Chapter 159: I Won’t Let You Go, Even as a Ghost
Chapter 159: Chapter 159: I Won’t Let You Go, Even as a Ghost
Auntie Mayer sat with Bobby in the main room, cracking sunflower seeds as she instructed him on how to have sex.
Although Bobby was almost thirty, he was slow-witted, ugly, and had a limp. With his family being so poor, no woman was willing to marry him. He was, to put it mildly, completely clueless about sex.
"Did you remember everything I told you?" Auntie Mayer asked uneasily.
Bobby nodded. "I did."
"Good. The girl should be ready by now. Get in there," Auntie Mayer urged excitedly.
But when Bobby went into the room, he saw no one. He cried out, "Ma! The girl’s gone!"
"What?" Auntie Mayer jumped, startled. She dropped the seeds in her hand and rushed in. "How could she be gone?"
"I don’t know!" Bobby said, his face etched with worry. "Did she escape?"
"Impossible!" Auntie Mayer declared. "The window in this room is too high and too small. How could she have gotten out?"
After a quick search, she found Evelyn Hollis hiding under the bed. "You wretched girl, get out here!"
Evelyn Hollis cowered under the bed, her hoarse voice choked with sobs. "Ma’am, I’m begging you, please let me go. I’ll give you any amount of money you want..."
"We don’t want money!" Auntie Mayer snarled. "Now get out here and give Bobby a son!"
"No!" Evelyn Hollis begged. "Please, I’m begging you..."
A furious look on her face, Auntie Mayer rolled up her sleeves. "Don’t think I can’t get you just because you’re hiding under there!"
She got down on the ground, reached under the bed, and dragged Evelyn Hollis out. "Get yourself cleaned up and sleep with my son!" she snarled.
Evelyn Hollis knelt on the floor in despair, completely motionless.
"Didn’t you hear me?" Auntie Mayer gave her a kick.
Bobby could hardly wait. He rubbed his hands together and said, "Ma, it’s fine if she doesn’t wash up!"
"You silly boy, you don’t know how to appreciate it!" There was nothing Auntie Mayer could do with him. "Fine, I’ll head out. If you don’t know what to do, just holler. I’ll be right outside."
Ash watched the scene unfold from the doorway, then shouted into the courtyard, "Inky, hurry! Limp-Leg is tearing off Evelyn Hollis’s clothes!"
Auntie Mayer didn’t close the door, only lowered the curtain.
Ash slipped past the curtain and flew into the room.
It circled over Bobby’s head and pecked hard at his scalp.
But it was quickly repelled by the stench wafting from his hair.
’Jeez, that stinks!’
Ash could faintly make out bugs crawling on Bobby’s scalp.
Bobby, who had been tearing at Evelyn Hollis’s clothes, yelped in pain and clutched his head, spinning around to look.
’What was that? What just pricked me?’
Seeing her chance, Evelyn Hollis scrambled off the bed and made a dash for the door.
Auntie Mayer was waiting right outside and immediately shoved Evelyn Hollis back onto the bed.
"Let me give you a bit of friendly advice," she snarled. "Behave and stay with my Bobby. If you try to leave this house, what happens to you won’t be as simple as just giving him a son!"
"I’d rather die!" Evelyn Hollis screamed hysterically, fighting back with all her might. "Let me go! What you’re doing is against the law!"
Auntie Mayer’s eyes glinted. She said to Bobby, "I’ll hold her down. You pull off her pants and get down to business!"
"No!" Evelyn Hollis’s pupils shrank, her face a mask of terror. "You can’t do this..."
"Okay!" Bobby bent down to unbutton Evelyn Hollis’s pants.
Seeing her pale legs, Bobby rubbed his hands together nervously.
Auntie Mayer beamed. "Now no one will be able to make fun of our Bobby!"
Utterly despondent, her bloodshot eyes filled with a searing hatred, Evelyn Hollis bit out each word: "Shane Lee, I’ll haunt you even after I’m dead!"
Just as she resolved to bite her tongue and end her own life, she heard a sudden scream. "AHHH—"
Bobby let go of Evelyn Hollis’s legs, his face contorting in pain as he grabbed his rear end.
"Good heavens, how did the chickens get in?" Auntie Mayer realized the room had been invaded by more than a dozen roosters and hens.
Bobby turned and was startled, too. "Ma, what’s happening?"
"I don’t know either!" Auntie Mayer said, letting go of Evelyn Hollis to start shooing the birds. "Go on, get! Back to the coop, all of you!"
Inky circled in mid-air, calling out with great authority, "My friends, the chickens! Peck her! Whoever pecks the most gets the biggest reward!"
The roosters and hens clucked and charged, pecking at Auntie Mayer.
Auntie Mayer never imagined her own chickens would turn on her. She was livid. "You dare peck me? I’ll slaughter every last one of you tomorrow!"
At this, the roosters and hens pecked even harder.
Auntie Mayer scrambled out of the room, grabbed a broom from the courtyard, and yelled, "You’re all rebelling!"
With a few swings of the broom, she herded the chickens back into the coop.
’That old human woman is surprisingly tough...’ Inky was stunned. He hadn’t expected Auntie Mayer to subdue more than a dozen chickens so quickly.
’The reinforcements lost. Now it’s all up to me.’
’I promised Renee Jennings I’d do my best to complete this mission.’
Auntie Mayer returned to the room and said to Bobby, "It’s all clear. Get back to it!"
Inky flapped his wings, flew over, and raked his sharp claws across Auntie Mayer’s rough, dark face.
"Where’d this bird come from?" Auntie Mayer covered her face, her brow furrowed.
Seeing this, Ash also flew over and gave her a scratch, exclaiming, "Jeez, this human’s hide is so thick! I didn’t even break the skin!"
"Scratch her again!" Inky commanded, launching another attack.
Auntie Mayer swatted at the air. "Get away, you stupid birds!"
Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Evelyn Hollis pulling on her pants. Her expression changed in an instant. "Bobby, what are you just standing there for?" she shrieked. "Make her give you a son! I just taught you what to do!"
Hearing this, Bobby immediately lunged for Evelyn Hollis’s pants. "You can’t put those on! You have to give me a son!"
"No!" Evelyn Hollis yanked the pants back and frantically pulled them on. "This is against the law! You’ll go to jail for this! Let me go, and I promise I won’t call the police..."
"Impossible!" Auntie Mayer cut her off sharply. "Let you go? Then what about the sixty thousand we spent on you? All for nothing?"
She worked in the fields all day and was incredibly strong. She easily shoved Evelyn Hollis back onto the bed.
Inky and Ash grew frantic, pecking at her relentlessly, but Auntie Mayer paid them no mind, her hands clamped firmly on Evelyn Hollis.
"Bobby, go get some rope."
Evelyn Hollis had gone a full day and night without food, crying the entire time. She was utterly exhausted, with no strength left to resist.
Once again, she closed her eyes in despair as tears streamed silently from their corners.
Auntie Mayer tied her hands to the headboard, then dusted off her own. "Now let’s see you run!" she huffed.
After speaking, she turned around and suddenly felt something under her foot.
The light in the room was dim, and Auntie Mayer couldn’t see clearly. She bent over to get a better look, and her eyes flew wide. "A snake!" she shrieked. "There’s a snake!"
The Viper opened its mouth and bit her foot, flicking its tongue in disgust. "So rude! Stepping on a guy without so much as a hello!"