The Maid

The maid batch 10

The maid
Episode 29
Dawn was fast approaching.The moon was shinning bright up in the sky.Cold wind blew through out the thick forest.Angela yearned for her husband’s warm body as she curled up with her eyes closed.She imagined what could be happening in the world she left behind;the tears she knew would be on David’s eyes,the emotional trauma her parents would be going through especially her mother.She regretted running out of her home that very day she did. Angela gently opened her eyes on sensing somebody stand close to her.It was on of the guards.Angela caught his eyes feasting on her exposed laps.She wondered for how long he must have been staring at her and there was no way she could adjust the loose gown to cover her properly,knowing she was wearing nothing underneath.Her hands were tied backwards.Her legs,not spared. She tried shaking her body to see if it would give her the covering she wanted but instead,it seemed to get worse. Angela watched his eyes burn with desire as they tried to penetrate deeper.A look at his trouser told her he was already hærd. Angela closed her eyes for a while and opened them again,giving him a smile. “I know i would soon die.Please make me feel like a woman before they finally come for me”Angela surprised him. He threw a look at his companion who was a bit far from them,sleeping and snoring hærd.He smiled and turned to face Angela who gave him the sweetest sed-cing smile he ever saw in his entire life.“Cut off these ropes from my hands and legs and take me to a world of happiness and pleasure.I am all yours”Angela tempted him. He looked around in a haste and as if commanded to be fast about it,untied Angela. “Let’s be fast before they come”Angela told him and drew him closer to herself.She car-ssed his head slowly,carefully watching him as his face lit up with joy. “Are you sure your partner will not wake up?”She drawled. “I put something in the last food he ate.He is not getting up soon except i decide to wake him”He assured her,peering at him again. “Oh you already planned for this? hmmm..how did you read my mind?”Angela pinched his nose playfully and placed a simple k-ss on his l-ips which almost took his breath away and ignited in him the power to make advances on her. He felt the softness of her skin gently with his palms,moving the hands down to her laps region. “Easyyy…”Angela whispered to him,catching his hand.Her right hand holding his left hand while the left held his right.At first,she held them gently,pressing herself on him tightly.She could feel his heart beat through her chest as she pressed herself to him. Then,slowly,she tightened her hold,gently releasing herself from him.His eyes were closed.With the light of the moon,she could see the happiness that filled his face. Angela’s face changed.Her teeth clenched.Her eyes surveyed the target and with the last strength she got,her knee went in-between his two legs in a powerful kick,automatically forcing the closed eyes to open.With a quick reflex,he scooped his hands around his ‘property’ which was no doubt,on fire. “Ouuu.awww Sweet Jesus…”He cried in pains and staggered forward and then,fell down.He wailed at the top of his voice,with the strength of a dying man,calling upon his partner to come to his rescue “Wetin happen?”Jack,his partner,running towards him and rubbing hands over his eyes,asked. “Na the lady o.Na the lady o”He forced out,still bearing the excruciating pain. “Wetin happen to the lady? Where she dey?,”Jack asked seeing the way he was standing,with his hands between his two legs,”And wetin dey do you?” Jack looked around and saw the ropes with which their prisoner was tied.His eyes went red with anger. “Wetin happen! You no sabi talk again? “Jack asked him again,shaking him roughly. “She escaped.That girl na witch o.I dey somewhere here dey watch her.The next thing,i come see somebody wey wear black.Na so the person come dey cut the rope.Na im i come rush to hold the person.I never even come close,the person stretch leg kick me for my ‘level’.Before i know wetin dey happen,the person vanish”He narrated. “You never talk wetin happen o.Zomb.ie! You be fool! Make we pursue am o”Jack cursed and took his gun and torch from where he dropped them. Angela was lost, deep in the forest.Yet she was still running.Where she was running to,she couldn’t tell.She knew the guards would come after her.As she ran,he heard different voices.The voice of wild animals.The voice of her mother,praying and calling her name.The voice of David weeping.The voice of Ebere laughing triumphantly.She stopped and covered her ears but the voices kept echoing in her brain. She saw a little shelter of bamboo sticks with some old rafia as the roof.She knew it was dangerous but she moved in,thinking it was safer. She had barely stayed upto five minutes in it when she saw rays of light flashing towards that direction with heavy footsteps. “They are here”She lamented
Episode 30
The lights flashed again into Angela’s little hiding place,doubling her fears.The thought of pulling off the white gown she was wearing to reduce the chances of being easily s₱0tted nimbled through her but she discarded it. She tried holding her breath to prevent making even the slightest noise of breathing. As the footsteps came closer,she heard their voices. “This was all your fault.Why were you sleeping on duty?” “Stop talking nonsense my friend! You think say i believe that your nonsense story? Spirit my foot.Ghost seer.Just pray to your god,whether amadioha or olokun or any other one wey you dey serve because i know say you no dey go church.Just pray make we find her o.Or na your head dem go take do the sacrifice” Angela listened as their voices died down.She didn’t hear any more word from them again but she wasn’t sure if they were still around or not. She heard the crackling of dry leaves besides her.The low silence shattering noise by the dry leaves gave her great cause for concern. She surveyed with great great effort,arround the place with the help of the moonlight. Then,she saw it.A great python,crawling towards her. Angela felt herself flush slowly,and heat coming in waves up her throat and cheeks.She wanted to scre-m but instead,she found herself covering her mouth with her palms.She wasn’t sure if the men looking for her were still around. The python crawled faster and before she knew it,it was right in front of where she squatted. “David!”She scre-med and bursted out,hearing a gunshot and seeing flashes of light.She hid at the back of a huge tree until the lights went off.She heaved a sigh of relief,made the sign of the cross and followed another direction. 