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THE feeling of Jeremy’s palm on her wrist at that moment wasn’t romantic as expected to be this time, it was infact, torturing.
She felt goosebumps all over her, a whole lot of them and she feared they might even become visible.
“Do not let me repeat myself”, came the torturing voice of Jeremy, still holding onto her wrist.
Her lips wobbled for words, trying to speak, but yet nothing came out, not even a word.
Angrily, Jeremy got up at once, forced his phone out of her hand and then, flung her hand with which he was holding onto, away.
“I do not blame you at all Amelia, I blame myself”, he said, shouting at the top of his voice and she quickly moved backwards, shivering, “for if I hadn’t let you into my room, you wouldn’t have done that nonsense which you just did”, he continued.
Amelia slowly raised up her head to look at him.
“I… I am sorry…”.
“Yes, I knew it”, he interrupted, yelling, “I knew that was exactly what you were going to say, sorry? Sorry! Amelia how dare you?”, his voice was cold as he asked, so cold that she could feel the pressure.
“Jeremy it is because I love you, I love you and that is why I’m doing all these, I love you”, she dared replied, already broken into tears.
“But I do not love you Amelia”, he said.
“Huh?”, she turned to him and he nodded.
“Yeah, I don’t love you, I don’t feel anything for you. Infact, what are we even doing? Fooling the world that we are gonna get married? Telling them I’m your fiance when you know so well that we aren’t even engaged, what the hell are we doing?”, he continued yelling.
Amelia was so heartbroken that she instantly broke down into tears.
“Are you really saying all that to me Jeremy?”, she asked amidst tears.
Jeremy scoffed.
“Does this look like one of your social functions to you? Does it look like I’m joking? We aren’t an item, we have nothing together and you know it, I think it’s high time we stop giving the people a lot of expectations from us, because there is obviously nothing coming from us”, he said.
She increased her whimpering.
“We have something together Jeremy don’t say we don’t, I feel something for you, I…”.
“Well I feel nothing for you”, he sharply interrupted, “absolutely nothing Amelia. Infact, why are we still having this conversation, leave my room this minute”, he ordered.
“What!”, she exclaimed, her eyes opened in shock, “Jeremy?”, she called.
“I do not like repeating myself and you know it. Hey, I don’t want to go in there”, he pointed towards the bathroom, “and return to see you standing and whimpering here, go wherever you want to go and spend the night, tomorrow morning should see your exit out of my house, and hey…, do not return unless I send for you”, he said and dropped the phone on the bed, then dashed into the bathroom.
Amelia was so shocked at his outbursts, well yes, she knew Jeremy to not feel something for her but at least, she was expecting him to have started developing one for her, it’s already been years.
“Oh my goodness!”, she exclaimed out and then began looking around for her few things, still crying as she did.
“I can’t believe he spoke that way to me, I can’t believe it”, she said as she got her phone and some few other things.
“And it is all because of that stupid assistant of his, it is because of that Carrie”, she said and began walking up to the door.
She got to the door, opened it and angrily walked away, slamming the door behind her.
Few minutes later Jeremy came out of the bathroom and went into the room, and then he nodded satisfactorily, picked up his phone only to see series of texts from Jasira, he sighed.
***
Jasira laid on her bed enjoying the chats she was having with Jeremy when all of a sudden, he stopped replying to her texts, she became worried, sent series of texts and waited a few minutes for a reply, when she didn’t get one, she decided to just hang on, and just immediately, a call came into her phone, making the phone vibrate continuously on the bed.
She sprang up immediately and picked up the phone, looking into it, it was Tarmah.
“Ahh!”, she exclaimed and sat up, then answered the call.
“Hello dear”, she was the first to speak into the phone.
“Hello sis, good evening”, Tarmah greeted.
Jasira nodded.
“Good evening, it’s been a while Tam”.
Tarmah sighed.
“Yeah, I been so busy trying to get my things ready, you know, to get back to school”, she replied.
“Ohh!”, Jasira exclaimed splaying her left hand on her forehead, “I had almost forgotten. When you really leaving?”, she asked.
“A week from now”, came the short reply.
“Oh, I see. Just ring me before you leave”.
“Sure I will. So, how is it going?”, Tarmah asked.
Jasira rolled her eyes, smiling sheepishly.
“With Jeremy? Well, going fine and well. Since then, I mean since the day you gave him my DM, we have been chatting”.
The screams from Tarmah that followed this statement was so defeaning that Jasira had to remove the phone from her ears and waited for her to finish screaming.
“Are you really serious right now? Did you just say ‘we’ ? As in, ‘we have been chatting’ ? Meaning you have accepted him?”, she rushed her questions.
Jasira sighed and shook her head. This girl?
“Hey, chatting with him doesn’t mean I have accepted him huh…”.
