[kiasusam]

Chapter 1

As she ran down the dark street, her heart pounded in her ears. Her biggest fear was not death but what he would do to her instead. Olivia ran even faster at the mere thought of what his hands would do to her face, she was a beautiful woman with dark chocolate skin, her hair was brown, long and curly with flakes of gold at the tips.

Her bare feet hit the pavement hard with every step she took, there was no way she would let that monster touch her.

"Come back here you bitch, you will not get away” Bastino yelled behind Olivia.

He was determined to catch her and he would not let anything get in his way. He was a big man, very tall with big hands and very dark skin. No one would refer to him as handsome and he enjoyed inflicting pain on other people. His partner in crime Lucas was breathing heavily behind him, also trying to catch up with Olivia.

'Boss, i need to rest, my chest hurts' Lucas was breathing heavily behind Bastino.

'You will rest when i get my money you fool, now catch up because she is getting away.'

“But boss i am tired”. Lucas was very tall but too fat to be in shape.

“If you don’t want me to kill you this minute you will run faster”! Bastino was screaming and trying even harder to run although his crotch hurt.

Olivia had managed to finally lure Bastino into thinking that she wanted him, so he had let his guard down, untied her as she promised to show him a good time. As soon as she was free, she kneed him so hard, he thought his nuts where going to explode in his body.

Lucas was busy smoking in the balcony at that time and all he heard was a loud scream, a bang and the slam of the door. He had ran quickly into the room only to find his boss groaning and wreathing in pain on the floor. He was still amazed as to how Bastino had managed to still get up and run after Olivia. They had been running after her for the last 500 meters and Bastino probably would have caught her if he wasn’t in such bad shape. The fact that it was a cold winter night helped because not many people would be seen in the streets of Jeppe at 23h15. Everyone was indoors except for your usual homeless guy huddled in front of a tin of fire and was too high to even bother with a young girl being followed by two big men.

Bastino still hurt even now and vowed that when he caught her he would take her roughly and make sure that she never forgot it.

“Bitch you will pay”!

Olivia could hear Bastino behind her, and even though she was a couple of meters away from him, she could clearly hear the rage and anger in his voice. She thought of the beatings, the cigarette burns, being bathed in freezing water in the middle of winter and she ran even faster. She was scared out of her mind at the thought of what he would do to her now. When she had seduced him she been repulsed at the look of lust in his evil eyes and the bulge in front of his jeans. She knew that he was going to rape her if he caught her and she would rather die than go through that.

Her body hurt and was covered in bruises, she was wearing the clothes they had kidnapped her in, a long sleeve blouse, jeans and stilettos. The shoes made it hard to run but she was a woman on a mission. They had asked her countless times where the money was and each time she had said she did not know. Olivia would never betray her mother, all her life she had longed for her affection and last week her mother had asked her to keep a secret for her and Olivia being the obedient child had agreed. Little did she know that it would get her into so much trouble. Right now all she could think about was getting away from her captors.

She ran even faster as she heard footsteps getting closer behind her. She had just passed a street light when she saw a car parked in front of a rundown flat.

Olivia approached the car only to find that there was no one inside and it was locked. She felt dizzy and hurt all over but that was not going to make her stop.

The street was empty as she ran even faster and all she thought was how glad she was that she had finally escaped. She had no idea what day of the month it was or where she was going, just as long as its far away from them. She kept thinking about her mother, will she be fine? is he going to hurt her also? She prayed with all her might that God would protect her. The last thing she felt before she hit the ground was that she was so cold.