Chapter 200: Fake Dad Is Rich

"The Nigerian police? Those once will go and sleep and tell you that they are investigating, don't worry I'll employ some secret investigators to look into this, I'll lay them well and also promise them more, that is how it works, and you will see, before you will know, the perpetrators of this act will be brought to book."

So he said with much confidence, actually, if they who were after me, we're to be humans, I believe strongly that he would snuff them out with his secret investigators. But too bad, they are not humans, they were not even from here. So they went on and took all that we will need for the journey and they brought it back to Cynthia's place where we all sat pretending to be watching TV before their car arrived at the gate and Cynthia the female gatekeeper ran to open the gate. When they arrived, and as we went on to take our bath and dress, Mr. Bright engaged Mr. Matt in a conversation concerning mom and me. He wanted to know why it took him too long before he came to take his supposed family.

"My friend, I will like to start by thanking you for all you have done for my family, but, based on your question, I sincerely do not know where they are, it was only recently that I found them, I made a very bad mistake in the past, and that led to me losing Julie, and at that time she was already pregnant with my Ikemefuna." 

So he said. "Ikemefuna"... That was the name he called me as soon as he saw me. He explained all that he had been through in search of mom and me. 

So, it seemed like we were through, mom never made her usual heavy makeup, she just dressed and came out and by then all of our belongings had been stuffed in the boot of mom's car, and the one which could not enter was fitted into the boot of fake dad's car. He wanted me to ride with him but I insisted on riding with mom, so after everything, we all hugged and told each other bye-bye, aunty Paula was even crying, shedding a stream of tears like a little baby, Mr. Matt asked the nice Mr. Bright to send the document to his office on the first day of work resumption, he promised to sign it as they have just become best of friends in one day. Everyone was sober about our leaving, it was only Cynthia who wore a normal face, very silly girl I think, I said to myself that as I leave this vicinity, that I am leaving with my love, I will never think of her again since it had now become obvious to me that she does not love me at all. So I said to myself before we drove to Mr. Matt's castle which he called home.

The house was very massive, it was a two-story building, and he lived there with only his housekeeper, his cook, the gardener, and the gatekeeper, I wonder how he cope, how he could sleep in the whole house alone. The man was really rich, even mom was not expecting it, when we went into the house, we noticed, we noticed that the interior was richly designed, the color of the paints and furniture was mainly gold, then white, after that black. Black was the least dominant color in the house making the interior so bright and beautiful, I have never been to any palace in the reality, but his house was almost like a palace, I didn't even waste time before I started taking pictures for WhatsApp status and Facebook pots, and to also post in my school group chat.

"Ikem, Ikemefuna"

I heard a soft voice of a man calling behind me, I looked through the selfy camera to find out that it was Mr. Matthew, I turned to see him standing behind me dropping out this little shy smile.

"Ikemefuna, finally you are home. This is your house, my son. You are my son and I, your father."

So he said to me. I wonder why he will be calling me such a name, but it sure sounds complementary, I so love it, I don't know why I get this feeling that I will love this fake dad of mine, he was quite a sweet man, got nice words and he sure knows how to use them.

Come with me, I have something to show."

So he said as he placed his hand on mine and dragged me softly along. You know I thought the house was awesome only because I saw how his sitting room look like, I didn't even go with the maid and mom into any of the rooms. He took me with him into his library, which was stuffed with books. Even the shelf in the library was of golden color, and the books were finely arranged based on their categories, funny enough there was a wine barr in the Library, "who keeps a bar in the library so I said." It was obvios that fake dad is a stinkingly rich. 

"Dont worry, I still have to show you something, hold on."

So he said as he went straight to one specific book among the thousands of book, hent and picked the book out of the shelf gently and he smiled at me as he removed it. But as soon as he took the book out of its original position, the shelf just shifted itself, it shifted to the left corner and end exposed a secret door behind the shelf.

"Follow me Ikem."

So he said using his hand to make a gesture that signifies 'come along', and I shipishly followed him. The how was full of amazement, the secret door led us to a secret underground apartment, yes, it is an apartment, there were at least two rooms with bed, a sitting room, a bar with old wines, and another door way which leads out of the house.