“But you accepted to chat with him, Jasira I know is a hard nut to crack, so I’m so pleased and astonished over this”, she said, interrupting.
Jasira rolled her eyes.
“Well, I don’t know what to say but…, people do change”.
“For people”.
“Huh?”.
“People do change for people”, she replied.
She growled.
“Arrgh! Silly!”, she mouthed.
“Hmmmmm”, Tarmah gave out a long sigh.
“I… I’m really finding this somehow Tam”, Jasira said.
“Somehow? How?”.
“You wouldn’t believe, I am lying to him about my personality”, she said and twisted her lips.
“Awww! That is… that is awkward”.
“Yeah, I now work online”.
“You… you now what? Jeez!”, she bursted into laughter.
Jasira nodded, laughing as well.
“Funny right?”.
“Very funny sis, but um… we can’t spill the beans, at least not yet”, she said.
At this juncture, her phone made a popping sound, cutting into their conversation and making her jerk. Instantly, she took the phone away from her ears and looked into it, it was a text from Jeremy, just as expected.
“Well I think I need to go now, I…”.
“You just received a text from him?”, she asked.
Jasira’s eyes widened in shock. Little witch, how the hell did she know?
“Sort of”, she replied shortly.
“Oh wow! Beautiful! I really need to go then, to give you guys some space, the…”.
“Tarmah”, Jasira interrupted, “just let that slide can you?”, she asked.
She laughed incoherently.
“Alright my lady, fine, good, I will talk to you later”, she said.
“Moro, not later”, Jasira said almost interrupting, and rolled her eyes.
“Okay, later tomorrow, good night then, sleep well”, she said.
Immediately she hung up and tapped on the text.
@Jeremy_Petersons: Sorry I was already dozing off, hence my delay in replying to your texts.
She smiled widely, then sighed deeply, as she immediately proceeded to reply.
……Next Morning……
The next morning arrived rather too slow for Amelia, as the night had been so tormenting and surprisingly long, she had been waiting impatiently for the day to arrive, so she can leave ASAP.
She never wanted to see Jeremy’s face nor even let him see her. She had slept in her room and had hurriedly left since the breaking of dawn.
As soon as she entered her car and hit the road, it was straight home. On getting home, thankfully, there was no dad, mom, and even sis to confront and ask silly questions, because as far as she was concerned, the night hadn’t gone well, it had gone sour.
Quickly, she breezed into her room, locked up her door and took out her phone, then she placed a call, instantly, it began dialing.
It was picked up at the first ring.
“Hello boss, good morning”, the person she had called was the first to greet.
She twisted her lips and walked up to the dressing table.
“Viper?”, she called.
“Yes boss, I’m the one on the phone”, came the reply.
“Hmmm”, she sighed deeply, looking at her reflection in the mirror, “remember our target the other day?”, she asked.
“Sure boss”.
“She has bitten more than she can chew, I need you to get her to The Pinnacle before today runs out”, she ordered.
“Okay boss, noted”.
“I don’t care how you going to do it, just get her out of that damn office of hers today, and then to location, understood?”.
“Understood boss”.
“Good, will be waiting for your call”.
“Sure, taken”, and instantly, she hung up.
Slowly, she dropped the phone on the dressing table, still looking at her reflection in the mirror, she nodded knowingly, smiled, then bursted into laughter.
“Although…”, she said and tilted her head, “I can’t tell if Carrie is the one making my man not to feel a thing for me, but at least…, she poses a good place to start off my plans”, she walked away from the mirror and towards the window.
“Watch your back girl, I am coming for you”, she said and winked, then bursted into laughter.
***
The black hood was forcefully taken off her face and a slap landed ferociously on her right cheek. Another slap followed.
Instantly, she woke up from her trance with a start, then her eyes widened slowly, trying to adjust to the environment.
Finally, they opened and landed on three men, all in black hoodies and trousers, staring hard at her. Her mouth fell into an ‘o’.
She looked around, the environment was unfamiliar and quite scary. Where the hell was she? And who the hell were these black men staring daggers at her.
How the hell did she even get there? Then she tried to recall, she had remembered driving back to office from a little business meeting held at a restaurant miles away, and then, a car had overtaken her and screeched to a halt in front of her, two men ran to her car, forcefully covered her face with a hood, and that was it. Nothing against, she could remember nothing again.
Yoo! So those men were kidnappers or what? She has been kidnapped! She slowly turned to the men.
“Who are you?”, she asked.
“I don’t think that would be necessary Miss Carrie”, a familiar voice replied from behind the men and they began giving way instantly, only to reveal Amelia.
Carrie gasped, she almost peed in her panties. What does she wants now?
She watched in fear as she majestically walked up to the seat where she was tied.
“The stubborn fly, that refuses to listen to instructions and warnings, normally ends up in the belly of a bird”, she said as soon as she got to her, then folded her arms.
