HE SAID NO.
Episode 6
Grace was standing at the tail end of a long tarred road, it looked like she was waiting for someone or something. All of a sudden, she saw from a far distance, some uniformed men dragging a young man in handcuffs, up the tarred road. She could not see his face from the distance and she was hoping to see him when he got to where she was. Then she saw that it wasn’t just one man, another woman was being dragged aloñgside with him and she was also in handcuffs. But from that distance, she recognized the lady,
“Amifel! Amifel!” She screamed, jumping as Amifel was being dragged closer, Amifel, who was in tears, couldn’t say a word as she tried to resist the uniformed men, which made them handle her quite roughly. The first man on the other hand didn’t resist the uniformed men and was just looking receptive to their directions.
“What happened? What did she do? What did he do?” Grace wondered,
Meanwhile, Amifel was soaked in tears as Grace kept screaming harder but it seemed like she was incapacitated to help sort of. But even while looking for a way to rescue Amifel, she was still trying to see the face of the young man, he had almost gotten to where she was when she woke up sweating and panting hard.
It was a nightmare!
“Amifel!” She yelled as she glanced at Blessing who was sleeping on the bed they shared. She was sleeping so soundly that she didn’t move one bit.
“It’s a dream! Thank God it’s a dream, ” she heaved a sigh of relief. But her heart was heavy with a burden to pray, she hurriedly checked the time, time was 2:30 a.m at midnight.
Grace tried to reminisce about her dream. She could not see his face, and she was wondering what he could have done to deserve such harsh treatment and why was Amifel also dragged alongside him?
She decided to stop asking questions and pray instead,
“Dear Father in the name of Jesus! I call on you on behalf of Amifel, ” she started as she removed the duvet off her body and adjusted it on Blessing before standing up to pace the room so she wouldn’t sleep off,
“For every trap that has been prepared for her, there is a mighty deliverance!
The bible says in the book of Isaiah 49:24-25,
Shall the prey be taken from the mighty or the lawful captive delivered?
But thus saith the Lord , Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.
*prays in the holy ghost*
There is a mighty deliverance!
*prays in the holy ghost*
Yes! Amifel, because you are precious in God’s sight, he would give other men in place of you in the name of Jesus!
You are delivered from the trap of the enemy in the name of Jesus!” She prayed, pacing the room, she prayed for over an hour till she felt the burden on her heart melt away.
“Thank you father, thank you father, ” she muttered as she laid back on her bed, and zoomed off after some minutes.
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Mummy grace laid on the cushion with her legs straightened out as she scrolled through her phone for her daughter’s number. She was in her shop as usual and her sales girls were attending to customers.
“Hello my daughter, how are you? ” mummy Grace asked as soon as her daughter picked up her call,
“Fine, ” she dragged, she was sleeping when her mother called,
“What of my grandson?” She asked quickly as if that was why she called,
“He is fine, he has gone to play with my neighbor’s kids, ” Mrs. Grace Akinwale quickly added before she would ask to speak to him, she always does anytime she called.
“Why! How many times would I tell you not to leave my grandson at the mercy of strangers? Ehn? ”
“Mummy, I can’t kill myself, I needed to rest!” Grace answered grudgingly as she turned on her matrimonial bed,
“You can as well lock him up in your room so that he would be within your reach, let him play with his toys and if he is tired of them, buy him new ones. People are dangerous oh!” Mummy Grace stressed,
“I have heard you, mummy, ” Grace replied reluctantly,
“My other baby nko? Hope she is kicking well?” She asked, smiling as she demonstrated it with her legs as if Grace could see her.
“He or she is fine, ” she replied bluntly,
“What of your husband?”
“He should be fine, ”
“What do you mean by, ‘he should be fine?’ Didn’t he sleep at home last night?” Mummy Grace asked,
“He did but we didn’t talk, as usual, he slept not too long after he got back and he left before I woke up this morning, ” Mrs .Grace explained,
“It is well, ” Mrs Grace said,
“It is well ke, is that all you would say? Anyway, when are you coming to visit us here? It’s been long we saw you, ”
“Visit you for what?”
“Okay, when are you coming to visit your grandson?”
“If it’s about my grandson, there are many ways to see him. You can bring him to my shop or I visit him at his school, I am not coming to your house!” She said bluntly,
“Ahn Ahn! ”
“What is Ahn Ahn? So that your husband would beat me up this time around? Shebi the last time I came, he just pushed me and I hit my head on your wall? ”
“But he has apologized and even got you expensive jewelleries to compensate you!”
“So because he bought me jewelry now, I should allow one small boy to send me to my early grave? It is his mother that he would kill not me! Even my husband did not succeed in killing me!”
“But you want him to kill me abi?” Mrs. Grace asked she was almost in tears.
“He cannot kill you, you know that your dad too was a hard man, but a woman must be tolerant and to live with a man, Grace. People will make jest of her if she leaves her husband’s house! See me now, no one knew what was going on with me till he died, ” she stressed as one of her sales girls came to tell her that a customer wanted to buy goods in bulk and she needed her attention,
“Just keep praying, my daughter. God will see you through, Greet my son for me, and take care, shogbo? (you hear?) I have to go now, ” she concluded before hanging up, she didn’t even bother to wait for her daughter’s response.
“No child can kill me because I didn’t kill my parents!” Mummy Grace muttered as she gave a slight hiss before she standing up from the cushion to attend to the customer,
To be continued…
Written by Sodamade Olamide Tolulope.
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