Previously..Femi.First was to see Dan, the head of POSSAP. Then I would see the criminals. First Ife. I wanted to know why she would even think of setting my fiancée on fire. I cringed just thinking about it. Everything felt so out of place now. I was physically and emotionally drained.I was driving and was almost at the POSSAP station when I made a u turn. I had so much anger in me that I couldn't go before them right now. I'd probably kill somebody.My brother was lying in there with third degree burns fighting for his life. I couldn't even go into the ward to properly see him. He was sedated because the pain was too excruciating.It was heartbreaking, gut wrenching and all in all excruciating to see what had happened to my brother and my love even though her situation was a lot more bearable, she was still suffering.I stopped the car by the side of the road to breathe properly. How was I going to quench the fire in me before it lit another person up. I wasn't up for this.Then
Previously...Femi.I sat and waited. My heart was heavy and there was a reason why his face came and stayed on my mind while I was experiencing this.I noticed how my mind cleared as I sat in the church. Very slowly but I was feeling the weight being lifted.After a few moments, the door opened and I saw the man. Pastor Iren or Pastey. I stood up. The man was much smaller in person. He was wearing a shirt that said Imago Dei on the chest which was brilliant. He looked well put together but also casual at the same time."Hello, Femi. How are you?" He said once he got to where I was standing.I was in shock. His presence carried electric. He had a burning stare and his aura was just too powerful. I felt like falling to my knees and all he was doing was staring and smiling."Femi..." he said and I shook my head, coming back to reality."Hello Pastor Iren." I said and held out my hand he took. I felt a shock go up my arm.I took my hand away immediately and looked at my palm. The skin w
Previously…Ama."Radike. Is there an issue?" He asked. He sounded calmer than he did before he left."No but it is just that it is getting late and we actually want to get going so is it possible that you start coming back?" Radike said.I heard him sigh "Okay give Ama the phone. She's awake right?" Femi asked and Radike handed the phone to me."Hello?" I said."oh hey baby. Look i am so sorry that I am spending so much time out. I had to go see see someone real quick. It appears it is of utmost importance." He said."O.. Kay... so when will you be back to the hospital? It's really late and they need to go." I said."Can you stay alone for a few... like thirty minutes. So they can go and I'll join you later." He asked."Yeah sure. I don't understand why y'all keep babying me anyways. I hope you're fine though. I miss you." I told him. My heart aches because he wasn't here."I miss you too sugar. Just give me a second. When I come back I'll tell you all about it" he said."Okay babe.
Previously..Femi."If you ever want to reach out to me that's my card" he said while holding out a business card to me.I took it and it said "Emmanuel Iren, Pastor, Apostle, Speaker, Singer-Songwriter, Lead Pastor Celebration Church International.""It warms my heart that you want me to have this kind of access to you. I know you don't give it out any how" I said."Well no I don't even though I'd much rather have everyone having access to me. My Instagram is always open to everyone though. I reply almost all direct messages I get but my number is just for people who I want to be able to reach me at will. In this instance, that's you." He said.I knew this man. He was dragged almost every week on Twitter sometimes because of his teachings or his threads or when he said that he would like for social media to be sensored which was actually a very valid point but people always got defensive because of his tweet. He was very audacious online and he would never let anyone bully him. I tho
Previously....Femi."Um so I got there and I met Seun...""That goat." She said smiling."You know him?" I asked."Know him? Everyone knows him. He's like the personal handbag of Pastey. You'll see him hover around him like fly every time. Pastey loves him too much." She said."Oh wow no wonder I saw him in the church by this time of the night." I said."Yeah. He goes to covenant. Pastey is paying his fees there. Because of Pastey he can leave any time he wants from the school. The school does not allow that normally but Bishop David loves Pastey so he allows Seun out of the school. He can come and go as he pleases even though it's not exactly allowed. You're aware. He helps Pastey and that's because he wants to. Pastey would rather he remains in school after all, Pastor David is there to help him." She said."This is really eye opening about the dynamics and it really just showed me how amazing he is. Why is he paying for Seun's schooling?" I asked. I was curious about that because
Previously...Femi.Ama's relationship with Kola had really changed. I was very surprised that Kola asked for Ama first when he got better and we were able to go into the room to see him. They now talked, laughed and gusted about everything that sometimes I felt like I was third wheeling them.Today was Sunday and we were supposed to Celebration Church today. Ama also was getting discharged today so we tried to get them to discharge her wary so that we could meet up for the service which was at 9 am.I had called Pastor Iren during the week and he asked me to come to the church and see him after service. It was important that I did that today. I decided to have the church experience as well as Ama wouldn't shut up about how blessed and amazing the worship was so I decided to go. I could have easily decided to wait till noon when the service would end and then go but it didn't seem right anyways.Ama was already ready to go to church. She was in Kola's room waiting for me to finalize w
