BELINA (Tender Beauty)
****EPISODE 13****
He had been like a fallen tree for months. The friends he had told,
instead of pacifying and
consoling him had mocked him and helped him spread the news.
He had been stinkingly rich then so one day when he was checking out of a hotel that was
popularly known in d island to be a ‘hotel for thr rich’ after a
business trip, he saw a very very beautiful young lady crying on the staircase. He was instantly drawn to her, so he approached her and asked her what the matter was. She said,
“I came to see a man here but he threw me
out”.
He was taken aback wondering how a reasonable man could
throw this striking lady out without a second thought. After much persuasion, she opened up and said,
“I met him like a month ago and he promised to take care of me but now I am pregnant and he is denying it, saying he
has a wife that he loves, he did not tell me that before o.
He took her to his house. He had the
servants prepare her a warm bath and after her bath, she had slept like a newly born baby. She
actually looked like one. When she woke up d next morning he had called her, told her his
problem and promised to take care of her and the child if she allows the child to bear his surname. She had agreed
instantly and he also made her promise never to disclose that
secret to their child. They had lived in luxury for 5yrs and he noticed the time that Linda
started falling in love with him.
He was taken by her beauty but he just was not in love with her.
Belina grew to be a carbon copy of her mother and much more
beautiful that she looked like a doll most of the time. This made
Mr Badmus exceedingly angry because he could boast about being her father in public but in his heart, d truth that he could never have a child however ugly, made him despise Belina. Things became bad after 5yrs and he took it out big time on Linda blaming her for misfortunes, he would have transferred it also
on Belina if Linda hadn’t been protecting her all the way.
Mr. Badmus wanted to just die as he looked at how far he had
depreciated. He wished he had abandoned Linda on the step that day. He looked around at all he was worth in the sitting room and said to himself, “if it is the
last thing I do, I would make sure that Belina pays for this”..
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Tolu took out d 150, 000 Naira he had collected from Tunji for
the job and put it in his cross bag. When he was about to step
out of his house, he thought about it again and removed 50.000 from the money and dropped it. Tunji would have
to accept the money like that, at least the job was carried out only that those idiotic boys blundered it. He took something else and put it in his pocket. If he won’t accept it, I would make him accept it by force.
He got to Tunji’s house and upon arrival, he met Tunji in his sitting
room about to finish a bottle of whiskey. Tunji looked at him
immediately he entered and his eyes sent bullets right through his heart. Tolu was never
intimidated by anyone so he marched right towards him,brought out d 100, 000 Naira
and placed it right there on d bar.
“That is 100, 000 Naira. I removed 50, 000 cos the job was carried out only that the girl ran away”.
Tunji lifted the cup of whiskey to his lips but instead of him to drink it, in a flash, he poured it in Tolu’s face.
“Jesus…” Tolu said, startled.
Tunji laughed slightly and the next second, his face was blank like he hadn’t been laughing merely seconds ago. “You better complete my money, right here and now, if not, uhn, you would see”.
Very slowly like in all these action movies, Tolu brought out his gun at placed it right on Tunji’s forehead. Tunji turned to a stone
with seconds and he started shivering like he had fallen into the type of ice water that was
showed in Titanic.
Tolu laughed heartily, “so, you no even get liver. Give me one reason why I should not blow
your head off”, he said. Tunji kept on saying please but he had stepped on Tolu’s toes. “You
have never been slapped by a woman and you wanted her to pay for it, so also no one had
dared pour a cup of water on my face not to mention a drink. Well,
when I blow off your head, I would be able to take d whole money. Say hello to d devil for
me”, he said and pulled the trigger.
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As the day went by, I almost forgot completely about the
event of the previous day. Prisca made everything very enjoyable and my newly found parents made me feel like a little girl
again. They were very
comfortable. Not exceedingly rich
but they could easily buy whatever they wanted without thinking twice.
They took me out and got me new sets of clothes, shoes bags and
everything they felt was customary. Anyone that did not
know them would think I was their daughter.
Being a weekend, everyone was at home. Mum almost overfed me and I commented on it but she would not have any excuses. She
said I was still weak no matter what I said and that I should just eat and sleep. Although I was not so used to being fussed over, I
enjoyed it and I made myself feel like a baby for the first time in my life.
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