Almighty Mike:
After shedding off the insanely costly jacket I'd worn due to the request of the deceased drama queen, I settled quietly on the same bench Angel just vacated and thought long and hard about all the woman had just yelled at my face in anger, and I realised I had been very and so willfully stupid to have ever thought about all the I'd said after Angel finally confessed about her feelings for me.
Now that I thought thoroughly about it, I rested my head in both of my palms and wondered what on earth I had been thinking to have ever suggested that she come be my second in command. How could I have been so ignorant?
Angel had never been afraid of me, but she'd never approved of my way of life either and I'd been clueless enough to translate her love for me as a thumbs-up to drag her into the bloody kind of life I only knew how to live without even considering her opinions.
That'd been what Trigger was mad about;
Mokunfayo Badmus:Waking up in the arms of a murderer and feeling so ecstatic about it was not what I would have ever imagined myself experiencing in my wildest dreams if I had been asked to envisage a few years ago, and yet the strong arms that wrapped around my waist, with fingers loosely placed just below my navel, belonged to a ruthless and mindless criminal, and even though my first instinct had been to jump out of bed and away from this stranger with the incredibly comfortable grip despite the fact that my own fingers had been interlaced with his, I got to remember where I was; whose arms I was in and my body relaxed into his hold involuntarily.Lazily maintaining my position in the king size bed, against the warmth of Mike's mostly naked body—I was equally naked myself— I let my mind wander off to the first time we'd ever made love and how passionate it had
You are not their mother,You are not my mother,You're not a mother,You can never be a mother…Weeks after the altercation with both Mike and my nephew, those words they'd left in wake of their cruelty still haunted me in both my sleep, my subconscious and even my wide-eyed consciousness.I had been severely shocked at Stephen's outburst, in fact, I still was astonished, and it all led me to wondering how long he had held all those poisonous thoughts in his head. Was it because I was too strict?—not that I didn't give him his space or anything—or was it that I was not doing the raising thing well?
Mokunfayo Badmus:My vision initially blurred when I heard my brother's children call out their mother in what seemed like excitement, but when she sashayed further into the auditorium and my brother's kids rushed towards her like long lost lovers reuniting, I suddenly felt the surroundings whirling.If it wasn't for Mike suddenly appearing by my side to support my weight, there was no saying what would have happened had I fallen down the stairs and hit my head on the marble tiles the stairs had been made up of."Are you okay?" I heard a voice of Mike's worry echo from quite a distance, but I was too busy focusing on the excited giggles and hugs and kisses the trio busied themselves with to reply the man holding me to his side.And because this new intruder and the strangers
Mokunfayo Badmus:"Let's go kids," Chioma piped up as Madam Peju,the officiating ministers and the rest of our well wishers filed out of the cathedral and began to drag Stephen by the ear and Amaka by her arm towards the nearest exit in the room."If you even dare to move another inch without a permission from the children's guardian to leave with her ward, trust me when I say the consequences will be dire." And Mike was quick to respond with his infamous threats, only that this time, he looked as hell, like he wasn't going to hesitate to carry out his threat.His caveman approach to preventing the sudden exit of my latest enemy seemed to have worked perfectly, as the woman halted with shock and slight fear evident in her features.All that was until Stephen pulled out a gun
Mokunfayo Badmus:Chioma must have thought it was a ploy of mine to change her mind, for she piped up almost immediately. "Amaka is going to leave this pace with her mother–""I believe Aunt Rain has earned the right to say a proper goodbye mom. You owe her that much." I was proud of Amaka when she interrupted her mother in a polite manner. It was quite a relief that at least one of my wards had turned out fine.Chioma had no other option but to nod her approval with a watery smile plastered on her face.I blatantly refused when Mike offered to drive me and settled for hailing the next available cab I found after wobbling my way out of the cathedral with my niece in tow.The ride back to the apartment complex we staye
Mokunfayo Badmus:Chioma must have thought it was a ploy of mine to change her mind, for she piped up almost immediately. "Amaka is going to leave this pace with her mother–""I believe Aunt Rain has earned the right to say a proper goodbye mom. You owe her that much." I was proud of Amaka when she interrupted her mother in a polite manner. It was quite a relief that at least one of my wards had turned out fine.Chioma had no other option but to nod her approval with a watery smile plastered on her face.I blatantly refused when Mike offered to drive me and settled for hailing the next available cab I found after wobbling my way out of the cathedral with my niece in tow.The ride back to the apartment complex we staye
Mokunfayo Badmus:Chioma must have thought it was a ploy of mine to change her mind, for she piped up almost immediately. "Amaka is going to leave this pace with her mother–""I believe Aunt Rain has earned the right to say a proper goodbye mom. You owe her that much." I was proud of Amaka when she interrupted her mother in a polite manner. It was quite a relief that at least one of my wards had turned out fine.Chioma had no other option but to nod her approval with a watery smile plastered on her face.I blatantly refused when Mike offered to drive me and settled for hailing the next available cab I found after wobbling my way out of the cathedral with my niece in tow.The ride back to the apartment complex we staye
Almighty Mike:Although I was enraged about the reckless stunt Angel just performed with her equally reckless nephew. I felt the pain of her losing the few members of her family that had been what kept her going for the past months. I could see through the calm and collected facade she was able to successfully display in the presence of all and sundry, earlier.I could tell, from the way she icily brushed off my offer to drive her home, that she would appreciate her alone-time, but I wasn't able to bear the idea of her bearing her pain on her own, so against her better judgment, I found my way into the privacy of her room.The room was without light, but I could see the outline of her form crouched by her bedside and it broke my heart to witness her shaking uncontrollably due to the fact that she was sobbing. Against my better judgement,