Chapter 24

Father knows that and tries his best to emulate her, albeit he wasn't as good as she was.

If my mother were to have been alive, I wouldn't have come to this academy.

She knows how much I dreaded this place, and she promised to find a better solution for me before her untimely demise.

Her death took so much from me, my hopes were dashed, and my best friend stole by the cruel hands of death.

The day we lost her was the only day I saw my dad cry.

He cried like a baby in front of the inner members of the court. It wasn't a secret that Father loved her, she was his first and only love, and he would have gladly followed her to Eluigwe(a resting place for the dead) if not for the promise he made to her before she died.

He promised to take good care of me, and strive to see me as king someday.

This was another reason he wanted me to attend the academy.

The first is his wish to see a son of his attend the same academy he did.

He might not be the best of Fathers, but he's a father, nonetheless, a father when duty calls for danger.

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I knocked on the door when I was through with dressing. Kwofo opened the door with a sigh.

“Thanks to the gods, I intended to knock down the bathroom door if you failed to come out in thirty minutes”, he gave me a once over," not so bad for your first day. With clothes like this, I bet you will find more than you can chew”, he winked.

Must everything be about sex for this man?

His jokes are all sexual innuendos.

I swear, he doesn't have a clean joke up his sleeves.

“ You better get a job. You are becoming more annoying as the days go by.

If you keep up with your character, I might exchange with a fellow royals' aide”, I smiled sweetly.

He shook his head frantically, "you wouldn't dare, you know you love me”, he winked," you won't bear to part with me”.

I smiled,” don't be too sure about that.

The Buchim you knew isn't the same person you're seeing. I've changed since it's coming here”, I gave his cheeks a tight squeeze, “your little boy has grown up, he's no longer a boy, he's a man”.

“There comes a time in life an independent son will find his father, he will return to the father he left when he achieved independence”, he grinned, "even if you leave me now, you will come looking for me someday, and who knows how our reunion will be”.

“ No need to think of what won't happen, I will never look for you now, and I won't then. When the time you're talking about comes, I will go to my father”, I stuck my tongue out at him (childish much?

I know I act like a child, I can't seem to stop doing that).