” You think covenants are for babies” Rejoice’s Husband said as we unknowingly walked into their midst. We must have walked aimlessly for over 2 hours in the forest as Rejoice kept lamenting that it was the main road she was familiar with. Little did we know we were going to walk into her Husband and his boys… “ All the astra projection was just a total waste, they eventually caught up with us… it would have been better if they had caught us earlier rather than wasting two hours trekking in this forest” I said angrily at Rejoice as I suddenly felt the need to have water… I was very thirsty… “ Rejoice, you can never leave me…, we have a soul tie. Even if I die, my Spirit will follow you every where you go. Get them” Jay said as one of them pulled me. I felt the prick in my neck again…. I had been sedated… “ You can not kill him, if you do I will kill myself… And this is not a threat… I have nothing to lose if I kill myself, you are the one who has everything to lose. You are the one who will have to look for another girl who has to agree to become your human idol and guess what? We don’t have a lot of them out there… So if you still want to keep your business running let Mr Chuks be.” I heard Rejoice saying to her Husband as I was waking up from sleep… “ Fine, but he will have to work for me… He must join the boys…” Jay said… “ Forget it, Mr Chuks will never do it, if it was the old Him I knew, he would have done it, but the new Mr Chuks won’t do it. He is now a born again Christian!” Rejoice said “ Fine, then I will treat him like Sammy…” Jay had said… From where I laid on the floor pretending to be asleep, I opened my left eye gently to know the reason Rejoice was suddenly silent. I noticed she stared hard at her husband and after a long thought , she said “ Fine….” From where I laid on the floor, I knew whatever they were referring to was definitely “ Not Fine”. “ Take him to Sammy”…. I felt the hands of two men as they carried me from the ground. I opened my eyes occasionally to know where they were taking me to, I noticed we got out of the main building through the back and they started dragging me towards an unknown place… I suddenly saw a small cemented building with the size not as big as a room. One of the men opened the room, and together they pushed me in. I knew my body hit something, but I didn’t know what it was until I heard a croaky male voice say… “ What is that.. what are you throwing at me?” The voice said I jumped back in fear as I opened my eyes for real and I saw a frail looking boy, not more than 17 years old. He was a disgusting sight to behold, His skin looked like scales that were peeling off…. He looked white like a bowl of flour had been poured on him… I moved back in horror but unfortunately for me there wasn’t anywhere to move to in the room… . “ Who is he and what is he doing here?” The boy asked “ Your father felt you needed extra company. “ One of the men said mockingly … “ Your Father!” I reasoned .. Who was his father? Could Jay be the father of this boy and if he was , why did he keep his son in a small dark room… Did I say dark… “Gbaa” I heard the sound of the door the moment it was shut. I had never seen what was called Pitch darkness prior to that day, but I saw it for the first time. I could grab the darkness with my hand . The only source of light were two small holes that had been created above for cross ventilation… “Who are you and what do you want?, Did my father send you to kill me?” The boy said and the stench from his mouth was worse that an abandoned public toilet… “ No… I was kidnapped “ “ Oh!… then I will be saying goodbye to you soon” “ What does that mean?” I asked in fear… “ I am the only one who has entered this room and has not been killed” “ Why… I mean why does he kill the others?” “ Rituals for his scamming business of course!” “ Are you telling me you are been kept here by your father for Rituals?” “ When a child decides to escape from the imminent danger he sees ahead, he becomes his father’s number one enemy…” He said “ What does that mean?” “ I didn’t support my father’s ways as I saw it coming… I told him God was going to fight him for the way he was causing many to shed tears, but my mother and siblings felt I was too religious. They told me… Life is made up of preys and predators. It is either you are the prey or you are preying on people. My family didn’t see any wrong in scamming people of their hard earned money. My sister Sandra, would tell me even the government was preying on it’s citizens, so to her, what our family was doing was not wrong… but I didn’t want to be involved….” “ So you mean your mother and siblings are into this?… but I didn’t see anyone like them out there…” “ Them?… they are long gone…” He gave a dry laughter… “ To where?” “ It’s a long story…” To be continued
