"Mrs Martha" Joe said as he knocked on Mrs Martha's door.
" Joe" she quickly opened the door for him to enter.
It's been two days since the bank break in and the fourteen people who were taken hostages. The police and FBI have been working hand in had tirelessly to unravel the people responsible for the break in and kidnap. Meanwhile, families and friends of those taken hostage prayed and wept ceaselessly for their lives ones to return home safe. On the other hand, Kofi and Tam had gotten into a fight as Kofi had spilled parts of the truth,
" The girl...the little girl..." Kofi had stammered
"Yes..." Tam replied eagerly.
" Uhm... she's my....my...daugh-ter" Kofi said as his voice died out.
"WHAT?!" Tam shouted " How...so you've been cheating on me...Kofi, how could you?" Tam said as tears began to well up in her eyes.
" Please...don't let Kennedy hear you, I'm so sorry...I didn't mean to...it was unintentional... I.." Kofi was yet to complete his statement as Tam shut him up by waving her hand infront of his face.
" I don't want to hear anymore. I think I'll need sometime to process this...maybe some days before you spill the next big secret. But this night, I can't listen anymore" Tam cried as she walked back into her bedroom as quickly as she could without even glancing at Kofi. She wished she never asked or probably slept off.
Kofi had promised Tam that no matter what happens he would never dare cheat on her or even keep a secret from her. But now, he broke those promises at the same time. Head betrayed her countless of times but this time around, she couldn't imagine he would betray her this way.
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Aimee had made friends with the other girls as they had woken up the next morning.
The girls were up that morning with nothing to do as the goons were making preparations of taking them to the club unknown to them. Meanwhile, Henry and his team just returned to their tent as they had been working all night,
" Hey Daniel" Henry called out to his best friend who was also taken hostage during the robbery.
Henry and Daniel had been best of friends with the same dreams and of course achieving it together at the same time. Unfortunately, Daniel was diagnosed with thyroid cancer when the two of them applied for a job at the bank. So, Daniel had to treat his illness while Henry got employed. After his treatment, Daniel had reapplied for the job and was employed months before the robbery.
"Henry" Daniel responded as he used his dirty shirt to clean his face.
"Are you okay? You should have allowed me do your portion when I offered. You know you are still vulnerable to some sickness as you just recovered from one" Henry said as he moved over to Daniel.
The male hostages were not tied hands and feet but had only their hands chained so they could carry out their labour.
" I'm fine...I'm not sick anymore...don't worry about me" Daniel assured Henry.
"True but still I wouldn't want anything to happen to my best friend"
"Aww...I'm so touched" Daniel teased "Maybe you should channel such concerns and love to a girlfriend" Daniel added as he laughed silently and Henry joined as well
Daniel had this characteristics of making funny comments in ugly situations. Maybe because he had been through one and believes that being happy is the most essential thing in life.
Back to the female hostages, Aimee had spotted a girl who had been lying down all through the day and had been really quiet. The girls had chatted the whole day and it 4:00pm. They had gotten to know themselves better. Starting from fat blue eyed Nora to short thin athletic Kat, Iris, Lori, Aimee, Rachel and Anna(all in their Early or middle twenties excluding six years old Anna).
" Hey what's your name? Amiee asked the Asian-American girl.
"Eve" she said as laid still and backed Aimee.
"Uhmm...you didn't want to hang out with us to have a chat?" Aimee asked as Eve sat upright and turned to face Aimee. Her eyes were swollen and her face sore from crying.
" I'm sorry but the only thing I can think about is running away from this jungle...are you guys normal? How can you people sit and talk about your life that you are not even sure of going back to it?? You are not even concerned of what they are planning to do to us. You think they'd ask for ransom?? " Eve asked as Aimee remained quiet. " Well, while you girls were chatting, I overheard them saying stuffs about taking us somewhere".
" Eve...we all want to get we need to build a team of ourselves and to do that we must get to know each other okay?" Aimee replied as she smiled and continued, " Are you sure about the transportation?? When are they taking us?? Did you hear where they said they'd be taking us?" Aimee asked
"i don't know but it's getting late already. What if they want to kill us and sell our organs or something worse. We need to escape soon"
" Just calm down Eve, wherever they are taking us to is not the problem now. The problem is why? I thought they wanted ransom or something" Aimee asked rhetorically.
" I don't know...but why would they call for a ransom. If they were smart enough to plan a robbery unannounced, I'm sure they would know their call could be traced since they had pulled off a smart move on the bank. They should know the satellite would be more active and monitored than ever" Eve said.
As Eve said satellite, Aimee remembered her satellite phone,
" I have an idea..but " Aimee paused unusually leaving Eve confused.
" But what Aimee?" Eve said as she lifted up her eyes to see the man standing behind Aimee. Aimee had stopped talking because she saw the man had casted a shadow Infront of her from behind.
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General FictionAimee Marshall's first day at work was not a pleasant one as she thought it would be after finally getting her dream job. She had been through so much rough time and a stranger, Joe came along to help... Her first day at work became a night mare as...
