Abducted - S01 E04 (Story Episode)

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Abducted - S01 E04 (Story Episode)

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 4

Have you ever heard of the word courtesy?’ Ibitoru demanded when the man came into the bedroom without so much as a knock on the door. She pulled the wrapper to herself, glaring at him.‘It’s my house so I can do as I d--n well please,’ he told her simply, ‘now you are going to make a call.’‘Finally, for a moment there I thought you were going to keep me here beyond tomorrow. Satisfy my curiosity, how much do you intend to ask for?’‘N 10,000’‘What!’ Her jaw dropped but she quickly shut it back. ‘Are you trying to say that I’m worth only N10,000?’‘Or less,’ he continued unrepentantly, adding before she could flare up. ‘This call is not to your father.’ ‘Then who the hell do you want me to call?’‘Such language is not befitting of a lady.’‘You use it so don’t be quick to judge. Who do you want me to call?’ She asked again eyeing the old nokia phone in his hand, the type you could easily get for less than N4000.

Was the guy so poor that he couldn’t afford a decent phone? She wondered.

His ridiculously tiny house with two tiny bedrooms was a little above that of a man living in abject poverty but that was not to say that somewhere along the line this man had not run short of money.

‘A week ago you had a man detained simply because he offered himself as one of your suitors.’

‘That little nobody! He deserved it.’‘May I remind you that he is a family man with two little children?’‘Like I care. He insulted me by approaching me to begin with, like I have no taste. He came to me reeking of abject poverty expecting me to accept his proposal so he could use my money to better his life.’He glared at her. ‘You had no right to have him detained.

All you had to dowas say no.’‘Just no? You must be joking. A riff-raff, a good for nothing gold digger insults me and you expect me to leave him with a simple no! You are not serious. If he had looked for a classless citizen like himself he wouldn’t be spending his days and night in jail.’ Her snobbish attitude pissed the man off.

‘You are useless, so you ought to be filled with gratitude that he saw something good in you.’‘Don’t you dare insult me!’‘Afraid of the truth? You are a spoilt brat with nothing to recommend you but your beauty and wealth. Your brain wouldn’t take you anywhere outside the business arena. That someone took the risk of coming to you is something to give thanks for knowing that you are not worth it.’She slapped him and he caught her wrist in a vice grip, releasing her when she cried out.‘You are going to call your police friends and tell them to release that man tonight.’‘What is ‘saucer eyes’ to you anyway? You don’t look alike.’‘He doesn’t know who I am.’‘And yet you are getting involved in a matter that is no business of yours.’‘I am making it my business.’‘Are you one of those human rights freaks?’ she asked. ‘Whatever.

Now call him.’He gave her the funny looking phone.‘And if I don’t?’‘You don’t have a choice.’Suddenly that gun was before her once more.‘Weren’t you taught that it is impolite to threaten a woman with a gun? – never mind, a man like you certainly can’t have been in a woman’s womb for 7 or 9 months or you wouldn’t be acting in this manner. You probably dropped out of space. Yes that’s it. You are a martian.’‘Shut up, brat!’‘Stop calling me that!’ she yelled at him.

He leaned forward until his face was inches from hers.‘You know, accidents do happen. I might get so upset that I might reflexively pull the trigger, and Boom!’ She flinched, ‘And you are in trouble. Now look for that number and call.’She glared at him.‘Which one of my lines is in there?’‘MTN,’ he replied.

She thought of lying that she had saved the ASP’s number in her glo line but thought better of it. She scrolled down the names that appeared on the screen of his phone then pressed the call button when she got to the name she was searching for. ‘Tell him that you have decided out of the goodness of your heart to set the guy free,’ her abductor told her.‘ASP – Good evening, this is Miss Davids. I am fine. Is that man still in your custody? He is? Okay, you can release him.’ She said her eyes on the gun before her. ‘But leave him with a warning that next time he comes within a mile of me, you shall rid the world of his sorry self. Do just that, ASP.’‘No funny games,’ her abductor warned in a whisper.

She returned the phone to him, saying ‘This phone is out of date. You should get something better.’ ‘As long as I can call and receive, that’s all that matters.’‘What planet did you come out from Zusky? ’‘The same one you did, Kaput.’‘Touché’Kaput and Zusky were characters from their own cartoon who were always trying to take over planets.‘When do you intend to call my father?’ She enquired.‘When I am in the mood.’‘My vacation begins tomorrow.’‘Of course but you will be spending it here.’ ‘Oh puhleeze! Like I’d want a vacation in your company.’‘You don’t have a choice.

He began to walk away.‘You can’t be serious about keeping me here for the next three weeks, or are you?’‘I am dead serious.’‘You are asking for trouble.

My dad-’‘Would be restless, imagining all the wicked things I am doing to his little girl, wondering if you would be with child by the time I release you.’‘You wouldn’t dare!’‘Oh I would. Make no mistake about that,’ he told her, then added, ‘for all you know, I may be intending to use your child to secure a ransom.’ ‘What are you talking about? I don’t have a…’ she paused,her eyes widening in horror as his words became clear.

‘That should give you something to think about,’ he said, enjoying the shocked look on her face. ‘You should consider yourself fortunate that I have no time for your kind.’‘You think you are too good for me?’ she blurted out affronted.

‘May I remind you that you are a peasant? A mere commoner under a jurisdiction that was once my father’s! If I so much as offer my fingers to you, you should feel highly honoured let alone my hand.’

‘The problem with you, Davids, is that you think you are God’s gift to the male folk but welcome to the real world.

No man is genuinely interested in a spoilt brat who can’t do anything on her own.

The only use you are good for, if I decide to go ahead with it, is providing me with a child that I will use for the bargain.’

He walked out of the room.‘Beast!’ She ground out