Must Read: The Cartel (18+)

Episode 7 years ago

Must Read: The Cartel (18+)

Just then she heard some other footsteps approaching as the attention of the first man was moved from her to the door. Two other guys came in while dragging the body of a fourth guy along with them. Dropping him just in front of her at the opposite end of the room, she saw that his hands and legs were bounded and that he had been badly beaten. She saw one of the new guys holding a baseball bat which obviously was used on the guy. Both his eyes were swollen to points of closure, his lips were also swollen and he bleeding from his nose.

Turning off the light again, the three guys then left the room while locking the door in the process. It was now her and her fellow victim. The guy must have been tortured to a state were crying was also painful because all he did was m0an and whimper in low tunes while she wondered who he was, how she was connected to this and where Jane and Audrey were. Why didn’t they just kill him she wondered? No one deserved such torture she told herself, temporarily forgetting her own state of nakednesss and discomfort.

It would take another one hour before she heard footsteps and the sound of the door opening again. The light was turned on again and even before looking towards the people who had just come in, she quickly looked over to where her roommate was to see if he was still alive because she had stopped hearing his whimpering sounds. Fortunately, he was still breathing, but was obviously asleep. But not for long as it later turned out to be. Two of the guys who had just walked in went over to where he was and pulled him up into a sitting position.


The groaned like someone who had broken a rib and couldn’t scream because of the pains.
“Well, well, well. Who do we have here?” She heard a female voice say as the first guy who had given her water led in two other girls. But it was the familiarity of the second female voice which then called her full names and alias that threw her into a state of confusion and shock.
“Abang Vivian Bankor, aka Vibangs, aka Milady” She heard and recognized Jane’s voice.

The person standing before her wasn’t the Jane she had been with earlier in the evening. She now carried a different hairstyle and wore a different outfit. So many thoughts ran through her head that she didn’t think Jane was only putting on a wig and using a nerdy glasses. Now if this wasn’t a dream, the last time she saw Jane was when she was being pulled out of the car. So why was she now standing with her abductors?
“Remove her gag” Jade said, instructing the first guy and sounding like the boss.
“Jane?” She called out weakly as soon as her mouth gag was removed
“You need to see your face right now Vivian” Jane replied calmly with an evil smile
“Jane what’s all this? Where is Audrey?” She demanded
“You know, lying bounded in the trunk of that car that night and hearing you pass instructions to your boys, I wanted to call out your name and ask the same question. Only mine would have been Vivian what’s all this, where is Victoria?” Jade said sounding cold and vengeful.

She was shocked beyond words as she realized Jane was aware she organized her kidnapping. Her head dropped in shame and regret and she began to sob. She sobbed at the realization that she was going to be killed by the same Jane.

There was no two ways about it.
“Look up Vivian. Look at me” Jane bloated out angrily
Her eye were already filled with tears as the events of Jane’s abduction played back to her memory. She looked back up to Jane who then said what was a bit relieving
“Audrey is fine. She’s sleeping, but as it stands now, the three of us have been kidnapped. The only problem is that, at the end of all this, only I and Audrey would be found” She paused before adding, “I’m kind like that, I don’t touch innocent people”
“So this is about Victoria?” Vivian asked her calmly, finding her voice again “And you planned it same way”
“Yes, it is” She answered straightforwardly “I did my best to follow your part. The only difference is I too got to be abducted. And like I said, Audrey is safe, just passed out.
“So why did you have to get him tortured?
What does he have to do with Victoria? Vivian asked making reference to the almost dead guy. Despite her evil, she had always had compassion but pretended to be stone hearted just to instill fear in foes.
“Aww. I can see you guys did a good job guys” Jane began, directing the statement to guys “She can’t even recognize him again”.
With the last statement about her inability to recognize the guy, she feared it was Fury and looked closely only to see it was the only surviving guy from her attack against the Cartel’s people months back. The same guy that was shot in the leg that night and was rushed to Akampka for treatment.

Jane continued “Now I know you must be wondering who this guy here is” She pointed at the tortured guy before continuing “And what he has to do with all this. Well, this is the last of your disciple who coincidentally was the person who shot Victoria that night”
She went on “You see Vivian, it’s my principle that everyone must be held accountable for the actions and inactions”
“Vicky I know would not be happy with you killing in her name Jane” She said calmly
“We can’t know that for sure now, can we?” She retorted
“I’m sorry Jane” She pleaded
“You tried to destroy my world Vivian, but I came back to destroy yours. From your frenemy Kodo, to your beloved and loyal knight, Nameless, and most recently Good Friday’s event, it was all me Vivian. I’ve been the author of your misery” She said, making what was again another shocking revelation
“You’re the Goddaughter? You run the Cartel” She asked fearing her response
Making a gesture of bowing to royalty, Jane replied “Yea, that’s me. Well I don’t exactly run the Cartel, she does” She said pointing at the other girl in the room.

Continuing, she added “I believe you guys have met before. She was in your position the night you killed her friends and robbed us”
And immediately, she remembered the girl and how Fury had pleaded she let her go. She immediately began to regret not making her, her second victim that night.
“You’re pure evil” She replied shocked wondering how she never suspected anything even after seeing her with Colonel and his partner.
“It makes sense now” She said as if she was talking to herself
“What makes sense?” Jane asked. Obviously she was audible enough for all of them to hear.
“The Colonel and his partner. You work for them?” She said as if she was asking a question
“Maybe. Maybe not.” Was Jane’s reply
“Ok, so if you are going to kill me!” She began but was cut short by Jane
“Kill you? No. Not just yet. You and your boyfriend Fury stole from me and I’ve given him until tomorrow to pay me back. You’ll be alive till then for negotiations. Besides, you haven’t experienced what I passed through in the hands of the folks you sold me to. This guys here would put you through. See you in the morning.” With that she began to exit the room but stopped halfway.
“Fury has nothing to do with all these Jane” She Called out
“With Vicky yes, but not with my drugs” She said before turning to face the other two guy “You two, bring him along”
“Say your goodbyes Vivian” She told Vivian who remained silent certain the guy was being taken to where he would be killed. She was suddenly left with the big guy in the room.

He picked the remote control one more time and pressed the same button until her numb hands dropped to her front. All the while she had forgotten she was in her birthday suit. But the thought of what was about to happen made her conscious of the state of her body.
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