CHAPTER 20

It was on Monday morning and it was ten minutes past eight. Somia rushed down from the black cab that she took from her house to Ashar’s house, quickly paid the cab driver and running inside because she had late. They should have got to where they going to before ten or lasted ten-thirty according to the appointment given to them.

Somia greeted the gate man and going inside, none of the other workers were outside just only him. Door opened and closed, she entered and greeting but nobody came out or replied. None of the maids were there, she looked everywhere from where she was standing and continued shouting ‘Good morning! Good morning!!’ but no body replied her.

Since that nobody replied her, she decided to go to Ashar’s bedroom and look for him. His car was outside so she knew that he was inside. Ashar just woke up few minutes ago and he had been in the bathroom taking his bath and quickly wanted to dress for where they were going to.

Ashar came out from the bathroom with a very small tower wrapped on his private part, he was half naked even full naked. Going to the wardrobe when door opened and Somia entered, looked at each other for few seconds and Somia quickly turned back facing outside.

“I am sorry Sir! Very sorry!!, I don’t mean to just barged in!” Said with lower voice, Ashar was just smiling and Somia wanted to leave.

“Come back! Don’t take that step!” Said with low voice and Somia didn’t know what to do because she must obeyed the ordered.

“Why are you doing as if you haven’t seen be like this before, come on face back and look at the grooming body you cheers that night. Face back and use that your beautiful eye to look at the clean and grooming body. Stopped pretending like this!” Saying with sweet and low voice. Somia felt like crying and regretting the wrongful day.

“I always remembering that day, it sweet you know!! So lovely!!, I want that beautiful eye of yours to looks at my body. Touch it and let me feel the sweetness of that your smooth hands!” Linking his lips and Saying with a romantic voice.

“Are you the one greeting?” A maids asked as she was walking closed to the room. Somia quickly came out and closed the door, she was very happy that the maids came to her rescued.

“We are at the backyard solving some issues, Welcome Ma!” The maids said.

“Thank you!” Said as they got down to the living room. Somia sat down on the chair waiting for Ashar and the maids left, went to the kitchen.

Few minutes later that Somia had been waiting. Ashar got down to the living room from Somia’s back and peck her, Somia stood up like someone that electricity sparked.

“Let go!! No time, we have been running late already!” Ashar Said and smiling, Somia breathe in and going out when Ashar followed her behind.

Door opened and closed. Two of them got down to the compound, entered Ashar’s car and two of them sat at the back seat. The driver started the car, drove out of the compound and driving to where they had an appointment. Somia really felt embarrassed with all what Ashar did and feeling like may be he wanted to take an advantages of her again.

Somia was looking at Ashar, wanted to talk but still keeping quiet, did knows how to say it. Ashar was busy with his phone doing nothing but looking at Somia’s pictures that he took secretly today and other ones too.

“Sir! Sir!! Can I have some words with you!” Later forced out and said with low voice.

“Off course you can!, even me too want to say something!” Said and facing her.

“Please! Please!! Just forget about that night, it’s making me feel uncomfortable around you and if it’s not because I need this job like yesterday I won’t accept it from the first instance. Let assume it’s your wife to be that arrived and heard you saying all those words today what could have happened, so just please forget about it and concentrate on your wedding!” Said with lower voice.

“For that wedding!, it’s for our parents and Iqimat not for me at all. And as the things is going, I cannot wait anymore or any wedding should be holding my hands before Saying out my mind. Somia!——“ Ashar’s phone started ringing and picked up.

“We have been on our way, we will be there soon just calm down!” Talking to the man that called him on the phone.

“You stay there, we too will be there before their director arrives!” He said and hug up.

“They have been expecting us over there Sir?” Somia asked.

“Yes! Said that it will be good we get there before their director arrives and I think we will!”

“It’s like we can, thank God that no traffic jams!” Said with low voice and looking at Ashar.

