Chapter 48

Bella stood transfixed at a spot, unable to move. She looked around her body and it was totally free but if felt like she was being held by chains. She looked around where she was, it was like a big hall, covered by thick darkness and the only lighting in the room was the one that shone on her, giving off a spot light look. She tried to wiggle her self out that place but she couldn't. What was happening, how did she even get to this place in the first place?. Different thoughts started weighing in her mind. 

She tried to recall what happened lately and how she got to this place in the first place but her mind was blank. What was really happening, she kept on asking herself with her heart in her throat.

 She heard loud footsteps from behind and she froze. She squinted her eyes to see through the darkness but she couldn't, plus the light that shone directly into her eyes, prevented her from seeing a thing in the densely, dark space. The footsteps kept approaching until it stopped at her back. She couldn't turn around, she was really stuck in one position and it made her sick. The footsteps continues and it now seemed like the person was making their way to her front. She waited in anticipation to see who had her trapped to the extent of not moving a finger. 

The person was finally revealed and it was Agatha. Bella looked at her shock. How could it even be. Agatha was here. How was that possible?. Bella stayed in her position, looking at the supposed Agatha who was presumed dead. 

There was a little mischievous smirk planted on her right cheek, whose skin looked more rough and wrinkled compared to the left. Agatha looked really skinny and sick compared to her normal look. Her skin looked too pale, almost as if it had no atom of blood in it. Words could not explain how creepy she looked. 

Agatha stopped smirking and glared at Bella intently.  Bella tried to speak but just as she expected, her tongue was stiff, making her blab out rubbish. Agatha erupted with laughter in a mocking tone, causing Bella to keep quiet in defeat.

"Pathetic" the words came out of Agatha's mouth and Bella confirmed that it was really her. Unbelievable!

"I brought you here to have a little chat with you because, I feel like" she chuckled, walking round Bella.

"I know you have a lot to say and I will give you the satisfaction of hearing what you have to say" she said as she watched Bella struggle to talk and to move also

"But first you have to hear what i have to say" she smirked, lifting up Bella's chin with the tip of her index finger, swaying her head to different position as though she was accessing her

"You haven't changed a bit. You still have that determined and fierce look in your eyes. Hmmm... I would really love to see Javier too. It being long. 11 years right?" she smiled but Bella saw anger flash through her eyes the moment she said "11 years" but she did her best to mask. 

Bella was not decieved one bit by Agatha's soft tone, she knew that Agatha used this tinr8 wherever  she wanted something or when something was up her sleeve. Agatha was very sly, manipulative and very dangerous. She was not to be toiled with because the outcome could be drastic. 

Bella was useless. She couldn't do anything. She couldn't move her limbs so there was no way she would fight if Agatha tried anything funny. Agatha wasn't to be trusted. She might be smilling at someone this minute and the next minute she  would be killing that same person. She was never to be trusted and Bella had that rule at the back of her mind.

"It's funny how you bloody lashedta thought you could get rid of me, so fast and smoothly. No one ever told you? Hyrans are cats with nine lives. We cannot be easily gotten rid off, most especially me, Agatha" she said with mischievous grin on her battered face. She snapped her fingers when she realised how hard Bella was trying to utter a word.

 Immediately, Bella was finally able to move  her tongue

"What do you want?" Bella snapped angrily at Agatha who stood very closed to her

"I know you were aching to say something. Typical Bella" Agatha stated 

"And you didn't answer my question"

"I don't need to"

"How did I get here in the first place, where is this place and why can't I move my body?" Bella asked as confused as she sounded

"Urgggh" Agatha groaned, I shouldn't have set you tongue free in the first place. I had a feeling you will ask too many question"

"What do you want from me?. You witch" Bella yelled, almost screaming

"You see, I'm not a lashedta so that word has no effect on me" Agatha said and Bella blinked rapidly on realization.

"If anything happen to me......"

"Save it" Agatha cut her short

"Nothing is going to happen to you. Yet. I can't harm you or better still kill you because i have not being fully resuscitated but I can't wait for the day i will wrap my hands round your neck, digging my fingernails into your skin as I watch you gasp for breath. Then I would perform the death rituals. The hyran way. That way, you will suffer for eternity and the same fate awaits Javier 

And that Lagatha" she said with a hint of anger in her voice 

"You know you can't really blame us for killing you. You were almost uncontrollable.  We had to do something to stop you and to be honest I don't regret it. 11 years of peace and quietness was all I had always wanted"

"You know it's funny how you seem to find humour in any situation. I love it. I hope you find humour in hell"

"That's where we all are going. Forgotten so soon?" Bella said with a little smirk on her face to show that she was not really intimidated by Agatha

"Well, some lashedtas would be there quite early" Agatha pouted as she stared at Bella

"You can't do anything. I would personally kill you and this time, you will be gone forever" Bella shot

"That would be impossible and you know it"

"I don't mind, die trying"

"I would kill you even before you try. How about that?" Agatha said batting her eyelids. 

