night sleep he’s had
for a long time, he was sleeping in the
comfort of a girl he loved,
no TJ had his leg over his body when he slept
and he was not sleeping under any orange tree
where ants
crawled on his when
he slept, he stood up and went outside,
leaving
his friends who
were still asleep, he went to ease himself
under a tree and went back to inside to lay
beside Joy, he was not the
only one who
had a good night sleep, Joy woke up full of
Joy,
it had been
almost a year since she had slept beside a
man
whom she liked and who also liked her too,
she knew John was
in love with her,
she loved his warmth and manly presence as
they
lay…………………….
Thousands of miles away
from them somebody didn’t have a good night
sleep, Mr
Adeboye had
traveled to Enugu in search of his son, he
arrived Enugu around
9pm and decided to lodge in an hotel so that
he could start searching for his son this
morning, he rarely
slept for 1 hour the
previous night as thoughts began to occupy
his
mind, he hoped
John was safe and sound, maybe he had an
emergency and could not come home then his
phone got spoilt or
stolen, even if his
phone got spoilt or stolen at least he knows
his phone number,
why didn’t he call, he knew John to be a
responsible man, unlike him, he had failed as
a husband to John’s
mother and he was a
bad father to John, John’s mother had left
him
when he had
beaten her for the umpteenth time after he
came home drunk from the club, she packed
her bags and left his
house that very
night never to return again, that time John
was just a year and
seven months old, he felt sorry for the boy, he
never had a real mother to care for him, he
went into the
bathroom to have his
bath ………………………………………………
The DPO was
not in a good
mood either, he called his men out, they all
stood at ease before him as he addressed
them, he challenged them
to show why the
police should be trusted, while the people of
the
community
should feel safe and to show that they were
more powerful than the trouble makers, with
that he dismissed
them…………….
Bison had a good night sleep, despite the
events of the last two
days, he had earned about 15 million naira
that
week, he had given his men 100,000 naira for
each man or
woman they
brought, now he could buy that range rover
suv
like the type that
Chief Dotmann brought two days ago,
business
was going on well, all he had to do was keep
on kidnapping
people………………….
The corpers had taken their
bath at a
stream not far away from the hunter’s house,
they then had their
breakfast of eba and ogbonna soup with
antelope meat, John and
Joy kept making eye contact with each other,
they wanted each
other badly, the hunter came out of his house
carrying his dane
gun, but he was not dressed in his hunter’s
outfit, he told them he
was ready, they were also ready, they were
ready to take the long
walk to freedom
And they started their journey, the hunter’s
daughter was going with them too as she was
going to carry some
of the foodstuff
that her father was going to buy from town,
the corpers were all
happy, finally all their troubles were going to
come to an end, if they could reach town they
were all going to
call their parents, TJ
smiled at his thoughts, if he called his father,
he could go to
extent of sending an helicopter, he father
might not even know that he’s not in Lagos
yet, he was always busy
with his business,
Lagos today and London tomorrow, next
week Johannesburg,
next month Liverpool, well he was already
used
to his father not being around, John too
thought about his
father’s reaction, his
father would run to Enugu immediately, he
knew his father would
be worried about him, if his phone had not
been collected by the kidnappers he would
have had over 300 missed
calls, his father
does not joke with his only son, Joy didn’t
have any parent or
relative to call, her father and mother both
died in a car accident in Manchester, that was
about 5 years ago, it
was her father’s life
insurance money that was given to her that
she had been using
for her upkeep, she couldn’t inherit her
father’s
property yet because he had instructed in his
will that his
lawyer should not
hand any property over to her until she had
finished her NYSC,
now she was going to Lagos to inherit her
father’s property, they walked through the
bush path until they finally
got to the wide
road where Bison’s men had harassed them,
but no one was in
sight today, they continued walking along the
dusty road, John and Joy held hands and she
put her head on his
shoulder, see
gbese o,TJ thought in his mind, these people
love don reach level
2, love ke? He had never really loved any girl,
all
he had for girls was lust, for him girls come
and go, he used
them like recharge
cards, they walked for 15 minutes when they
began to see more
mud houses, they were closer to town, they
passed through the small community and
alas! They were finally at
the tarred road,
their Joy knew no bounds as thespotted a call
center, they all
ran with their full speed towards the yellow
umbrella leaving the hunter behind, Chinelo
too followed them, they
heard drumming
and cheering not far away from them,
as they
approached the
call center, the man that was there was
surprised to see them, he was trying to tell
them something, he could
not speak because he
was dumb, he quickly wrote something on a
paper and gave it to
them, the drumming and cheering became
louder as they saw a croud approaching them,
they were probably
celebrating
something, John read the paper, “take the
women away, no
woman is allowed to be outside today “,
before they say Blayse, four men grabbed Joy,
Becky and
Chinelo , it turned
into a tussle between them as more men came
to drag the ladies
away, the hunter had just caught up with
them, he had forgotten that it was the nwayi
festival which no
woman was allowed to
come out for that day, any woman who was
caught outside
would become either the king’s wife or slave,
John took a deep breathe, he could not let
Joy or Chinelo go like
that, their walk to
freedom had just become longer..
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