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Dami heard a knock on his door,not sure if it was Federico or one of his guys,anybody. He might blow somebody's head off.

The knocking was continuous and harder,he could tell even though he wasn't in the sitting room. He had moved to the room to check if anything was missing or if he could get anything that'll bring back the memory of the previous night.

Frustrated at the continuous knocking. He picked up his gun from the drawer that was right beside his bed, miffed cause he couldn't find anything to help him remember.

He sat,dejected. Forgetting he was supposed to answer the door. Taken aback by the sudden ring of his phone,a deep furrow formed in his brows. The house had been silent since Korede left,he had switched off the TV too.He needed silence,no distraction,to be able to think.He even forgot he had a phone.

He answered the call and immediately placed it on loud speaker.

"Dami,nah me con open door abeg".it sounded like johnmoore but why was he calling him with a different phone number ,especially at a moment like this. He placed his gun right in his back pocket and headed downstairs.

When he got to the door,he whipped out his gun,pointed it out and slowly opened the door.

"Waow,calm down it's just me" Johnmoore jerked, shocked to see Dami with a gun aimed at him. But He thought for a second,it was necessary,not with what had happened in Dami's house earlier.He'd better open the door for the next person with a bomb.

"Why did you call me with a different number?"Dami asked returning the gun back to where it was;his back pocket.

"It's a new number.I just got it few days ago,it's the only sim that I got airtime on and you were not opening the door that was why I called"Johnmoore replied him, walking towards the dinning as if searching for something.

"You okay?", Dami asked seeing that Johnmoore was searching the house.

"Korede called me just now,he explained everything to me.He told me to come over so we can all talk about Federico"

Federico,the name made him twitchy,it made his heart skip beats,not one but beats. Maybe he shouldn't have agreed with johnmoore and Korede when they said they needed to take the whole game to a higher level. They all knew who Federico was,he was that big,wealthy, powerful and biggest drug dealer in Lagos city.

Not many people knew about him,the fact he was white, Mexican, foreign. Nobody could question his source of income, nobody cared about him,to everyone he was just like every other white that'd walk the street of Lagos looking a foreign eatery not far from their company or foreigner who had just come to Nigeria to make more money but deep into the game, Federico runs the street. They all knew that.

"And you couldn't call me and tell me about lekan's death?"

Dami walked to get water in the fridge,he had lost body fluids. That name created sweat balls on his face ,he needed to drink some water to recuperate the lost fluids.

"Korede just told me this morning.i swear to God I didn't know. I got mad at him cause he didn't tell me... said he didn't know things would turn out this bad. We don't even know if Shina is dead too" Johnmoore defended himself,he didn't want to get on Dami's bad side.

He shouldn't be here trying to argue with Johnmoore the reason why he was the last person to know about lekan's death.He knew Johnmoore was lying about just finding out this morning especially with the swear,he could tell he was only just defending himself.

Dami threw the bottle of water at Johnmoore who caught it easily like he was thirsty to drink it.

He went back to his room looking for something that would explain what 'the woman' was doing in his house this morning.This is bad,he knew nothing about her or where she's from. If only he could save her and get some information from her,he thought.

He searched his drawer,his wardrobe,the bed,under the pillow,the bathroom,the whole room. At least if they had sex like she claimed they did,they should be something of hers inside his room.

He left his room,just outside the door of the next room,his son's room.He saw something.

He moved closer to it to check what it was;a girl's clothes.A red gown,as soon as he picked the clothes up,he immediately recognize it. She was putting on this red gown at the club yesterday,this was what she was wearing when he met her the previous night.

Oh yes she was wearing my shirt

Seeing the gown,the spot where he was.

Pain struck his head,images appearing too.He had wanted to enter his son's room with a woman and ...

Fuck that was the woman

He couldn't believe he slept with her but why can't he remember anything?

Was he having amnesia ?

Why can't he remember anything after the club,why does he only remember this?