“Let forget about one!. On what I want to tell you, discussing something with you and waiting for me to ask you to talk to it is bad, I don’t like it. Be official or personal issues, you won’t talk and you always have something reasonable to say but you will just be waiting for me all the time to give you a go ahead. If I don’t ask, you won’t talk. I need your advice or opinions and that is why I discussed it with you as my personal assistant and friend!” It was their brought up that was affecting Somia.

“Talk to anything!, don’t wait for my order before you talk. Correct me when I am wrong, in marriage it’s both partners that rub minds together. Wives corrected their husbands when they were wrong and bring opinions not that it’s only what the husband said that it’s final and wife too will follow, wrong or right just obey it, no!!. You talk together and that is how it be!”

“That it’s not how it be in my own family. Between my mother and my father, even between my uncle and his wife!” Somia Said with low voice and continued.

“It’s what my father said that it’s final, my mother don’t have any say. My mother can’t talk except if my father gave her go ahead even it’s what my father loves that he uses to buy for my mother not what she likes, it’s now that he had late that my mother now throwing some away and that is how I and my siblings grew up to it. Even between my uncle and his wife!”

“No! No!! That is not right. It’s not everything my father said that my mother agreed to or do and that is how it should be. Look at me!, talk don’t wait for my order, argus with me official or on a personal issues. You are different from other staffs, tell me what you don’t like that I do!”

“Ok Sir!, I am sorry if there is one way and the others that I have got wrong!”

“No!! No need for that, Okay!” On his phone and continued looking at the pictures. Somia faced the other side and looking out through the window.

*****

Somia’s uncle was in his living room watching news on the television. His wife too was upstairs and at the main living room watching breaking news, laying on a long chair and with her phone beside her. Somia’s uncle’s boys too were outside their apartment in a big hut built for them, drinking, smoking and watching breaking news as well.

“What a sad news ever!, we have lost another popular politician in Nigeria again!” The male newscaster said. Somia’s uncle sat down very well and focused.

“Israel Odelana is died!, he dead yesterday morning and investigation carried out by the men of the law and his doctor too was interviewed and carried out some tests before they took his corpse to the mortuary. According to the doctor, he said senator Israel Odelana came to his hospital a day before yesterday which was Saturday for a medical checkup and he was one hundred percent fine and he left at three minutes past ten in the night. That he was shocked when he heard that he was dead around seven A. M yesterday, that even that is why he carried out another test on the corpse to know what happened and he couldn’t see anything.

According to the policemen too, they said that they couldn’t trace anything like poison or stapled. So with all these, we see that his death is natural and his gentle soul rest in perfect peace!”

“Natural death indeed!” Somia’s uncle’s wife said with loud voice.

“That it’s the trick!! No traces!!. Another mission accomplished!” Strong said with smiles.

“That is how it will be, natural death!!! Nobody can killed except God. I know nothing about it!. No competitor again, waiting for the contract alert!!” Said with smiles, his phone started ringing and picked. It was Daud that called.

“Hello my son!! How are you and your siblings?” Asked with smiles.

“Hi Sir!! We are all fine, it’s about Mom and Zanib that just gave birth!”

“What is it? What happened to them?” He had knew what he wanted to talk about.

“Mom said that you didn’t gives her an order to come, Zainab needs her right now even she should have been here before she gave birth. Their is nobody that can take care of her like her own mother even her mother-law has old she doesn’t have energy anymore. If mom is not with you Dad!, you can take care of yourself now and this is just for few months!”

“It’s your mom that reported me to you right and asked you to call me right!”

“No Dad!! It’s Anty Zanib that ordered me to call you and talk to you man to man because you don’t use to listen to her at all!”

“You know what will happen, I will call you back!” He hug up, didn’t even wait for him to reply and dropped the phone on the table.

“Didn't I have right on my wife again!, she should leave me here and go over there for few months. If Zanib’s husband can’t take care of her, she should hire a nurse. Even let me go and see that woman upstairs, what nonsense!!” He stood up and going upstairs.