HIS CARE II

Mom, I think you should let the party

coordinator and party adviser do their job

aside from that too, I can also employ

someone to be in charge of all the fake

marriage things, you don't have to bother

yourself on all of this"l said.

"No, I want to be in charge of everything that concerns you, I need to protect you from a girl that could blackmail or maybe even worked with the opposition party only God knows what else she is capable of doing, she can do anything, she must have a reason for doing this and the reason is known none other that she trying to

gold dig and gold diggers could do anything to get to you" my mom says.

"Mom please, just take it easy with Shade, she is just a small girl and we have both gone through a lot in the last few hours please, she's been crying so much and that's not good for one's health" I said and my mom pauses and she opens her mouth and shuts it , she raises her brow and I know whenever my mom does that,she has something not appealing to say.

I moved my eyes sideways cross my leg and pick my laptop and place It on my laps.

"Kunle, you are defending that glrl so much, you and I know the sex shouldn't have happen between you both, don't tell me you are already faling for that girl? Don't tell me you are already falling for her crocodlle tears? She raised her

volce a blt.

"Mom please, don't ...don't... think that way, how can you think of me falling for that girl, It's about feeling for the poor glrl, moreover we haven't gotten a result from the ongoing investigation and I do not want to Insinuate mom, what If she ls Innocent of all the allegation we placed agalnst her? I want to take it easy with her and I am not falling for her because I am not interested in women right now" he says.

" I will call in my PA to take every note of what you sald now, the photoshoot, stepplng out, meeting of her family and also the press conference whatever is remaining because, I am so busyright now working on my speeches for the upcoming campaign because you know we would be using every medum to be campaigning right now I said and I stood up and walk back to my desk.

I couldn't even continue writing, my mind kept going back to how my mom spoke to shade harshly, I dont even know why l am so bothered of the way mny mom spoke to her, those words really hurt her that is why she ran out of my office.

I steal a look at my mom and l could see she is busy on her phone and she muttered out.

" Just because of this evil girl people are dragging my son's name on the internet" she says and hissed.

I didn't say a word, I picked the intercom and dial my PA's number, I want to keep her busy with Basey, so that l can go and check Shade because I know if my mom knows that I want to go and see shade, i's going to be another lecture of how she wants to ruin my career.

"Bassey, please come in" l said.

Few minutes later.

Bassey came in with his tablet in his hand.

"Sir" he says with a bow.

"My mom has some list of things that she

would like you to do list for our change of

plans because of everything that happened

today.

"Mom Bassey is here to take the list of the

things you said the we would be doing in few days" he said.

"Bassey, come sit and let's work together to support your boss" she says

" Yes ma" Bassey replied and he goes to sit with my mom.

I sat for a while pretending to realize both of them are engrossed in their discussion, I stood up and shove my hand into my pamts pocket, I looked out of the windows of my office and I walked out of my office, I walked to Shade's room, I knocked but there was no reply, I slowły open the door and I see her laying on the ground with her hair scattered over her face, she has a long hair not as long as the white people or the Arabians but for we here in Africa or should I say in Nigeria, what we considered as long hair is full type of hair, she had it bond together before now but now the hair is scattered that they fall over her face, she was sleeping like a baby, I closed the door slowly because I didn't want the door

to make a noise that will wake her up.

I walked towards her and I crouch down before her and I use my hand to move her hair away from her face, she had cried so hard that I could see her eyes swollen despite that she had her eyes closed, she had stains of tearsface and I use my finger to trace those face but one thing made me stare into her face for long despite her rough hair, stained face, she was

still beautiful , if she was tall enough she would have been discovered to represent us in the beauty peagant but she

had no height though, that could have been what will disqualified her from representing my country as a beauty queen, she has this dark shining colour and her lips are so beautiful. l carried her gently and she opened her eyes , I paused in my tracks and then she closed.

She shuts her eyes again and I took her to the bed I placed her gently on the bed and she sobbed in her sleep and stare at her for a while and she slept off again.

She must have cried so much due to the words of my mom, my mom is just being mad at how people has been speaking ill of the family she built for years.

I helped turn on the A/C inside the room.

Not like l am not always upset each time my discussion pops up online but it has happened solution is what we need and investigating the how it happened.

I just feel bad for Shade because she kept telling me she didn't do it which I am convinced but how did she get to my

opposition party before she was used, is

something l want to know because l know

whatever I had happened is from the opposition party.

I walked out of the room and I walked down

stairs into the living room becausel know by the time she would wake up she must be hungry.

I dial the housekeeper number on my cellphone, I asked her to come and she came to me , she bow her head while I was

standing in the middle of the living room.

" Sir you sent for me" she says.

" yes, I sent for you, concerning Shade"

I said.

" the girl in the guest room? she asked.

"Your wife to be? She ask again, I stare at her with no answer because l know she always like to act silly sometimes.

"She is still sleeping and I know by the time

she would wake up she would be hungry, make her something she likes to eat" I said.

"Sir, we do not know what she likes to eat?

How do we give her what she like to eat? She asks.

"Ask her when she ls awake" I said.

"Okay sir she said,

"Clean up the room next to my room and

let me know when it is done" I sald and I climb the stairs to go back to my office and I met my PA on the stalrs.