He started thinking,thinking hard. All he could remember was that he was holding a girl in his arms, slowly kissing her, stripping off her clothes so he could fully have her. He couldn't remember her face,or anything,just the feeling of sexual desire.

"Damn it"he yelled punching his right fist on the wall and holding the gown with his left fist.

"Dami,are you okay?"Johnmoore called out

"Yes I'm fine,I'm coming downstairs now". Dami walked to the sitting room,angry,pissed , going nuts.

He couldn't ... he couldn't believe he slept with her and he doesn't remember a thing.

The threw the gown on the dinning table where Johnmoore was sitting.

"I swear I can't believe I slept with her" Dami said with an angry tone punching the wall again.He started pacing around a spot.

"With who?",John asked even though he knew it would be the lady Korede had told him about,the one Federico shot in Dami's house.

"The girl that Fede..." The name! It sent down shivers down his back.

"She was shot this morning...right here in front of my eyes"

"Okay,you need to calm down"John didn't understand why Dami was fidgeting . It obviously wasn't his first time sleeping with a woman. If it was the whole situation, He knew Dami would find a way,he always did.

"Did you know her?"

"No"

"So?"

"I don't remember a thing about how we had sex or how she got into my house"Dami was getting angrier, saying it out loud that he doesn't remember a thing was getting him more vexed.

John dropped his phone on the table, turned to really face Dami. Dami has to really work on controlling his anger.

"Okay,I'm very confused right now but the only thing I can tell you is that you really need to calm down Dami. For real"

Yes,his anger. He has to calm,he has to think. He can't just conclude they had sex,he didn't see the girl's face,it was dark,maybe it wasn't her. Dami thought reassuring himself that he was just mistaken.

Dami finally sat on one of the couches, clearing his thoughts. Thinking of a next move,time was going. Korede too isn't back,John sure wasn't helping things.

John unlike Korede doesn't interfere with personal issues. Subconsciously he must thought this was one was too personal so he definitely wouldn't say much about it like he isn't right now.

"Tiana just texted me,she's on her way here. You sure wouldn't allow her see this gown or you like that" Johnmoore said after giving Dami some time to think for what seemed like an hour but was just a couple of minutes. Tiana was fast,she would get here very fast if it was for her beloved Dami.

Oh Tiana,his beautiful Tiana,how could he forget about her.

"She said she's been calling your line and it's not going through. I'm sure Korede must have told her what happened but he wouldn't be dumb enough to tell her the lady part" John said picking up the gown and handing it over to Dami,he has to take care of his own mess.

Dami took the gown,started for the guest's toilet and hid it there.He didn't want to go outside to dispose it and get caught by Tiana.

Just as he was trying to get another water in the fridge ,Tiana came in.

"Baby"

Speaking of the devil, John thought,for some reason he just didn't like Tiana.He knew Dami didn't like her too but ended dating her because of her evil schemes to get him.

But the case was different with Korede,why does he love this girl so much?

"Babe.good morning"Dami greeted her with a kiss. John glanced at the two lover birds.

"Good morning love",Tiana kissed Korede more disregarding John's presence " Korede told me everything,hope he didn't hurt you?"

Everything?? Korede gave John a look that he understood.

NO,John mouthed in return.

"Just a little threat but it's fine. We're waiting for Korede to come so we could talk about all of this".

Korede walked right in to see Tiana kissing Dami on the lips.

Tiana was obsessed with Dami. She wouldn't allow the poor man breathe air that didn't have her fragrance in it when she was around. John always felt awkward at a moment like this,he didn't like this at all.

"Dami you didn't close the door",John said so Tiana would stop kissing Dami. So she would also notice korede had walked in.

"Hey Korede,where did you go?"Tiana sniffed. She turned moving close to where Korede was standing and pulling Dami with her.

"We need to sit and talk. "Dami said with a tone that weighed authority letting go of Tiana's hand.

Now it's time for boss talk!!!