Chapter 11. Where are my money and gun?

This came as a big blow to me “Does it mean that everything at this moment would just go down the drain?. Everything is gone?” I asked myself. Nanny Clara looked at me and noticed that my mood had changed.

She then inquired what happened as she helped me sit on the edge of the bed. “What's wrong miss Aria?" She asked. “Nothing, I am fine" I lied. "You don't seem to be fine, at all, talk to me?" She asked again.

“I just said I am fine," I said raising my voice at her.

“I am so sorry for disturbing you," she said as she went to the bathroom to wash my clothes and undies. I sat on the bed thinking about my money, where could it have gone, who could have taken it, these were the questions running through my mind.

I just couldn't bear the fact, that the money he gave me was all gone.

I knew I had no other option than to ask Nanny Clara. I waited for her, till she was done with the laundry.

When she was done, she came out of the bathroom looking for more clothes. She walked to his wardrobe and opened it, there she saw the clothes she was looking for.

She brought the clothes out and placed them on the floor. One after the order as she went through the clothes. She was removing dollar notes, pistols, cheques, documents and something I perceive to be white power. Weird! But it was the list of my worries. All I was interested in was knowing where my stuff had gone to. I took a bath and when I came out the jacket and its content had vanished.

When she was done, she took the clothes to the bathroom then she returned to keep the items she found in the clothes. While she was busy arranging the items, I wished could he talked to me. In that way, it would have been easier for me to ask her for the money and gun. However, she was too quiet and I bought if she saw them. Who will keep calm after seeing a gun?.

She continued what she saw doing, and my heart was pounding anxiously. Then she turned towards me and asked, “hope nothing is wrong because you don't look fine" she insisted, — just like my mum but this time I was so delighted, that she spoke to me.

“Can I ask you something, please?" I asked her. “Of course, you can Miss. Go on you can," she said as she stopped what she was doing. I took a deep breath “Uhmmm, — I want to ask if you saw bundles of cash in this room?” I asked in a very low and nervous tone.

She smiled, I was wondering why she was smiling. I was looking for my money and here she was, laughing over an important issue. “Did you see any?" I asked again but frowning this time.

“Yes I did and they are all in the big wardrobe," Nanny Clara said.

"Big wardrobe?" I wounded aloud. “Yes, in the big wardrobe" nanny Clara repeated. I looked around and couldn't see the so-called big wardrobe and I looked back to nanny Clara.

When I looked back at her, she had already left for the bathroom. I exhaled deeply. I still had to wait, till she was through.

When she was done, she came out and immediately I called out to her, to ask concerning the money and the big wardrobe. “Where is this big wardrobe, you were talking about?” I asked. Nanny laughed and pointed to the wall.

At that instant I knew the money wasn't in the room anymore, it was in the next room. “Can you help me with it?" I asked. “Yes, I can" she replied as left what she was doing and in a few minutes, she was back with the money.

Immediately I saw her entering the room with the money, my heart was filled with joy. “Is this the money?" she asked. “Yes, it is" I replied with a huge smile on my face.

She walked towards me and dropped it beside me on the bed. “What, would you love to eat” she inquired. “Hmmm, anything will do," I said. “No, my boss has ordered me to treat you nicely, and I am going by his orders. He also commanded that I give you something, that will energize you," nanny Clara said.

At the pronouncement of the word energize, my heartbeat increased. I became worried. Was he going to go through me again? I thought he said he would be gone for three days. These were the thought running through my mind and I suddenly become sick.

Nanny Clara observed that I wasn't paying attention to her again, after her last statement. She came closer to me and snapped her finger at the front of my face. I shuddered! heavily jerking a breath.

“Have you decided what you are going to have for dinner?" Nanny Clara inquired again. “Hmmm, the pasta will do," I said, as I rubbed my hands through her lap, anxiously.

“Okay, I will be right back, if you need anything, just call me. Max and I are at your service," she said and walked towards the door. When she got to the door, she turned back and gave me a warm smile, before leaving.

I sat there, ruminating over what she had just said. Barely, my heart was elevated because at least I had the money with me. I knew, my pains didn't go in vain because the money was going to help my lovely mother.

As I was waiting for dinner in my room, I lay on the bed in a fetal position and my mind drifted to my mother who was sick at home as I just had a bad feeling something bad was happening to her. This thought bothered me and I remembered that I had to leave this place.

As if it wasn't torturing enough, my mind had to drift back to my so-called best friend “Bestie! My nightmare”. How much did they offer her? They surely offered her so much money.

“Damn! Bestie you were my best friend, — my sister” tears helplessly rushed down my cheeks as I busted into tears. I just couldn't phantom what this life had turned to. If my best friend could do that to me, then no one can be trusted.

I was broken because that was someone I had known for years and whom I trusted with my life. I respected and cherished it. Deep within, I could vow that she could even die for me. But there I was, — suffering. My dreams had been crushed and I was living with a heartless man who didn't care about anyone than him. He was a tyrant and a walk, literally!. He was so mean, yeah he was rich but damn the guy was heartless.

As I sat on the bed, I could hear a thick bass voice from the hallway.

At the sound of the voice, I started trembling. I just couldn't bear to see him again. The voice was getting closer to the door. And my heartbeat was pondering, and beads of sweat were already firming on my forehead. Immediately, I lost my cool.

I just didn't have the strength to face a monster like him. Then the voice suddenly stopped when the person approached the door. I saw the door knob turning, my heart almost jumping out of my chest. The environment was tense already, and the doorknob was turned completely. I didn't know where to hide.

Suddenly the door pushed open slowly.

I had started quivering in fear. Sweat got much more on my forehead.

The door opened, revealing.....