The Cure

Chapter 10

Chapter 10

Tom

“Crazy wh**re,” I said as I bang the table with all my strength. I am so angry it is now painful, knowing very well I cannot harm the person who did this to me in any way.

God, I hate liars, and the person I trusted betrayed me two weeks back.

I liked her, a lot. She is the best in her field but this time she went too far. I had to punish her, I had to put her in those dungeons.

I put her in that dark place because I didn’t want to kill her. I couldn’t bring myself to imagine her as a corpse.

A pale white corpse, with a straight nose, innocent doe-like dark eyes, golden blond curly hair, and a voluptuous body. Too beautiful to die. I cannot lose her but I surely will punish her.

More than anything I cannot kill her even if I wanted to. Not before she tells me where Zeno went to.

I had to find Zeno before his owner finds out I lost his pet. This matter could get me killed.

This angers me more because Zara does not appear as someone who understands the sh*t she put us into.

Currently, I am angry because the chief guard who went to check up on her reported back that she has not eaten anything for the whole time she spent in there.

For three days Zara has not eaten anything, nothing except for the liquid contents.

I hate to admit this but she came out to be stronger than I thought.

I would have admired her more if she was not being rebellious against me. Pity, she is taking a hunger strike against me, I will definitely show her who the boss is.

Upon knowing that Zara went on a hunger strike, I sent one of the security guards to bring her back. Now I am anxiously waiting for them, I have to find a way to make Zara eat, I have to make her go back to her work.

Clients want her back, to the clients I made an excuse that she went to work at C city, in one of my friend’s nightclubs.

Stupid Zara, how am I supposed to bring bones to work?

She needs to work a double shift now, it is a must that she pays off the money I owe the guy. Sure the guy will want his money back now that I don’t have Zeno.

I release a deep sigh, Zara is not aware of the trouble she put me into.

Hearing the sound of the door opening, I raise my head to see the security guards dragging Zara towards me.

Note that they are not dragging her because they are forcing her to come forward. They are dragging her because she is so light that she can’t even carry her own weight.

Stupid woman, she didn’t even consider her daughter before doing this hunger strike nonsense. She makes me feel like I’m abusing her, while I’m only doing this to protect myself. The guy who bought Zeno from me is dangerous.

“Zara, eat all your meals and tell the truth about Zeno’s escape. Just don’t make this any harder than it already is,” I tell her in a threatening manner, pretending to not care about her current state.

She raises a head to look me straight in the eyes, now this gets my hopes up. I look at her, expecting her to give a positive response.

As quickly as that hope comes it vanishes in thin air as her spit land in my face. Out of instinct, I kick her, this woman has got some balls to give me such an attitude.

She acts like I care if she dies, there are other pretty women out there, I am just keeping her to get a clue about Zeno. I called Zeno’s father the day I found out that Zeno left the club. He gave me all their relatives’ addresses, I went to all their houses but not even one of them had a clue of where Zeno might have gone to. They all last saw Zeno three years back. That was before he joined the club.

Zara

I woke up to find two security guards dragging me. Was this the time I die? I feel sorry for my daughter but I know Tom won’t hurt her, he will vent all of his anger on me.

I have been on a hunger strike for the past three days. Not even once had Tom come to question me. Nothing went as I expected which made me more confusing for me. Something was really up with Tom.

“Smack!” echoed the sound of Tom’s hand as it got in contact with my right cheek. Oh, great, now I get my face disfigured before being killed.

“Tom, for the hundredth time, I don’t know how Zeno escaped,” I tell him, struggling to catch maintain my breathing.

I keep telling Tom the same story. The same story that landed me in the dungeons. Truth be told I hate my state right now, but I have no other choice except to keep telling the same lie up until I start to believe it.

I think it is now too late to change the story, telling the truth now will bring me more trouble. Tom may never trust me again. Moreover, I have to consider my Ruby first.

“Zara! Tell me the truth. I saw the CCTV footage,” I freeze on spot upon hearing those words. Tom frowns and tells me that he had an extra camera that was only controlled in his office. The only camera I couldn’t temper with. The only camera I knew nothing about.

He showed me a video of myself tempering with the security cameras, burning the incense that put the security guards to sleep. My face paled I couldn’t even finish watching the video. I knew I was doomed, now I have to give all the right answers. Beads of sweat coated my face, I will soon face my fall.