mean-looking men who were watching her every move. Their eyes were on her as if she was one kind of toy and it was scary and at the same time annoying.

"What did you guys just do?" she asked with a burst of fearless laughter when inside she was just shaking with fear. She was scared of the men because of their number and she wondered what they wanted with her but she wouldn't let them see her fear. she couldn't let them know she was scared.

"You all are making a very bad mistake and you will regret it." She lashed out at them. "In fact I don't care who you people are or what you guys are doing right now but you will regret it once my parents find out I am missing,"she added with a forced smile.

The men were silent as she went on ranting on her own. "It doesn't matter what you can do, my parents will come for me. They will come to find me once they discover I am gone and you all will then be sorry for your actions I can assure you." She said.

"I have people that will look for me, they will call the police, and then they will come for me. It won't take long before they find you guys and then they will put your sorry asses in jail you hear me." She yelled but the men burst into laughter after all she had said. How could they laugh when she had just threatened them just now. Weren't they afraid of the police and what did they want with her?

"Your parents will find you?" One man asked her with mockery in his voice and she nodded her head with a smile. "they will find me and put you guys in jail but if you let me go first, then you won't have to go through the stress of seeing a police station today,"she said and the man laughed out

"You hear that guys?" he yelled and the men laughed at her again. she was getting scared because of the way they were laughing while pointing at her. Then finally they stopped laughing and the man stared at her with a serious look. She almost thought they were going to kill her.

"Your parents would help you, in their graves," he asked, staring at her eyes as she gasped. "I would like to see how dead people can rise from their graves when they come to save you, maybe I can even say my greetings to them,"he finished and she stopped talking or moving.

She went cold at the man's last statement as she looked into his eyes. what did he mean by in her parent's grave and how did he know that her parents were dead and that she had just been lying trying to get them to let her go. She wondered how they knew about her parents because she was an orphan and she hadn't told anyone about her parents.

She had been staying on her own and battling with her life for years now and she hadn't become friends with anyone to tell them about her parents. she didn't even live in this city because she only came here looking for a job. She hadn't even written about her parent's death in her CV or any of her jobs so she was so surprised at how they knew that her parents were dead.

"Suddenly the talkative has gone mute," the man who revealed her secret said while touching her face. She wanted to scratch his hand or punch him in the face but she couldn't move an inch or move a muscle. she sat there staring at him in the eyes.

"If only you had kept mute this way, you would have been an obedient woman but you had to open your mouth and spill crap all over the place. you made me say things." he said

"Let's go,"The man seated beside the driver said and they began to drive the van. She couldn't see where they were going because the car was covered in black glass.

Who were these men and what did they want with her? they knew her deepest secret and it was scaring her. who was the lady they were dragging and touching earlier and how come she was carried instead of that lady. Was it a planned work or was it one of the men she had met that day? what if it was the man who she slapped while he was touching her. Is this his plan of revenge, or was it the man she walked out on when she asked her to be his mistress or it could have been the third man because he said something about her not coming from a rich background? Did he know her parents or her story and could any of those men be behind this because these men didn't meet her by coincidence, it was as if they were sent for her specifically? They were sent to kidnap her.