Vengeance

CHAPTER NINE

At the boundaries of safety where the mad speed of the car had been highly minimized, James heaved a huge sigh of relief with a mad smile on his face.

"Good riddance boys, no one would ever find her or suspect any of us", he buoyantly said, as Irene flashed him a displeasing gaze.

"Sincerely, you boys did that girl bad", Irene replied while driving. "That sight was gruesome and inhumane", she added.

James shockingly stared at her while justifying that Maureen proved stubborn and chose violence, as Ben and a shattered Isaac kept exchanging glances and staring at them.

"All we wanted was go in there and have fun, but damn she was wild", James said with no remorse.

This sent Ben into a hall of laughter, as he made known his curiosities about Maureen playing too hard when it is known that all city girls loved it rough.

"It wasn't fair though", replied a very sad Isaac, prompting James to shout at him to shut up while questioning his knowledge abilities.

"At least I gave you a clue on how to dispose of her", Isaac shot back while soberly staring at James, who admitted his credibility with a pinch of salt.

Ben bursts out laughing again as he throws his arm around the neck of Isaac. Smiling and driving, Irene invited them all to her place for a good time, James put on a devilish smile towards Ben and Isaac before accepting the offer, as the car speed suddenly increased again.

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Meanwhile, Maureen's body was crazily swept far away to another settlement due to the strong current of the river. Here, she was luckily saved by a bunch of fishermen, where she was actively taken care of although she seemed not to remember anything. Months flashed by like days with Maureen back on her feet as she seemed to have forgotten anything had ever happened to her. Fully grown with the rollover of months, her smile returned to her as happiness was found farther away from home.

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Suddenly the lights went off as Isaac sprang up from sleep, looking around suspiciously in the absolute darkness. Silently cursing under his breath, he weakly got up to grab hold of his torch. Wearily, he walked out to see what the cause of the outage was, dawning on him that only his residence seemed to be affected. This prompted him to walk right to the back of his house to get the issue fixed, as he looked around suspiciously in the dark.

"Everything seems so creepy out here tonight", Isaac said while looking around and walking to the back of the house.

Suddenly, a twig snapped behind sending fright through the body of Isaac, as he pointed his torch in all directions to see what it was.

"Who's there?", he asked while pointing his torch in all directions. "Anyone there?", he further added, as silence reigned supreme to his questions and curiosity.

After looking around with no answer revealed and received, Isaac hurriedly left his position towards the back of the house, in a bid to quickly fix up his light. While working on his electric box, he felt a close presence upon him, prompting him to stop working while suddenly staring around with his torch in his mouth.

"Who's there? Please stop playing around", he asked again while pointing his torch everywhere to see if he could grab a glimpse of his stalker.

After checking and seeing no one was present, he rushed back to finish his work, as the lights suddenly came on again. Scared to walk around to the front of the house, Isaac went back inside through the backdoor, which he quickly locked due to his level of fright. While turning away from the door to lock up the front entrance, he unknowingly stepped into an animal trap laid right behind him, erupting into an agonizing and deafening scream. He clattered to the ground holding on to his leg, as he kept writhing and grunting loudly in pain. The harder he tried to take off the trap, the more excruciating the pain felt, making it almost impossible for him to save his leg. Writhing and grunting aloud in pain, Isaac decided to drag himself to safety, with the light suddenly going off again. Before his fright could hit the highest level of maturity, Isaac was knocked out cold with a huge club to the head right in the dark.