Temptation

Episode 13

Clara opened her eyelids, her eyes were trying to adapt to the new environment she’d found herself.

Different sounds of screams and wails hit her ear drum.

she rubbed her eyes with her palm, because her sight was still blurry.

She saw hundreds of people being tied and bundled like a log of wood, men and women not excluding children.

Fear immediately gripped her heart at the thought of being held captive.

She tried sitting upright but she couldn’t, her legs and hands were firmly tied.

She saw a grotesque outline of a man comming towards where she sat.

She was visibly shaking as the huge man approached her.

As She looked through the man’s eyes, she felt a sudden, soul-shattering chill.

She saw something else.

Something not human, staring back at her.

She could still figure the man’s appearance through the thick darkness.

The man’s eye was glowing red with fury.
The man bent down and lift her up with just a hand as though he was carrying a weightless being.

Clara gasped out as the man’s hand got grip of her body.

She was being carried away but couldn’t decipher where she was been carried to.

The man took her to somewhere else.

The old rotound man was what she first saw.

The man dropped her on the ground and went ahead to the old rotound man, he whispered to the old man’s ear.

The old man gestured his hands to bring her.
He brought her to the old man.

The old man looked at her over and over.

He remembered her face but couldn’t place where he’d seen her.

“she’s a new catch”
The other man standing
said, seeing the confusion written on the old man’s face.

“i know”

the old man objected. Removing his gaze from her and looked at him with still eyes.
“you know what you’re supposed to do!”
the old man said and left.

The man bent down and untied the rafia palms used in tying her.

The man helped her to stand on her foot, tapped her to follow him.

The man had used a ring to tap her.
The ring wasn’t just a normal ring, it immediately had effect on her as she obeyed immediately and they both went into a room.
Clara couldn’t think of anything as the ring had made her forget everything.

The man took a cutlass among the numerous cutlass that layed on the floor.

He told clara to lie down on the table which she did.

He brought out the cutlass and he raised it up high, his teeth gritted together.

He was about slaying her .
“stooop!”
a voice shouted.