Dotmann sat the sitting room of his Lagos
apartment sipping on
his red wine, all he could think of was how to
spend his money
that would come a few hours soon, after two
hour passed he
went into his room and brought out a
calabash
from his
wardrobe, he went to the drawer beside his
bed and brought out
the half eaten green and red kolanut and put
it inside the
calabash, he covered the calabash and opened
it after a minute,
behold! Different bonds of Pounds were inside
the calabash, he
smiled, it worked, but the lady he slept with
would die soon, he
heard a knock on his door, he wasn’t
expecting
anybody, he
quickly put the calabash full of money inside
his
wardrobe and
locked it, he went to the sitting room and
opened the door, he
was shocked as if he had just seen a ghost, it
was the woman
who he slept with yesterday, Kemi spoke up,
go and will your
properties to me Kemi Adeboye of 11,
Henderson street, Agege
Lagos and after that go and hang yourself,
Dotmann stood
transfixed like a dummy, yes mistress, he
answered…
Nelson made a call to the palace, he told
them that the culprit
had been apprehended and that they were free
to go where they
want to, Chinelo, still weeping, went with her
parents back to
their home, the only thing she had gained was
a new wrapper
and some of the royal beeds, she was back to
square one, right
from where she started
…………………………………
John and Joy sat in
the sitting room of Nelson’s house, playing
with each other, John
looked at his father who was now dressed in a
decent cloth, John
sensing what his father was thinking said Dad
this is Joy, my
fiancée, Joy’s and Peter’s eyebrows were
raised, Joy was
surprised, they had never talked about getting
engaged, talk less
of marriage, and there he was introducing her
as his fiancée, he
didn’t even say girlfriend, Peter was also
surprised, his son had
just finished his youth service, he hasn’t even
gotten a job and he
already has a fiancée?!
Well, what could he do
about it? John
was already an adult, at his age he was
already engaged with
John’s mum, he wondered why John decided
to
study law like
his mother, Peter felt bad at the thought of
John’s mum, he knew
he had treated her badly and he wish he knew
where she was so
that he could just apologize to her, he was fed
up with Kemi, she
is rude, saucy and to worsen her case she is a
bad cook, John
stood up and pulled Joy with him, he took her
to the balcony of
Nelson’s house, he knelt down in front of Joy
and brought out
the golden pearl, Joy parker, will you marry
me? John asked, Joy
didn’t know what to say, the man she loved
proposed to her with
a pearl instead of a ring, it was awkward,
when she made up her
mind she said yes John, yes!
Kemi was driving, her daughter Lisa was with
her, she was taking her to LC’s, one of the
best night clubs
in Lagos, Kemi
looked at Lisa who was excited, she sighed, if
Peter finds out
that Lisa is not his daughter he would kill her,
but she will kill him first, she looked at her
watch, it was 9pm,
Lisa looked at her
mum, right now her mum was the best mum
in
the world, none of
her friends mum ever take them clubbing,
instead they tell them not to ever go out at
night, suddenly her
mother lost control of
the steering and their car smashed into pole
and tumbled, Lisa
struggled to get out of the car after it came
to a stop, the car was upside down, she
pushed the car’s door open
and crawled out to
the other side where her mum was,
Mum! Mum!
Are you alright?
Lisa asked but she got no reply, she managed
to pull the door open, lo and behold, a splinter
of glass had cut
her mother’s
throat, blood was gushing from her throat like
a tap, noooo! Lisa
shouted, she quickly stood up and ran to get
help, she continued running in exactly no
direction, she saw a group
of men standing
and ran towards them, when she got to their
place, it smelled of
cigarette smoke, please help me, my mother is
bleeding to death, the men, seven in number,
who didn’t even
understand what she
said were excited to see such a beautiful girl
dressed in skimpy
clothes in their zone at that time of the night,
you no dey fear? one of then asked,
Sniper, JJ carry this girl go
base, their boss
said, they didn’t even say a word, they carried
her like a cotton
wool and took her into an uncompleted
building, she tried to scream but they held her
mouth, they entered
the building, pulled
off her skimpy cloth and tied her to a table,
Lisa was scared,
were they going To Molest her? She asked
herself, please don’t molest me,she pleaded,
but her pleas fell on
deaf ears as the
master of the hoodlums took her virginity, she
felt a pain she had
never experienced as her Molested her, when
he
was done, a second person took her, when he
was also
done, another man
came, no not another one she said, the hard
looking man gave
her a back hand slap across her cheek, you
dey
craze, he said, na me you dey call ‘another
one’? I be your
papa mate? He asked
with authority, he entered her and Molested
her mercilessly, the
last thing Lisa saw before she fainted was
another man trying to get between her
legs
……………………………………………………………..
