Maggie clenched her eyes tightly shut, not wanting to see it if they lost control of the car and crashed. They didn’t. She felt the car veer left, t...en right, then left again. Sheer terror seemed to make her retreat deeper into herself. After all the things Burke had told her, all the things They would make her do…she didn’t want to become a slave. She’d do anything, anything at all, to avoid that fate. She opened her eyes just a little, just enough to see that they’d turned onto a tiny dusty. That little Honda motorbike of his sure put on a lot of miles. By the time our second Christmas came, we had been together a year and a half and we both knew we were part of the others family. When the realization of that hit home, we sat down and had a serious discussion. That was the night we seriously promised ourselves exclusively to each other, even though we had been since the day we met. It felt like an engagement for us, and Bill made me so happy when he said after my eighteenth. I try to wear large uniform shirts so the most noticeable places aren’t quite so obvious.”“Mona, believe me, they are obvious, and like I said, you sure look good.”“Josey Ruiz! Are you trying to put the make on the acting sheriff of Collins County?”“No, I was talking to my friend, Mona!”“Josey, how old are you? Lou Ann just turned sixteen and she said she’s in the same class as you.”“I’m fifteen, I won’t be sixteen until next August. I hope Lou Ann had good things to say about me, I may need. Wednesday came and we planned for Thursday, we spoke midnight, i queried her for not being honest and straight forward. Thursday being the D-day came, my mum and aunt travelled for a wedding in Anambra State after seeing them off i came in, had my bath and stepped out for Oceanic bank at Ojota being the branch i opened my account to request for a new ATM but was told there were lots of request pending, i left and went to the other house at Ojota to see my siblings, spent an hour with them, S..