Pyrrhic Vengeance

Chapter 3

Tessy rose frantically from bed and went for the door as she kept hearing her name from a familiar voice that was mixed with terror and trepidation.

Immediately she opened the door, the person rushed into her room.

“Dogs, dogs dogs, close quickly” Linda said, afraid as she dived into the room.

Lucky enough Tessy shut the door hurriedly as the dog kept barking relentlessly on her door post.

Linda kept panting heavily. Tessy looked at her with astonishment.

“What are you doing outside by this time?” Tessy questioned, her tone marked with concern and anxiety.

An aggressive knock sounded at the door like it wanted to pull the door from its hinges.

“Easy!, do you wanna pull down the door?” Tessy replied.

It was the vigilante agency who secured the area at night, they were the men Linda had spotted earlier.

“We want to briefly parse your guest.” One of the men said calmly.

“She's my buddy, she's not a burglar”

“We didn't say she was, we just want to be sure she is not.”

“Please watch your dogs carefully,” Tessy said emphatically.

“It's clear”

She opened the door as her door post was occupied with livery dressed men holding big bludgeons on their hands, Linda stepped out slowly, as the men stared meticulously at her. She appeared in a very lustful manner that could make any man act maliciously. But the men were very professional which made them placid to her obscene looks.

“Are you a s*x worker?” One asked.

“Hey, what's that supposed to mean, I thought you…” Tessy said.

“Just doing my job, woman,” the man interjected.

“Don't worry Tessy I will answer his questions” Linda said coldly to Tessy.

Tessy looked at her as she felt assuaged at her assurance.

“No I'm not”Linda answered the man's question “I just got back from a rendezvous with a friend.”

“And where did it take place?”

“Enough Mr,”Tessy chimed in again angrily “how does the location of her rendezvous got to do with this, I think maybe you have not conversed with a pretty lady for a while and you're capitalizing on this opportunity, huh?”

The other men's eyes lit up at the affront, as the youngest of them attempted to launch an attack on her, but was militated by his colleague.

“It's alright since you feel uncomfortable with the interrogations in your presence. I will take her with me then.” the man said to Tessy.

“Please don't worry sir I will give appropriate answers to your questions right here” Linda said cordially to the man.

Desperate screams of “help help help '' forced the men to dispatch frenziedly to where the noise came from. Abruptly dismissing Linda and Tessy.

Entering Tessy's room, Linda threw herself languorously on the bed, relieved that the ensuing bedlam that made the men dispatch occured.

Silence fell for a few minutes, as Tessy was troubled about her friend's availability at such an hour.

“Hey, what happened to you?” Tessy broke the silence. She could feel Linda's mood was absolutely not a good one, she anticipated something untoward and unpleasant must have happened to her.

“Come on dear, speak to me.” Tessy pressed further.

Linda reposed on the bed, her back faced Tessy.

Tessy sat on the bed and peeked into her face, she saw tears streaming down her eyes. When she looked at her earlier during the interrogation sessions with the vigilante agent she could see how swollen and reddened her eyeballs were.

“You're weeping?” Tessy said, with a lurid expression, her voice sounded so pitiful.

Tessy and Linda had been best of friends right from Linda's rookie days in college, they had met when Linda was unable to find her way to her department, Tessy was in her final year when she befriended Linda and since then she had been like a big sister to her they suddenly developed a chemistry and companionship they both relished in.

“I was r***d” Linda muttered reluctantly.

Tessy was taken aback as her eyes lit up in astonishment. “But how?” she asked. But a side of her found some relief in the tidings, at once she knew that Leonard had finally executed his deed.

“It's Leonard,” Linda sniffed.

“Leonard” Tessy repeated, feigning sympathy, but satisfied to see her aggrieved “O God this guy is a beast, and you're just a few months away from your wedding, what are you going to do now?”

Linda had no response for the timely question.

“I don't just know, Tessy”

“This guy is such a jerk, why would he commit such a hideous act to you he ought to be jailed” she said as she belied the state of her heart

Tessy always had an eye on Leonard but she felt Linda had always preempted him from getting his eyes on her, she had seen it as an opportunity to capitalize on when Linda told her of the pact she had with Leo and also her arranged marriage to the Mayor's son. Her heart was flooded with jealousy over Linda's love life, she's in a relationship with a billionaire and also in line to become married into an affluent family. The former was just to enjoy the thrill of the moment while the latter was meant to last for a lifetime.

“I was so foolish Tessy, we had an agreement and I thought he would live up to it.”

“Agreement!!” Tessy said

Tessy burst into a guffaw at the statement “and you thought he would really acquiesce to it” she said as her laughing tone mellowed.

“You see, Leo is a jerk, a son of a b***h that's what he is, he's just out to use you to gratify his lust and dump you” she ranted in a perfectly pretentious anger.

“I should have known he was out to screw me” Linda said wistfully

“That's all he does Linda, he's just out to dis virgin all the girls before he leaves college” Tessy said as she keeps trying to mirror Linda's grief

“Am sorry not to have told you how he has done this to other girls in the past.”

“Really” Linda said, stunned as her eyes lit up, eager to know more of his soiled history “Who else has he done this to?”

In this aspect she was correct about her narrative of Leonard. He had been known as a badass who wanted to screw all the girls he could lay his hands on. But she still crushed on him nevertheless.

“Don't worry Linda is not something we can talk about now please” she evaded the question. “For now you just need to freshen up so that you can be home first thing when it rises.”

The thoughts of her gloomy experience bamboozled her mind, it kept flashing through her mind as regrets flooded all through her at her poorly considered decisions. She just stood at the bathtub staring into empty space for almost thirty minutes which seemed like a few seconds to her, deep in sorrowful cogitations, Tessy called out to her.

“Linda, are you there?”

“Yeah, I am here , I will soon be done,” Linda retorted. The voice spurred her to get some shower when it escaped her notice that she was to take her bath

Tessy just shook her head, feeling empathetic of her friend's quagmire.

As Linda emerged from the bathroom, Tessy's phone rang; she peeked at it and knew the caller didn't intend to speak to her. She just handed the phone to Linda.

'Who could it be?’

She thought to herself as she received it from Tessy.Tap on a clip to paste it in the text box.