chapter twenty-eight

There is dismay in the Samuel’s house. it has been days and Eleanor hasn’t returned after stomping away from the house.

“Bob, you think she has gone to those monsters?” Mr Samuel asked as he stared distantly. He felt like a failed man. A man that failed to protect his wife and now his daughter.

Uncle Bob’s eyes grew with anger. “I told you Samuel. I hate for those creatures to be mentioned here…if Eleanor is with them, then I must find them even if to the ends of the earth and bring her back…”

The house telephone began to ring almost immediately. Howard who leaned by the door of the corridor hurried to the telephone after he saw the unwillingness in both his dad and uncle to get it.

The police had asked them to make a report of a missing person after forty-eight hours. Since Eleanor was an adult and considering the circumstances she had left with, they presumed she must have gone to cool off and not really missing.

It turned out to be their aunty at abroad whom Eleanor was staying wi