Mrs Amira's POV.

I took a cab to my house, i got in and went to change my clothes, I also cooked something to eat I am starving. I will packaged the rest of the food in a food flask and take it to the hospital for my husband, he must be hungry.

I decided to make rice and beans with goat meat. After I was done I ate my share, packaged my husband's share of the food in a food flask and I took the car to the hospital, I just hope Axymah is not badly injured.

I reached the hospital and I called my husband, he told me to go to the third floor the third room on the Left. I went there and I saw my husband sitting outside the room.

"Honey?!" I greeted him with a hug.

"What took you so long?" He asked as I approached him.

"I was making something to eat and I brought some for you too." I told him.

"Thank you, how did you know that I am hungry?! What did you cook?" He asked glancing at the cooler.

"Rice and beans with goat meat." I said with a small smile.

"I will start eating, I am hungry." He said and I gave him the food.

"How is Axymah doing?" I asked and he tensed up.

"What is wrong?" I asked and placed my hand on his shoulder.

"Axymah is in a coma!" He told me and I felt all the air sucked out of me.

"Dear, are you alright?!" My husband asked looking at me in concern.

"I want to see her!" I demanded.

"The doctor told me we can only see her after four hours." He informed me.

"Since when did he tell you this?" I asked wanting to know how much more I'll have to wait.

"Immediately before I called you." He said with a mouthful of food.

"It has been three hours and fifty minutes now." I calculated.

"Just ten minutes more and you get to see her, okay?" He told me gently.

"Okay." I answered with a sigh.

"What exactly did the doctor say?" I asked.

He began to tell me.

Mr Issah's flashback.

After about an hour the light in the ICU turned green and the doctor came out.
"Doctor? Doctor? Please how is she?"

"She is in a critical condition," he said with a frown "right now we do not know when she will wake up."

"What do you mean?"  I asked confused.

"She is in a coma!"

"What!", I exclaimed "why? What happened to her? How did this happen?" I kept blabbering "Is it that bad?" 

"Yes." he simply said "You see sir, it seems she has had a lot of head injuries, from what we noticed apart from the gash caused by this present incident, there was another fresh scar on her head and apart from that, it seems that she had been tortured." The doctor explained to me.

"What do you mean tortured?" 

"She had been whipped severally all over her body, her stomach had cut open because of it and she has deep scars all over her back, that was what caused most of the blood that was on her and also the bottles that were broken on her head it seems they were not ordinary bottles." The doctor said.

"Excuse me?!" 

"The shards of bottles found in her head were like wine bottles and she was hit on the head with great force, I am surprised she is not dead yet, I have never seen this before." The doctor said.

"Can I go in to see her?" 

"No! Not until after four hours." 

"Okay, thank you."

"Excuse me!" With that he left.

End of Mr Issah's POV.

My husband explained to me everything the doctor said.

"Okay." I told him.

I still do not understand what is going on, why did Mr Dario not take her to the hospital but instead fled the scene, and why was she in that condition in the first place. I thought to myself.

"You should finish your food." I told my husband.

"Okay."

I paced around for about five minutes when the doctor walked up to us.

"You can go in to see her but only one at a time and please no noise!"

"Okay doctor." After I said that he left.

"I will go in first." I went in and the condition I saw Axymah in was horrifying.

She has bandages all over her body except from her waist down to her legs, she also has a tube and an oxygen mask stuck to her nose and mouth,her head and neck was heavily bandaged.

I could not even see her face properly,all of those tubes were blocking my view but I could see scratches and bruises on her cheeks. I could not stand it any more so I went out of the room and I broke down.

My husband was not here, where did he go? I decided to just sit there and cry my eyes out.

Soon after my husband came.

"Where were you?" I immediately asked him.

"I went to the restroom." He said nervously.

"What is wrong why are you crying?" He asked concerned.

"She looks horrible, she is in such a horrible shape, I can not even look at her." I said as tears welled up in my eyes.

"Come on let us go home." He said placing his hands on my shoulders.

"No! We can not just leave her." I complained.

"You do not have anything to worry about, the cops are here and so are the nurses and the doctor is also here, she will be fine do not worry, let us go home, you can come to see her tomorrow, but for now you need to rest." He said encouragingly.

"Okay, I will come back tomorrow after work." I told him.

"Sure, let us go."

We went home after that and i immediately went to bed, I did not even know I was exhausted, my husband was right I do need rest.

  ******
       
            Next Day.

Alero's POV.

I am on my way to school now, I really hope Azyma is alright and she is not badly injured, of course she will miss school today and we have gym class today for the first time.
I think I will have a word with Debby gold so she can explain to me what she thinks or what she heard happened, but I do not think I will believe a word she says, but I still want to know the lie she has put in her own head at least I hope it is a lie.