Carrie slowly bowed her head, deliberately avoiding her gaze, and shivering as leaves would do under a strong wind. Amelia smiled.
“I see you as that stubborn fly, and you would be ending in the belly of a bird soon. What was my warning to you Carrie?”, she asked.
Carrie slowly looked up.
“You… I…, I…” she paused.
Amelia bursted into laughter.
“The cat has gotten your tongue huh? The cat, it has gotten your tongue now right? Bravo!”, she said still laughing, and then began clapping her hands.
Then suddenly, she stopped laughing and stretched out her right hand to the men, her eyes still fixed on Carrie.
“The whip”, she said and instantly, one of the men, the one standing closest to her, placed a black whip on the outstretched hand.
Carrie froze, her scared eyes looking at her every move.
“What the hell did I tell you in our last meet?”, she asked and without warning, brought down the whip on Carrie’s left side.
“Huh?”, the second came.
“Ahhhh!”, Carrie yelped out in pain.
“Stay away from my man Carrie”, she said and landed another on her, as she continued yelling.
“I warned you”, she said and whipped again, with all the strength she has got.
“Stay the hell away Carrie, away!”, she said as she continued whipping and whipping all over her, with Carrie yelling and yelling.
The men stood watching.
As sudden as she had started, she stopped, then began pacing about, panting as she did.
“Do you know the hell I passed through yesternight? All because of you? Do you?”, she shouted the last question.
She stopped pacing about and stood in front of crying Carrie.
“Jeremy told me to my face that he has no feelings for me, that he feels nothing for me, meanwhile he had been on the phone with you, you bitch!”, she shouted and whipped her again.
Carrie yelped.
She was in severe pains, and was really in no time to think if she had been on the phone with Jeremy the previous night, all she needed at the moment was pardon, pardon from Amelia.
“I had to sleep in a guest room in my fiance’s house, imagine the insult, the disrespect, jeez!”, she continued ranting, fuming and fisting her both palms.
“Pl… please Amelia, please, I do not know what you are talking about, please pardon”, she pleaded.
Amelia growled.
“Urrrrgh, if you had known how irritating this pleas of yours sounds to my ears, you wouldn’t be pleading”, she said.
Silence fell, only the cries and muffles of Carrie could be heard. Seconds passed and grew into minutes, then Amelia spoke up.
“Viper?”, she called.
“Boss”, he replied at once, he was one of the three men in the room.
“Get that deranged idiot”, she ordered.
“Straight away”, he bowed slightly, then walked out of the room.
Minutes later, they began hearing growling sounds as though they were sounds made by some wild animal, kicking and hitting at things matching towards the door.
Suddenly the door flew open and Viper entered, dragging along with him, a half nude man. The man was actually in chains, his hands and legs were chained.
He was bad smelling and ugly looking, very unkempt. A bad odour had filled the room as soon as they entered.
He was Rexin, actually one of them, who had gone deranged after excessive use of hard drugs.
Though deranged, he was still useful to Amelia, but in a different way.
Carrie looked up and was shocked to see this ‘dog’ being dragged into the room, then Viper locked the door and walked up to them, still dragging the man along.
“He is here boss”, Viper announced and tripped him, and he fell with a thud to the dusty floor.
Amelia sharply turned to Carrie.
“This guy would sleep with you, if you want me to release you”, she dropped the bombshell.
Carrie’s eyes widened in shock.
“What!”, she exclaimed, even though feeling pains.
She looked at the beast looking man on the floor, he was still growling, spittles dropping out from the sides of his mouth, she winced.
Amelia nodded.
“You heard me, remember what I said about a stubborn fly huh, don’t forget. Now, undress her”, she gave out the order.
The two men aside Viper swung into action as they rushed up to Carrie, and began undressing her.
“Oh! Please, pleeeaaaase, please Ame, please…”, she kept on pleading.
“I’m sorry if I have done anything wrong to you, I promise not to cross paths with Jeremy ever again, please”.
Amelia bursted into laughter.
“That can never happen you know, you are his assistant at work”, she laughed again, “just serve this punishment and leave my sight”, she said.
As soon as the men undressed her, leaving her stark naked, the deranged man suddenly began growling louder, moving restlessly from side to side and trying to remove the chains on him.
Amelia laughed.
“You see that? He can’t even wait to have you, he is going to give it to you so well Carrie, don’t worry”, she said pulling a pleading face, and then she bursted into laughter.
The torture was too much, Carrie couldn’t take it anymore, she began shouting for help.
“All that is left is just an order, order the guys to release this idiot and it is over, you see, how easy”, Amelia continued.
“Please ma’am, please, I beg you in the name of whatever you are serving, please”, Carrie couldn’t stop pleading.
“Release him”, Amelia said and before the men could swing into action, Carrie let out a loud scream and then passed out.