CHAPTER 65ELENAWhen we got to the Hanuman world we went to the station and bought our ticket after which we were directed by the assistants to the starting rope. I and Luciano held hands. I knew I wasn't really afraid of heights but I didn't know what this would feel like so I held him tightly while we walked toward the starting point. When we got there it was just ropes, the zip lining wear, and two assistants. Now there wasn't much equipment so I couldn't help but ask the assistants standing there with a forced smile “ Hello there, I just need to inquire about something” I said to them and they gave a serious look ready to answer my question. I guess they thought it was a serious question based on the seriousness of my face. “What if I fall while zip lining? What happens? Is there a rescue team?” I asked them. This made them all chuckle slightly, including Luciano. “Ma'am is this your first time?” they asked me, still smiling at me. “Of course, it is” I replied, still uncertai
CHAPTER 66ELENAI didn't think this was going to happen soon even if he mentioned it often and on, I didn't think he was really serious, who would want to marry a slave that was auctioned to him? A woman whose background he wouldn't be proud of, so I asked him, “Do you remember my background and how we met?” “Of course I remember,” he replied.“Good, do you remember that I was auctioned to you as a slave?” I asked him and he frowned his face “Oh I remember, and I also remembered that I promised myself to deal with the Idiot that inflicted so much pain on my woman” Now I flipped at the statement I heard him make. “Are you going to make that bastard pay?” I asked him “Of course I will” he replied and this made me feel somehow light. That way he would no longer have the right to do human trafficking. But I knocked myself back to my present event.My man looked at me with his knee down asking me to marry him. “Is this the kind of mother that you want for your kids?” I asked him and my
CHAPTER 67LUCIANOI immediately called my pilot and said to him “Prepare the jet, we head back to Chicago in an hour. I'll meet you at the airport”. “I called Franco too, get your woman ready, we are heading back home in 1 hour. I'm on my way to the beach house, let's leave together once I get there” I said to him“What's with the hurry Don?” he asked me, “There is a little problem and Maria called” I replied to him. In 30 minutes we were at the beach house, but Luciano asked me to stay put in the car while he went to pack up our things, so I stayed back. He went into the house and it took him 10 minutes to pack out everything that's ours from the apartment. While he was coming towards the car I could also see Gigi and Franco rushing towards the car too. We are complete at least, I said to myself. Luciano put our luggage into the car trunk alongside Gigi and Franco’s bags. Gigi joined me in the back seat while Luciano joined me sat beside me too at the back seat leaving Franco to
CHAPTER 68LUCIANO“I pushed her away from me, do not ever in your miserable life call me that again, we parted years ago why are you here” I asked her. She knelt immediately in front of me and held onto my feet begging “Don please save me, a lot of people are after my life, a gang wants to kill me and you were the only person who came to my mind, you are the only person that can save me, please do not chase me out of here” she pleaded with tears in her eyes. “What did you do to make them chase after you?” I asked her “Well, well, umm truth is that my father borrowed some money from the dangerous men and due to my father wasn't able to settle the debt they killed him and now they are asking me, I have tried offering this money to them through my life savings but they said we've waited for far too long now it's your life or nothing, please Don't throw me out!! save me I do not want to die yet” she kept pleading and pleading.Elena took pity on her and held on to me “Baby do not throw
CHAPTER ONEI could not remember my life outside the four walls of the place I had been locked in for so long but I remember the look on my family’s face while I was being taken away, relief and happiness. That was the day I realized you only have yourself in this world, just you. Life within these walls was my own hell, a hell I had to burn through day and night. The stench of fear, was strong in the room, the barely there lights cast an eerie glow on the faces of the terrified girls huddled together. I had lost all sense of time within the confines of this place. At first, I had counted each passing day and night, but as they stretched into months, I abandoned the idea. The room was quiet, aside the usual sniffles and dry cough, the rest of the girls were lost in their own world, some sleeping while others stared off into space. Beyond the room, I could hear the boots and cheers of the men, they were probably drinking again, and I feared what would happen when they run out of alco
CHAPTER TWO Pain erupted from all over my body. My fingers shook as I gently probed the wound on my cheek, wincing at the searing pain that shot through me. I could feel the blood flowing out of it and it made me cry harder, on top of that, my side throbbed with a dull ache, and I feared they may have broken some ribs. They left me alone probably realizing if they continued hitting me, I could die. Moments passed before the door groaned open again, flooding the room with harsh, blinding light as more men entered. Their faces held no emotion, their eyes cold."Get up! all of you!" one of them barked, cocking his gun, eliciting screams from us.I cautiously rose to my feet, limping with each step, the chains on our feet clinking with every movement. The room felt even smaller as we were led toward the door like a group of helpless animals. We came to a stop in the middle of an open floor, in a single line like we had been trained to do any time we moved out together. I was still in pai
CHAPTER THREEAs I stood, my fingers continuously gripped the short ends of the dress I had been forced to wear, to pull it down but it kept riding back up my thighs. The dress clung uncomfortably to my body, pressing against my sides, making bouts of of pain erupt anytime I moved. The dress was a size too small that did nothing to hide the creases of my body. We were ordered to stand on a straight line again, during this time, Anna had found her way back to my side, she tried to apologize once but I ignored her, I was not in the mood for her chatter. I was still upset with her and I wanted to make sure she knew it.In the distance, the auctioneer's voice echoed, announcing and describing us like objects to be bought and sold, which in this instance, I admit we actually are. I tried to block out his vile words, focusing on the faces of my fellow captives. Some cried quietly, while others trembled in fear. I prayed for my soul, wherever it may end up tonight.From where I stood I was a
CHAPTER FOUR It has been a week since I began living and working in the mansion and I couldn’t help but notice the men in black with different sizes of guns strapped to their bodies, patrolling the outskirts of the mansion. At first I felt strange about having a bunch of armed men around me but I soon got used to them, even though I made conscious effort to avoid them. During my short time here, I'd grown close to the rest of the domestic staff, enjoying the normal human interactions I'd been denied for so long. The mansion buzzed with an strange energy that morning. I tried to ask Maria about it, but she brushed me off, telling me to focus on my work and when I tried to ask Alicia, she sneered at me in response. My curiosity peaked even more after that. "What's going on, Gigi? Everybody seems so busy today" I ask as we folded the clean laundry together. "You don't know?" She must have noticed from my expression that I was clueless, “Honestly Lena, I’m starting to think you real