"You lashedtas don't realise how much I suffered in hell for 11 years. I will get my revenge and it won't be as funny as it might seem" Agatha added angrily

"11 years would be little, compared to the number of years you will spend in hell when I finally cast you there"

"Always so quick to threaten. Do I look like I can be threatened easily?"

"We'll see about that" Bella smirked 

"I would love to see you cry out in  pain.  The same way I did. Before that, I will kill your  brother in front of you. Then, I will finally take your life" Agatha said.

The space began to fade in Bella's eyes. It looked as if everywhere was rotating and Agatha's voice kept echoing. Bella was still trying to process what was happening when she finally found her self on her bed. In her room. How strange it was because she was sure that her encounter with Agatha wasn't a dream. It felt too real to be just a dream. She sat up from her bed. Her pillow was drenched in sweat and that was an explantion that it could be a dream. She didn't remember being carried out of her room. The whole thing was confusing to her. The logical explanation for what she experienced, was a dream but deep down she knew that it was more than that. If her assumptions where right, that means that Agatha was trying to come back to life and it wasn't a good thing at all. Agatha was even more dangerous than Lagatha and having the two of them alive was going to be terrifying. She needed to stop this but she didn't know how to. She panicked as beads of sweat rolled down her chin from her forehead. It wasn't in her nature to feel scared about anything but this time she was really scared of the disaster that would strike if Agatha comes back to life. She slipped out of her bed and paced a little. Her mind was clouded with different thoughts. She couldn't even think straight. If Agatha comes back to life, then she would take her revenge that means she was good as dead. Bella couldn't let that happen. She would tell Javier first and they would find a way to stop her from coming back to life. 

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Daphne pulled off her high heels as she stormed into her house. She was really exhausted, her hair was messy and the migraine she felt wasn't helping.

 She opened the door to her sitting room and jumped out of fright at a the figure She saw on the couch. She let out a small, weak laugh as she finally made out that it was peter but he really got her scared. The last thing she wanted to come home to, was a man figure sitting on her couch, that was why she flinched like that.

"Oh my gosh, you scared me" she said, holding her chest with her right palm, bending down slightly.

"Did i?. Am so sorry" Peter who was now by her side, said with sympathy

"Its fine anyway. You didn't tell me you were coming" Daphne said flinging her bag to the nearest chair she could find 

"Urm i didn't. I came here, I didn't find you so I took out my spare keys and came in. Good thing I didn't leave them at my house"

"Ok, you didn't go to work today?" Daphne asked making her way to the kitchen 

"Am so famished" she called out from the kitchen 

"I actually did, but i fell a little ill and I didn't want to stay at my house so I decided to come over here"

"Speaking of being ill. Words can't explain how much my head throbs. I am so tired"

"Sorry you have to go through all this stress" Peter said and Daphne  could here the pity in his voice from the kitchen

"What are the police saying about it?" Peter asked, bringing out his laptop from his bag so that he could wrap up a project from the office.

"Those incompetent bastards" she called out with disgust 

"That was harsh" he asked knowing how easily annoyed his girlfriend could get

"That word isn't even enough to express what I feel inwards. That had the audacity to show non chalant attitude towards a life and death situation?"

"That's how that are. You don't need to be so worked up about it"

"Don't start" Daphne said, coming out from the kitchen, glaring at him

"Fine" he said, raising in hands in defeat and shrugging in the process 

"Better" she said and returned back to the kitchen

"My ever so bossy girlfriend" Peter teased and Daphne chuckled

"Am just so tensed, you can't really blame me" Daphne said in a pouting tone

"I know honey" Peter called out from the sitting room

"I just pray they find her soon" Daphne said in a really worried tone

"What is her boyfriend saying about it?"

"Javier isn't her boyfriend" Daphne called out

"He is not, I thought she was staying at his house at a time?"

"She was but you know, this whole thing is confusing and I can't even trust that guy"

"Who, Javier?"

"I feel like he is hiding a lot of things and I have a feeling that he knows what really happened to Hattie because he keeps on saying I should not get the police involved"

"You think he might have her?" 

"No I think he knows something that we don't know and he is very good at hiding it"

"Hmmmm, strange" Peter said