BELINA (Tender Beauty) SEASON 1
EPISODE 22
I am willing to have you back if you would consent to satisfying me in bed
in return. Aaah, you are selfish o, body no be stone now, and you dey do shakara, he concluded and his prostitute laughed out loud and he silenced her with a kiss. I just
stood there, not believing what I
was seeing and hearing. The love that had been growing in me died instantly and hatred followed immediately. I did not say anything at all through out I didn’t think I would have the strength to.
“So, what would it be Belina, make it snappy, I have some unfinished business here”, he
said winking at me.
I walked up to the couch slowly and before they could predict my action, I carried the extremely full
cup of gulder and poured it into Kelvin’s widely opened eyes.
Kelvin started struggling with his eyes while the little b—h stood to challenge me. I sent her crashing into the bed with the force of the
slap I dashed her. I did not say a word as I left that place a changed person.
I dried my face with my face towel.
I remembered the striking guy I just saw barely minutes ago and noticed that I did not have his name but I was glad cos the male folks to me have nothing to offer except sadness. ‘They are just joy killers’.
Richard had finally left the stairs like a lost soul after his ‘lady in blue’ had finally disappeared
from sight. He noticed sadly that
his problem had just doubled and there was actually no simple way out of this. ‘How would I work under the same roof with that?” he asked himself again.
He went back to his office to dwell on what had happened just minutes ago.
As he sat down on the unofficial couch in his office which he laid on most of the time, he just could not do anything but laugh and
smile. He remembered the way she had been looking at him when she turned in his direction and he laughed out loud. She had
been looking at him as if he had been hawking groundnut, wearing an expensive suit in the
hospital. He laughed at the imagination and moved on to the next thing that happened which was the surprised gaze; it had
been as if he had suddenly grown three heads and a tail.
But oh… she looked so adorable that way; in fact, she looked so devastatingly beautiful everyway.
He remembered the fact that she had been abducted just days ago and couldn’t really blame the guy for wanting to take her away from everyone’s prying eyes even though he had the strange urge to beat that bastard to stupor.
He remembered her appearance in the concert which was permanently pasted in his memory but knew that what he had seen today would not allow him any other thought apart from hers. ‘she is painfully beautiful’, he thought and just when he started fighting against
the thoughts, Tony walked in without knocking and found him grinning all by himself which he quickly wiped out.
“Hey man, are you having problems with your teeth?” Tony asked jokingly.
He smiled, “did I complain about them to you?”
“You don’t have to. Now, what is it that is so funny?”
“Do you always have to find out everything?” Richard asked
knowing that tony would not let the matter lie until he had ploughed it out of him.
“Yes, that is what friends are for” Richard sighed;
“it is…” he paused slightly,
“Belina” he dropped.
Tony was wide-eyed when he heard that name and he later
started laughing his ass out.
“What is so funny now? Cut it out”. Richard said already sorry he had said anything.
Tony started cutting out his laughter bit by bit, “I told you…
Oh Richy, you would always be the Richy I know no matter what you say and how much you deny it. Now, what do you think about her”.
Richard hissed and said,
“You are a rogue”
“Uhn, I have always known that. I am all ears” he said expectantly.
“For once in your life tony, you are
right only that she is not real. I mean… she does not look real.
She is too beautiful to be true, and guess what, she is the same girl I saw at the concert the other day”, Richard said totally into his speech.
Tony left Richard’s opening speech for later. “What girl?” he asked confused.
“The one that sang when you
were chit chatting with your babe”.
Tony was amazed, “so, behind that splendid body, there is a striking voice as well?”
“Yes o”
Tony tilted his eyes mischievously, “so you were suffering from love at first sight when I saw you grinning right?”
.
Richard was taken aback, “I… ehm… well of course not. Why should I? She is just beautiful and nothing more. Remember, I can’t
love anyone”, he replied uncomfortably.
Tony coughed aloud unnaturally for some seconds and said, “Really?”
Richard got the sarcasm, picked up his pen and threw it at Tony.
Before it reached Tony, he was already at the door laughing profusely,
“You can’t fool me Mr Doctor”; he said and ran out leaving Richard almost the same way he met him grinning
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