Believe me now!

Chapter 26 Sera meets Diego

Sera was wondering when Blaze would contact her. She was really missing him. Leo stopped the bike suddenly. He saw two men in the road with automatic guns pointed right at them.

Sera squeezed Leo and said to him," Let me off the bike." He said, "No, stay put!"

Sera kissed his cheek. "Trust me please." He didn't. The men pointed to Sera and motioned for her to get off Leo's bike. Leo started the bike and turned into the woods. He found a trail and drove like mad. He turned to look behind him and Sera yelled." Look out!" Leo hit a large branch and they both flew up into the air. Sera landed on a rock and slammed down on her arm. She was injured. Leo flew up and landed in the tree. He hung on and narrowly missed falling onto a sharp branch. It would have stabbed him. Sera moaned and held her arm.

Leo jumped down and ran to her. She had a long cut on her arm. It looked bad. Leo didn't panic. He looked around for a way to wrap her arm.

Part of his training was first aid in emergency situations. He tore off a piece of his shirt. He needed to act quickly.

He saw that she was unconscious. He grabbed her arm and pulled it straight out. He pressed the shirt around the cut and applied pressure. It was the best he could do.

Sera felt searing pain to her right arm. It was on fire. Leo had torn another piece off of his shirt and tied it around her arm as a sling, wrapping it over her neck.

He picked her up. Her head was bleeding near her eye.

Leo pulled her into a small thatch of bushes and covered them both up with branches.

The men approached. Looking in all the trees and finally deduced that the pair probably fell over the cliff near by. They moved on.

Leo saw Sera looking at him, she was crying. Her eyes were red. "My arm, it's bad!" He shushed her and pointed to the road. Sera nodded. She knew she needed to be very quiet. She bit down on a piece of wood. She cried silently.

Leo waited until it was dark and then moved them to a new location. He cleared an area and put down a brush shelter. He pulled her to him. "Sera, we need to get naked." She frowned and looked at her arm. She was shivering. He removed her shirt and sweat pants. He took off his clothes. They lay naked together in the brush shelter. They were using their bodies to keep warm. It started to rain. Leo placed Sera below him. He lay on top of her to protect her from the rain. He got very wet, even with his coat draped over them. Sera cried quietly as Leo did his best to keep her safe. In the morning, they put on their semi dry clothing. Sera's shirt was transparent from the rain. Leo saw her n*****s. He wrapped his coat around her and covered her up. She laughed at him.

" Leo, we layed together naked all night, now you see my boobs and need to cover me up." He frowned. " I am a weak man. Blaze might kill me just for what I am thinking about you. Don't tempt me." She swallowed and nodded. He was grumpy and wet.

She followed him through the woods. He looked for something in the trees. He saw what he was looking for. He followed the moss. If the moss was on one side he would continue going north. He found his way to an unmarked trail. They walked for five miles. They came upon a compound. "s**t!" Sera looked around. " This is it, Manuelo Diego's place?" He nodded. "We went the wrong way."He always got confused on that moss in the tree thing.

Sera saw a car drive through the gate. She looked around for any sign of Blazey. Leo said,"Okay we need to go back."

Too late there was a man with a gun pointed at their heads standing behind them. He motioned for them to move.

Leo nodded then winked at Sera she dropped to the ground, he kicked his leg around and connected with the man's gun. Leo told her to run!

Sera ran fast. She was weaving through the woods. Her chest rose and fell as she was breathing hard. She didn't see the pit in the ground ahead of her.

She fell straight down to the ground below. She was trapped. Leo ran off in the other direction and got away.

He scanned the woods for her. She was gone. The man with the rifle had found her. He pulled her up out of the pit and stroked her breast. He grabbed her between the legs.

She smiled, though she was afraid. She shook her head side to side. She said," Bruxaaaaa!" Stretching the word out in a whisper. He frowned and moved his hand back as if it were burned. He ripped her necklace off and threw it in the pit, then made her walk in front of him. He took her through the gate and to Manuelo.

Sera was so tired. She was sore and her arm was burning. A man wearing a pair of brown slacks and a yellow button down shirt approached her. He was a little older and over weight. He had a straw hat on his head with a black band around it. He smoked a cigar.

"Bruxa, we finally meet." She smiled and put her hand out. "Seraphina Haven." she said. He was quite impressed with her. She looked like she was a drowned rat, but had the manors of a queen. He would treat her so. He snapped his fingers and two women came forth. He spoke in Portuguese. They took her to a room and drew a hot bath. They lay her on the bed and removed her clothing. One of the women took off her bandage and tended to her cut. She whispered to the other woman. They felt Sera needed stitches. They called for Dorinda.

Sera smiled seeing her friend again. "How are the goats?"

Dorinda didn't smile she whispered,"You don't know me please." Sera nodded.

Dorinda placed a cup to her lips."Drink this, I need to sew your wound up."

She trusted her friend and drank deeply. "What was that?"

Ayahuasca. You will have clarity soon. " Okay. Will that help the pain?"

"Maybe. I will put some lidocaine on your arm." She applied the ointent and threaded the needle. She poured alcohol over the needle and looked Sera in the eyes. She could see Sera's eyes were dilating from the drug. She pressed the needle into her arm and deftly sewed up her jagged cut. She cleaned it with alcohol and applied a dressing. Sera was taken into the hot bath and washed.

The woman shaved her and cleaned her nails. Dorinda gave her a tooth brush. "Manuelo likes his women clean. He will take you tonight. You will not scream.

He will beat you if you make a sound. Also he will not use protection. You might get pregnant."

Sera shook her head. "None of that is happening to me."

She started to feel strange. Her head hurt like it was splitting in two. There was an immense heat flowing from her head.

Manuelo entered the room. All of the woman fled.

He took off his belt and his pants. He kept his shirt on. He put some lotion on his groin. He pointed to the bed. Sera shook her head. She was stark naked, she smiled at him.

She could see that he was angry. He wrapped the belt around his fist. He held it up. She fell back then onto the floor. She started convulsing. The drug hit her full force.

Her mouth opened and she started to speak Portuguese. She said words that she didn't even know. She couldn't stop it. The words kept flowing out of her open mouth.

Manuelo fell back. He heard the words. She was telling him his past. Things she wouldn't know. She started to sing. It was a song he recognized from childhood.

" Mama!" He knew it was his mother speaking. He sat down as Sera finished. She jerked up a few times, then lay still. Her eyes were moving, twitching, they turned black as night, even the whites. Manuelo gently put her in the bed. He covered her naked body. He kissed her hand. " Momma."

Sera would be kept as his little pet. No one would be allowed to hurt her. She was special. He saw her powers. This was what he needed.

Manuelo made sure she had armed guards around her to protect his little witch.

Sera slept for 12 hours. When she woke a woman handed her some soup. She drank it. She asked for Dorinda. She cried out. "Dorinda!" They brought Dorinda in to see her. "What did you give me? I couldn't control it. The dark spirit came through. I couldn't stop it. Please, I don't want to feel that thing in me ever again." Dorinda frowned.

"He already has plans for another session. I heard him talking." Sera shook her head.

"I need to stop him. I need some help. Can you get a message to Leo for me?" She shrugged. "I can make any promises." Sera told her that she needed her fig necklace. It was in the bottom of that pit where the guard had dropped it.