When it seems too good to be true remember good things don't last, enjoy it while you can
Like I do - fire boy
No one can love you like I do.. Nobody
Attention Attention please thank you all for coming to my engagement party, Shola and I are are... he takes the mike from my hands seeing I'm emotional.
A match made in heaven, he continues
There's absolutely no one else I can see spending the rest of my life with.
Anita has been more than a blessing to me, my late mother would have been more happy to see me with Anita than any other person, Anita is a rare jewel. She's my Charlotte and I'm her George, a bit crazy but grateful for having someone as patient and loving as her.
The smile on my face covers the flashing image of Shola killing Peypey, the horrific scar of splashing blood. But with or without the scars and wounds life will still beat while death play tricks and steal peace, so what gives.
Tosin looks at me and him with a smile that covers up his disappointment in my decision, the lawyer seems to be present as well, a whole lot of people including my brother.
While shola mingles with others I meet my brother
Where is mom?
“she couldn't make it.”
A civil servant and a single mom of course she's busy with omugo,
Harmony must be happy mummy is there.
Her husband I ask
“Mtcheeeeeeew I don't understand why a man would have children when he earns for a child and still wouldn't let his wife work like she needs permission to use her brains, and still refuses assistance he says angry.”
You sef police never catch you
“The last one I pick na my last last
I'm not doing again.”
You don dey fear
“I'm getting too old, I need to settle down, if my child ask me what I do I can't say I pick for a living.
Pick what?
Omooo life no balance, I need small thing like this. No job, if he can connect me..
Who?
Shola na he says
“Don't worry you can get to where you want to without Shola.”
Why without Shola
“His my fiance, it doesn't mean my family matters should rest on his head. You have enough money start up a sensible business that will cover up for your mischief.”
“You don forget say I get already
But account balance no dey tally with business.”
Oooh you need people in the bank so they won't freeze your account
“Exactly I cannot be a classy mess, take a look at me, take a look at genes, veins and ancient blood, I'm definitely too fine to be broke.”
“That's your cross to carry shaaa don't get Shola involved with what ever you have going, it would get worse.”
Do you love him he ask with a concerned look on his face
Yes I do
Just then Shola calls for my attention
wrapping his hands around my waist, if I may borrow my future wife for a while
Of course my brother says
Shola and I move upstairs to talk privately
Anita you'll have to deliver this package urself , don't open it no matter what. he hands me a flat like box in white package which I place in my purse .
No matter what don't open it he say again, we move downstairs back dancing and having all the fun we can cuz you're with the one you love.
The party ends soon I'm ready to leave when I forget my purse in Shola's room which I pick up and leave just to see Tosin drunk sitting at the door of Shola's house with a bottle
“You need to go home Tosin.”
“Anita you don dey enter my eye oooo" he says in his drunk state
“Close am.”
Do you really love Shola he ask trying to get up
“Yes I do, I love him with every bone in me.”
“He seems controlling, I know what my Anita likes and she doesn't like her self a controlling man, I'm not sure anymore about what she loves but I do care
Okay then if you say so.”
You do know you're in Shola's house right
“He laughs, so what, a whole gangster
You wan make I fear
Do you love me?”
Tosin you're drunk
Very drunk
Let me drop you off I say taking his keys from the floor, his alcohol bottle as well, finding a way to drive him home. Get him into his house and clean him up, which after I move to the couch in his parlour where I sleep off.
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Good afternoon sunshine he says handing me a plate of jollof rice
I look at him pretending to forget everything he said last night
“See who suppose take care of who.”
I drag the plate looking at him with a bombastic side eye
“What where you expecting
Tea and bread, na American film.”
How long have I been sleeping I ask touching my head as it aches
Well it's 1pm in the afternoon he says turn the tv on
The light I say disturbed
Small winch he says laughing
It immediately shows news channel
Journalist indeed
Breaking news
Famous business Mugul Shola Adewale was found dead by exactly 10 am by his gate man in the pool as well as his lawyer in the recent case of Precious Wale also known as Peypey,
His lawyer Ebiere Oseke who was reported dead in a drastic car accident while coming back from his engagement to De prime owner Ms Anita Benson
Is it coincidence?
Switch it of I scream in pain, my eyes turn out crying.
Tosin in shock thinks fast to lock up the back doors calling the estates gate man to lock up as well
I'm sure some heartless journalist would be looking for her to question her Tosin thinks
Crying and wailing in pain when I get a message from my phone from the same number
You'll be next
I look around in fear, if shola is dead then who is keeping me in check
What about the package in my purse,
Shola was a Yoruba man but certainly not a demon, whether he deserved to die or not, I'm not the judge.
He has killed alot of people but no one deserves to die, of course I'm a loved one so I can say this, it's the same thing all loved ones say when they loose someone, even if that's some one is a monster
Everyone will die one day, it's just a matter of time and how. Yes I know Shola was not a good person, fine but everyone has a chance ,what's the reason his chance was stolen away from him.
After all no one is innocent, even a baby can endanger his mother while being born, even then a life is taken.
What about those wicked lecturers that frustrate poor students breaking their spirit, aren't they killing them some how and those that commit suicide after a lover leaves them.
So many things kill men but it's only the ones with bullets they focus on
I cry in Tosin's arms
*******
Next 5 chapters would be posted soon
Bank on it by Burna boy is a clue to what happens next
Who do you think the killer is?
But who really is Peypey?
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