Chapter 98: Not Going to give Up

Victoria’s POV

I am scared out of my mind right now. This night was not supposed to end up like this. All my followers are currently lying there on the ground. I could tell that they are dead. I know that multiple shots had rung out earlier, so I knew that they had at least 3 shooters on their side. They are not afraid to end me, and it would be self-defense. The girl we took tonight was clearly from their group. I cannot believe that they were able to set us up like this so quickly. I am shaking right now in fury, and fear. My plan was perfect, and it was not supposed to be like this. We were supposed to win, we deserved to get this done.

I saw Gracie a short time ago, standing just in front of the trees, with Evie. I saw the hate and anger on her face. She knew that I had been planning to kill her. Please, it was not personal, we just needed a case specific, and proper sacrifice. She was an excellent choice. The God’s valued a quality sacrifice, they demanded respect. Especially when called upon to give the kind of blessings that we were asking them for. She should feel honored that I held her in high enough regard to want her for this.

She was going to help so many people, and she didn’t even know it yet. She was going to help every single employee at my husband’s business. Plus all of my followers here who needed their own blessings. They needed to be looking at the bigger picture here. I did it to help us all out, not just to hurt her. She was so focused on what I was going to do to her. What she is failing to realize here, is that she was going to be a savior for so many. Someone who got my devotees prayers answered and realized. It was actually an honor to be able to do that. Not many people fit the bill for making all that happen.

There was no talking my way out of this situation. These people here are being totally unreasonable. I just need to call my husband for help. I am sure I can get a lawyer that could get me out of this. I just hate to have to spend so much money on a strong lawyer when the business is so close to bankruptcy. We really cannot afford to hire one, but in all honesty, we cannot afford the scandal that this would bring to us. It would make national headlines, and that alone would destroy the company. So, I will have to get a great lawyer. With them you are paying for results, and I am desperate. I wanted to live, and I could tell from how that man is talking to me, that they are just toying with me. I have to stay calm. I need to think clearly now. It is not over just yet.

I slipped into my SUV, and reached for my phone in the console. I needed to call James, he will know what to do to help me, and I really needed his need help. I am even willing for the police to show up here, despite how bad it will look for me. I wish I knew how to hot-wire a car. I would be out of here so freaking quick their heads would spin. I will get my plan together, and I will be killing both Evie, and Gracie. They are going to pay for this all falling down around my head. I cannot feel my phone and slide into my vehicle further. I need to make sure that it didn’t fall into the floorboard, or the passenger seat. I cannot remember where I set it down, but I have to find it.

I don’t know if I can’t find it because of me being so scared or not. I am fumbling around with one hand. I put the gun down to reach around with both hands to try to find it. I screamed out again in fury. I cannot believe that this is happening to me. Why me? I am a good person. I donate to help the community. I am a Priestess for Gods sake. This should not be happening to me. This was just not right. I hit the steering wheel with both hands and scream out again. My only hope is that someone around here heard all the gunshots and called to report it to the police. Otherwise, I am dead. I knew from what that man said earlier that he wants revenge for me taking his daughter to kill her. He just doesn’t understand either. They do not understand about this being something that had to be done.

I am going to tell them why. They just don’t understand the larger plan here, that one that I was working so hard to achieve. They don’t realize why I had to do this. Why my devotees had to do this. The only thing that I can do now, to try to save my own life is to get someone out there in the dark to understand the reasons why I did it. I grabbed my gun back up from where it was sitting in the passenger seat. I tried to remember how many shots I had fired tonight. I carry a 9 mm, and my magazine has a 15 round capacity. I know that I shot two rounds at the decoy, and either 3 or 4 at Evie’s father, I honestly cannot remember. I still don’t know if I hit anyone or not.

I do need to know if I had hit any of them. I heard no screams of pain, so I have to assume that I haven’t hit any of them. The thing is, they are on a timeline. I have all the time in the world. I don’t care if I get caught here or not. I want to be saved, I am good with just staying awake and defending myself until the sun comes up in the morning. As long as I can kill the men with the guns, if they come for me, I will make it through this nightmare. I think after that, I can then force Evie to give me my keys back. If not, I can just lock myself in the car for the night. In the morning, if I am not back when he gets up. James will be coming to rescue me. He knows about the property now, and the address of it. He will come and save me.

This makes me much calmer now. He will be up at 6, and that is only about 4 hours from now. I will be safe in my car. Even if they have the keys to it, I will just lock the doors back on them again on them. I just need to do that over and over again. I just need to get through this, until around 7 am, then I know that the calvary is coming. It is just a matter of time before someone shows up here to rescue me. I smiled in happiness. I will try to negotiate with them quickly, but if it doesn’t work out. I will just get back into my SUV to wait. I feel better about knowing that I can be able to get back into my vehicle to stay safe. I have good tint on it, and my sun visor should make the interior impossible to see.

I highly doubt that any of them are brave enough to step up to my vehicle to see where I am inside it. If I have to, I am going to lay down the seats and get in the floorboard of the passenger seat. I want to be able to lock my doors from there, and stay safe. That way if they try to shoot into the car, they should miss me, because I won’t be in the seat. If I have to I will deal with them when they come to see if they have finished me.

“Look, I am sorry. I am sorry to have taken Evie, and then being forced to take Gracie. I don’t harbor any ill will to them. It was for the greater good. They were both excellent girls, and happened to be perfect sacrifices for our needs. I did it to help my congregants. They needed help themselves. Tow of them just wanted to be able to have a baby. Another one needed his son healed. His is really not doing well. Now that his father is dead, you have basically signed his death warrant. So, don’t act like I am the heartless one here. You have just cost that young man his life,” I called out into the darkness.

“Please, none of us would be here if not for you. You sure can spin it to fit what you need it to be. But, Victoria, I looked into your husband’s company today. I know exactly why you did all this. I doubt that any of your so called, wonderful followers were going to get anything that they asked for. I know people like you. You were worried about losing your position in society. Your money, your power, you only care about appearances. You should be thanking us for making sure you don’t bear the humiliation of what is about to come. Your husband will have to sell off his business, and take a huge loss on it. This is going to be the scandal of the century. I can see the headlines now, “Voodoo priestess abducts people to sacrifice” is going to be on the front page of national publications,” I could hear my father call back out to her.

How dare he speak to me like that. I will not allow that to ever go to print. It is slander, and defamation. That had better never be published. I fired off more shots in his direction. I can tell I missed again. I am up to 9 or 10 shots. I cannot allow my temper to flare again. I need to focus on the remaining 5 or 6 bullets. I need to think that I have 5 left, and every shot will count. This guy is pissing me off, and I just want him to know how wrong he is about what he said.

“That is a lie. I care about my followers, and I care about my family. I am doing this to save my husbands business. We have tried other options, my husband has tried everything. The business is sinking, and I was trying to save the jobs of the 200 plus employees there. I wasn’t thinking about myself in this. I was thinking about all of them. You don’t know a thing about me. Stop putting all the blame for this on me. If you hadn’t deliberately given up your child, she would never have never even been on my radar,” I told him.

The growl that rose up all around me, made the hairs on my arms stand up. I was terrified. That did not sound good, or Human. It came from multiple directions. Is that beast back? I need to get into my car, and get set up. I cannot take the risk of that huge wolf coming and killing me. I need to live to fight another day, no matter how badly this is going to look to others. I did what needed to be done to protect my family. People will understand that. Plus, I didn’t kill either of these girls. That cannot be held against me. They will never find that body of the man we sacrificed before. They have nothing but allegations against me, and nothing else. I like my odds against them.