Lost But Satisfied - Episode 25

 

 The Chain was too tight. She wondered who gave him such an idea but Once tied her with a chain that it was hard to float out to the surface of the water. She watched her mother's body float away. She was weak from being r*ped by the two men that she couldn’t plead for her life any more.  
 Once said he wanted to make her life miserable and he had successfully done that, but he wasn't satisfied. He wanted her to pay more for hoping he would die . He wanted her to die fighting the water for her life.
 Once and Stone carried her to the middle of the dam and dropped her into it. She sunk into the water. At first, the ray of the sun was beginning to give her a little light, but her fight with the water began, she couldn’t see the light anymore; in fact, she saw nothing the only thing she saw was the cold hand of death struggling with her precious breath and she held them back within. 
Rachael had trained every one of them to survive underwater for ten minutes. And she had kept doing that training. Although, they lost few assassins to this training she had always come out the best in staying under the water. 
 As she laid under the water, she knew she had up to eight minutes to live. 
 She began to count time for herself as she held on to the breath. As the last breath gushed out of her lungs, she shook terribly

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. She fought hard but couldn’t hold the breath anymore. She was too tired and needed rest. The chain held her to the bottom so the thought of swimming up was impossible. She knew it was over. And decided that giving up was the only option, that releasing her breath, to inhale the water, was the best option.
The chain sank her into the soil and made other insects crawl over her. Her body shook, as it demanded unavailable air. She released the breath and water rushed into her mouth and nose, choking her.
 She yearned for air. She needed air but it wasn't coming. Rather, it kept itself out of her reach. She opened her mouth again, needing air desperately but it was out of her reach; instead, the water entered her mouth and choked her. She couldn’t fight it anymore. She gave up the ghost.
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 Something choked her. Chioma wanted to cough it out and she did. The choking objects were still there in her nose, lungs, and her mouth. She coughed and opened her eyes, gasping for breath. Fresh air was available in abundance. She opened her mouth to help her nose in sulking fresh air. She panted and looked at the face looking at her. It was the face of the guy that crushed over her, Mike. She knew and pretended as if she didn’t always see his eyes roaming her body. And there he was today, smiling. He sighed.
‘Oh…’ He said as he sighed again.
 She sat up, trying to avoid his touch and eyes. She panted.
‘Ehy… Stay calm. You need to relax. Don’t move’. Mike removed the sweatshirt he was putting on.
 She was wet. The only clothing left on her was her pant and her top. Once had removed her bum short when he was forcing his way into her. Water dripped from her head to the grass she was sitting on. Her body itched her as the grass stuck to her body.
‘Once…’ she said as her thought-flow became clear.’ Where’s Once’?
‘He’s still alive for you to kill’, Mike said as he turned and pointed to a direction. Her eyes following his navigation.
 Once and Stone were tied to two trees, and they were both bleeding from their legs. Once was staring at her in disbelief.
‘How-?' She said as she turned to him.
‘I was following you. I followed you to the shed, as I used to. And I saw when he carried you away into the car and I followed you here. I couldn’t get to them until they had gone into the river to dump you. I took away all their weapons and got ready for them to come out of the river. I shot their legs because they are yours to kill’.
 Chioma heart warmed and a big smile crept to her face as she saw Once wincing in pain. She looked at Mike, pulled his head nearer, and kissed him. Her heart warmed. The bushes around fell towards them as though they also wanted a taste of the kiss, as though they would like to know how it felt to receive a kiss from a lady, from Chioma.
‘Thank you... You saved my life. I’ll forever be grateful. In the meantime, do you have anything sharp item in your tool bag?’
 Mike nodded as he produced a pocketknife and gave her. She smiled and held it firmly as she moved to Once. He wouldn’t talk as she came nearer and she was glad he looked horrible and terrified. She licked her lower lips.
 Water dripped from her body on to the floor but wasn't audible. She needed something audible, something ear piercing.
‘You will never get the chance to sleep with any woman, in heaven and in earth’, she said as she began to unzip his trousers. He looked at her quizzically as he breathed hot air on her body. She didn’t mind being near him. She checked his pocket and saw two stick sweet. She unwrapped them.
‘Toast…To death’. She hit the two sweet-sticks against themselves and put one into Once’s mouth. He didn’t reject it as against what she expected.
‘I don’t understand. Does it make you think better?’
He smiled. She smiled too. She pulled out his p*nis and played with it as she opened the blade of the knife.
‘So, tell me how… How did you manage to make Bidemi’s death a suicide?’
He eyed her. She smiled as she noticed he was trying to prove strong. She loved strong people, she always overcame them. Bidemi was a subject anybody could ask. Even Chief, who was a man of focus, couldn’t help being tempted by her and if she had given him the chance, he would have fallen too.
‘A little something for your little brother’, she said as she smiled at Once’s p*nis. He stiffened. She licked her lower lip. And with all her strength, she began to butcher his p*nis.
‘Help…’ He screamed and wriggled but the rope that held him restricted his movement. ‘No…’
 She wasn't bothered by the blood splashing to her face and her hand. She kept tearing the manho*d from its source and when it was remaining a bit of flesh, she left it, dangling from its source.
‘Enjoy the pain’, she said as she turned to look at Mike. Mike stared at her as if she was the ghost he had been trying to hide from.

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. He swallowed hard.
 She smiled at him and blinked. She had rattled his thought and she knew how to rattle him the more, how to make him to always want to please her. She pecked him and left his side to wash her face in the dam.
Stone, on the other hand, kept repeating ‘hun?’ and stared blankly into space. Once was still crying and panting in the background, his noise louder than those of the birds.
‘Gun... Please…’ She said as she returned. Though Chief later made her his P.A, he first made Rachael train her as an assassin and she was ready to use her skills. She aimed at Once’s head.
‘Now, tell me… About Bidemi’.
‘He indeed tried committing suicide. I don’t know why. Ask Rachael…’
‘Shhh’, she said. She loved to kill him once and for all and that she did. She shot Stone also and left him stone dead.