THE UNION novel Chapter 22

Tolu opens her eyes and finds herself tied down on a tiny bed, she looks around and sees nothing else except a door, Fai'zah gently walks in and stares at Tolu in a very creepy way.

"Where's Papa?" Fai'zah says softly, Tolu doesn't know what to say.

"Where I'm I? What's going on?" Tolu says as her voice breaks down.

"Don't you lie to me lady, don't make me hurt you." Fai'zah says, her eyes were boiling with rage.

"I don't know where he is, I have no idea." Tolu cries out.

"I see you're injured, let's play the mental game." Fai'zah says in a menacing way, she moves closer to Tolu's ear and whispers a incantation in her ear, Tolu suddenly stops moving and is in a trance. Fai'zah walks out of the room and meets up with Oloogun and Odi who had been watching everything that has been going on.

"Did she confess?" Oloogun asked.

"No, she left me with no other option than the parasite spell." Fai'zah says.

"The parasite spell? Really?" Oloogun says, he knew that particular spell was dangerous.

"Yes, the parasite spell will get the truth for us." Fai'zah talks boldly.

"And if she isn't lying?." Oloogun asked.

"Then let's hope she can mentally fight it, the gods are angry with us because of your foolish mistake don't try and tell me what to do when you put us in this mess." Fai'zah says firmly and walks out.

"Ouch." Odi says, squeezes his face and follows Fai'zah.

Tolu finds herself in a room filled with knives.

"Fuck." She says and sighs heavily, a version of herself wearing a police uniform suddenly appears in front of her.

"Tolu, it's nice to see me." The duplicate says in a sarcastic manner.

"Who are you?" Tolu says, she tries to pick up one of the knives laying on the ground but as she touches it all the knives fade away.

"I'm a parasite, I have one job which is to find something important in your memories but you're pretty messed up yourself Tolu." the Parasite says and laughs manically.

They suddenly find themselves in Balogun's house. Tolu walks in after graduating from Police academy, exicted to tell her father the good news.

"Dad!" Tolu says and rushes inside, she drops all her bags as she gets inside. She sees a man wearing a black mask holding her dad neck from behind.

"What is going on dad? Please let him go." Tolu pleads as tears drop from her eyes.

"Get out of here dear." Balogun says as he sweats and get scared.

"Please....... Don't..... Hurt him." Tolu gently moves closer to them, immediately the man brings out a knife and stabs Balogun from behind continuously.

"No!" Tolu yells and runs toward them but the man suddenly vanishes into thin air, everywhere suddenly stops moving.

"Such trauma at a very young age, what happened after that Tolu?" The Parasite says, Tolu and her have both been watching this memory.

"I was there just watching, thinking of what I could do................ The blood kept on gushing out and I called the ambulance sadly our house was quite far from other places, I lost my father." Tolu's voice shakens and drops of tears roll from her eyes.