CHAPTER 29

Sound of the kitchen equipments fell on the floor in the kitchen. Somia's mother was in the kitchen cooking meal for her and Somia before she went to work since that it was only two of them that remained in house. Nibia and Ibrahim just only use to come home at the months ending to greet them or ro pack some foodstuffs.

Somia's mother bend down packed all the equipments and hanged them back on the wall, she took two plates inside the driller, rinsed them and left the kitchen. Put the plates beside a dish bowl and went back to the kitchen.

Somia was still dressing, wearing a lovely and new bought shirt and trouser. She just bought some new clothes so she managing them together with those that she had before. She stood up at the front of the dressing mirror, opened the wardrobe and looking for a cap that would match her cloth. When she saw a medium box inside her wardrobe, brought it out and opened it. Looking at the jewellers one after the other, all of them were diamonds.

"If I sell all these treasures now, with Nibia's own and with all the diamond wristwatchs and bands in Ibrahim's hand. We won't be living here, mother will have a very big supermarket that will be the most biggest one in Nigeria. Even I will set up another company and be the CEO rather than working under someone and collecting peanut money.

It's Mom, if not I will have sell them and stopped all these suffering!" Somia was talking to herself when she heard the sound of her door opened by her mother.

"I have told you to stop all this thinking! Don't ever think of selling your treasures, they are gift from your father to you his children. This are what that will be bringing his memories to you!" Somia faca her mother.

"I am your mother and it's my responsibility to be taking care of you, so let me be selling my own but you don't ever think of selling yours, they are gifts. I believe that everything will soon be fine that you will get back all your father's inheritance and we will go back to how we are before. So tell me if everything get back to normal and you have sell all your gifts that your father gave you, how do you want to replace then? Even if you buy another one it can never be the same!" Looked at Somia and felt bad.

"I don't like it saying you will sell all these things! They are the gifts that should be passing down from you to your children. We are okay not that we are that poor, so why are you thinking of selling your treasures! Your gifts from your father!"

"Am sorry mom!" Said with low voice.

"Or you want me to collect it from you as I collected them from Nibia and Ibrahim. I know that you always listen to me that is why I didn't collect it from you, I know if they are still with Nibia and Ibrahim they would have sell them. But not good it's your gifts! Your small inheritance! It may worth millions of dollars but don't ever think of selling it, the situation that we are now is not permanent just temporary and that is what you use to tell your siblings. Or you don't believe in that anymore? Or you want me to collect it from you?" Said with low voice.

"Am so sorry Mom once again! I believe that this is temporary, I will collect all our inheritance from that Uncle and I am still standing on it. I won't think of selling it again so you don't have to collect it Mom!" Said with low voice and resting her head on her mother's shoulder.

"Everything is going to be fine my daughter and how you will do it that you get all the inheritance back Allah will tell you. Just be careful, you know who your own uncle is!"

"Yes ma! Thank you ma and you will live long for us!" Said and removed her head.

"It's breakfast I came to call you for when I heard you talking!"

"Okay Mom! Give me one minute, I will be there!"

"Okay my daughter!" Said with smile and left the room. Somia returned the box, took a cap and continued dressing. Few seconds later, she took a hand bag on the bed and left the bedroom, going down to the living room.

She put her bag on the table at the dining room, shifted a chair out and sat down on it. Her mother served their foods, prayed and started eating.

Few minutes later. Somia looked at the time on her phone, quickly packed the plates to the kitchen and came out within few seconds, gave her mother a front head kiss and left the living room. Her mother too went to her room to dress and going to shop.

Somia came out from the gate of their house, walked a little far from the house and standing at the road side waiting for the cab that she booked. A black car came out from one of the houses In that area, going straight and suddenly reversed back and packed beside Somia. The laundry man whom was Somia's father formal laundry man came out.

"Good morning Ma! What are you doing here ma!" Greeted with respect and asked after greeting.

"I have told you several times to stop all this Ma! Well I am waiting for the cab that I booked since morning!"

"I came to deliver a cloth to someone here said that he want to wear it to work today, so I have to come early. Enter ma let me drop you at the company and cancel the order!"

"Thank you very much but it's Ashar's house I am going to, said that he can't come to work today that I too should resume to his house. And his wish is my command!"

"Very good Ma! It's his house that I am going to, I have some clothes to go and pack and return!" Said and opened the door for her. Somia show are appreciation and entered.

Him too entered, started the car and driving.

