"They call me Daddy Tunda, you shouldn't try
me" Adex grumble, Kaima giggle .
"What, Tunda. That name is so boring"
"That's my father's name, I would want my son
to be name after my late daddy"
"Ok, you win"
she grunts
"Babe that's my Father's name"
"His your son you can name him any name you
want to"
"Babe, look at us, Just look at us, you, our
son and me dress in one outfit, that's going to be awesome. Picking him from
school, I just can't wait " he imagine
***********
"When are we ever going to have, Daddy and
Mommy moment, he has just take over" placed his two hands behind his head
"Daddy and Mommy moment?" she retort, so odd.
"Yes, he has refused to get down from their,
and he has no idea, his causing a lot of havoc"
"Babe, it's just few days to go. It nine
months" caresses his chest
"Why, I'm I feeling like, it take him years"
"Halo, I'm
getting a little bit confused" turn to face him
"It takes a fours year to hold a degree some
six. I don't think you need a degree to understand me. Take a look, your hand
on my chest, leg between mine…"
"mine…, say it"
"you should understand. It a month and few days,
and I'm still on pause. Sometimes try be in my shoe, understand" he exclaimed
she giggle
"Ok, this night, will just be for Daddy"
"Are you sure we can do it"
"Are you scared now" turn to him, grinding
"It's just that, I don't want some body,
telling me you have sift my womb" he lament grinding
"Ha, ha, ha…"paused "eh, eh, eh" she hum in
pain
"Love, what is it?" So curious, she held his wear
so clutch, her mouth wide open, her eyes shut
"The baby" she managed to say
"The baby?" he retort so stunt
"Yes!, yes!, yes!" she yelled
"Babe, what should I do?" so curious
"Take me, to the hospital, the baby is coming,
is coming eh!..." she scream, Adex glide her down from the bed "stop!, stop!,
stop…, waiting" Adex running one end to the other
"let me get the car key"
************
"Hold my hands please" she exclaim
"I'm here love, you will be fine" he sit
beside her, holding her hand, caresses her forehead
"breathe" she inhaled "now push" the doctor command,
Adex stood up
"Hey, where are you going?" she screamed
"I'm here" he sit on an arm chair beside the
bed
"Don't you ever leave me, don't you dare!~"
The door opened, Nnenna and Bolade, walks in
"Thank God you ladies are here" he praise
"How is she doing?" Blade asked
"I don't know,
I need to get to the house" Adex
stoop up
"Adex don't you dare leave this room, don't
you. Every one out" she yell, Adex at once sat down, grab her hand
"Adex my dear, don't mind her, go where you
want to go" Nnenna brutal
"Eh…" Bolade grinning, Adex glare at her "sorry"
"Mommy, I can't leave her in this condition"
"Which conditions, go and do want you want to
do"
"His my husband, and I want him here with me" she
exclaimed "Hold my hand, hold me tight" She
instruct, Adex hold her hand, Bolade nodes in wander
"massage my tummy, please" staring at him, as he caresses her abdomen, she
blow air
**********
"Hey what's up" he yell, pulls his head from
the windscreen. They ignored him "Hey, what is wrong" he press the horn
"Bros, what is it?, can't you see are car
break down" one of the guy, at the car burner, roared
"Leave him" the other guy leaning on the car
He held out, walking to them "Guys, I'm in a
hesitate, can't you guys, try drive it to the other side of the road" he
panicked
"That's what we are trying to fix" he goad
walking to him
"Look I'm sorry. oh God" he turn back "whirling
is a long process" he bemoan
"Hey you" he yell
"What, I said I'm sorry" he pleaded
"Hey stop there, shut up" he grunts
*********
"Where did you said, he went to" Chinasa
asked.
"He forgot his drugs and he needs to get a
shower, he just left this morning" Kaima retort
"Hh…, poor man, he couldn't stay to see this
cute thing" she applaud smiling, playing with the new infant
"His nothing like you" Bolade acclaimed grinning, held his finger,
swinging it unhurriedly
"Look at you, his just his mother's pic"
"egbe, which face, you better stop deceiving
yourself. This is my son-in-law duplication, look at his curve face, his
dimples"
"And the sexy pink lips, his nose, his smile
oh, jess" Bolade hail
"Sis, tell me, who does he look like"
"Majority carries the vote" Chinasa tact
"Sis, are you with me or against me"
"Sis, I won't lie, this buddy, is none of you"
she blast out laughing "You mean Adex didn't even see him before leaving"
"He forget to take his drugs, yesterday he was
with me the whole day. Is a big risk if he skip it today. So I was still in
labor" She retorts
"I know, he so wish he was here to see this
baby landing in this earth. If you know how he talks about him" Bolade hailed
"You don't need to tell me, Adex" Chinasa firmed
***********
"I will not, you guys have to kill me" he
exclaimed, as he bleed from his side lips, his face swollen, blood dropping his
side lips.
