Chapter 48
During dinner time, Camilla felt reluctant to go. She just felt like going to bed without dinner. She doesn’t know why but knew she was interested, not having the appetite for anything.
But the senior prison officer for the night shift came to find her when she didn’t see Camilla at the cafeteria where other prisoners were. She checked on her and found her lying on her bed quietly.
“Hey prisoner 105, what are you doing here when others are at the cafeteria?” She asked, showing signs of being interested in her.
Camilla politely explained that she was not feeling like taking anything again for the day and that’s why she didn’t join others at the cafeteria.
“Well, you have to do some chores, whether you feel like it or not. I’ve heard that you haven’t been joining others to keep the alleys clean. I won’t tolerate any form of insubordination.
That reason, while others are going to take their rest, you will work till dawn. All the pedestrians from the entrance of the gate to the entire courtyard, must be sparkling by dawn the next day…” the officer was outlining her duty to her.
Camilla just stared. Was it Rodrigo coming after her harder again? She knew he had paid the officers to ruin her, torture and ensure she suffered.
Has he begun again? There was no restroom in that entire prison that she hadn’t laboured in. With her belly, she puts up with it and does it.
But this fellow, telling her not to sleep while others were doing but stay awake and be cleaning, she won’t do it. Whatever she wants to do, she could go ahead and do it.
” Excuse please, I will not do what you requested me to do” Camilla was straight forward. What is the use of pretending to be fine when she very well knew she wasn’t fine.
She couldn’t understand but knew she needed medical help. Her belly hurts a lot and she feels drained and fatigued more easily than before.
If everything had been how it should have been, she must have visited her doctor and must have been taking a supplement that would enhance her strength and immunity but here she is, hasn’t taken anything since she was pregnant.
” What did you say? I’ve heard of your arrogance and viciousness. How dare you tell me no?” Without waiting another minute, she raised her batten up and started hitting Camilla all over her body.
She was being hard on her and one stroke accidentally landed on her navel, and Camilla screamed. She held her belly and that was the last thing she remembered as she passed out.
The prison warder looked around and nobody was nearby. Every other person had gone to the cafeteria. Quickly from under her uniform she brought out the prepared injection and injected the fainted woman.
She left the remnants of the poison under her pillow and dragged her on the floor to the dark room. She gently shut the door and wiped her hands on her uniform before walking out and went straight to her office.
As she disappeared, someone else appeared and went straight to the dark room. He saw the unconscious woman and lifted her off the floor.
As he slunged her on the shoulders, he didn’t pass through the main entrance where all the officers and security deposit would stay but used the emergency exit and opened the underground tunnel and slid in with the unconscious woman.
By this time, Camilla was bleeding. Spider as the name of her rescuer was known, didn’t mind. He slid away and shut the entrance, leaving it intact like no one passed there.
He was an ex convict and knew the inns and corners of that prison. He was also there and had studied the environment.
He was hurrying, he was soaked with her blood. He wants to present her to the one who hired her but not in a dead state. After walking for about fifteen minutes, he arrived at the other end of the tunnel.
A truck was there who stood over the point of the tunnel, pretending to be faulty. Underneath the truck was an opening that Spider pushed and climbed in.Content (C) Nôv/elDra/ma.Org.
Suddenly, the truck driver started the ignition and the car moved away. A clean job. Spider took his phone and called Justin ” the woman is put but she’s in danger, she might bleed to death if there was no help.
“.. will she be alright?” Eduardo asked the doctor. “She would be if there’s an immediate transfusion of blood” the doctor replied, connecting different pipes through Camilla’s body.
“I will donate my blood” Eduardo offered and the doctor told him to come over. He followed the doctor while Justin stayed behind watching the unconscious woman.
He never knew she was Eduardo’s sister, he never would have allowed undergo so much torture and difficulty.
But whoever injected her with drugs will pay for it dearly. He would act from the shadows and ensure those employed there to work will bring the fellow out.
It wasn’t thirty minutes, Eduardo was back with the back of his palm plastered. The doctor soon came over and the transfusion began.
“She almost lost the pregnancy. If nothing was done, she would have bled to death and her case and that of her baby forgotten” the doctor explained as he watched the blood flowing into her system.
“Your blood matches with her” The doctor commented and without thinking twice Eduardo said ” she’s my sister”. He can’t hide it, she’s his sister and he doesn’t care what the doctor thinks.
The doctor nodded and smiled before walking away. Eduardo stood by her head side and looked at her. He almost lost her. If he had arrived a day later, they never would have met in this life.
“I want to take her away before dawn,” Eduardo told Justin. He couldn’t wait till dawn when the news of her disappearance was discovered.
“Yeah, when she’s stable, I guess you would have to leave,” Justin agreed. He folded his arms across his chest and watched the emotions in Eduardo’s face as he kept looking at his sister.
Emma was happy. At last she had gotten rid of that nuisance. Rodrigo now has no option than to walk the aisle to her the next morning and be joined to her in wedlock.
Even if he decided to look back, he won’t find Camilla. And she would own him to herself forever. She had done what she ought to have done a long time ago to have him.
Her parents were preparing in a grandway. Her wedding dress was the best ever wedding dress anyone had seen.
It’s the latest design and she took pity on whoever would ever want to wear a similar design of the dress on her wedding.
Everything was in order. She beamed with a smile as everyone was addressing her as the future wife of Rodrigo Campbell. She was informed by her mother that Lola said Rodrigo was back.
He was also preparing for the wedding the next day. He was ready to take Emma’s hands as his wife forever.
The Prime minister Gaius Swaras was going to be present and his son Justin Swaras as well. Martin had invited his friends and co-investors and they all promised to honour the invitation.
Larry Campbell and Lola were ready as well. All radio and Television stations have no other news other than Rodrigo and Emma’s wedding.
Magazines were ready, all planning to use them as the front page of their next edition as the newest couple in town. Everyone was happy except the groom.
He was going to regret his actions for the rest of his life. He knew it but he has to be married to Emma. He may choose to divorce her later but first, the ceremony must take place.
He was obsessed with the thoughts of Camilla. No day ever passed that he didn’t think about her. He loves her and he would love her for the rest of his life.
But they can never be together again. Their worlds are now separated. She had crossed the Rubicon when she aborted his unborn child. For that singular reason, he can never forgive her.
Maybe time will heal his wounded heart, he cannot tell. But if it does, he would find a way to get her out and regain her freedom again.
But in the meantime, she should suffer and be tortured. He loves her too much and that is the reason he felt hurt. His love for her was direct in proportion to how hurt he felt.
At midnight, the prison warder ensured everyone was asleep. She decided that was the best time to get that prisoner out of the dark room…