Send Him A Message

Just as she had said, Mrs. Okafor sent a video to Ify with a caption attached to it. She told Ify to send it to Lanre. Ify had to watch the video to know what she was sending Lanre. She felt her heart break on seeing the video. Cold shivers went down her spine and tears welled up her eyes. It was a video of Lanre’s mother’s shop being destroyed. But that was just a pinch of the video. Ify felt bad her aunt was actually doing this to an innocent woman. Mrs. Olayinka was now in the custody of some bad boys, Ify knew her aunty was the one who gave the order. She wondered if Lanre already knows that her mother has been abducted and is being maltreated for the things her daughter did.

“Go report yourself to the police that you framed Mrs. Okafor for drug trafficking and drug abuse. And that you are the real culprit behind the released video of Her Excellency Olasile Adewale planning on looting public funds. If you do that, your mother will be released with her life still intact. And after that, do well to die”. This was the message Mrs. Okafor had attached to the video for Lanre to see.

Ify bit her lips wondering if she should actually send this to Lanre. She felt her aunt was being too mean. She called her aunt trying to reason with her asking her to stop. She pleaded for the woman to release Lanre’s mom as well and to drop her conditions.

“Bia this girl, you do not want to end on my bad side. Because the way I’m looking at it, you are beginning to lose your senses. Send that thing to Lanre. If there will be any changes, it will be determined by her level of obedience. I will only have mercy on whom I will have mercy”. Mrs. Okafor said and ended the call abruptly.

“Since when did you become God?” Ify muttered. She sent the message to Lanre anyways. Right now her hope was that Lanre would get out of this. She knows she has had thoughts of killing Lanre, but if she had ever been honest with herself, she lacks the heart to do that. She can’t even face Lanre properly so she had to keep K by blackmailing him. But now it seems her blackmails are no longer effective.

She dropped her phone and went inside to go have her bath. She was going to look for a way to see the Governor’s wife and try to plead with the family. But first she would need K to help her out. She needed her freedom and she really felt like she’s done with the games.

“Let me even send him a message. At least he won’t pretend he didn’t see it. And he would get the message as well”. Ify muttered. She turned back, picked her phone up and sent the message to K’s phone. She hoped he will come once he sees it.