Missing

**Valerie's POV**

I was still looking at how beautiful the graphic on the pamphlet was when my eyes caught something.

‘Workers are needed for the construction of the new project.’ CEO Oliver……. I strained my eyes to see the other name written beneath but unfortunately it was too dull for my eyes to see so I just kept it down and dig into my food.

The rest of the night was quiet as Ma’am savanna urged me to go to bed immediately after eating, I was already so tired for the day so I obeyed her instructions immediately.

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“Help us Valerie, Valerie, please.”

“Ahhhh.”

“My child, they killed me.”

“Help…..”

“Ahhhhhh!!!!!”

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“Valerie?”

“Ah!! Leave me alone.”

“Hey, hey, hey. Look at me, calm down, okay? Take a deep breath.”

I looked at my left and saw Ma’am savanna trying to calm me down, Ma’am? I fell into her arms crying.

“Tell me my child what happened?”

“I had a terrible nightmare Ma’am.”

“Care to share?”

“I saw my late family Ma’am savanna, what does it mean?”

“Oh my dear child, it was just a nightmare okay. You know you don’t need to stress your heart right now, especially with your pregnancy, okay?”

“Okay, it’s just a nightmare, it’s just a nightmare.” I kept mumbling.

“Now go back to sleep.”

Ma’am savanna placed me on the bed and covered me up with the duvet before leaving. But my head couldn’t stop thinking about the dream, it wasn’t just my family I saw, I saw a girl about my age, and also Dr. Sam with a slit throat which reminded me of his corpse. What could this mean?

I woke up to the morning rays of the sunlight. I felt lighter than yesterday, but still I couldn’t get the dream off my head. Aside from printing out pamphlets in search of workers for my restaurant I had no other place to be. So I decided to stay home for a while to chill.

It was 12 pm already and I was all dressed up ready to go distribute my pamphlets on the streets, Ma’am savanna decided to help me so we both got dressed to go out.

This would be the first time I’d be coming out to take a look at this small town, Ma’am savanna suggested we go to the square where we could create much awareness for the people.

Soon we were done with sharing so I decide that we go to the main city to also give out to people as a great amount of pamphlets we’re still left, Ma’am savanna hesitated a bit. It took me some minutes to finally convince her to come with me.

Actually, I had some other plans and reasons for visiting the main city, I wanted to visit my parents at the cemetery and also visit the club to dance away my pains. It’s been quite a long time since I did, but if I’d do that, I’d have to wear something that could cover my little baby bump.

We go to the city after some hours on the road, so I took Ma’am savanna to a very strategic spot in the city where we could distribute our fliers.

We were done by 5 pm, so I asked Ma’am savanna to go home first that I was going to catch up with her. She was very reluctant so I had to trick her conniving with the Uber driver to take her home first.

When that was sorted I went into a costume shop got a sexy but a free gown and did my usual make up, I stared at myself in the mirror admiring my beauty. Even with my bump I was still beautiful.

I decided to pay a quick visit to my parents before heading to the club, I checked my time and it was almost time for the cemetery to be closed so I quickly rushed out.

I got down from my cab and walked quietly heading to my parents grave with a black scarf I used in masking my face, because after all I’m still missing.

I was almost close to the gravestone when I sighted a male figure from behind at the exact same spot he was the other day, I quickly brought out my phone and took a picture. A part of me wanted to confront him, but I just decided to let this slide since I was still doing my investigation.

I left immediately heading to the club, I was a bit scared though, what if someone easily recognizes me, because as it stands I don’t want to be recognized as Valenchez or even Valerie here in the city, so I dropped by at a mask shop and got a pretty nice mask to hide my face.

I got to the club and went straight to Mrs. Lucy to take a turn to dance, I went by the name anonymous, so no one would know me, she was confused at first, and asked me to take off my mask.

But I made her an offer, I won’t be collecting any pay or any tip I would be given. And just as I expected her greediness got the best of her and she agreed.

I got on stage and asked the Dj to play my favorite song for me, everywhere was dead silent as they all watched me dance, it was like I was reminding them of Valenchez as they all stood still staring at me with different puzzle looks which was hard to interpret.

While I was dancing I noticed a man taking pictures of me from the crowd, I didn’t think much about it at first until he started approaching me after my performance. I quickly round up and rushed out of the club, I got outside through the back, which led to the main road, but to my surprise, I saw my face on all billboards, posters on every single corner with a caption written boldly.

‘MISSING, IF FOUND BY ANYONE WOULD BE REWARDED 20,000 USD.”

‘What the actual hell?’