"Is your house not far from that place?" He asked.

"Yes! It's the third house to the one that you came out from!"

"Okay ma! What are you doing now on how to collect your inheritance from that stupid man?" Looked at Somia.

"Nothing for now, even I don't know how to do it! My uncle is not a easy man! He is a dangerous man!"

"Wallahi! It's because people don't know you that is why he could do that successfully, if your father is kind of person that use to show up his family or one of you is in an entertainment line that people know him or her, he won't be able to do that!"

"It's my father that I blamed must. If it's not my uncle that he used as the next of kin, he can never do anything or have access to must of his things. Or he see my mother as his wife that she has a say, everything won't be like this and him too won't tried that!" Said with anger.

"It always use to pain anytime I saw you and I can't go out now and announce to the public, nobody will believe me because he always use to tell them that none of you are in Nigeria"

"I will collect it back but I can never believe that my uncle could do all these after our father's death!"

"Same here! I use to see him as a nice man but I know he will be dangerous because of his way of speaking. What about the kidnapping I told you, you don't said anything since!"

"My uncle is a dangerous man! He has guys that works for him and it's anything that he want to do that he will do. What if he know, he will kill my entire family and nobody will know just see it like nature death. I know what I am saying!"

"Trust me! He won't know not that we will mention your name. I have very sharp guys that can do it even we will do it internally, I just discovered that my very close friend is one of his driver as I am doing my investigation on how the kidnapping mission will go, this mean that we have an informate in his house!"

"Hmm! My uncle. You know that police or any investigation agents have never think of him on any crime case, he use to do it like an accident and nature death. Even my mother didn't believe that he didn't had hand in my father's death, they test his corpse and said it's nature death but she knows our uncle, my father too know him even I and my siblings too"

"We will just kidnap his wife normally and we will ask for huge amount of money that will be almost closed to the inheritance. Let go for this kidnapping!" Packed at the garage at Ashar's house and looking at each other.

"You know what I will get back to you!" Somia said and got down from the car.

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Sound of the door opened and closed. Somia and laundry man entered at the same time, he went to the backyard and Somia sat down on the chair after asking for Ashar and replied to by a maid that he was the bathroom.

Somia brought out the laptop, put it on the hand of the chair rest he hands on it and thinking. She thinks for few minutes, opened the laptop and started working on it. Ashar's father came out from a room under the staircase which he use as his working room and going back upstairs.

Somia quickly closed the laptop and ran to him, anytime that she was in that house she was the one that uses to support Ashar's father on the staircase.

"I have told you to be calling me anytime, I am here if you want to climb the staircase, to upstairs or coming down. Call me I will come there and support you!" Put her hands on his shoulder.

"You are the only one that always use to support me except from my wife, so if I keeps calling you I will just be lazy!"

"Be lazy! That is why we are here for you Sir, even if I am around be lazy. As an elderly person Climbing the staircase is a big stress not talk of in a condition like this!" Said with smile.

"Thank you very much!" Said as they Climbing the staircase.

"You don't have to Sir! Even if it's like a have power or I am muscular, I will just carry you once!" Ashar's father laughed loudly, he like Somia so much.

"It's everybody in this house that love my Somia even Mother too just trying to be acting like she didn't!" Ashar said, standing beside the chair and looking at Somia and his father Climbing the staircase and laughing.

"I wish I marriage you Somia!" Said inside his mind and going to the kitchen, wearing a lovely house fit.

Somia got down to the living room. Sat down on the chair back, opened the laptop and started working. Ashar came out from the kitchen with hot tea inside a mug.

"Good morning Sir!" Somia greeted with respect.

"Morning! Nice outfit!" Said with a romantic voice and going to the room under the staircase. Him too use to stay there and working there anytime he was working from home.

Somia phone started ringing inside her bag, she opened the bag and brought out the phone. It was the laundry man that was calling, Somia looked at it for few seconds and picked it.

"Please ma! Can I see you at the backyard right now!"

"Okay! I am coming!" Somia said, put the phone on the table and leaving the living room going out.

She looked at everywhere as she got down to the compound and going to the backyard. The laundry man jammed her at the small garden and walked far from there.

"It's my friend at your Uncle's house that called me now that he overheard that one of your uncle's sons named Yusufar will arrived to yesterday tomorrow!" Said with low voice, looked round again and moved more closed to Somia.

"Should we kidnap him?" Somia looked at him and him too looked at her.