Stolen Heart

Chapter 05

***Mnqobi's POV.

I know she said I must stay away from her but I can't so that's why I'm on my way to her place. Don't ask me how I know where she lives cause I'd have to kill you.

I knock on the door , I get no response then I try opening the door and it's locked. I eventually give up and just drive back home. I miss my mother's food. I park my car and go inside.

Me : "Honey I'm home!"  She laughs lightly and I notice that she's cuddling someone.

Mom : "Hey baby. I'll attend to you shortly."  The person sits up and it's a girl.

Me : "Okay uhm hi."  I greet the girl. My eyes are glued on her cause she looks so familiar.

Mom : "Mnqobi would you get out?" 

Girl : "Mnqobi?!"  She asks shooting her head up looking at me.

Me : "Qondisile?"

Mom : "Y'all know each other?"

Me : "She's the girl I told you about."  Mom smiles and Qondisile looks so confused.

Qondi : "What about me?"

Me : "I'm actually coming from your place and I didn't find you."

Qondi : "oh?"  Mom is busy looking at us. I go sit next to her and I notice the bruises on her face , I feel myself getting angry.

Me : "who did this to you?"  She looks down. I just grab her and hold her in my arms , I feel her tense up then relaxes shortly. She starts sniffing but ends up sobbing. Mom leaves us.

Me : "I'm sorry."

Qondi : "I tried to apologize so he could leave me but he continued beating me then I hit him with the side lamp."

Me : "calm down baby."  I wipe her tears. She chuckles lightly.

Qondi : "I think he tempered with my bedroom window and entered through it. He started apologizing for beating me up the last time and when I told him I don't want anything to do with him , he flipped and started slapping me. I don't know where I got the courage to even insult him the way I did. When he tried to force himself on me I started insulting his manhood and I guess that kind of bruised him because he started punching and kicking me until I got the strength to fight back."

Me : "Who is he?"

Qondi : "I don't want you to look at me differently."

Me : "I can never."

Qondi : "he was someone who took care of me." 

Me : "I don't understand."

Qondi : "Since I grew up in an orphanage, something happened and I ran away at the age of 16. I stayed in the streets for a couple months until I met this lady who took me in but unfortunately she disappeared after she tried helping me find my family so I was left in her apartment. I couldn't pay rent so one day I met this man who promised to take care of me and do everything for me in exchange for sex. I was 17 that time and he's been taking care of me since. I had a job at a call centre but unfortunately they fired me with no reason. When I tried breaking things off with him he would threaten me. Somehow one day I got hold of the title deeds agreement for my flat and I destroyed them and got someone to help me make a new agreement that the place should be under my name , I made him sign so the place is now mine. "

Me : "wait how did you make him sign?"

Qondi : "I'd have to kill you."

Me : *chuckling*  "ok continue."

Qondi : "okay so after losing my job and everything , I went job hunting until I got a job as a cleaner in DL Logistics and after three months of working there , one of the days after work , I got home and Thulani just started beating me up. He beat me up so bad that my body couldn't move , he ran a bath for me and left the tap running as he came to get me. He threw me so painfully in the tub and told me to clean my useless self up. He left me like that with the tap running and I drowned in that tub. I woke up in hospital. I had two weeks off from work. He beat me up again this time but I smashed the side lamp on his head repeatedly until he collapsed and I locked him in my apartment and left him like that. I ran out of the apartment and that's when your mother helped me."  She's not even crying.

Me : "That's huge  , like too much for you. I'm sorry you had to go through all of that."

Mom brings us food then leaves. I'm glad she's giving us space.

Me : "come let's eat."  She sits up.

Qondi : "I don't think I'll be able to eat."

Me : "I'll feed you then since your hands are immobile."  She chuckles. I start feeding her and I'm glad she's obliging.

Qondi : "this is good."  She says taking a sip of her juice. She looks at my plate so I share my food with her. 

Me : "Ohh so this is payback?"

Qondi : "yeah angithi you ate my food nawe"  she says with a shrug.