"I don't know how to answer that question." Ben replied. Mellisa stood akimbo and archedher eye brow.She gave her friend a knowing glance and they both smiled. "Ben! that question should notbe difficult for you to answer. It's either a yes or a no." She said.Ben suddenly closed his eyes. His mind went back to when he was cornered by Scrawny and his gang.This was a similar situation because Mellisa had put him in a situation he had no idea how he was going to come out of it."Ben! answer the question." She said with an air of anger and frustration. In the short time he had known Mellisa, he noticed that she had a short fuse and her reaction during that period was always destructive and she cared less who got hurt.Ben wondered how a nice guy like Oscar is a friend to such a girl. Ben managed to gain a bit of composure.One thing he learnt when he was cornered by Scrawny and his gang was that he was never going to allow anyone dictate what he said or did.He decided, after that day
The words stunned Ben. He did not know how to explain what was happening. The confusion on his face was so palpable that he thought what had happened to him back home was reoccurring here in the states."Ho-w, ho-w, how is that possible that I raped Mellisa? Especially when she was the one that invited me to the room because she said she wanted to talk to me.Besides I was at work." He managed to ask the policeman who read out his rights to him again. Ben looked at Oscar for support but he was as confused as Ben. "There should be a mistake here. I think you have the house." Oscar said."Do you know Miss Mellisa Gibson." The policeman asked, Oscar. "Yes! She is my friend." Oscar replied."So that means that I do not have the wrong house." The policeman said and asked Ben to move out of the house into the police car."Just go with them. I will be right behind you." Oscar said to Ben as he moved in a zombie like manner towards the police car."How is this happening to me? What did I d
"Who the hell are you and what are you doing here?" Shelly asked the tall dark complexioned man who was heavily built.He looked like a body-guard. He had sideburns on his face. There was a scar on the left side of his cheek and on his right shoulder.The scar looked like a scar he got from a brawl. As he held Catherine at gun point, he asked Shelly to sit down.He had an African accent when he spoke. "What do you want?" Shelly asked?" "It is not about me.I am carrying out an order." He said it with no sort of emotion on his face. Shelly did not know how to handle the situation.Catherine looked at Shelly with an expression that said, "I did not know this was serious. You were right." Shelly nodded her head to her, knowingly."Please, I will appreciate it if you can let us leave." Catherine said and Shelly nodded in response to what she said."I have money. I will pay you. Please, just let us leave." Catherine added. The tall dark man just looked at both of them and smiled.The sur
Ben was taken into a car and dropped exactly at the same spot where he was abducted. "It's best you do what you have been told." Drip said to him and kicked him in his mid section while Ben was lying face down on the ground.He heard them giggle as they drove off. He was there for about five minutes before he began to get up himself.He sat down like a monk and looked up at the sun that was smiling down on him. "What a morning." He managed to say with the mouth that was swollen and bloody."Please excuse me." He said to lady that was about to walk past him. The lady stooped and gave him a total look over but she did not walk off fortunately."What is it by the time?" He asked the lady. The lady obliged him by telling him the time. "It's mid-day." She said and walked off but she kept glancing back at him until she was nowhere in sight."What a way to begin the day. It's way past morning time." Ben said and struggled to get up on his feet.He did not know where to go. He contemplated
It's been two days since Ben was abducted. Tomorrow was the beginning of the trial regarding the accusation that was labeled against him.He had moved on from that because he looked energetic and focused. The injury on his nose had healed although there was a scar on the lower part of his lips whixh would heal up would in some few days time.He was at home because his boss, Mr. Andrew gave him two days off. Ben had undergone some growing up in the short time that he had been in the United States.He knew that he still had a long way to go as regards looking for his father but he wanted to build a life for himself and have a foot hold on the country and then he would properly look for his father.He was reading some files given to him by his lawyer and he was going through them when he heard the opening of the door and the sound of it closing almost immediately it was opened.He suddenly got up to his feet as if he was preparing for an intruder who was coming into the house to hurt h
Ben was able to see the on-coming vehicle and escape it by running across the road very fast. The car sped away and did stop.Ben got up and he was breathing very fast. He just went through a death and life situation where he could have died from a careless and reckless driver.The reports came across to him and swamped him like bees on honey.Mics were pointed at him. Cameras focused on him to explain how he escaped the near death experience."Please let him be. He has nothing to say at this time." Mr. Murdoch came out of the court and whisked him away from the army of reporters."Where have you been? I have been waiting for you for about half an hour." Murdoch spoke to him in a less harsh but assertive way."I am sorry." Ben said. Ben was still shaken by what almost happened to him some moments ago. "What has gotten you shaken up?" Murdoch asked him feeling concerned for him.Today was the day that the battle to get out of this quagmire started and he needed Ben to be up to it. He
"Do you know my client?" Murdoch asked him. "I don't know him but I have seen him before." Drip said. "Apologies Mr. Drip. Let me rephrase that question again. Have you seen my client before now?" "Yes! At the hotel where he works." Drip said."Be specific with the hotel please." Murdoch said. "Mandarin Oriental Hotel." Drip said."So what were you doing there at the hotel?" Murdoch asked. "I went there to see Mellisa." Drip said. "So did you happen to see her on that day of the incident?" Murdoch asked."When I called her phone, she sounded like she was in trouble. So I asked her to direct me to where she was." Drip said. "So what happened next when you found her." Murdoch asked."She was disheveled because of what had happened to her." Drip said. Murdoch now brought out the video where Melissa was shown to have been raped by Ben."Your honor, allow me to play the video that shows that my client was raping Meliisa, according to the prosecuting council. This was the evidence provided
Mellisa got up from bed and headed downstairs. She looked at the time and it was 12 midnight.On the staircase she had to stop as though she was trying to recollect where she was going to.Suddenly she continued her descent down stairs until she got down to the sitting room which was expensively an extravagantly furnished.She went to the kitchen to get a glass of water, when she saw someone pass by her in the shadows.She switched on the light as it was the moonlight sweping through the window that she used to find her way around the kitchen.On switching the light, there was no one there. After getting the water and consuming it she put off the light and she was on her way up stairs when she saw a silhouette of a figure blocking her path."Who are you and what do you want?" The figure just stared at her. She halted and did not move.Suddenly, the figure began to move down the stairs towards her. She did not show any fear but when the figure was about four steps away from her she ran