Aminu.
Previously...
I entered my solicitor's office feeling eager to get down to business. The middle aged man stood up dressed in his normal lawyer's regalia of white and black with a suit to top it off and greeted me.
"You're welcome sir. Please have a seat" he said and I walked straight to have a seat.
"So, I take it you also received the lawsuit?" I said.
"Yes sir and I was about to call you when you eventually called. This case is not going to be too hard if we take the right steps." He said and brought out a notepad where he had written his ideas down. I liked him because he thought ahead.
"Okay so what is your suggestion?" I said and waited for him to speak.
He rubbed his chin "First I'd like to ask how you came to be in possession of this child."
"You see that's where the problem is. She gave
Aminu. Previously... "What's wrong? Who called you?" Louis asked worriedly. "Zara" I dragged. "Yooo.. she's seen it too?" He exclaimed. "Yes and let me tell you, she isn't happy. They were calling her all sorts of evil things man." I lamented. I was getting frustrated with all this. "I know. It's f*cked up. It breaks my heart that she's going through this. She's my cousin you know." Louis as and I nodded. "Yeah. I'm trying to have a stable and blissful life with her but Jasmine won't let me drink water and drop cup in peace guy." I said. I leaned forward and rubbed my head. I was exhausted. "Well Jasmine has got another thing coming for her if she thinks she can mess with us. One thing about the Okafors is that we fight each other, not outside people." Louis said and I looked at him, he had a vengeance
Zara Previously... I got to Louis' house and the first person I saw in the courtyard thankfully was David, Zara's Driver. He still had bruises from when he was beaten and tied up by Zara'a kidnappers. "David how are you?" I said when I approached him. Immediately he caught sight of me, he stood up and greeted me hastily "Good evening sir. It's nice to see you." He said. "Yeah I'm looking for Zara. I'm led to presume you brought her home from my house." I said. I had to have him in a tight corner so that he wouldn't be able to lie to me. "Y.. No sir. I.. I didn't" he stuttered. I glared at him and he looked down, refusing to meet my eye. "David. I know you don't want to lose your job. Remember who your actual boss is. Don't try to lie to me" I threatened. My company owned the agency that supplied security, bouncers, escorts,
Zara Previously.... "We need to talk, in my room" I said and turned around walking in the direction of my room. From all indication and the footsteps, he was coming as well. I opened the door and held it open for him to come in before I shut the door back. "Wow, you really did leave" he said as if realization just dawned on him probably from seeing my clothes scattered on the bed. "I had to leave. Everything was just so overwhelming that I needed a break okay?" I explained. I folded my hands and rested my back on the wall directly opposite of where he stood. "I'm sorry. I know how much emotional stress you've been through because of me. I understand..." "No you don't because if you did you wouldn't come and fight my cousin." I snapped. I was pissed at him and even Louis but more at him because he threw the first punch.
Aminu. Previously... "That's the thing with this relationship. It's really draining. The hurdles we always have to face at any given point in time. We can't catch a break Lou, we just can't. And the annoying part of it is that Jasmine is probably somewhere cooling off with another man after causing so much havoc in our lives. Shouldn't we just go our separate ways and save ourselves all this stress?" I said. I was just thinking out loud and Louis shook his head frantically. "No, no no no. First off, I've seen you two when you guys are apart. Y'all are miserable without each other and I'm not even lying so that's not even an option, secondly, if you guys break up now, that's what Jasmine wants. She wants you guys to separate. So she wins. Do you want that to happen?" Louis asked. I leaned forward and rested my chin on my arms which were folded on my knee. "I just want my peace of mind Lou." I
Aminu. "God you're the slowest person I have ever seen in my d*mn life. Yes Jasmine or should I say Promise. I know that he's not my son but the law does not know that. Nasir is legally my child. Registered in the government as son of Aminu Garba. So you, your charge and bail lawyer and who ever it was that adviced you to do this nonsense are fools. You won't win this case because you simply cannot." I said. I saw how the blood drained from her face completely and she started sweating and hyper ventilating. How could she be so stupid. When I saw that she couldn't talk and was silent for a while, I made another statement "my lawyers would be releasing their counter suit soon so if you know what's best for you and your mother, you had better withdraw your suit because if you are caught in that counter suit, even your life's savings won't be able to settle the suit. That's if you even have any saving since you were so busy paying The Shade
Aminu. Previously... "Both you and Jasmine will rot in prison, I will make sure of that" I said, gritting my teeth. Anger rose in me and I had to fight of the urge to get my hands around his throat and kill him there and then. But then I had to allow the law take its course and Zara.. she wouldn't be happy with my line of action. "I've accepted my fate brother. I wish I did things better. I probably would get a life sentence or worse, be executed which I'll prefer because a life sentence is a fate worse than death. I have never asked you for anything before but I will do it now because this is a mutual need. Make sure Jasmine goes to jail or dies. That is my only wish." He said this time looking me in the eye. "That's easy. And for what it's worse. If you hadn't betrayed me and had told me about the fact that we were brothers from the onset, I would have accepted you with all the joy in the w
Zara. Previously... "Yeah I get it. It's very nice of her though" I said and sighed, rubbing my eyes. "I really miss Zara. And Nas has been crying, he wants to see her. I'm always scared of going home to him because he'll start hounding me with questions and crying again." I said rubbing my face in frustration thinking about how sad Nasir was that Zara wasn't there. "Did he do that when he was brought to your house in the first place. Like did he cry about Jasmine?" Louis with his nosiness asked. "Not at all. It was like he didn't know the difference. Nasir for her was always a tool to use to get what she wanted so I believe they didn't have much of a relationship with each other." I said and sipped my usual glass of whiskey. "Don't worry, she'll come around" he said and his eye twitched. That was something I learnt over the years to look out for if Louis
Aminu. Previously... Almost a week had passed and it was finally the day that we would stand trial with the arbitrator. Aminu had pushed for it because he didn't want the stupid case to taint his brand which was the wise thing to do. The arbitrator would essentially keep everything on a low and not attract press to it. Or so I thought. I hadn't spoken to Aminu even after Tanna's intervention. Now I was ready and I was going to surprise him at the arbitrator's office. There was no way I would leave him to do this alone. I didn't tell Louis because his big mouth would tell Aminu in a heart beat. On getting to the venue for the trial, contrary to my belief, there was a swarm of press people with microphones and cameras at the doors to the building. What the hell? Who told them where it would be. I decided to hide and slip in undetected. I met a secur