XAVIER'S PREDICAMENT 2 & SLAVE MARK.
"Scarlett! What a pleasant surprise!" Marianne, the wife of Victor Redwoods welcomed Scarlett into their home with a a warm smile.
"Ah, you are looking as beautiful as ever Marianne. I'm jealous if you vampires, your faces don't age!" Scarlett complimented and sat down while Marianne blushed at her compliment.
"Your husband is not home?" Scarlett asked "No, he was out early to hunt" "I see, what about Margaret and Zoey?" Scarlett asked, looking behind her.
"Zoey, Margaret, won't you come out!?" Scarlett called with a smile.
"Huh? Scarlett, Margaret has gone to harvest some crops, and Zoey is not here, she didn't come here at all" Marianne said with a confused look.
"What? Zoey didn't come here? Are you sure?" Scarlett stood up and headed into the inner rooms while Marianne followed her.
"Zoey wasn't here, Margaret was even talking about how she would be going to your house later this evening " Marianne said as Scarlett looked into the rooms, hoping to find Zoey there.
She soon stopped and looked at Marianne, "Zoey hasn't been home since yesterday, she didn't come home last night so I automatically assumed she spent the night here".
"What!? Zoey didn't sleep at home? Where could she be?" Marianne asked in concern.
"Tch" Scarlett paused as if thinking if something.
She then brought out two flasks from her bag and gave it to Marianne "Say hi to Victor for me".
She quickly left the house with a certain destination in mind.
"Zoey where the hell are you now?"
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Ugh
Xavier groaned as his eyes twitched open.
He jolted back as he saw a smiling figure sitting in front of him.
Yasmine? What is she doing here? Where am I?
"Good morning My love " "Did you enjoy your rest?, it must be so comforting sleeping on the cold hard ground of the torture room eh?
You have the opportunity to sleep on a king's sized bed in my abode but this is your choice huh?" She mocked with a lot of sarcasm in her tone.
"What do you want? Why are you here?" Xavier asked with a straight face, what she said made him remember the situation he was currently in.
"Ah, you fool.
Xavier, do you really think you can chase me away?", she chuckled and held Xavier's chin, looking straight into his eyes, her eyes glowed red as she said emphatically "YOU. ARE. MINE."
Xavier went into a daze for a few seconds but he soon snapped out his and yanked his chin out of her hands, he tried to move but he noticed he was chained down.
Yasmine burst into laughter as she adjusted her shawl, she turned around and walked towards the door and said " You're unwilling to yield huh? I was about to bail you out but since you want to be stubborn, I'll tell Kavi to deal with you for a few days"
She said and opened the door "And while he's at it, I will pay a visit to this Zoey girl" she said and paused to watch Xavier's reaction.
Xavier's dull eyes sprung to life when he heard Zoey's name, he gritted his teeth in anger "Don't do anything to her.... Please" he helplessly said since he couldn't do anything against Yasmine.
Yasmine chuckled bitterly in anger and left.
Who the hell is this Zoey bitch. He looked worried when he was talking about her. Why her? Why not me?.
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"Ahhh!" Zoey jolted up in fear, running towards Penelope, "Hey, you! Wake up, what's this noise, is this place under attack?" Zoey shook the other awake.
If one took a good look at Zoey, they could see that she didn't get a blink of sleep and she was awake all night, probably yelling to be released or trying to find a way to escape.
"Ugh, leave me alone" Penelope woke up and pushed her off. She coughed dryly and said,
"It's just the alarm, you dummy." she explained.
She stood up, "..and I have a name, it's Penelope " she added as she went towards the bars and tried to look out of it, she saw some guards walking around, unlocking the bars.
"They are releasing us? Thank the he-" Zoey stood up and was saying when Penelope cut her off.
"Shut up, it's just bath time and also chore time " Penelope popped Zoey's bubble.
"oh" Zoey said, she sat on the floor with a dreary look on her face.
Penelope chuckled and said "Don't worry, you'll soon get used to it,".
The guard reached their cell and opened up the bars, he was holding a baton as he watched the girls.
Penelope went out while Zoey sat down on the floor, unwilling to move.
"Hey, get up and go out" the man said with her frown, when he saw that Zoey didn't budge, he entered and pulled her out then locked the cell.
He then went to another one.
Zoey saw all of them; the captives.
Forming two queues, one contained only boys while the other contained only girls.
They were queuing in front of two small rooms that looked like a bathroom and they all had towels with them.
Zoey looked around and saw a basket of dirty towels, she frowned and stood up.
"Hey! All of you! Are you going to remain here and let them sell you off as slaves?" she said, trying to make a speech.
The others murmured with weird looks on her faces, they looked at her for a few seconds but soon ignored her.
"Are we going to let them use us as a means of making money, we are only commodities that will be put on sale sooner or later " she said again, this time, walking towards them.
Penelope shook her head and left the queue towards Zoey "Zoey, you fool. There's no hope for us. Do you think we haven't tried? You think your little speech will rile us up and create hope for us?" she voiced out.
" I understand you though, it's just 'cause you're new here. I mean... We were all once in your shoes but there's really no hope for us anymore, not after this" Penelope said, she looked back at the others and then at Zoey.
She pulled down her gown collar and revealed a glaring mark on her neck.
And the others did the same, showing the same mark "It's the slave mark, a permanent one, one on the neck and one on the lower back" Penelope said with a bitter smile as she let go of her collar.
Zoey's eyes widened in disbelief as she took a step back.
The mark was two medium sized half circles that was placed close to each other, forming a circle with a thin gap in the middle.
Two letters, S and V were written in each half.
The mark was very black, it looked like a tattoo, and it was definitely permanent.
Zoey widened her eyes and was about to check her own neck when Penelope quickly ran towards her and pulled her to herself.
She quickly said in a loud tone "Your mark is still healing, don't expose it yet" she said and covered Zoey's neck, not letting the others see anything.
She soon pulled Zoey toward the queue.
"Hey, but there's no mark on my neck" Zoey was saying "Shhhhhhh" Penelope quickly hushed her.
"Don't let anyone know you've not been marked" Penelope whispered.
"Why?" "Because, everyone here has been marked, it's probably a mistake, it might get discovered soon so we should act fast" Penelope said.
Zoey soon caught on to what she was saying "So what are you saying?" Zoey asked with keen ears .
"We'll talk later in our room, let's leave here first. If we can't be saved atleast one of us should be" Penelope said with a smile while Zoey nodded with teary eyes.
She couldn't hold in her emotions at this person who was willing to help someone else when all hopes were already lost for she herself.