Despised: Soon-To-Be-A-Billionaire's Dark Revenge

Chapter 23 DISCOURAGED

We got to Lagos in the early hours of the morning. The car started after hours of tinkering and fixing and stopped after every few kilometers for the leaking radiator to be filled with water. We used the water meant for the kidnapping operation to cool the car and by the time we got to Berger, the sun had announced it was coming.

Tolu drove and I sat with him in the front, and we had the responsibility of keeping the radiator filled. Maria sat with Eric in the back, and they sat like strangers in a taxi. Eric stared through the window; his face drawn up like the face of a chronic alcoholic. He stopped sobbing about five minutes after he started, but he had kept to himself and had not spoken a word to any of us since then.

Now I looked to the back; Maria had lost the battle to the sleep that had chased after her since the car started moving. She snored quietly, thank God, and her head leaned against the window. I turned my eyes on Tolu; the side of his face was swollen, and cake of bl