SARAHIAH RECEIVED AN UNKNOWN CALL

Caleb had finished packing the boxes in the car and returned to give her the keys to lock up when her phone rang again which caused her to say, "I thought I had switched it off? So how could it ring?"

"It must have switched on automatically when it fell."

"Yes hello," Sarahiah answered hearing the same voice she gave Caleb the phone.

Sarahiah heard him saying, "Hello sir, I am sorry but you got the wrong person... Whoever you are seeking is not my wife, so please stop calling her."

Sarahiah saw Caleb switch off the phone and then took the last box she had with the few meat stuff from the refrigerator to his van. She waited for him to leave and then lock the gate.

Caleb drove in front so she could follow, whispering as he go, "What the person was saying was madness, how could they have him as a hostage? The person called her father's correct name and even her address, but that is impossible," Caleb contemplated to himself.

He then looked back to see if she was far behind him but there wasn't another vehicle nor was her car. 'Was I so caught up thinking about the crank call that I was I driving so fast?"

Having no choice he stopped and waited for a few minutes for her to catch up, but she didn't come. Ten minutes have gone by when Caleb looked back, but there wasn't a vehicle in sight so he turned around and drove back, but she wasn't anywhere in the roadway or at her home.

"God woman, you seem to be more trouble than I anticipated. I should have just stayed home but then she would have returned to the same address she said she went to earlier then who knows what could have happened?'

Concluding in his mind, 'Well, she must have taken the street before and went in front of me. I don't think she is that stupid to repeat her mistake when I told her it is ten-twenty."

Caleb drove home, but her car wasn't at the front entrance. He opened the gate and look at the mailbox only to see the zero almost looking like a nine, Good Lord  nobody didn't tell her it is what she saw in the mailbox but how could she miss the gate?'

Caleb parked in the garage and then took her few things out of the van. He decided to sit in the gallery and waited. 'I don't have her phone number, and besides I cannot call her, I have her phone. I only hope she is safe.'

The gallery was dark, as Caleb rested his keys on the centre table and double his legs, resting them next to the keys, and closed his eyes and waited.

When the horn popped it was already three o'clock in the morning, he had fallen asleep waiting for her but he didn't want her to return seeing how scared she was when she received the first phone call. He opened the gate and when she drove up he locked it.

He was angry but he held back the questions, only when she stepped out of the car did he realize then that she must have wanted to make sure her father was okay so he asked, "Is he at the hospital?"

"Yes, he is."

Caleb noticed she shoved the boxes aside and only took the box with the contents she emptied from the safe, "Let me take that."

Caleb heard her whisper softly, "Thanks, and the things for the refrigerator need to store away."  Sarahiah watches him hurry with the box to the kitchen and then he returns and takes the box with her documents and jewels and walks up the stairs.

Sarahiah followed him slowly feeling her knees trembling, but as she climbed the stairs her knees became weaker, and then they had no strength to move causing her to sit there on the stairs, holding her knees together to stop the trembling. 

The tears that were threatening to fall since she realized they were being followed trickled down and she could not stop the flow.

With both hands holding down her knees to stop the trembling Sarahiah felt his hand just scooping her up as he walked up the stairs and she didn't have the strength to resist, so she remained still.

Holding her close to his chest but her body was trembling, he suspected something had happened to put fear in her heart, 'but what, she said her father was alright.'