4.45am Ebere and the old ‘dibia’ arrived as planned but the place was quiet and quite unusual.One of the guards should have met them some distance away from there,to make sure they were not unwanted guests.“Egbe!” “Jack!” “Are you both sleeping? Is that how you secure this place?”The old man asked,infuriated,expecting them to both run out and beg for forgiveness but to his greatest surprise,it seemed as if he was talking to the trees of the forest. Ebere’s eyes burged out in bewilderment when she flashed the big torch she was holding to the place where Ebere was lying the previous day and found only ropes and nothing more. “Baba,she is gone.She is gone”Ebere disclosed,with the fear of insecurity and danger looming on her. “What? Impossible.That can’t happen,”he dashed forward,taking the ropes in his hands,”Nooo.This cannot happen.The gods are already waiting for her blood.What do i tell them now…..” The two guards p-nting heavily,ran up to them,interrupting him from speaking further. “She has escaped.A spirit came and cut the ropes from her o”Egbe reported.Jack eyed him and nodded in agreement. “May thunder strike the both of you.Go and look for her.If you fail to bring her here,the gods will come after you”He threatened,sending them back in search of Angela. ***** David’s phone rang.He was lying on the floor of his parlour with empty bottles of alcoholic drinks besides him.He lazily reached for the phone and looked at the clock hanging on the wall before answering it. It was 6.05am. “David.Any news?”Tony,his friend who was on the steering asked. “No news my brother.No news”David replied. “Why is your voice like that? Hope you haven’t been drinking” “I’m fine” “Alright.I’m driving now.I have to catch an appointment.I will come over as…………” David could hear the sudden sound of car brakes and the faint shouts of “Jesus! Jesus!” “Tony? Tony whats happening? Where are you?”David kept asking,looking at the phone in his hands as if he was actually referring to it. Tony alighted from his car immediately.He prayed the person didn’t die.He rushed to the front of the car and found her there.A woman she was,in a white gown,lying on the ground.
Episode 31
The morning came with cold wind which seemed to have made everyone stay indoor that fateful morning. Adaora was also caught indoor,on the little mat which she shared with Sonia the previous night,wondering if there was anything she could do to lift Sonia from the dilemma she found herself.She knew Sonia was in more trouble than she could imagine;if she was shown on the television,that means she must be on the newspapers as well. Adaora smiled to herself on remembering how they got past the police checkpoint the previous day,driving down here,where she deemed safer.The policemen were holding Sonia’s picture.As they looked at the picture,they looked at them in the taxi.Sonia had eyed her,not knowing that it has gotten to that level.Sonia’s excessive make ups and changed appearance made it impossible for the police to identify her. Adaora was ready to do all she could to see that Sonia escaped falling into the dangerous pit that was on her way,even if it meant seeking help from where she vowed never to. An uncomfortable feeling invaded Adaora.Her eyes never saw Sonia that morning. She opened the wooden door of the old mud house and looked around;perhaps,Sonia may be sweeping the little compound but to her surprise,she was not there.A quick wave of fear swept through her as she ran around checking every corner of the building calling her name but not even her shadow was seen.Sonia was gone.Gone to God-knows-where. Tony filled the air with early morning yellow dust as he sped off,with the nearest hospital on his mind.At regular intervals,his eyes went to the woman lying at the back seat.The fear in him didn’t permit him to have a good look at her.So,he didn’t know it was Angela,his best friend’s wife that he knocked down. She wasn’t moving,getting him thinking if she was still alive or dead. His phone was ringing as he added more speed to the tyres.It was David but he was far from being in the mood to answer.Tony pulled into the hospital,signaling to the nurses to come over immediately.They came with the stretcher and without wasting any time,pushed her in to commence treatment on her. Tony waited behind,bearing in mind that he’d missed the important business appointment that morning. _____ “Excuse me nurse,”Tony approached the nurse who came out from the room the victim was taken into,”how is she doing?” “Calm down sir,we will get back to you”The nurse told him and left for another ward. Just almost immediately she left,the doctor came out.Tony rushed to him. “Doctor.how far?”Tony asked him. “Are you her husband?”He asked in return. “No.I was the one who knocked her down.Is there any problem?”Tony was already worried she might be badly injured internally. “Uhmm,for now,there isn’t much problem.We need to see her husband and that’s maybe when she regains consciousness”The doctor stressed out. “Can i see her?”Tony asked,the hope of still catching the appointment coming back to him. “Sure.but she shouldn’t be disturbed. I think she got into bad hands because she was so unkept and unclad except for the light white material she was wearing but the nurses saw to that.Meanwhile,they are minor papers you have to sign before leaving” Tony opened the door and saw her lying on the bed,with a big drip connected to her arm.He came close to observe her properly before leaving for the appointment,making up his mind to come and check on her as soon as possible.He had given one of the nurses some money to get her some food when she gets up. As Tony beheld her face,he felt a high sense of familarity.Getting even closer,he almost stumbled,realising it was Angela,David’s missing wife. “Angela”he called her name softly,running his head over her forehead,feeling so sorry for her. Angela opened her eyes and found Tony sitting close to her. “Tony”She called weakly and noticed him shock greatly,bringing him back from his thoughts. “Angela, are you alright”He seemed relaxed and better,knowing she was getting better. “I feel very weak and hungry.Does david know i’m here?”She asked again. “No.i was about calling him”He replied,dipping hand into his pocket to get his phone. “No.don’t call him yet,please”Angela pleaded. “Why? Your husband is dying.Your absence is killing him.He needs to see you” “I know but please don’t call him yet”She pleaded again.
___Episode 32 comes up shortly

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