31 CHAPTER THIRTY ONE VISITATION OF TERROR ON THE EVE OF THE WEDDING

It is another night on the MTC show, and Tolu is here to continue with her story, and that is exactly what she dived into. First she informed the show host and the the teeming viewers at home,

"Tonight, i will tell you that wish you have been longing to hear since i appeared on this show, i will tell you what broke Richie and i apart then"

Hearing this the show host said, "I don't understand what you mean by that, do you mean the two of you separated from each other? If so, how then did you managed to plan that failed wedding?

Tolu answered, "Yes, we did separate from each other, and the wedding date that we fixed then did not hold. But in the part two of my story you will see what brought us together again, and why the wedding again failed to hold"

"That means you fixed wedding dates twice with him right? And on the two occasions you broke apart?" The presenter asked and Tolu replied, "Exactly, if you will listen I will tell you how that had to be" Hearing this the host said, "I am all hears from this minutes, please tell your story without interference because the whole world wants to hear it"

And that is what Tolu did, "After that wedding date was fixed, Richie became slightly cold towards me because his desire to have me before the wedding date hit brick wall; so much that he would not talk to me in peace most of the time.

I reported him to Ayo and he talked to him to no avail, in spite of this the wedding plan was on course because i believed that once we were married and he got what was making him sick he would be himself again, and the day drew in as the clock ticks.

And just like people says that time flies, we woke up and the wedding eve was upon us. However, while we were doing our planing, we did not know that evil was knocking at the door.

In the evening of that wedding eve, while I was in the midst of my friends putting finishing touches to the wedding plan, I received an urgent call from Richie demanding that I must unfailingly see him that night.

I tried to give him excuse that I would not be able to make it, so that he would tell me whatever he wanted on the phone, but he insisted that I must see him. So I took a taxi and went to his place.

On getting there I discovered that he really had nothing important in mind, he just wanted to try for the last time to see if he could nailed me and saved his bruised ego!

This resulted in a big quarrel between us that night, because he tried to force me! While we were at each other's throat, we heard an unexpected knock on the door and he went out to see who was at the door, but I was shocked to see him been pushed back inside by two fierce looking men with pistols in their hands.

At first I thought it was Richie trying to play pranks, even then I was deathly afraid; thinking I must have made mistake getting involved with a man who could go to such extent just for sex

But when the men opened their mouths I discovered that it was not him playing game, it was a man more evil and sinister coming for my life.

One of the men said, "My name is bloody and my friend here is called death, we are sent by our boss to bring you to his palace so that he can give you a gift for your wedding, do you know our boss?"

With trembling I replied and begged, "I don't know your boss, please leave us alone we don't need wedding gift from you!

To this the second man replied, "If you know our boss you will know you greatly deserved a wedding gift from him"

"Who is your boss" I asked and he replied, "The whole world called him Rugged, do you know him?" When I heard that name I felt like ground should opened it's mouth and swallow me, Rugged was the notorious criminal that stole diamonds from Sir Boripe who could have caused Richie's death. I knew instantly that he wanted to give me payback for revealing to the Police that he was the real criminal that day.

We tried to beg but they did not allow us to talk, rather Bloody said, "Listen carefully because your survival depends on you following our instruction perfectly

The boss said we must bring you alive if you cooperate with us, then you will collect your gift and come back to your Mr handsome, but if you refused to cooperate we must kill your husband right in front of you....."

Hearing this, Richie cuts into his words and said, "Please don't kill me she will cooperate" He turned to me and pleaded, "Please cooperate with them don't let them kill me, please"

To this Bloody replied, "Do you hear Mr handsome? He is afraid of death, he said you should cooperate with us to save him as you did the other day, and I know you love him so much that you will do anything to save him.

Now listen to our instruction, we are going down to the street where a car is waiting for us, if you raise any alarm Mr handsome will die instantly and we will still get you to our boss by all means, no police will save you from us. Now the two of you should move, and be calm as if you are escorting your friends out, do you hear me?

