The priest was walking with a parishioner in the church the next morning. He was consulting him when a lady interrupted. She pleaded for immediate attention to be given to her. "I'll talk to you later", the priest shook hands with the parishioner and he left, leaving the priest and the lady alone.
The priest sighed;"What's the problem young lady?" "I came to talk to you about my husband", came the response. "What did your husband do?", the priest asked. "He's been missing for some days now. I asked his friends of his whereabouts but they weren't sure", she complained.
"Who's your husband?", the priest asked. "He always wears a golden ring on his middle finger. His name is Gabriel", she answered. The priest nodded his head;"Oh! He's a very rich man right?" She nodded her head to confirm. "Didn't he tell you where he was going to?", he became worried. "He didn't even give me a clue", she replied. "Was he a member of the famous cult group?", asked the priest. "Well...Yes!", she replied reluctantly. "I guessed so. The Peters and co. must have taken him because of the sins of their Master", he told her.
"That can't be possible, Master Black told us the ghosts can't ever harm us", the lady argued. "Only God can save you, not some useless black magic. You're among them. I'll advise you to repent", he argued back. "Master Black can never fail us", she still insisted.
The priest brought out a rosary from his pocket. "Can you pray the rosary?", he asked. "How do you expect me to pray that?", the lady started feeling irritated. The priest sighed;"Ok! Just hang it on your neck with fairy and they won't hurt you.
She looked at him with a face of disgust. He put the rosary in her hand. "You better do it before it becomes too late", he warned. The lady looked at him in confusion. "Now go home and do what I told you to do", he bid her bye. The lady walked away reluctantly. "I hope she'll do as I told her to", the priest thought.
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At night! The wife of late Mr Gabriel was in the kitchen washing the dishes. When she got done, she dried up her hands with a hand towel. She brought out the rosary given to her from the apron's pocket she was wearing. "This is a total piece of junk", she said. She threw it into a dustbin.
"I only went to him because he knows a lot of people that could help in searching for my husband but, he started telling me nonsense. I regret going to see him", she added. She left for the parlour and switched on the TV to entertain herself.
Someone was outside, walking towards her house slowly. The person knocked at the door. The lady got up and went to open the door to find out who was knocking. The person she saw when she opened the door, was her husband smiling at her. She hugged him at once, shedding tears. "Where'd you gone to?", she asked. "It's a long story", the man replied. "You have to tell me", she invited him in.
The lady was now having a shower, while her husband was in the bedroom. She was talking to him while having a shower. "You haven't still told me why you were missing for days", she reminded him.
"I'll tell you when you get done showering", her husband replied.
"I wish I knew, I wouldn't have gone to see that priest and heard all those nonsense stuff. Welcome back honey!", she added but didn't hear any reply from Mr Gabriel.
She got confused;"Honey! Honey!" She didn't still hear his voice. "Where did he go to?", she asked herself, now getting worried. She quickly rounded up her shower to go check on her husband.
When she came out, she didn't see him in the room. "I wonder where he went to", she said. She changed to her night gown and ran down the stairs, into the living room. She looked round, went to possible places of finding him but couldn't see him. She came back to the living room.
"I'm getting freaked out now", she said. She suddenly heard a sound that frightened her. A strange laughter of someone accompanied the sound. She tripped and fell to the ground. She got up quickly in fear and ran up the stairs. When she got up, a force pushed her down the stairs and she rolled down to the floor.
She got up and touched her lips. She saw blood on her finger; she was bleeding at her lips. She was shivering greatly. She turned right and saw the dustbin she threw the rosary into. She quickly ran to it to bring out the rosary.
On her way to hanging it on her neck, a force pushed the rosary away from her hands. She attempted crawling fast to get it again but, she stopped halfway as her attention was got by someone crawling up, at the ceiling.
She looked up and noticed it was her husband, crawling up there like an insect, completely covered in blood. Drops of blood fell on the kitchen floor. The ghost looked at her, smiling at her (a dangerous smile).
She refused to be distracted for long. She turned to go get the rosary but, immediately saw her husband, sitting on the floor, watching her and smiling. He grabbed her by the neck and the lady saw his nails grew longer. He used his nails and pierced through the lady's neck. The lady stayed quiet, with her mouth agape as she died slowly, while blood was gushing out of her neck.