You Must Be Wishing For Death

The following day, Ify got out of the room after a long night sleep to find K standing in the visitor’s lounge in the house. Her uncle was there as well. She became frightened and wanted to go back in. But her uncle already sighted her and asked her to come down. Ify did as told. She could not face K.

“Why did you not call me when your aunt got taken away at the airport?” Mr. Okafor asked Ify. She told him she didn’t think fast enough and had only called Anita who was around to come help out, but Anita did not respond to her calls. Mr. Okafor yelled at her asking her to shut up. He asked her if she was pretending not to know her cousin has been hospitalised for some weeks now and was in a coma. This was news to Ify. She had no clue.

“What? When? What happened to her? Uncle I swear, nobody told me”. Ify said putting a finger on her tongue and raising it up. Mr. Okafor shook his head.

“Your fiancé is here to take you with him, so you can leave now”. Mr. Okafor said. Ify wanted to protest, but her uncle was not happy with her right now, and he has issues to resolve at the moment. She followed K out of the house quietly after K had thanked Mr. Okafor.

She could feel goosebumps all over her skin. Fear had cropped into her heart. The fear was more killing because K was quiet. He did not say anything to her. She thought he would be driving them to the airport, but he took them somewhere else. He took them to a house. She has no clue whose house it is, but that’s K’s house.

“Why are we here?” Ify asked K. He told her she would soon find out. He pulled her in with him. She tried to free herself from his grasp.

“Leave me alone! I was not the one that released the video”. Ify said. K let’s go of her and slapped her hard on her face. Ify screamed from the impact of the slap. K smirked.

“I usually do not beat ladies, but you crossed the line this time”. K said to her. She held her cheek, tears brewing out of her eyes.

“First, you lied that I got you pregnant. I don’t know how true it is, if you are pregnant or not. I have not put my finger in you not to mention my d**k. But I could not waste my time trying to tell my family you were deceiving them. But you went ahead and released the video. You must be wishing for death". K said. 

"Did you forget you were dealing with politicians by doing that? You also released a video implicating the wife of the Governor of Benue state. You went too far Ify. They are surely going to come for your life. Even if my father does not kill you, Benue Governor will”. K said to her again.