I reached school and I got down from my dad's car and said a goodbye to him.

I left the parking lot not before spotting my dream Car I went close to it, but not that close because I was six feet apart from it.
I miss its feel, if I touch it just this once no one will know, I went close to it without anyone seeing me and without any problem, as I was about to touch it, I was immediately yanked and pulled away from my jewel.

I tried to pull my arm from the death grip it was in but it wouldn't budge, let go off me. Just then the person let go and I saw who it was, Austin.

"Why did you do that?" I asked eyeing him.

"I just saved you from working with the janitor, Mrs Oluchi Nwosu was watching you waiting for you to touch it." He said expecting me to thank him.

"But you went six feet close to it so she will still report you so you did not really save her." Dinela said.

"You should have let me touch it since I will still be working with the janitor for a month for going six feet close to it." I yelled at Austin.

"I am sorry, I did not think of that." He apologized.

"How could you have thought of it when you are completely brainless." Dinela told him.

"But I still give you answers during test." Austin defended.

"Come on let us go or else we will be late for first period." Austin said.

We entered the school and we all went to our lockers, we took out our book for first period.
Myself and Dinela were on our way to first period when Mrs Oluchi Nwosu and Mrs Adenuga the school principal graced us with their presence.

"Good morning ma'am!" Dinela and I greeted in unison.

"Morning how are you both?" Mrs Adenuga asked.

"Fine ma'am."

"What are you waiting for Dinela? Go to class." She said.

Dinela left not before making eye contact with me.

"Mrs Nwosu reported that you went six feet close to her car, despite knowing the consequences." The principal said.

"I am sorry." I said not making eye contact. Nope, I'm not sorry at all, I did nothing wrong.

"From now on you will work with the janitor seven days a week for a month before school starts in the morning and after school hours starting from tomorrow, do you get that?" The principal asked.

"Yes ma'am."

With that she left, and so did Mrs Oluchi Nwosu after given me a sly smirk.

Why did I go close to the car? This is awful!
I sulked to class and took my seat.

"What is wrong?" Dinela asked.

"Everyone seat down quietly." Mrs Aria said.

"I am working with the janitor seven days a week for a month before and after school, starting from tomorrow." I whispered to her.

"We will talk about this later." She whispered back.

So now I will start working without being paid, of all the work in the world a janitor for a month, I'll gave so much humiliation because of this, I am so stupid.
I took out my Government book and tried to pay attention to all what Mrs Aria is saying I can't believe I will start coming super early to school and be going home late.

Mrs Amira's POV.

I reached work and I was very eager for today to be over, where could Mr Dario have gone? I don't really know his friends, there is an hotel not too far from Wuse2 maybe that is where he went, I will ask Mrs mustapha to tell me if anyone goes in or out of Mr Dario's house.

I will also have to tell my team about this, but I am not yet sure what is happening, I will tell them when I know all the truth and everything is clear to me.

First I will have to find Mr Dario.

"Hey girl." Sa'adatu greeted me, she is my best friend and the most diligent worker out of all of us.

"Good morning, how are you?" I greeted her back.

"I am cool and you?" She asked.

"Fine dear."

"What is up?" I asked.

"Well there is a meeting being held on Tuesday."

"Meeting! for what? And where?"

"The meeting is about us travelling outside Nigeria to help girls around the world instead of only Nigeria and stuffs like that, and the meeting will be held at head quarter." She told me.

"Okay, so that means we will leave Abuja on Sunday?" I asked.

"Yup, okay, thanks for letting me know." I thanked her.

"Yeah sure, whatever, anyways get back to work."

I work with a team called "girls voices." It is a Non governmental organization (NGO). Our head quarter is in Lagos. 
Sometimes I forget how stressful this is, I wonder how I will explain to my husband that I am travelling again. Oh God help me.

Today was really fast because in no time today was over, I went home to freshen up, I met my husband at home, I greeted him with so much love and I made lunch for him.

I made chicken pot pie and we chatted for a while.

"Honey, I am going to the hospital to check on Axymah, and you cannot fight me against it."

"Okay dear, just be back soon."

I took the car key and I went outside, I drove out of my compound just to see Mr Eke coming out of Mr Dario's house holding something in a black nylon, if I follow him I might find Mr Dario or get information about his whereabouts. I have two options either to follow Mr Eke or to go see Axymah.

I can always visit Axymah later, I will follow him and I hope he leads me to Mr Dario.

Edited.

Another chapter update guys, I hope you are all enjoying it, the hunt is on for Mr Dario, I wonder where he could have ran to, seat back and enjoy the ride, the rollercoaster of suspense, tension and action, keep reading drop votes and please comment and follow me if you can. Thank you.
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