A Scheme To Entrap Him

“The food is here, so let’s eat in silence and talk later”. Olasile said when the maids brought their food to the table. Christian squeezed Lanre’s hand when he realised she was not comfortable. He whispered something into her ears to make her calm. Olasile thought he was being naughty and scolded him. She told him he should remember he is in front of his elders. Christian knew she got the wrong idea but deliberately did not correct her when he noticed the look K gave him. He smirked instead.

“Please leave the two love birds alone, they are in their time of life”. The Governor said to his wife. But his words were directed to hurt K. K scoffs. Ify clears her throat.

“Dad is right!” Ify said with a smile. Then she told them, she has something to say. She wanted to wait till they were done eating, but seeing that Lanre was here, it would be a perfect time.

Olasile looks at her hiding the dislike she has for Ify from the face if everyone present. She asked Ify to go on and say what she wants to say. Ify smiled at K.

“I’m yet to tell my fiancé this since we’ve not have a chance to be alone yet. But then, I think this is good time to say this since the entire family is present”. Ify stated. K wonders what she was going to say while the mother just hoped what she was going to say would be that she would no longer want to push through with the wedding.

“I’m pregnant!” Ify said. She told them the test result was in her bag. She stood up to go get it but the governor told her to sit down. He said it would be better a maid fetched her bag for her. Ify sat down with a smile on her lips. Lanre just stared blankly into space.

Ify’s pregnant! Does that mean K was responsible? Or could this be a scheme to entrap him? Lanre wondered. But the more she thinks, she just end up having a headache.

A maid brought Ify’s bag. Ify opened it and handed the result to Olasile with a smile.

“I realised I missed my period for last month and then I started feeling dizzy and nauseous. I decided to go to the hospital this morning to run some test. After explaining to the doctor, he said I should do pregnancy test instead. But in case you have any doubt, we could do it again. But I’m happy I’ll be having Kehinde’s baby”. Ify said. Kehinde clutched his fork. He looked at Ify. No one could tell what he was thinking as he had a poker face on.

The Governor asked his wife to give him the result. He read it and just looked at Kehinde afterwards. He sighed.

Temitope who has been waiting to see her father’s reaction became happy. She stood up from her seat and went over to Ify’s side to hug Ify.