Lethal Attraction

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🌹LETHAL ATTRACTION🌹

🌾CHAPTER 7🌾

........Are your families there too?"

Dorothy paused her lips for moment in frustration. Why is this girl so annoyingly inquisitive? Did she ever know when to shut up her mouth or questions not to ask total strangers? Dorathy was about to reply, when a fat Igbo man with a paunch and his young petite wife entered the bus. Sighing in relief that they would soon be on their way. Dorathy looked outside the door and saw the other bus pulling away.

It was already filled and it was driving slowly out of the park. The driver began to collect fare from passengers, charging those with loads extra money. Soon, the door of the Sharon bus slide close and the driver got into his seat and began to drive out of the park after paying off the touts who helped him in bringing passengers and also arranging the luggage and other loads. As they moved, an older woman from the back seat spoke aloud, asking everyone to be in the mood of prayer, she made a long prayer, specifically asking God to grant Journey mercies.

When she was done, Dorathy quickly slipped on her air pods, she didn't want to talk to Sandra anymore, the lady was too inquisitive for her like. Playing her music loud to block any other sound, Dorathy lifted her head to focus on the road through the window shield since she was sitting in the middle and she saw that only two cars separated the bus she was in from the bus going to Abuja.

Much to let relief, Sandra didn't bother to pester her, she instead focused on a chat in her phone. Thankfully, the long smooth ride to Abuja began after the driver took a turn leading out of Lagos. A few houses into the journey, most passengers were already sleeping and some could wake up at intervals to glance around then return to their sleep.

Most of them woke up anytime busy sellers stormed the car windows, speaking out the names of whatever they were selling. Some passengers patronised this hawkers but Dorathy didn't. She didn't fancy eating stuffs she was not sure of how hygienic they were. Sandra bought some bananas, groundnuts and a big bottle of water.

When she offered some to Dorathy, she politely declined. Several hours more into the journey, the only people awake in the car beside the driver were, Sandra, Dorathy, and a young student at the back sit who also has his earpiece on. Sandra however, kept making or receiving calls telling someone how far she had gotten on the journey and Dorothy simply assumed it was probably someone she was going to visit, probably a boy friend.

As if sensing what Dorathy was thinking, Sandra smiled at her and said. "Men! They can disturb eh when it comes to d**k appointment"

"I know right" Dorathy simply said, totally indifferent.

"Are you also going to see a man in Abuja?"

"No, I'm actually going for my cousins wedding, she's getting married tomorrow"

"Wow, that's great" Sandra said, she was about to say something else again when her phone rang. "Excuse me" she said to Dorathy and received her Call. "Yes?" She glanced outside the window and through the windshield. "We don almost reached there" she said in pigin. "Okay" she ended the call and smiled at Dorathy. "I think we are going to be spending more time together, we could turn out to be best of friends cuz i like you already".

Dorathy didn't get what Sandra meant by that but it had a sinister hint to it that made her uneasy but if only she knew that Sandra actually meant her word or what laid ahead the road in waiting for them.

Ten minutes later, Dorathy and others in the car were suddenly startled by the gun shot from ahead and the driver quickly stepped on the brake, bringing the car to an abrupt stop and making the passengers lurch forward . everyone was awake now and almost speaking at once, wondering what was going on, Dorathy saw four men spring out of the bush from the other side of the road, ambushing the bus that was ahead. They fired more shots in the air to scare everyone in the bus. The people in the car began to exclaim:

"Jesus"

"Oh my God"

"Driver reverse, reserve, reverse!"

But it was too late, they were already surrounded. Dorathy glanced back and noticed that their was a filled bus behind them too and it made it a total of three vehicles.

The armed men were yelling "Oya everybody came down!"

"Make una come down before i go blow una head, come down!"

As the people began to panic, Sandra who looked less disturbed quickly said. "Please, let's just cooperate with them, maybe all they want is money"

She had barely finished her word when a shot was fired into the drivers head through the wound-down window, making the passengers Scream while Dorathy flinched in shock as the drivers blood brain matter splattered across her face and the front of her top.

Another armed man suddenly slide the door open and ordered all of them to come down from the car. As Dorathy and everyone else got down, she noticed that the two other vehicles had been emptied too and the drivers had been shut. All the passengers of the three vehicles were huddled together as they panic, called on the name of Jesus, even more pleaded and wept. Just then, Dorathy noticed that Sandra pulled out a handgun from her handbag and the man who had been bothering the woman and her child at the park was handed a gun too by one of the armed men. It was then she noticed that this were all planned and they were all working together.

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