Die For Love

By Emmanuel Abraham

Karie growing up amid fear and anxiety knew her mother Annie was hiding something. Something from her past that was more of a secret but now devouring.
Soon Karie had to migrate with her mother out of South Africa to America and then to China for fear of the unknown.
A few years later, young Karie's beauty and romantic appearance soon became the center of attraction that looked set to reshape her destiny.
But when the power of love engulfed her in making the most delicate choice of her life, she knew it was far beyond her childhood thoughts.
Die to live or die to survive; both suitors are ready but for one common goal-
Love!
Who will die first?
The one she once loved or the one she now hated with a passion?
As the sound of the bell came for the fight of the century, her heart throbbed for the world to see-
HER INNERMOST FEARS-

• Language: English
• Publisher: XinXii
• Release date: May 13, 2023
• ISBN: 9783989111134

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DIE FOR LOVE

© 2023, Emmanuel Abraham

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Author: EMMANUEL ABRAHAM

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Editing, proofreading: Helen Ehimai

ISBN: 9783989111134

Verlag GD Publishing Ltd. & Co KG, Berlin

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Contents

1.THE HOSTAGE

2.IT IS NOT A NIGHTMARE

3.YOU LOVED ANOTHER MAN

4.KARIE’S DILEMMA

5.JOHN AND KARIE

6.THE LOVE OF MY LIFE

7.A SHADOW OF HIMSELF

8.THE BANK HALL

9.THE ANXIETY

10.WOMEN ARE BEAUTIFUL

11.SHADOWS OF THE PAST

12.A TASTE OF ADULTHOOD

13.STRIPPERS ARE NOT MY THING

14.JOHN IS BACK IN CHINA

15.THE LOVE WITHIN, ACTIVATED

16.BATTLE FOR LOVE

17.KARIE’S TEARS

18.I WILL DIE FOR LOVE

19.FIGHT OF THE CENTURY

1.THE HOSTAGE

Karie who had stood by the window side a few minutes ago to watch Mom Annie drove to the shopping mall to shop for her birthday party knew she was not going to come back home.

The terrible nightmare, she had last night she had not told Mom Annie got her so scared with this frightening instinct that something sinister was going to happen. 

She wondered why Mom Annie did not dress the way she often does whenever she goes shopping and also wondered why her father never said anything about it.

Is she seeing someone else or perhaps wanted to be in a simple outfit that does not look so nice on her but made her look overly sexy in it? 

The memories of her nightmare struck her so hard; she fidgeted and then shuffled back to her chair, and prayed silently in her heart that her nightmare never comes through.

When Annie first heard a strange sound behind her, she thought it was the whispers of echoes from somewhere else, perhaps from the few trees around the shopping mall.

Annie had just finished shopping and was loading her back seat with the things she bought from the shopping mall.

It was going to be Karie’s birthday and a handful of guests are expected to arrive at 3 pm. She glanced at her wristwatch again just to make sure she was working with time.

I0am was still far away; she thought as she loaded the final cooking stuff, she bought from Desandra shopping mall.

The noise behind her came again.

It was the same noise she heard before although a little different, but sounded alike. She pretends not to have heard anything, besides the car park had other cars parked in it and a few persons were already coming in for early morning shopping.

Finally taking a sigh of relief that she had everything she needed for the party by checking and cross-checking the shopping list and recipe list, she withdrew from her back seat.

The moment she was about to shut the door to the back seat so she could open the front door to seat down and then drive home. She heard another sound that was so close, and now, it was not just a sound but a voice, a voice so deep and cracked. As she attempted to slowly turn around to see—

Don’t even think of doing that. An audible voice that seems to screw deep into her eardrums came from behind her. An unexpected tension grips her to a spot and suddenly she felt nervous, so nervous that her hands tremble beside her and her lips shiver. Her heartbeat pounded hard against her chest region in such a way she felt her blood pressure was going to rise.

She felt intimidated but a stroke of fear fired through her spine. Her heart started beating fast once more, so fast that her thought slipped for a moment.

This could only be happening in her dream but now she wasn’t dreaming or was she?

Her thought resurrects as fast as it slipped a few seconds ago.

Who is behind me?

What does he want at this early hour of the morning, and right before a shopping mall?

She felt terrified when the deep voice spoke again. This time, she could tell it was a male voice but what she cannot immediately tell was how old the man was. He could be above forty years she guesses, but why was his voice cracked like that of an old man? The temptation to spin around came again, but she struggled to suppress it. And with every passing minute that tick by her thoughts could not merge on who could be doing this to her.

Could it be a daylight criminal that wants to rob her?

Was he trying to steal from me or an assassin?

Is he an assassin?

