Prey of a Predator

Chapter 23

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No, not again. Please god, not again. Avni when looked at me, went running off to somewhere and came with a glass of water and told me to drink it. I drank the whole water and just then maa came running in. Avni asked maa what happened because she looked like as if she saw a ghost. Maa said while shuttering,"Wo......wo angrez humare gaon ke beech me se ek aadmi ko ragadte hue lekar taalaab ke pass gaye hai aur unhone pure gaon ko wahan aane bola hai, kehte hai ki unke maalik ko kuch bahut jaruri bolne hai, poore gaon se."(That.......those Britishers took one man from the centre of our village and dragged him near the lake and they have called whole village there as their head have something important to say to us.)

Why? Why is this happening? Is this my fault also? What does this guy want from me? He wants to have me? He will never, I will make sure of it. But without letting anyone in the village get in danger.

Maa told me to stay in house and they went out.

After 25 minutes

I was in the bedroom thinking about what has he called everyone about. Is he going to hurt them? No, that shall never happen. I need to do something.  And while I was in my thoughts, I didn't notice that someone was knocking on the door. Did maa or Avni left behind something? Maybe I should go check it out.

Thinking this, I went near the door to open it. No one was speaking anything and my heart was pounding from that time so it didn't help that much.

I asked the person who it was but no reply came and god knows what made me open the door. When I just slightly opened, I looked at the person who was knocking and I was in 'seen a ghost' situation because the one standing in front of me was more than a ghost, a 'predator'.

I slammed the door ar at least tried to. He kept his foot to prevent the door from shutting and without thinking anything, I left the door and ran inside so that he wouldn't catch me.

I went inside the backyard and hid myself behind the well as this well was big enough to hide two people behind it. I was innerly shaking and praying to God for all of this to be a nightmare and that he will leave anytime and I won't be in his grasp. But god didn't help me as I could clearly hear his boot's sound coming near me and I kept a hand on my mouth to prevent any sound.

The only that I could hear was his boot's and rest, it was pin drop silence.

I was completely shook when I heard the sound coming near the well and then complete silence. No more moving boots, someone walking, absolutely nothing. I didn't have the courage to look here and there and make any sound and just kept sitting there while shaking. And my heart, my heart was on it's peek in pounding. It felt as if it would just come out of my body and run off to somewhere and only then will I be able to relax.

Strangely no sound came for the next 10 minutes and I thought about whether he is here or not. I removed my hand from my mouth and looked above the walls of the well and saw that there was no one there. Then the sound of the boots, what was that? Where did he go? Didn't he enter the house? There was no sound of the boots also. If he did go somewhere shouldn't his boots would make sound.

I was just in all this thoughts looking at the entrance of the backyard when suddenly,"Looking for me?" And I screamed. When I looked back, he standing there watching me. Was this man here all this time when I looked for him in front. When did he come here? Or morelike how did he come here without making any noise?

But I was quick enough to figure that it's not the time to think about this but rather run away. I looked straight in his eyes and slowly but carefully started retreating. He wasn't moving but just looking at me with a grin as if I am cracking a joke in front of him.

I took two steps back, turned back and ran towards my room only to be lifted in the air, halfway. He lifted me up in air and threw me on his shoulder. I hit him on his back with all of my strength but all went in vain.

I was continuously hitting him while he took me towards a horse and made me sit on it while he sat behind me. He kept one hand on the leash while his other was on my bare waist, tightly grabbing it. I was so in shock that I wasn't able to say anything.

He jerk the leash and the horse started to run fastly. While the horse was running, he kept his head on my shoulder which was also bare because the sleeves of my blouse got distorted by his previous actions. He breathed heavily in my shoulder as if taking in my smell. When I wriggled a little, he tighten his hold on my waist to the point when it started paining a little. As my duppata was on my other shoulder and was in a light knot on my waist, he got full access on my exposed shoulder. He kissed my shoulder and bit it. At first he just bit it lightly but after few moments, he started chewing my skin, continuously biting and licking it.

I swear if I wouldn't have been so much scared of him, I would have been enjoying it. After few moments, he left my skin but kept his lips on it and said,"You smell divine but your taste............your taste is to die for, so sweet. I can't wait to have you all for myself."

Before I could say anything, the horse suddenly came to a halt. I looked in front and saw that we were standing at a quite far distance from the lake of the village. All the villagers looked hella scared for some reason. I adjusted my eyes and looked at the ground where all the others were looking at. And what I saw was enough to make me feel scared as hell. There was a man lying on the ground with blood all over his body as if he was beaten to death.

Before I could understand anything, the devil lord sitting behind me said,"You see the man lying on the ground? He is dead. And you know who killed him? I." And started laughing like a maniac.

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