Any Form Of Enslavement

Lanre asked K how he knew about the message she had sent to Eno. K told her it was not something she should worry about. He leaned in and kissed her neck. Lanre moved away from him. She told him to answer her question. He smirked. Then he pulled her close. He pinched her lower lip. It was as though he was waiting to see blood before he would let go of her. Lanre tried to pull away. But he kept putting more pressure on her lip thereby intensifying the pain.

K kissed her lip sucking off the blood the moment he realised he had injured her lip. Lanre felt the pain and a tear fell from her eye.

“What are you doing Kehinde? What the hell are you doing to me?” Lanre asked when K releases her mouth from his devouring mouth. He laughed.

“Is it not obvious to you what I’m doing? I am making a blood convenant with you Lanre. We live together and die together. At least this will make you understand that I love you”. K said.

“And you think this is what will help you? What is wrong with you these days Kehinde? This will not change anything. Instead you are making it worse. I loved you before but now I’m beginning to get disgusted”. Lanre said.

“Is that why you were trying to hide the fact that it is my child you are carrying in your stomach? Is that the reason why you rejected my proposal when I came to find you in your school? I disgust you?” K asked. Lanre just stared blankly at him. She had no words to say. It seems he can no longer be misled. He was so sure that he is responsible for her pregnancy. Is that why he would not let her go?

“Kehinde, I’m sorry! But I do have my reasons. I have never done anything without a reason”. Lanre said.

“You are all mine now Lanre. Your body, your soul, your mind, they are all mine!” K said to Lanre. Lanre shivered as the thought of what K had just said hits her. She does belong to anyone. She was not going to let K manipulate her. She loves him and would actually welcome their being in a relationship but not as the controller and the controlled.

“I am not getting into any form of enslavement here Kehinde. If you want me and you want your child, then you will have to acknowledge me as a human being and not a commodity”. Lanre said.

K burst out into laughter. He told Lanre he would have considered that if she did not try to tarnish his mother’s image and had not ruined his sister’s wedding reception by uploading that video. He told her that he could not trust her anymore and the least he could do was love her. Aside from loving her and maintaining her just like a man does his property, he can not trust her nor let her live freely.