Scott hurriedly
packed his suitcase, Monday was just two days away, and he would disappear from
work with Eno to hatch his plan.
He peeped at the
ringing phone on the bed, it was Cherry
“Hey sister” He
leered
“Scott, I got news
that you’re off your medication again, need I remind you the damage that
attitude has cost us?”
“Cherry, you are
shouting and my head aches right now” Scott hissed
“I will shout at you.
You’ve refused to make your life meaningful, our parents would turn in their
graves seeing the way you’ve turned out to be”
“You should
take out the log in your eyes first”
“What do you mean
log? I might not have a perfect life but I have it all planned out”
“You do? Who’s your
daughter’s father?”
“What do you mean
who’s my daughter’s father? Everyone knows I was married to Greg”
“But you were
impregnated by another”
“Now, you are just
being psychotic, I didn’t know it had gotten to this, your speech isn’t even
coherent” she sighed
“Gbadams is the
father of that child and Greg knows. Why else do you think he never called to
check up on his own daughter after he left prison?” He mocked
“But... but... he
always sent her upkeep money, I never even slept with Gbadams, we experimented
on drugs together but I never slept with him”
“How would you know,
when you spent the better part of your married life hooked on alcohol and the
same drugs you’re scolding me for? You both had an ecstatic night that led to
Lisa’s birth” he spat
“I hate you Scott,
you brought that demon into our lives”
“Just sort your life
and leave me the hell alone!” Scott spat and ended the call.
He hissed as he
angrily took another call. Everyone kept disturbing him, leaving his phone
unanswered could make people suspicious
“Yes…?” he tiffed
“Scott I need to see
you,” Greg’s voice filtered through the phone
“See me for what?” If
he knew it was Greg, he would have ignored the call. He staggered from being fainty
“You’ve been
abusing Amara and that’s a criminal act”
“Can you just learn
to put your life together for once?” Scott spat
“I’m trying to, but
you and your evil friend keep ruining every effort I make at doing that”
“Shut-up Greg. You
are just a coward!”
“Me? Coward?”
“Yes that’s what you
are. You can’t even take over the company, you can’t find the guts to tell Eno
you care for her, get you some effrontery for that aspect of your life and stop
meddling in my affairs” He rushed
“I’ll report to the police,
and this time you are not getting away with any of your crimes, I think I’ve
been a coward for too long, now is the time to sit up.” He hissed and dropped
the call.
Scott shivered and
fumbled through the clothes on the bed, he was having a tremor – a withdrawal
symptom from a particular brand of drug he was becoming addicted to. ‘Damn it…”
he cursed as his hands found the container. Gbadams had introduced him to this on
one of their escapades and he was now too dependent on it. He tipped the
container and its contents scattered on the floor, Scott bent to pick the
drugs, but banged his head on the bedframe. He slowly let go as his body hit
the cold floor tiles. His heart was faintly beating when he heard a siren from
afar off.
************************
Gregory sighed, he
had been a coward for too long, and shut out his emotions because he didn’t
want anyone to shatter his heart like Cherry did or cut short anyone’s life as
he had done Jacinta’s.
He picked his car key
from the television stand in his living room and made his way out of the house.
Starting the car, he connected his phone to the car stereo so he could take
cherry’s incoming call as he drove out
“Hello C,”
“Greg, you knew Lisa
wasn’t yours?” Cherry sniffed
“I don’t know how you
heard this but…”
“I lived a terrible
life, and I deserve everything I am going through, but you don’t; you are a
good man Gregory, a good man. I’m so sorry I pinned this on you”
“It’s okay, you never
knew.”
“If only I had made
my life meaningful, appreciated your love for me and came off drugs, it
wouldn’t have happened”
“Cherry, it’s a good
thing you aren’t hooked on drugs anymore. I’ll do anything I can to make you
and Lisa comfortable”
“Well, I just wanted
to apologize and ask that you move on with your life. I’ll mail you the company
papers once I have my lawyers change the ownership deeds”
“They are with you?”
“Yes, Scott made me
keep them, said that was the only way you’d care for your child”
Greg sighed
“I’ll have them sent over”
“Thank you cherry, I
want to make a fresh start but I don t think Scott would allow that happen”
“How?”
“He and Gbadams are
currently threatening someone I care greatly for”
Cherry went mute, she
knew how Greg would go all out for someone he loved
‘I’ll speak with him”
cherry replied
“You don’t have to,
I’m making an official report at the police station”
“Are you?” Cherry
panicked
“Yes, I will not take
this lightly, Eno is a young woman who needs to be protected. She will not end
up like Jacinta”
“Is she?”
“Cherry……!” Greg
barked.
“Okay… I’ll speak
with him while you go to the police”
“Okay fine”
Greg ended the call
to take cosmos’s call
“Comos, I’m off to
see Eno, she left Tolu and I at about 2pm to go see some lover of hers at his
guest house, and I don’t feel good about it. More so, I’ve been trying to reach
her for over an hour but she’s not responding”
“Which guest house?”
“Da-Lams, it’s in
Lekki”
“Oh, wait, I spoke
with Gbadams a while ago, wanted to know if he was with Scott, he said he was
over at the same place. That’s even why I was calling, I wanted us to go see
him together”
“Really?”
“Yea, something
doesn’t feel right”
“Cosmos, where can I
pick you up? I smell evil” Greg exited his street into the highway
“I’ll
meet you there”
“Okay.
To be continued.................
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