Previously…Ama.Pastey sat and told us to sit."You are most welcome to my office. What would you like praytell. I have juice, soft drinks, wine, water..." "Water is fine." I said."Babe what do you want?" I asked Femi."Yeah water as well." He said."I will give you water but I'm packaging wine for you to take home. Non-Alcoholic by the way." He said smiling and stood up, went to his fridge and brought out the water for the both of us dropping it in front of us."So, you are Amarachi, Ama I presume by that shiny ring you've got there. Femi, you actually did a very good job. You got this from Cartier or boz which one." He said.I chuckled and so did Femi. "Cartier sir. Thanks so much for that compliment." He said."Oh anytime, anytime. You found yourself a good one. Amarachi I didn't know you would come with him. Thought you'd still be resting in regards to what happened to you." Pastor Iren asked me,"Well, I kind of healed a lot faster than the doctors thought I would so they dis
Previously…Femi.I looked at Ama and she grinned. The fact that she didn’t even know I was the owner. He didn’t know as well, I planned to give him for a cheap price. Cheaper than normal real estate was but pricey enough for me to get some profit out of it. This may have been the reason why God showed me to him. For me to give him a headquarter church. I was glad that I was getting to contribute what I had to the gospel.“Okay wow, thank you sir.” I said.“Stop with all this sir sir sir. Just call me Pastey alright? I’m not that old o.” He said.“Okay Pastey. Thank you so much for um the consideration.” I said.“Thank your fiancee Amarachi. She’s the one who just convinced me. Like she said, if we have the money we can just buy outrightly instead of building it ourselves and losing money in the process. Building will take years to complete and we would still have to pay an exorbitant rent here. So yes, I would have to agree with buying outright.” Pastey said.I looked at my fiancée
Ama.The day had ended. I felt giddy to go home and tell Femi all that happened today. My dream was being fulfilled before my very eyes. I was living in it. I really appreciated Femi's dad for giving me this opportunity. I was very grateful.Femi texted me, telling me he was downstairs and I ran into the elevator without knowing, meeting Tola there. "Ha, hey bestie... why are you running like that?" He said with an amused look on his face."Running ke, me? Never" I said, feigning ignorance of what I just unknowingly did."It's only man that will make you that excited. Femi is here isn't he?" He said.I folded "Yes he is." I rolled my eyes "I'm just happy to finally see him that's all. He's been MIA throughout today." I said."Ahn ahn why?" Tola asked."Well he's been in a meeting and I get it you know. Today is his first day at work since the transplant so I understand. They were probably doing an organizational meeting of some sorts." I said."Okay I get it. Anyways how are you enjo
Femi.I felt so bad for not answering my fiancée. I looked and saw a text from her. “Hey, I know you’re probably busy. You wouldn’t believe what just happened. I’m so happy. Gahhhh call me when you can. Ly x” the text said.I didn’t want to dampen her own mood in any way. She seemed very happy about what was going on around her. I was still sad and emotionally downcast and I knew if I spoke to her in this mood she was going to leave everything she was doing and appear in my office. I would really appreciate her presence now but I also didn’t want to spoil her happiness. I decided to text her saying that I was going to be in a long meeting and I would come pick her up when she’s ready to go. She texted back for acknowledgement. I dropped my phone and sighed, placing my head in my hand. I seemed to be doing that a lot.In my mind, I was trying to picture how this woman could even be remotely related to me. I had to keep telling myself “my parents are dead”. Whoever this woman was, she
Femi.Today was a good day. I was very giddy while entering the office and it wasn't even about anything that I did or was going to do. I was just very glad that Ama was finally getting her flowers. It was vivid in my mind how she would always talk my ears full on how many ideas she has for the Lays project even when it was not set in stone that she was going to handle it with Kechi industries. She had so much passion for this that i knew she was going to do very well with it.As i walked into the office i was greeted by the front desk representative and before i could leave the lobby she said "There's someone here to see you sir. She said she is your mother." She said.I frowned. My mother never came here before. It was strange that she was here. "Okay where is she?" I asked. I hoped for her sake that she didn't send my 'mother' to my office."The conference room" she said. I sighed and walked in to my office first to drop my laptop and gadgets before going downstairs back to the con
