Able-Bodied Men
~30 Minutes Ago~
“If…if we get there, you’ll explain everything to us, right?” Elaine asked the man beside her in the car, her eyes fixed on the road. “You’ll tell us the reason you abandoned us all this while.”
Her father, Albeit Roxk only pinched the path between his brows and shook his head in exhaustion.
“Why aren’t you saying anything?”
“What path of take me home do you not understand, Elaine?” He roared. “Although you’re grown, you still think like the little girl I left years ago.”
Elaine felt her heart-shattering at the man’s words. She wondered why he wasn’t showing any form of remorse. Ever since she got him out of Xavier’s basement, he hadn’t apologized like she thought. Shouldn’t he be begging her for forgiveness right now? Yet he was simply ordering her around and showing no sign of remorse.
“What do you mean? I got you out of the basement and you haven’t even said a word about it. I’m simply asking for an explanation.”
“I owe you or no one any explanation.”
She gasped. He did. He did owe them an explanation. “You do. You owe us an explanation and you’re going to tell us once we get home. I’ll tell everyone about the situation.”
“And what will you tell them? That your husband is a part of the mafia and that you found your father in your husband’s basement?”
“I…I,” she couldn’t find the right word to use. “It doesn’t matter. I’ll tell them the truth and you also have to tell us the truth. We’ve been all alone all these years and surviving without you. It has been hard.”
“From all I see, you all don’t look like you’re simply surviving. You’re living your best lives.”
“Th…that’s not true.”
“Enough. Just drive faster. I need to be somewhere safe and rest my head.”
The man let out a sigh, resting his head on the headrest while avoiding looking at Elaine behind the wheel. Her hold on the steering wheel tightened. Somehow, she felt like she’d made the wrong decision to bring her father out of the basement.
She knew him no more. The man sitting beside her wasn’t the father she once knew. He might now be something different and evil. Maybe she should have thought about it before acting.
She jolted in surprise when her father let out a curse. “Fuck, who are those behind us?”
She looked behind the car through the side mirror and truly, there was a black car following after them even when she turned in the right direction. Her heartbeat increased. Perhaps it was Xavier’s men?
“Did your husband send people after us even after you asked him not to?”
“I…I don’t know. Pe…perhaps.”
“Gosh, you still stutter, huh?”
“I don’t. Just when I’m nervous.”
Concluding that it was simply just Xavier’s men, she marched on the accelerator and decided to escape them. She turned to the left and increased the speed of the car, determined to make them lose her.
“Go faster. You can’t let them catch us.”
And faster she went but she wasn’t an expert in driving yet and soon, the car caught up with them, driving in the same lane as her.
Her hands shook, fear filling her every being as the car sped past them only to stop a few inches in front of them. Elaine gasped, knowing there was no other place to pass as the road was tiny.
She matched on the brake just in time before the cars could collide together. Her head bumped into the steering wheel.
“Fuck. You’re a lost cause. You can’t even drive properly.”
Their eyes widened when they saw the occupants of the cars
climb out. Able-bodied men dressed in black. They surrounded the car and knocked on the windows. By now, Elaine was trembling so hard in fear.
Who were they? They didn’t look like Xavier’s men. She never saw them before and goodness, Xavier’s men would never put her in such danger. And so, she refused to open the door or the window.
“Open the door, or else.” She cocked her head to the side to look at the man by her window and the sight of the pistol pointed in her direction almost caused her soul to flee from her body. One push at the trigger and the bullet would be straight in her head. And her baby….
“You’re going to open or I shoot.” The deep voice reverberated in the air.
“Don’t open!” Albeit ordered from beside her. He was trembling just like her.
“They’re going to shoot.”
“Don’t. Open.”
But she heard the man cock his gun and the look on his face communicated to her that he wasn’t joking at all. He meant business, slowly, she pressed a button at the door and the men opened both doors.
“Come out,” the man by her side ordered. Slowly, she unbuckled her seatbelt and climbed out of the car. She watched as the other men hit her father on his knees, bringing him down to the floor before dragging him to the car.
“Who are you? What do you want.” She struggled as the man held both her arms behind her, her eyes filled with tears. What sort of trouble has she landed herself in? From the look of things, she could tell that the men were after her father.
But what do they want from her father? What kind of people does her father now associate with that made them after him? Not only Xavier, but she could tell that these men also wanted Albeit.
“Keep your mouth shut and move.”
The feel of the cold metal at the side of her stomach forced her to move. Her legs moved slowly until they got to the car.
“Climb in.” Just before she could raise her legs to climb into the car as the man ordered, she felt a pounding headache hit her and her head began spinning. Letting go of herself, she let her trembling legs give way and she succumbed to the darkness, falling into the hands of the enemy behind her.
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