Friday the thirteenth of October; six months earlier, it was no surprise that it had been raining heavily at that time of the year. Everyday came with an even heavier sequence of rainfall and thunderstorms. This particular day was no different . Light ray flashes of lightening thunderbolts had been seen traveling from North to South ranging from both the East and west. The rain had been trickling down the drainage pipes on the rooftops to hit hard on the interlocked floor at the St Monica catholic Cathedral at south west Bariga, Lagos.
The cathedral was a long withed building of relatively tall heights . it covered several vast acres of the land and was mostly found to be silent especially on days like this where the roads had been flooded In the city.
On this day , two men had decided to use the serenity of this building to their advantage and chose to meet discreetly by 8:00pm at the cathedral. One of the men had been sitting on a bench originally from th
It was 7pm already. Nena had been driving for an hour nonstop now until she finally met with the regular Lagos traffic. She was disappointed although not surprised. She had lived in the city all her life and had been accustomed to their age old traffic. She had actually wanted to arrive home with the dinner she picked up from a Mc Donald restaurant outlet in the city. She was headed to Dani’s place and wanted to spend another romantic evening before she travelled back to Abuja the following day for the case on Lucile.She began reminiscing about the sex they had the previous night with Dani and was thinking she could re-create the whole scene again once she got home but there she was, stuck in the unpleasant Lagos traffic.She eventually got home, of course later than she expected but was only grateful that both she and her ride had made it home unscathed from the rough r road.She walked into the apartment and went up the stairs. She walked into the kitch
Nena had brought out the micro- waved food out to the dinner table downstairs after she had finished her glorious bathroom sex with her fiancée . she was now waiting for the young man to make his way downstairs and join her at the dinner table.“Dani!” she called out , expecting him to have made it downstairs already. He was letting the food get cold again and she didn’t like that, she was about giving another loud shout out again when she heard footsteps rushing down the stairs. Dani had been jumping several step blocks to increase his pace as he raced down the stairs. Nena even saw him jump right above the last three step blocks and landed on his feet at the the dining. She had always known Dani to be the energetic athletic.“please, do not injure yourself. If you had been down on time like I warned you to, you wouldn’t have to pull all these stunts just to make it down to the dining” nena said.“ trust me
Lucile had always been very reserved . she hadn’t much friends who came around to visit her much. So it was really a surprise that the only one who she was seen to be close with – Bayo Justice Madonna, would be attempting to rape her in her own home. Lucile had known B.J for years now as both their families had been acquainted with each other even before their birth . the lawsuit had really put a severing cut to the ties of friendship that once held both families. Ever since the alleged rope , lady Lucile had been isolating herself in her room for days without talking much to anyone. She just stared out of her window and couldn’t help but ponder between her thoughts . she had been wondering, trying to remember what have I done? Was it really B.J? Had I overeacted? She kept these thoughts circling round in her mind and she couldn’t help it anymore. Had father had ceased to speak with her for days now. Her
6: 15 am in the morning, the Murtala mohammed airport had been stack full of people already, as usual. it was usually difficult to meet up with any morning flights that went later than that time. It was equally difficult to have noticed Nena walk into the airport with so many people and Dani as well who helped carry her luggage , walking behind her.Nena was moving in such a hurry, apparently she was just a few minutes away from missing her flight.“Do you really have to travel today hon?” Dani said as they stopped to process the cargo aboard“yes darling” Nena replied “ like I told you before, we have another court hearing two days from now. Hopefully, a verdict would be given then and I would be done with this case finally”Dani’s face turned pale , a trick to mislead his spouse to think that he would be missing her dearly.“oh don’t be like that dani, I won’t be long this ti
The thoughts of how far this case had come kept moving back and forth in Lucile’s head.A voice kept screaming in her head. 'What have I done. this is an action you should have taken years ago. Not now'The voice kept on speaking.But I did feel him inside me. he had no right to do that. I never remembered giving him consent or a go ahead. Or did I?She was stuck in a state of delirium as she dwelled in her trance for a while until she was woken by the vibrations from her phone which had been ringing out loud for a while now , but obviously not loud enough to wake her from the trance in one ring.She reached for her phone and saw that her father had been calling , dropped about 4 missed calls already. She called back to know the reason for his previous calls she had missed. Apparently, the old man had been knocking on her room door and Lucile hadn’t been responding. She had her air pods on. She knew her fat
Flight 24 of the virgin Atlantic airlines now flew at an altitude of 356meters above sea level on route to it’s destination – Abuja. The weather had been associated with storms and a very cloudy atmosphere. The flight was only permitted to leave the airport because it was a local one that could take no longer than an hour at most, to complete.Nena stared out the window at the clouds as the plane managed it’s way out of a series of very violent turbulences. The experience had been terrifying, although this wasn’t her first time experiencing such a turbulent flight but something about this one left her very jittered as she remembered that she had so much to live for and this was not the right time to die in a plane crash.The flight had become stable for a while now and rays of sunshine were seen to be rising , tendering it’s reflections on the surface of the plane’s windows.She stared at the beauty and aesthetics of nat
Back home in Lagos, Maestro was fully busy at the warehouse. He had a lot of work to do in catching up on all the lost time that Nena’s unanticipated presence had cost him when she was around. He reckoned he had to handle the Nadia situation more closely as well as be more prudent with his future actions since he was now on a close leash from the NDLEA’s RICO investigation.He had driven straight to the warehouse and was welcomed by a series of questions and bad news from zeke – his loyal assistant“good morning boss. We have been expecting you since yesterday boss“I know” maestro replied “what’s the development“we had a situation this morning. One of our boys on the twenty first street downtown in Ikeja, was gunned down.“what ? who? “ maestro asked furiousl“it was. It … was” zeke stuttered with the respons“who zeke! Who!”
The board room of the NDLEA Is located in the upper East end of the last floor of the 20 feet building. Officer Jasper had just been summoned in there by the very stern faced Director Gambo.Jasper was panting after running all the way from his office to see why the director was calling.There had been serious speculations about when the next raid on the said location jasper presented in the last board meeting.Director Gambo had been waiting patiently for the a date on when the raid would be finally organised“I don’t understand why it is taking much time Jasper” the detective began as soon as Jasper stepped into the room. “how long would it take for you to assign units on that location where they traced the SUV to”“sir” jasper began to reply with a face that gave out a countenance of confusion. “ I thought it was ola’s job to send units there since you made him head of the execution team from