CHAPTER 31

I followed a bush track till I got to the nearest village, but the people of that village didn't let me in. Not only I but a whole crowd was standing out there with children and elderly woman and men, all begging to be let in but the villagers said they can't else the contact the deadly plague.

I was not infected but I stand a high chance of getting infected if I roll with this pals for too long so I left there as soon as I learnt the condition. It was not easy for me. I was young and alone, I was weak and a girl child as a matter of fact. But I had something that kept me going. A fire that burned deep in my heart and a reason to not give up. It was my determination to get a revenge on the dark witches for what they had done to me, to my home, my parents and sister. I blem them for all my misfortune, I still do and I won't stop until every dark witch is dead.

I finally got to another village after days of walking and sleeping in the bush, I was lost without a direction for days, but I kept following the sun and it brought me to yet another episode of brutality and rape.

After getting to a village, I needed a job and a roof over my head so I walked to the first house but they refused me. I didn't stop so I kept knocking on every door till finally I was accepted by the whore house as a whore. What do I have to loose? Nothing. I have lost my innocence to countless men a countless times. This time it was different, I will be doing it for myself and it will get me a roof over my head and good food to eat, warm bed to sleep on and money to travel away when am ready to leave.

I wish it was how I thought of it that it happened but it was not. The marmaid I was working for promised me a good life so I accepted only to be anchored with yet another slave collar and thrown inside. This is not our deal! I yelled at her but she scoffed at my little tantrums and introduce herself as Madam Chevelle before giving me strict instructions.

You will work for me and I will give you protection in this world where men care less about women and only use them to warm their bed, I will feed, cloth and care for you, if you behave yourself? I might give you a room of your own and perhaps with a few coins for your own personal use. And in return for the protection I give you, I will get all the money you ever work for.

You shall take no lover and bare no children and most of all, you are forbided from talking to other slaves. Don't even think of keeping a penny from me talk less of escaping me. This is my village and I know every nook and crooks of it, if I discover you? She made a sign with her thumb finger as though slashing her neck. I am no fool, I know exactly what that sign means.

I was there my entire teenage life till my youthful days. Working as a sex slave but never getting the rewards of offering myself to men over and over again each day.

After all those years, madam Chevelle never for once gave me a room of my own or any single coin for my hard work. Not that I was expecting it, I was bidding my time and planning an escape.

Madam Chevelle had a merchant deliver her fine wines from Servernile every once in three months and I saw this as my escape route. All I had to do was sneak into the back carriage when the merchant comes and she won't even know I am gone. What I didn't know was that she search the carriage herself before it leaves and that was my bad luck.

I successfully sneak in and hid very well amongst the barrel of wine till the merchant was ready to depart the village. I was so happy inside me. I won't endure yet another man for madam Chevelle I thought.

Just before leaving, made Chevelle flagged down the horse rider. I haven't inspected the carriage yet kind sir, I heard her speaking just like the mistress of slut. You know I can't let one of my rats sneak out and spill my illegal business to the world can I?

WHAT? Did she just referred to us as rats? This creature is the devil's incarnate herself. We are just poor helpless children in her devilish clutch without a way out not rats, I thought fuming inside.

All my anger evaporated the minute I heard the carriage back door opened. I began praying praying to the goddess to protect me and hide me from the preying eyes of this she devil. I wished I didn't have this coller round my neck then I would have given this void creatures a piece of my mind

But just like other days, the goddess seems to be dead or turned her back to the sins of her creation. I was discovered and draged out of the carriage. She beat me mercilessly and drag me back inside the whore house.

I had so much high hopes for you girl, she said. You were one of the girls I considered to be fitted for my Mercy but you just proved me wrong. For this case, I shall deal with you as though an animal for you are not fit to be even a lowly human. We had a deal, if you can still recall. I told you if you tried to escape me that it will be the end of you and you broke that deal today hence, you shall die, a dead fit for a rat just like you