I nod my head as a signal that I heard him well and we moved, when we got to their car and they pushed me inside, they collected Richie's mobile phone from him and drove away, leaving him beside the street on that cold night.

Inside the car, I was instantly blindfolded, and we drive for close to three hours before the car stopped and I was pushed out of the car.

The blindfold was removed, and I saw that I was In front of a huge mansion which is surrounded by a thick forest. I was led into one hall shivering with fear of death, I was praying to God that he would delivered me from this lions' den.

The hall I was led into was labelled "Judgement hall" I saw many hardened guys and ladies sitting in the hall, when I was brought in one lady came to meet me, she threw her arm across my shoulder and said, "everybody look at our guest and wife to be is she not cute?" Non of them answered her but their eyes were all on me like ravening lion!

She drew me to the center in front of the hall, looked at something on her wristwatch because the wristwatch bleeped, then she shouted let us all rise up the king is coming. They all stood up chanting something wildly, then I saw him, he was on an electric wheel chair which he wheeled into the hall.

He came to where I was, wheeled himself around me two times, he looked at me all over and I felt undescribable fear crawling through my spines at his presence, his eyes looked like hell hole that no man could see it's bottom!

He stopped, and he signaled for his people to be silent and the hall became so silent that I could hear my own breadths.

Then he spoke to me, "You have grown so much beautiful Tolu, that boy is really taking good care of you" I did not know what to say to his complement, so I kept quiet

Just then the lady who welcomed me and ushered him into the hall said, "Knee down before the king" Before she would finished that order I quickly knelt down because my knees were nearly buckling and finding it difficult to support my weight under this fearful atmospheres!

He looked at me on my knees and said, "Don't knee down yet, follow me I want to show you something" Then he wheeled himself out of that hall into another hall, the lady beside me shoved me up and pushed me after him.

When I entered this other hall, I saw a man on his knees, with his hands bound on his back to an iron, Rugged went straight to his side and used his hand to lift his head, then he asked me if I knew him?

Although I knew the man, but I did not know what could happened if I say I knew him, so I lied that I did not know him.

Rugged said, "Too bad that you do not know him, but look at him, he is a popular Journalist in this land, he poke his nose into my business and I want to show you what I usually do to people who do so.

When he said this he moved away from the Journalist, the lady pushed me after him, and a little bit away from him he stopped, then the lady clapped her hands as a signal for the next thing.

And the next thing was that four men filed in with dangerous guns in their hands. They lined up straight in front of the man, I knew immediately the man was facing a firing squad.

The lady held my head up with a pistol and said, " Open your eyes, you must watch" And I watched as he was executed with wicked bullets! Though I was not the one executed, but I died right there with the man, it was so bad that I wet my pant in terror!

when Rugged saw me wetting the ground he smiled and asked, "Are you afraid that I will kill you?" With this question I knelt down with hot tears and all I could say was, "Please, don't kill me!"

He looked at me and said, "You are a good girl, I will not kill you if you will entertain some important guests that I have in my palace this night, if not you have chosen death"

When he said this, he did not wait for my answer, he wheeled himself out and said to the lady, "Prepare her for papa and his friends"

At his order, the lady shoved me from their execution ground to one big bedroom, there he commanded me to strip naked" At this point in the story, tears poured torrentially from her eyes, the story was so emotionally sapping to even the people that were watching her!

She continued, The lady put a blindfold on my face and said, "If you remove this blindfold and looked at the face of our patrons, you will not leave this place alive, do you hear me?"

I nod my head and she said, "And you better put enthusiasm into this, because if you do not satisfy them you will be given to the boys all night. After saying this to me she pushed me unto the bed that was in the room.

I don't need to tell you the details of what followed, I was raped brutally over and over by three men all through the night"

At this point she could no longer talk, she wept now freely and with pained face, the show host closed the show for the night.