Chapter 4

Jane woke up feeling a bit more relieved, she no longer had pain all over her body except her private area that still stings, she smelled food and her stomach immediately reacted "You must be hungry, I prepared some food here have some" Mrs Whitney spoke as she was helping her dish the food in a plate, Jane sat up and took the food from her and quickly ravished the food she was hungry, she had not eaten for two days or so. Mrs. Whitney watched as the girl in front of her ate all the food on her plate "Do you want some more, there's more" Jane nodded shyly, taking that as a yes Mrs. Whitney put more food in her plate and she ate again, after eating the food Mrs Whitney packed the plate back into the bag "how do you feel now dear, do you need me to call the doctor?" "no," Jane spoke, then she remembered again what had happened to her, and she began to sob again.

"Please don't cry anymore; it's okay, shoo, it's okay, dear," She consoled her.

"Where's Cassie?" Jane finally spoke amidst tears.

"Who?" Mrs. Whitney asked.

"Cassie, my best friend, you didn't see her? She didn't come back?" Jane asked.

"no, I didn't come across any Cassie. I was the one who brought you here with the help of some good folks," Mrs Whitney said.

"Oh no, she must be worried sick about me; I need to go back there and find her; I need to find Cassie," Jane said.

"you will but not like this, you still need to recuperate

"Ma'am you don't get it, I don't even have a place to stay, Cassie and I ran away from the orphanage we planned on finding a job and getting a place, how are we going to survive without each other, I need to find my friend please help me," Jane said crying

"I promise you we will find Cassie okay? But first, you need to be strong; you can move in with me; I stay alone, and then we can find Cassie and bring her to stay with us, alright? Mrs Whitney said.

"Really, we can stay with you?" Jane asked shocked.

"of course you can, now rest I will go call the doctor so he can check up on you," Mrs Whitney said

"Thank you very much for helping me and not leaving me to die out there" She held Mrs. Whitney's hand

"You are welcome my dear," she said almost bursting into tears

It's been two days since Chris returned to the Smith's mansion and he has refused to come out of his room, everyone had already heard what happened between him and Angel and it was the talk of the town, his mother had begged him to come out and even talk to her but Chris didn't budge, everyone was around including his beloved grandmother.

She had heard about what happened to her eldest grandchild, and she had become really worried for him, she had to fly to the capital city just to see how he was doing.

"Honey we need to find a way to bring him out of his room am worried about him," Maria said almost crying

"Don't worry about him he's just sad he will come around" Williams spoke

" I knew that girl was bad business. I warned you not to tie her to my son," She complained.

"And I warned him not to be friends with that boy that family is our enemies "

" Will both of you quit arguing and bring my boy out of there" Grandma Smith spoke.

"Mum we are trying but he's not responding to any of us we can't force him" William spoke

I have a spare key to Chris's room" Grace spoke from behind with her head down, Chriswouldl toast her once she found been sneaking into his room to play video games, she had begged her parents to buy her one but they insisted she a girl and she must only do things girls do, ' how irritating ' she thought

"so why didn't you say so all this while " Maria dragged her and she snapped back to reality

"where's is it?" Maria asked.

"here" Grace placed the key in her mother's hand

Everyone followed Maria as she was almost running towards her son's room including Kyle, though he was younger and didn't know what was going on he still worried for his brother's safety he was his role model after all, Maria twisted the doorknob, and found the most horrible thing she has ever seen blood and a knife stuck in his chest Maria screamed.

"ahhhh," she fell to the floor, and everyone rushed to her, and William froze upon seeing his son lying lifeless. He finally found the courage to speak.

"Grace take your brother and grandma to your room lock the door and don't come out till I say so " William ordered

" Yes, Dad, come on, Grandma and Kyle, let's go to my room. " Grandma didn't bother to protest she had seen the blood but she knew she didn't want to see the source even though she was worried and curious she still could take the blow

"I just pray he's safe" she muttered silently.

Kyle on the other didn't know what was going on he just followed his father's instruction as for Gracie she saw it too and she couldn't keep the tears from rolling down her cheeks even though she tried to hide it, she loved her brother and would die if anything had happened to him