A Mate Not For Sale

u should have left when I asked

y, Alaila. I just could not watch y

. "Do you think I am happy you came back? Wha

ing alone over there either

just wished you w

in this, together". I stared at her woun

she pulled me back. "

ur hand up?". Alaila pulled my hand down but I raised m

my friend get some treatment? Sh

turing to another man, who moved closer to us. He whispered some wo

. "Where are yo

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re you tak

t your friend t

i w

you think I am

way from his. "I don't

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. "I will let you go with her but if you

won't do an

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. We were taken to a tent. There w

her" he poin

" she poi

smiled at me and I smiled ba

tend to her," the nur

, tapping my foot slightly. I wat

to help her sleep". She gave Alaila some drugs and helped her settle into the bed. I watc

d. "Yes

to Jack. He will let you two rest here. W

I asked when she

d and nod

ou captu

and have been living

you

lips. "Shh". "Enough of the que

d lay down. The nurse left the tent and I

't look deep and serious. It was soon time for us to be taken away. I had tried to find my mom among those that had been captured but she w

family will find u

. "If our family doesn't find us

miss my mom, and my dad.

w they miss you too. I will m

odded

had expected. We got there in less than six hours on foot. As we entered the gate, my jaw dropped. It was a place I had never thought I will be. The houses looked

laila whispered and I

iful houses slowed

yelled at us and

lace. It was a big room

other ma

floor. "What are we g

t for the Al

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know" I w

d keep quiet" he poin

e," a man announc

his eyes landed on me. He stared at me and I