Narika: The Ghost Bride-Chapter 72 - Seventy-Two: Drugged And Robbed In New York City.

Newyork city.

2:00pm.

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Narika let out a relieved sigh when she came out of the airport, with her luggage in her hand. She was aerophobic but had taken this bold step for her own sake, and also for the sake of her parents too.

She didn’t want to hurt them, and if she had stayed any longer. She was sure that one day she was going to hurt her parents once her powers triggers again.

Narika was on a mission to get answers, to figure out what she was.

"Taxi." She hailed down a taxi, leading to the hotel that she had already paid for online, and while she was inside the car, she opened her phone to look at the picture of her and her parents.

The young girl wondered how her mother was doing, she’s probably crying her eyes out, while involving the detectives to look for her. But it was useless, not even the cops would be able to find her since she didn’t want to be found.

She held in a sob that threatened to fall, and looked at the taxi driver who was awkwardly looking at her through the mirror.

"First time in NYC i see?" The young man asked, he was quite young, which made her wonder if he had a driving license, because the last thing she would want was to fall into the hands of the cop on her first day here in New york.

She had always dreamed of coming here, a city of so many wonders and home to a lot of superstars that exists. The breeze here was quite a lot different from Tomorrow town, it was clean, refreshing and also stress-free from the judging eyes of the people of her town. So yes, she loves NYC.

"Yes," she replied to the driver’s question with a smile, and looked away instantly. She didn’t like the way he was looking at her, at first she had thought that she might have worn the wrong side of her cloth, but it was just the driver giving her creepy vibes just like Adrik.

Was he look for her?

She thought.

He ought to be, she couldn’t help but wonder the kind of expression he would have on his face, at finding out that she had left him, Today is the day she gets to give him her answer towards his proposal, yet she had did what no one has expected.

She had ran away.

"The name is Luke. I’m a taxi and a tour guide incase you need one. This is my card," The young boy said, as Narika took it from his hands. His fingers grazed hers in an uncomfortable manner, and she shuddered when her eyes met his green ones, that held nothing but mischief in it.

She could feel it. The bad energy radiating off of him. She was lost inbetween the decision of allowing him drive her to the hotel where she would be staying. He looked more of a criminal, a crook than any normal driver.

"I’m sorry if i make you uncomfortable with my stares, I couldn’t help it. You are really beautiful ma’am." He added, this time that mischievous glint in his eyes was long gone, but Narika couldn’t be so sure of what his intensitions with her was.

On a normal day, she would have blushed real hard if she got that complimented on her first time in New York, especially with someone as handsome as he was, but she didn’t know if this was Adrik’s fault that she can’t find any other man apart from him handsome or what.

Rather, she was looking at him as if he had called her ugly, but later on sent him a brief smile, a signal that any smart person would take that she wasn’t interested in talking to him, a stranger. That’s dangerous.

Everything was going smoothly, as she would check her phone once in a while to know if he was genuine, or a kidnapper who was trying to get her off the road leading to her hotel. Until some foul smell entered her nose, and she started coughing. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

"Hey, are you alright?" The Taxi man asked, as she nodded her head before pulling the window down to get some fresh air, but the cough wasn’t stopping. It smelt like weed in here.

"I’m sorry about the smell, I didn’t really think that you mind me smoking. It’s cold around here."

"Just ...stop talking. I’m fine." Narika snapped at him, before her hands moved to check the can water she brought along from the plane only to see that it was empty.

"Here, I have one. I’m really sorry ma’am." He apologized, with sincerity lacing his tone which made Narika oblige, and took the can water from him gulping it into her mouth, without seeing the smirk that was evident in his eyes.

It didn’t took a while for everything to go back to normal, and they were just fifteen minutes away from the hotel, before her visions started failing her.

"What the..." Narika mumbled, her muscles felts tight and it was heavy for her to lift her hands. She couldn’t see the driver clearly nor the satisfied look on his face, until something clicked.

She has been drugged.

"What .. did you .d..do to me?" She asked, her hands finally went to the door but it was locked, including the window was shut tightly before she felt the car stopped.

"Oh! Please shut up, you first timers are annoying." Luke said, moving along to take her purse away from her grasp, but she wasn’t able to do anything but fall against the chair. Her eyes were closing with every second that passed, but nothing without telling him.

"You will pay.. for this." She said, before her eyes closed. She didn’t realized the next thing that followed suit after she had been drugged and robbed in Newyork.

Rather, but the hope that she wakes up sooner, and get this bastard for what he had done. She wasn’t lying when she said he was going to pay.