All Chapters of Mummy, i didn’t Run Away: The Unwanted Child: Chapter 11 - Chapter 16

We tried to blend in with the other girls in the compound. As we talked to them, some mentioned they had been stuck there for two years, some for a year, and others for six months, with no sign of a boat in sight.I ended up getting very close to a particular plump girl named Rose. She also had her own madam, though her agent wasn’t nearly as strict as ours. As we sat together in the gloom, Rose started telling me the horrific things they had all been through over the months.She told me about a failed attempt she was part of just a few weeks prior. When a boat finally arrived, agents rushed to clear people, and everyone panicked and crammed themselves inside. The boats are always dangerously overcrowded because everyone is desperate to escape, no one wants to stay in that hellhole for a single day longer. Sometimes, it’s so packed that you have to sit on someone else’s lap just to fit.As soon as their boat set sail, it developed mechanical issues and started sinking. The only luck t

Two months bled into the waiting silence of Libya. There was still no sign of the boats we had been promised, but Madam Veronica and the other agents were constantly on the move, making calls, arguing over phones, and scrambling to arrange the rubber boats. The atmosphere inside the compound was thick with anxiety, everyone counting down the days and praying for a way out.Every morning we woke up hoping someone would shout that a boat had finally arrived. Whenever we heard footsteps outside or a vehicle stop near the compound, all of us would rush toward the door, thinking maybe this was finally the day we would leave. But the footsteps would pass, the vehicles would drive away, and another day would come to an end. Days slowly turned into weeks, and before we even realized it, two whole months had gone by. We stopped asking when we would leave because nobody ever gave us a straight answer.Then, the secret came out.We discovered that one of the girls who had traveled with us from L

She took us inside and showed us to two large rooms. Each room was packed with nearly ten bunk beds, lined up row after row. She told us to make ourselves comfortable, but none of us were smiling. None of us were happy. We already knew what was waiting for us. We knew something dark was coming.After we had freshened up, she brought us food, and we ate in heavy silence. The comfort of a real house didn’t make us happy. It didn’t excite us at all. Even though the Italian camp had been crowded, noisy, and chaotic, and even though we spent only three days there, we still preferred it over where we were now. That camp had given us peace. It had given us a restless kind of safety, far away from the angry, predatory eyes of Madam Veronica.In her house, every full step she took made our hearts leap. Every time her gaze landed on someone with her eyes wide open, it felt like our hearts were about to jump straight out of our mouths. Not a single person smiled. We hardly spoke to one another a