Nelson was in his office in the morning, Peter,
John and Joy were
on their way to Lagos in the police van, he
took the news paper on his table and read it,
he was shocked when
he saw one of the
headlines, one man identified as Doherty
Anthony Lemeta was
found hanged in his residence in Lagos,
Nelson
sighed, Chief Dotmann had committed suicide,
well it made
his Job easier, no
need for them chasing a dead man, the lady
who was responsible
for the King’s death would be charged to court
immediately, he sipped his coffee, he was
having his best
morning of the year, he
had caught the kidnappers who were
threatening his job, his
friend and his son were safe and on his way
to
Lagos, what else could he ask for?
……………………………..
The police van carrying Peter, John and Joy
came to stop in
front of a big mansion where Joy resides, Joy
had called her
lawyer to meet her in the house, she had to
sign the papers to
inherit her parents property, her lawyer sat in
front of the house
wearing a white shirt and black skirt, John
down from the back
of the van and walked with Joy into her
compound, now he knew
where she lived, he saw a woman waiting in
front of Joy’s
mansion, they reached where the woman was,
meet my lawyer
Mrs Adebayo, Joy said, John looked at the
woman, he had seen
her before in the photo’s at home, Mum?!
John
said, she
recognized him even though it had been 22
years, John?! The
woman said, John went to hug his mother, he
had hoped to see
her, Joy immediately got the memo, her
lawyer
was John’s Mum,
John had told her about his mother,Peter got
down from the car
to see what was going on, he saw his wife
Mary, his heart sank
and he was ashamed, he slowly walked
towards where Mary was
with his head hung in shame, he looked at
Mary
and started to
talk Mary said shh! And she went to hug her
husband
………………………………………….
Peter and John reached home, as they entered
their home phone
rang Peter went to pick it, the expression on
his face was sad
when he dropped the phone, he told John that
Kemi had died in a
car accident the previous night, John felt
sorry
for her even
though she was always mean to him, the
phone rang again, Peter
picked it up and showed a sad worried face
again he dropped the
phone, Lisa was found beside the road
yesterday, she is in the
hospital now, Peter said, Peter took the car
keys to his Toyota
Corolla and went outside, he entered the car
and John joined him,
they drove to the hospital, on getting to the
hospital the doctor
told Peter that Lisa had lost a lot of blood
and
needed blood,
Peter offered to donate blood as he and Kemi
were in the same
blood group so Lisa should also be, the
doctor
suggested they do
a test before anything else, when the results
came out Lisa’s
blood group was different from Peter’s, he
wondered how thatHe
asked the doctor to
do a DNA test on Lisa, the test was carried
out and they
discovered that his DNA and Lisa’s did not
match, Peter felt
betrayed, he didn’t even feel pity for Kemi
again, she had done a
really bad thing…………………..
Few days later John went to Joy’s house, he
knelt in front of her
and said ‘for the second time, Joy parker,
would you marry me?’
he brought out a gold ring from his pocket,
for
the second time, yes! Joy answered, they
kissed each other as
John inserted the
ring which was molded from the gold pearl
into Joy’s finger, he
carried her into a bedroom in her mansion, he
kissed her on the neck, and he entered her and
they made love
for an hour, they
had finally made love after all these while of
wanting themselves,
it was the first of many to
come
……………………………………………………….
John went home and saw his mother seated in
the sitting room,
he greeted her, so you are coming back to us?
He asked, yes, she
said, John went into Lisa’s room, she was
asleep, her father had decided to still take her
as his daughter, she
had nowhere to go,
he closed the door and went to meet his
father in the balcony,
Nelson told me you had quite an adventure in
Enugu, can you gist me? Peter asked, you
wont believe if I told
you John
answered, John brought out his phone to
browse and check
where he posted to study law in a law school,
not again, he said when he saw where he was posted to, he was posted to Enugu…
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