14

The Mistress's Child

"Where are we?" Rachel asked the other girls as the armed men had left their tent.

" I heard one of the guys saying something about Vena...outskirts of Vena" Lori said.

" Vena? " Another girl questioned.

"Yes, Vena. You know it? Lori's asked the girl.

" Yeah. It's my hometown but I haven't been to the outskirts. I heard the outskirts shares borders with Atanza" the brown skinned girl name Lori answered.
She had come to deposit some money in the bank. She was the last person to enter the bank before it got sealed.

"Atanza???" Aimee asked " That's were I used to live years back. Though we left when I was fourteen because it was unsafe according to my Dad." Aimee added.

"She was about asking more questions from Lori when one of the armed men entered again, Rum.

"Its time to sleep...busy day tomorrow" he said and walked out.

The girls thought they wouldn't be able to sleep with the buzzing of different insects and the uncomfortable place they had to sleep on - a piece of worn out mattress. But they were so tired and didn't even know when they slept off.

The thugs had already taken the young men hostages to start working at their illegal factory where they produced different counterfeit of various precious stones ranging from emerald to diamonds. They were to work till dawn as the process was mainly mechanical and required enough man power.

Meanwhile, the other thugs that stayed back in the bank to disguise as witnesses and victims were back to the camp.

"Boss" one of them came into the boss room to report.

" Hope you guys did as you were told?"

"Yes boss,they brought our story as well as we were the only ones who claimed to really know what happened"

" Good. But there's a change of plans. The main boss says we shouldn't request from ransom anymore but we should sell off the females and the guys would work in our factory. Though, we are going to recruit them to our clubs till we have buyers"

" Got it boss...but what about Anna?"

" Oh...Anna...call Mr Kofi...tell him the Grucs have his daughter. He would know what to do."

" Okay boss"

The Grucs was a terrorist group with different cases of child trafficking, drugs trafficking, kidnapping and robbery. They were a combination of various people from different nationalities and continents. They were the ones responsible for the bank burglary as they had intentions of getting hands in a rare gem hidden in the bank's vault and killing Mr Kofi if they had the chance to. Mr Kofi had gotten mixed up with the Grucs activities unknowingly some years ago. He was on a getaway holiday to Vena after him and his wife had their usual quarrels. He went to one of the clubs in the outskirts of Vena not knowing it belonged to the Grucs. That was how he met Stella.

Stella on the other hand had been working as a stripper for years as she had also been kidnapped too. She wanted to escape and she thought they only way they would let her go was if she got pregnant.

Stella started seeing Kofi often and they got really fond of each other till Kofi slept with her and she got pregnant.
She was so happy when she discovered she was pregnant but when the thugs found out, they wanted to kill her as she refused to abort the child. Kofi heard the rumors of her being pregnant and asked her. She admitted it and told Kofi everything about the Grucs and that the only way she could live was if Kofi buys her from them. So Kofi had to buy her but they took the money and still decided to kill Stella. Kofi couldn't let it as he had fallen in love with her. He decided to fly back to his city with Stella.