Her eyes bulged as her piling thoughts kept on piercing through her bones, hurting her, breaking her, and giving her all the chills that got her throat shivering and her lips trembling.

What do you want—? she managed to voice out but out of shivering lips. She still cannot understand why this should be happening to her on her daughter’s birthday. A day that should be filled with happiness, and now almost been ruined by a stranger right behind her giving her all the commands, she hates to hear.

He never answered a word, but instead stood behind her and watched her being tormented by her lingering fears. He loves to see that happen to her. Just what he wanted and has always wanted, to give the scare of her life.

Her eyes fell on her wristwatch once more, and now it has struck 10:21 pm. She felt so confused. Somebody she has no idea about was right behind her and giving all the instructions. She wanted to ignore him and just open the front seat to drive away when the voice came again as if he was reading her thoughts. This time, his voice sounded dangerously low, and the notes were saddled with hate, malice and—

And something else she can’t even place.

What does he want from me? 

Was he a rapist?

A rapist is around a shopping mall and is trying to do what?

Her thought raged and then suddenly, she felt the coldness of his pistol right behind her spine. And the moment his voice crawled into her eardrums once more, she felt a chill run through her body. Now she knew this was no longer child’s play, but was serious.

I will blow your spine off and you will never walk again the rest of your life and that is if you don’t drop dead here— His words came upon Annie as though he had already released the first bullet, but then he hasn’t and now, she finds it difficult to believe this was happening to her.

Was this happening to me in a shopping mall?

In a public place where people were walking around?

Can‘t they see what this man is doing behind my back and raise an alarm or just call the police or dial 911?

Her thoughts fired.

She felt it was a nightmare and was trying to force herself up from the bed but somehow she felt that would be a funny thing to have thought of, she knew this cannot be a nightmare but wants to look or seems like a daylight robbery.

What does he want?

The $2000 in my purse not yet spent on shopping?

But then she realizes the man was acting as though they were lovers and there was no way people around would even suspect a thing, and now she is held, hostage. 

Somehow, she was beginning to feel the man knows what he was doing, he was not only acting smart but like a lover.

Why was he doing this?

She can‘t help her thoughts that seem to be flying everywhere but to nowhere. She felt nervous and felt her skin pores releasing sweat she seems not to have control of now. But with a shivering mouth, she demanded, What do you want— she was eager to start a conversation, a conversation she believes may give her a lead on what the intention of the man with the cracked voice behind her wanted from her. Her limbs were tired now, and the thought of sitting down came, but she quickly pushed it out for fear of getting on the nerves of the man, who was not only making her nervous but threatening her existence.

Who cares? He didn’t let her finish.

Who the hell are you? Annie yelled, And why are you doing this to me? Annie's voice started climbing. Now a few people around the mall were getting suspicious about what was going on between the two lovers. But the more they look at them, the more difficult it was for them not to believe it was only a minor argument between two lovers who were just close up on each other, one at the front and the other from behind. The pistol was not seen but it was only felt by Annie from behind. She knew if she raises an alarm, the man might pull the trigger and run away and she will suffer for her folly. 

She better shut up and sees the end of this.

Raise your voice one more time, I shoot you behind your back, and you lose. And do you know who is else after you? I am sure you have no idea but listen and listen well; it will be your daughter, Karie. And who follows next, your husband, Donald? I will kill everyone and put flowers on their graves. He laughed quietly, and that got Annie feeling dead already.

Who is this monster?

He seems to know her family and is now on his danger list.

She felt so terrified and felt like collapsing for the tension within her was becoming too much for her to handle.

Annie felt the stomach releasing acids that seem to be spreading all around her body producing so much heat to cut off, her breath and suffocate her instantly.

She knew their conversation must go on; otherwise, she may not have an idea of what the man who seems to know her family so well wanted from her, You know me and my family and you are doing this? What have I done to you? she whispered fighting hard not to raise her voice.

If I kill you now it would be painful to me. I need to wipe everyone out— His voice came dangerously low once more, and there was something in his voice that seems to scare Annie that she cannot figure out. 

Maybe the way he talks with so much passion in it like he wants to make good his threat, or perhaps his cracked voice that seems to have some ingredients of madness in it.

W—what do you mean everyone she interrupted stammering. Her heart pounding fast against her chest, and her breasts kept bouncing too in fear. Ignoring everything happening to her body, she felt, she needed to engage the stranger who seems to know too much about her family.

What is your benefit? Death is once and that’s all and everybody must go through it and that includes you— Annie knew she has to play with his intelligence and see how brilliant he is about the life he is toying with right now.

Yes I know and that is why I want to make it more painful for you, it will get to everyone.He whispered and that pierced deep into her eardrums. Her hands drum nervously beside her for a while as she struggled