"You think we are here for play" he roared
"tooth"
"Sir" he retort. He nod with an eye blink. A
pouch lands on his face, which almost throw him down with the arm chair. He was
tied up, he released a pouch on his face, a huge blood spit poured on the
floor, he land on the floor. a wild howl that could wake a dead, he widening
his eye, Painting in pain
"I'm sure he will speak now, get him up" he
decree, watches as he paint his mouth widely opened.
"I'm already dead, that's nothing left" he
exclaimed painting
"Put a call to his family, anyone. Wife,
mother, sister now" panic. The other guy dials a number "Video call, they have
to watch him die or the give us the information we need" he grunts leaving the
room so furious.
"Lighter" he roared behind doors
"Sir" he replied rushing to the room
"Lighter, I'm off to somewhere, about what I
told you earlier, just film him and send the video to his wife, I'm sure she is
the one that will give us detail of what we want. No one should touch him, is a
enough, the beaten he has gotten, will put a pleasure on her. let me not repeat
myself"
"Ok, sir" he tact. Lighter walking into the
room, a door open and close
**********
"So cute, Mm…" he scoop him, in his arm "what
time did you give birth?"
"6:4…" try to cut up
"6:48pm" Bolade assist
"Wow, that's amazing" he stares at the baby
"What is still keeping him, this is 8:20pm, he
still hasn't show up" Chinasa exclaimed
"I don't know, something might be keeping him"
inspect worry from her voice
"Let me put him on call, he has to be here" pressing
her smartphone Bolade
"He definitely has to be here" his phone vibrant, he placed the born baby on
the bed beside Kaima " I really need to pick this call" he hush out
"I'm really getting worry" kaima panicked,
staring at the baby
"Hey, don't. Ok, Adex is fine" petting her shoulder
"His not picking" she gasped, the smart phone still
chiming on her ear
"What did you say, What!" paused, couldn't
shut his lips, as it slowing unwrap "you must be joking" he proclaimed, glance at Kaima through the door visible
glass that was just frame on top of the middle of the entrance door to the room
they where, Kaima caught up, with a straight face, immediately he gaze off
"Sir, we didn't" a man voice, on the smart phone
"I instructed, no harm should be lay on him. I
did" he grunts
"Boss, I swore with my life, we didn't. touch
him again"
"So how did this happened?" he whispered breathing
"Boss, we don't know, when I went back to the
room to check on him, abruptly, he wasn't breathing" he retort
"When did that happened?" he requested so
curious
"This evening"
"What time?"
"6:48pm" he let out, Emeka went cold. His
heart races fast
"Contact Doctor Herbert, immediately" stare at
Kaima, her eye was just fixed on him, he felt a little bit scary, he inhaled.
"Mom, I have to go" pet her shoulder, Turn to Kaima peck her "I will still
check on you, before your discharge" He zoom off
***********
"Doctor Herbert, you can still, do something"
he picnic
"There's nothing I can do, his was dead
fifteen minutes before I got here"
He lean on the wall, gazing at the wall "We
still need him alive" he bits his lips
"I'm sorry man, just report to Allah, he will
understand" place his hand on his shoulder.
"Sir, we have wrapped up the body" he said
stand behind him, he turn to him, a pain seen in his eyes. "We are still
waiting for your decree, to drop him at the river bank" he hush him with so
much force nudge him to the wall, his hands clutched his wear
"Was that the instruction I gave" he roared,
he tremble in suspicion, as his eye locked his up. His eyes was as deadly as
the devil's, he grind his teeth, fix on him,
"I'm so sorry sir, I'm so sorry" he Panic in
fear
"Black, please" he held her shoulder
"Do you know that guy who dead" he wailed
"Black, Black, please" Doctor Herbert console,
nudge him away
"Get your hands off me" he push Doctor Herbert to a side, Walking away.
************
A couple of days
"Kaima, Kaima!". She seen to be lost, she tap
her
"Mm…"
"You have to be strong, ok. He will be found, we
have report to the police"
"I have been strong, have I not put on a brave
face for long"
"You have my dear, can't you just go home?"
"I will be here with my baby, till my husband comes"
her voice deep and sobbing. She clutch her hand so tight, caresses her
shoulder.
"Beep!, Beep!" a message drop, Kaima stretch a
peep, took while looking, then open the message, a video, she played.
Bolade and Nnenna walked in
"This is just little of what, we will do to
him, if you don't send us the tape. You have 24 hours to comply" the man in
mask grunt, tears tripping down her cheek.
"Kaima, Kaima!, what is it?" Nnenna rush to
her being the first to notice. Her eyes still fix on the phone, tears making it
way down to her jug
"I will rather die, than to give it to you" a thunderous slap reach to his cheek, he
screams in pain. Kaima drain in her voice, as she scream in pain, in moan
"Kaima!" Chinasa exclaimed, grab the phone
from her hand
"You are next, if you refuse to comply"
Chinasa's mouth wide, she freeze by what she sees on the phone
"What do they want?" She gasped, as she hurry to replay the video.