Ama."So, the Lays project was actually suggested by me for business continuity. We were brainstorming for strategies to have more leverage in the manufacturing market and I came up with this. We already have a deal with Pepsi who are the primary owners of the Lays brand. It is such a big brand in the US. Now we have to latch on to the brand more to be able to keep our relationship. We already have the Quaker Oats deal because we asked them for it and that is why Quaker Oats is no longer an imported brand. Now is the time to take Lays. This will mean that Lays would be cheaper here in Nigeria and would make more sales, generating revenue for the company. We need to design the product and pitch it to Pepsi for approval and rights." I said. Once I was done with my speech, there was a roaring thunderous ovation for me. Even the HR manager who looked scornfully at me before was ecstatic. I felt good indeed."Any questions?" I said once I was done with my presentation. I had shown them a c
Ama.“So, the Lays project was actually suggested by me for business continuity. We were brainstorming for strategies to have more leverage in the manufacturing market and I came up with this. We already have a deal with Pepsi who are the primary owners of the Lays brand. It is such a big brand in the US. Now we have to latch on to the brand more to be able to keep our relationship. We already have the Quaker Oats deal because we asked them for it and that is why Quaker Oats is no longer an imported brand. Now is the time to take Lays. This will mean that Lays would be cheaper here in Nigeria and would make more sales, generating revenue for the company. We need to design the product and pitch it to Pepsi for approval and rights.” I said. Once I was done with my speech, there was a roaring thunderous ovation for me. Even the HR manager who looked scornfully at me before was ecstatic. I felt good indeed.
Ama.The meeting went from project to project until it finally got to my turn. The Lays Project. Shawn smiled when he saw it. He had texted me before today that I had to come and defend the project in front of the board. They had approved it but wanted to know if I knew what I was doing. They are very unserious because I was the one who came up with this idea so what more did they want? I however, tried to study what had already been rendered and made slides to display what I was about to say.I stood up and walked over to the front of the conference room and started my presentation. I was looking around at the faces before I started and my eyes landed on Shawn. He gave me a small smile and a nod. I felt more confident as I was feeling nervous before.
Previously...Femi."Wait I actually told the doctor to still do the test with the fetus they removed. I know it's dark sided but I don't want to be beriddled with grief that's not mine to bear. Because I think it's my fault. If I wasn't shagging some girl and actually answered the phone on time maybe they could have saved the baby you know." Tunde said."There was no way that you could have known," I said."How long till the test comes out?" Kola asked."By tomorrow." Tunde said."So calm the fuck down. If the baby is really yours then you can now cry as much as you want but I am sure that the baby isn't yours. That girl is a slimy snake." Kola said.. "As for you, I will call Dad's therapist. You need to get yourself straight after the damn drug use." Kola said."Okay. I don't want dad to know though" Tunde said."He won't know don't worry. Therapists don't snitch on their clients. Even if Dad will definitely know you're seeing the therapist, he won't know why and think it's for your
Femi.Tunde just stood there staring at us but we didn’t waver. We had to intervene. Tunde did not look good in any capacity at all.“Tunde you need to speak.” I said after a while of silence.“Why? Why do you guys think that something is wrong with me?” Tunde said while twitching, even though I doubted it before now I was sure that he was using.“God! Tunde where did you get the drugs from!” Kola yelled, he was not having it. Tunde was getting irritated now.I held Kola’s shoulder. “If you come at him like that he won’t say anything,” I said to him.I looked at Tunde, “The reason why we think you have a problem is this,” I pointed at his appearance,“You’re really insecure about your hairline but your hair is growing out, you never let that happen for anything. You didn’t even wear a cap to cover it. You’re dressed like a homeless person. Shirt not tucked in, tie loose, clothes rumpled. No suit on a Monday morning that’s very unlike you.” I said.“And let’s not forget the uncontrolla
Previously…Femi."Well after all this it seems like I have to get an executive assistant because the work is plenty. I need someone to keep track. This just means that our company is growing day by day and I am proud of everyone and the work they have put into this while I was away. Thank you so much. Speaking of our company growing, it may seem as though we have made enough money for us to raise salaries. You all have done a wonderful job. I will liaise with HR. Expect those emails." I said. Everyone cheered and I liked to see smiles on their faces. They would only be happy to work for us when they are happy with the benefits they get.Once the meeting ended we cornered Tunde in the conference room, just the three of us and I used my phone to shut off the surveillance cameras so that we could effectively speak to our nit wit brother.———-Femi.“Oya what is going on with you, quickly.” Kola said.“I don’t understand why you guys are attacking me like this” Tunde replied. I noticed h