Chapter 175: Chapter 175

Suddenly she wants to puke, as soon as she inhale the aroma of the leader's cigarettes, she felt dizzy and the sudden churning in her tummy she really want to puke, she hit Derrick. I want to throw, I beg you, stop the car.

The leader frown, he hate dealing with pregnant woman, he sighed then signaled the driver to stop the car, then stretch out a paper bag for her to throw on it, she did, is like she is going to empty her intestines.

Sorry! It's pregnancy sickness, like morning sickness. Barbara almost chuckled on the words of Derrick. Who told him, she is pregnant, she is going to have her period soon, so it can't be pregnancy, she is sure that it's as a result of the cigarettes that is the reason she is throwing up.

Where are they taking us? Barbara asked more like a whisper, as Derrick handle her the water while still running his hand on her back.

I really don't know. Barbara frown, as Derrick lead her back to the car, they drove faster than before, Dante is waiting anxiously.

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Are we closed now? He asked.

No! We lost them.

What? He yelled, as he hit the steering.

Relax, I am sure, they will get her.

I hope so, I really hope I am not acting stupid, I should have negotiate with hazel, I am sure, it would had be better.

What are we negotiating? Dante look at him, he doesn't even know what to negotiate, there are so many people involved, it's complicated, he just have to be patient and hope that his wife will come back in good health.

Not to worry, we will just follow all the cars, I am sure the victim will be in one of them.

He closed his eyes and bring out a long sighed, the trace was a dead end because they weren't able to trace them.

Dante and Gordon had to return home, while Barbara was pulled into another car.

I am press, I really need to pee.

Again?

I didn't pee...

The leader was about to pull her roughly Derrick held his hand.

Careful, she is pregnant.

What are you to her? Her lover, oh, that thing called unrequited love. The leader tease Derrick watching him guard her out of the car and back to the car.

Barbara really want to Laughed out her lungs, she can't believe that she acting that she is pregnant and Derrick is buying it, they stop so many times all because of Barbara silly act, like she is going to get suffocate if she don't get what she wants. They finally pulled into a building in an island, not after stopping at two different locations to change their cars, Barbara could say that, her stepmother had planned it all well, she is not going to lose this time.

She had always lose to Barbara but this time, she doesn't want to, she wants to end everything.

Get in! He was about to push her, Derrick held his hand.

Can't you see she is pregnant.

Holy shit! What are you to her? Her lover? You should be careful with the way you act if you don't want me really mad at you. Derrick swallow hard, he is already filled with regrets that he had fallen for Claudia and her two sided face mother trick, he wish he could turned back the hand of time, the deal had already been done, there is no going back all he could do was wait to see the end.

When are we going to...

His words didn't finish because he was pushed into a separate room from Barbara. At this point in time, he is no longer important.

Which means the ball game had changed, now Barbara is to face her fate all alone, no one but her could fight it.

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For a week all Dante could do was try to get the line, so they could trace her but to no avail, Jayden look at his friend and brother who is looking waisted.

Hey, stop that, I am sure we will find her.

Find her, it's more than a week already, where thou heck did that devil of Hazel take her.

You should be strong

Why do I feel it's my fault? Why do I feel that, everything bad is happening to her as early as I got into her life.

You should stop it, father is getting worried and Barbara's father's blood pressure is always increasing it's a good thing Kathleen is around him, I am sure you will find her. He hugged Jayden, his eyes is already heavy with tears he try to hold it but he just can't, so he let it fall, he cry like a child.

Hey, your phone is ringing. Dante grabbed it.

I got to leave, Gordon said they finally got a signal, her ring finally give the signal.

I am coming...

No, it's bad enough that you and Kathleen had a wedding without me present and you haven't been able to go to your honeymoon because Kathleen is too worried to leave without been sure that her best friend is save, she wouldn't had agree to the wedding, she is already pregnant and her father doesn't want her to have her child out of wedlock.

You should not try to persuade me, I am not leaving you, come on let's go. Dante have no choice than to let Jayden go with him.

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For this one week, Derrick was able to protect Barbara as he buy the alibi that she is pregnant, it seems Hazel and Claudia are not ready to show their face yet to Barbara, even though she knows now that her adopted mother and sister are the ones behind it all, she was patiently waiting for them, she is tried but she is holding on, hoping that they will change their mind.

Hey you! The leader came and pull Barbara by the hair, Derrick hurry to pull her hair from his hand.

Stop hurting her, haven't I told you so many times that, she is pregnant, you need more money while not work with her since Hazel and Claudia can't give you the money you need, the cops are looking for them now.

You should shut up, if you don't want your head on the floor and come to think of it the boss wants to see you.

The leader led Barbara from that room, to meet her precious guest that were waiting for her.

Welcome Barbara... That voice, it sound familiar, she closed her eyes, trying to remember where she heard it before, she open her eyes and look at her, she still couldn't.

Who are... She paused as the woman laughed wickedly. It's you, the woman, tormenting the little girl, you are the monster, yes, it's you, all this while. What do you want from me?

Relax, you are always in a hurry, In a hurry to pushed me away and you always make me hurt people...

She look at her blank.

You never visited me in jail, you let me rot there, I felt like a woman without a child, I was waiting for you to...

Why should I come to you, when I have no business with you, I don't fucking Know you.

Calvin! Calvin! Calvin! You did raise a stubborn brat, yet beautiful, I never thought that you will grow up to be this lovely girl, you fly so high and forget about me, I spend twenty-two long years in jail all because of you.

Can you stop speaking in terms I don't understand, I really don't know you, I really don't see the reason you keep showing up in my dreams, you pathetic and a loony, tormenting a baby that you are supposed to be protecting, that isn't my issue, what did you want from me?

Whoa! Right from birth, your grandmother always said you are going to be brave, she said I really can't break you, even with those trauma, that you are going to be gorgeous and smart just like me.

Wait! Barbara eyes didn't leave her, she laughed in one of those her scornful manner

How could a mother forget her suckling? I am your fucking mother, Calvin is your father, that little girl in your dreams, is no other person than you.

Barbara shakes her head, no, she doesn't want to be that little girl, she doesn't want to be the daughter of this evil woman, this monster, her father, she could gladly accept but this woman, never, she is not going to make her come near her, she is not going to love her, never.

She had see that woman pictures so many times, in her father's closet, now she get the picture while her father could say, she is part of her, but she never get to hear the story behind the woman being part of her. She didn't fucking care, how the woman came to be part of her life.