Bolade joins her
*************
A song playing in the background, it was a
massive mob in the church. kaima, chinasa and Nnenna sits on the first roll of
the sit, Bisi and Bolade sit on the left front roll. The music stop, preacher
closed the sermon,
Kaima and Chinasa stood up, as chinasa leads, Adex
lied so calm with a make over like he was wedding again, in a white and red
tie. Kaima stood in front of the body, starring at the body as tears hush down
her cheek, her eye fix on the body.
"You have to let go" Chinasa exclaimed, took
the flower from her, drop it at the coffin, raise her sun glass weeps her eyes,
adjusting the glass.
"Why now, why now it seen like, we are winning
the battle, look at they family you left behind" she sob "go in peace prince
charming, go in peace, Adex" she moaned, cuddle Kaima as they turn leaving,
Bisi stood as Bolade joined.
"Mum please let's not create a sin here, Kaima
is not in her real self" Bisi glare "please Mum, not here and not now, let's
let her be, please Mom"
She ignored walk towards them "I thought the
will keep you hidden for your days of living. I'm never letting this rest, you
will die a misery death for the death of my son"
"Mrs. Bisi, with all duel respect, leave my
sister out of this"
"You are so stupid to tell me that, she's a
murdery, you think you can kill my son to have all he worked for, I wouldn't
let that happen"
"I wouldn't watch you said that to my daughter.
Take a look at her, she has been in this condition ever since her husband's
death, my daughter has not been herself. You have no right to disrespect my
daughter like that" Nnenna grunts, walks to her
"She's a murdery, she killed my son…" Kaima glance
at her, then to her Nnenna they stood in front of her so defensive, settle on
the floor.
"Mommy, let's go" Chinasa exclaimed
"No!, she has to be here, this is her
husband's burial" she groaned
"Mom, please stop. Let's leave" she plead. She
walk Kaima to the seat pick her hand bag, as she lead Kaima down the church
hall, her arm cross on her. As the walk down the hall, eyes rest on them like a
paparazzi, camera sight outside the building
"She should be ready, cause I wouldn't let her
get away with this" she roared.
"Mommy stop, stop for once" she clutch her
tight
"I will not rest till she's punish, we will
meet in court, she will tell the world what killed my son, if the court can't
handle it, My people will get involved"
"If I was you I will be so ashamed. anywhere
you want us to go, we will be there" Nnenna groaned leaving.
"Mommy this is wrong"
"They will hear from me, they will receive my message"
she roared.
"Dr. Kaima how are you feeling now? The first
press
"Dr. Kaima what really happened to your
husband?" the second press ask so curious
"Can you excuse me" Chinasa brutal
"Dr. Kaima is it true you have Psychiatric
morbidity?" Another, he puts the mic on her lips
"Make a way please, with those your stupid
question" Chinasa roared. Press practically intruding, as Chinasa strike to get
Kaima into the automobile
"Madam, talk to us, is it true Dr. Kaima
killed her husband?" She quest
"Will you get out" she roared so furious, as
Nnenna emerge close "Mom please hurry up lets leave her" she held into the automobile
*********
"You know how much I have really miss you" nudge
her jug
"Ya, I miss you more" she smiled
"How is my son doing?" he asked
"His doing great, can you believe they have
refused to keep him with me"
"That's fine"
"When are you coming back to take us home, I'm
tired of staying here, I want to go home"
"Just be a little patience with me, I will
come pick you, at the right time"
"Babe"
"Mmm…" he moaned, held her hand
"When are we going to have those beautiful
moment together" she acclaim. He grinned
"When ever you want, I'm for you" he firmed so
romantic, caresses her cheek mute. "Your sister is coming"
"My sis?" she quest so timid
"Yes, don't tell her I'm here, ok"
"Why, she will be so happy to see you"
"No, don't tell her, I don't want her to know,
is our secret" the door opened. China's walked in starring around
"Kaima, who are you speaking with?" her hands
fold, as her eye interrogate. She stare at him, he place his finger between her
lips, flinging his head ."Kaima I'm asking you?"
She stare at him, he was still flinging his
head "No one"
"You are trying to tell me, all that noise
coming from this room, is just you"
"Yes, I'm just alone"
"I have asked Akpos, he said he haven't opened
the gate for anyone lately , cause I was thinking you had a guest, Kaima are you
okey" she seats beside her on the bed "Is there something, you want us to talk
about us"
"I'm fine, don't worry about me Big Sis, I'm
fine" she smile starring at him
"Okey, I just pick the kids from school, let
me go cook something for dinner, before my husband got back" she cuddle her.
Stood leaving, she turned stares for a while and left.
"Why are you sacred?" she acclaimed grinned
"I wasn't, I just don't want her to see me"
grinned