An Evil Woman - Part Five.
If you have come across this story by accident (silly you) you should, to make sense of it all, go back and read the first four chapters. This isn't a stand-alone story.
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Grace once again grabbed my shoulder, which now had become quite tender, she had that ability to grab the same spot every time. It sent a shooting pain to my brain, I was getting pretty tired of all this. The auction I had just witnessed gave me some inner strength. Enough is enough I thought, but I would need more than just being pissed off if I was going to survive this let alone help those kids.
I was going to need to put the grand plan into action, that and have some divine intervention. I wasn't the praying type and had seen too much to actually believe in an all-loving omnipotent prime mover. All I believed in, was myself.
In the split second that this went through my brain Grace had moved me towards the door. I was doing up my shirt when I was confronted by Shona.
"Your mama is going to have your white skinny ass tied to a bed and I is going to ride your face till you make me one happy girl, you get what I mean." I just smiled and raised my eyebrows at her. I saw her flex her arm, so was ready for the slap coming my way. I blocked it with my left arm and punched her with a flat hand and broke her nose. The snap was very audible before her screaming brought in two armed guards, machine pistols raised. They relaxed when they saw Grace had applied another of her neck holds on me, I was totally immobile and on my knees within seconds.
Lai had jumped up and stood over me, she was shouting down at me in Chinese, so whatever she was saying was lost on me. She grabbed my hair and slapped my face. Grace still had me in some fucking ancient Chinese hold that was both excruciatingly painful and had made me completely immobile, I looked up at her, and the fire in my eyes told her the story. She was breathing heavily and had her jaw clenched, then she smiled all of a sudden and patted my cheek, then spoke directly to Grace. It was a calm set of instructions.
"Corrine Myers, when are you going to learn some manners?"
Grace let me up, the guards were dismissed and Shona, was a raging bull. She had got up, blood spilling down her multi-coloured dress, and was glaring at me through teared-soaked eyes. Lai stood there looking at me and then back to Shona.
"Go and get that cleaned up and seen to Shona," she told her directly "and then get the goods sorted out. The sooner we get this trip over and done with the better."
She looked at Grace, then moved her head slightly, nodding in the direction of the door. Lai was still talking as the door was opened and we headed back to the cabin. Or so I thought.
After we had gone a short distance, grace tapped me on the shoulder, the one that didn't hurt, "Turn right at the end of the corridor." They were the first words I had heard her say, and spoken in beautiful clear English.
The stunned look on my face said it all.
"WOW, you are a surprise Gracie, is this the shortcut back to the cabin?" I asked as I turned right along another empty walkway.
"No, but it is a direct route to where you're going." We stopped at a door that said A1174. I opened the door and Grace pushed me in. It was dark, with no windows or portholes. I stumbled around in the dark until Grace put the light on, it was her cabin, simple and plain. She locked the door. And left the key in the lock, I smiled and thought, cocky bitch.
She leant back against the door, her hands behind her. I thought if I could rush her and catch her off guard I might overpower her. Surprise would be the key element.
She looked at me while I was looking at her. "I know what you are thinking Corrine Myers and one day I might give you an opportunity to see if you could take me down. I doubt you would make it past 30 seconds to be truthful."
"Get out of your clothes and I'll give you something else to wear." I was told. As she moved towards a large cupboard in the corner of the room, she opened the door reached in and pulled out a very simple grey sweatsuit pants and top, emblazed with USMC. She threw them at me and I instinctively caught them.
"Tell me something Grace, those girls that weren't sold, what is going to happen to them?" I genuinely wanted to know. It will determine how much time I had.
"What do you think," she replied.