"Get me some coffee" I said.

"yes sir"he replied and I walk back to my

office and my mind went back to my ex and I flash back to our old good times, if someone had said she was cheating on me l would never have believed it, it still hurts till now.

SHADE.

I turn around on the bed and l open my eyes and I look down the bed, look at where I was sleeping on, I was on the bed under the duvet and I could feel the cold temperature of the room ,I look up to the A/C , it was on , I sit up in the bed and look down and I remembered I had cried and slept off on the floor and I had slept in the bed myself, I wouldn't have tuck myself under the duvet ,someone must have put me in the bed" I was

still murmuring to myself when the words of Kunle's mom flashes back to my memory, I know I shouldn't have run out of the office that way because they are both my bosses but the insults were just too much.

"Who gave her the right to insutt me and my entire generation? She can insult me but not my family, running away from their presence feels so much like peace moreover she is my fake mother in law and I just want my peace till we would get divorced should apologise" I said to myself.

I won't apologise, l know my right and my

family deserve some respect, we might be

poor but we are contented and we are not

thieves, afterall l am only being accused, if I wasn't so stupid, would a stranger like me

have been allowed to deliver foods to clients in such hotel, wait a minute this is a huge opportunity, my popularity will change the life of me and my family because it will be easy for me and my family to travel abroad easily.

Someone knocks on the door, I dldn't know if It to answer or not, maybe It's tlme for my

punishment for running out of his mom's

presence but I don't think Kunle would do that.

He might not be that man that smile so much but he respects women so much and I do not think he would do something crazy to me, I have been here, he has only shouted at me said ill words and he let them serve me some fried rice and chicken and juice which is my favorite if only I can ask of ice cream I will be happy at least if l am ill treated, I still eat something.

Maybe his mom has come to deal with me,

that woman should be name she devil, she

hates me from time, Grandma never liked her when she was alive, so am l and I can never like her for speaking ill of my entire generation, if she wants to beat me it's fine but she should spare my mouth that I would use in eating all the food I wasn't

priviledge to eat for years.

" If she thinks I will apologize for running out of her presence I won't because I deserve my respect, my family deserves their own respect, we might be poor but we are not thieves after all I didn't do what I was being accused off.

I was still thinking when I heard a knock on my door and I didn't know if to open the door or not because I am tired of opening the door.

I stood up lazily and walk to the door , And fear gripped me. I paused and became scared thinking maybe it's time for my punishment, I didn't want open the door again and the knocking continue them a female voice opens the door opened the door and it was an elderly woman in her forties who was at the door.

I was surprised to see a different face at my door step and I had a sigh of relief when I saw her uniform.

"Good evening ma" we both chorused greeting each other and I was surprised she use the word " Ma" for me.

"I should be referring to you as ma and even address you as ma because my parents said elders should be respected" She smiles at me.

"You are my boss and I have to respect you, irrespective of the age" she replies.

"I didn't employ you , Kunle did" I said.

" You are his soon to be wife and I have to respect you" She said.

I chuckle.

" Marriage indeed" I muttered in a very low voice.

"Ma'am what would you like me to prepare you something to eat? I said.

" Shade ma" I said.

She smiled and ask me again.

" What would you like me to prepare for you for dinner ma'am? She asked and I stare at her.

"You......yo......you asked if I want you to prepare me some food?

"Yes, It's an order from your fiancée moreover you will become his wife soon and I think he wants you to be free around him, just saying" she said.

"free?! Anyways, my opportunity to eat

whatever I like has come." I smile happily.

"What about a bowl of ice cream and if l can have some biscuits, I have been dying to eat that for a while" | said.

"no problem ma, I would order that for you ma" she replied.

"Don't order biscut, order a shawarma and samosa with that I would have a beautiful sleep this night"I said and the elderly woman laughed.

"What about dinner? What you asked for is

just for refreshment? The housekeeper says.

"Refreshment? Ofcourse no, that is infact a

food, I use to struggle to buy that one when I was a maid with Mr kunle's mom,

sharwarma , lce cream and Samosa is enough for me now but I just hope he won't complain that I am asking" I said.

" Mr Kunle is such a nice man and I think he cares so much about you" the woman says and takes her leave.

I forgot all about my purnishment and began to think back to Kunle, he not so bad at least he told the maid to come and ask me what I would like to eat, he is a nice and arrogant man, he cares

about my health and wouldn't want me going hungry, he's not even looking bad at all, he's got the six packs, pinks lips beautiful eyes, he's rich, he has that height every girl wants in a man, gosh, l am going to become his fake wife soon, I just

wish I would be able to think straight staring at him with all his features"I said to myself and I thought again.

"Shade, can you thínk like a real hustler, this family hates the poor, just take a look at how his mom spoke ill of your family, Kunle can never fall ín love with someone like me, l am never his class and I don't even want to start thinking of all his body. features before it starts getting into my head, the most important is l would get something out of all this, uhmm,

some bad things happen in one's ife for a

purpose, Once the divorce is over I will travel overseas with my mom and siblings, we would live a better life abroad how do I earn my money to take us abroad

Then I remembered my sex with him and I thought of speaking with him so that I don't get pregnant but how do I tell him?