THE MIRACLE I NEED SEASON 2 : Episode 11 – 20
EPISODE 13
Kathleen had a big smile on her face as she worked that morning. Somehow
everything seemed different now. Although she still felt a bit awkward about
dating her boss, Pete was very understanding and tried to make it easy for
her. They had both talked about his plan for the restaurant as they ate dinner
together.
That had been awkward too, eating from the same plate with him,
but he didn’t seem to mind.
Earlier that morning he had walked into the kitchen a few minutes after she
started preparing breakfast, and had given her a good morning peck on her
forehead, both cheeks, the tip of her nose, her chin, and then her lips. It had
made her feel like a silly teenager.
“This one you’re smiling with all your teeth, did something good happen?”
Dave asked with a teasing smile as he watched Kathleen.
Kathleen giggled at that, and raised both hands to her cheek as though she
was trying to stop herself from smiling too much, “I guess I’m just happy,” she
said with a smile as she looked at him.
“It is obvious. I guess oga is doing a good job,” Dave whispered making her
giggle.
“Abeg leave me alone let me work,” she said as she returned her attention to
her laptop. Soon her phone started ringing and she picked it up when she
noticed it was Pete who was calling, “Hello sir!” She answered before she
could stop herself making Pete sigh. This was one frustrating woman he was
dating.
“Sorry,” she said with a wince when she realized what she had said.
“Forget it. Just come over to my offce,” Pete said impatiently.
“Why? It’s not lunch break yet,” she said as she glanced at the wall clock in
the offce. As a matter of fact, it wasn’t even up to an hour since they arrived
at work.
“I’m missing you. I want to see your face,” Pete said, making her lips pull up in
a smile as she tried not to laugh.
“I’m sure you have my picture on your phone, view that,” Kathleen whispered
so her colleagues wouldn’t hear her.
“Come on! I can’t kiss your picture or see the shy smile I know is on your face
right now that I teased you,” Pete complained making her laugh.
“I’m busy, and you’re distracting me,” Kathleen complained.
“You won’t be busy if I fre you, will you?” Pete threatened making her giggle.
“That is low even for you,” Kathleen said with a grin.
“Have you forgotten how petty I am already?” He asked, reminding her of that
Jollof rice incident.
Kathleen couldn’t hold back her laughter this time when she remembered
that day, “You were really mean!”
“If you don’t come to me, I’m going to come to your offce and sit with you. I
won’t even mind your colleagues,” Pete threatened.
“Come on!”
“Are you coming or not? You have the count of fve to make up your mind,’
“What?”
“One.”
“But I have work to do.”
“Two.”
“This isn’t fair at all.”
“Three.”
“Okay, I won’t stay more than fve minutes.”
“Four,” Pete said as he stood up from his chair.
“Fine! I’m coming now!” Kathleen rushed to say as she stood up, and
observed that her colleagues were all staring at her and listening in on her
conversation.
“Good. Hurry then,” Pete said with a big smile as he hung up. He knew he was
being childish and bossy, but he loved it. He just wanted to see her as much
as he could now that she was his girlfriend. He wanted to spend all the time
with her, that way it wouldn’t seem like he was proposing to her out of the
blues.
“Sorry,” Kathleen said apologetically to her colleagues as she walked out of
the offce. She felt her phone conversation had probably disturbed their
work.
“She was on the phone with oga just now, wasn’t she?” Rosy asked Dave
curiously, but he ignored her.
“It’s like they are dating for real. Wow! She is so lucky. I’m happy for her o,”
Sandra said with a big smile.
Thankfully Pete’s secretary wasn’t back from the conference yet, so Kathleen
didn’t have to face her. She walked over to Pete’s door and knocked politely
before opening the door. She didn’t see Pete in his seat, so she pushed the
door further open, and almost jumped in surprise when he jumped out from
behind the door.
“Jesus! Oh my God! Why did you do that?” Kathleen asked, glaring at him
angrily, while he laughed at her.
“Sorry, I got excited while waiting for you. So you weren’t missing me? You
didn’t want to see me?” Pete asked with a sad face as he pulled her close to
himself and shut the door behind her.
“It’s work hours. We can’t be mixing business with pleasure. What would you
say if you had two employees who are dating, and they spend work hours
romancing?” Kathleen asked with a frown.
“As long as they make sure they get their job done at the end of the day, and I
don’t catch them, then we are good,” Pete assured her.
“Isn’t that hypocritical coming from a boss that would rather spend his offce
hours romancing his girlfriend?” Kathleen asked with a snort making him
grin.
“I wasn’t planning on romancing you, but now that you mention it, I don’t think
it is a bad idea,” Pete said, wiggling his brows playfully as he pulled her
closer to himself and tickled her while she struggled to free herself from his
grasp while giggling.
Neither of them heard the door as it opened, but soon they heard the shutter
of a camera and both glanced up, surprised to see Ken taking pictures of
them, “Caught right in the act!” Ken exclaimed triumphantly, while Kathleen
hid behind Pete in embarrassment, which made Ken chuckle in amusement.
“Stop making my baby shy,” Pete warned, glaring at Ken playfully, but winked
at him before turning to look at Kathleen.
“Okay, now that I’ve seen your face I’m okay. You can return to work,” he
whispered to her, and then ficked his tongue over her ear playfully making
her gasp in surprise as she hurried out of his offce without sparing either
him or Ken a glance. Immediately she shut the door behind her Pete
chuckled in amusement.
“I’m in love with that lady!” He announced making Ken roll his eyes.
“Anyone with eyes knows that already. I wonder why you kept denying it this
whole time. Anyway, you have my blessings,” Ken said with a grin. He has
called Pete the previous evening after his conversation with Ella, and Pete
had told him he was back from his trip and had explained he returned
because of Kathleen.
“As what? Father of the bride abi groom?”
“As future brother-in-law of the groom,” Ken said with a wink.
“Brother-in-law? You talked to Kemi already?” Pete asked in surprise.
“Yeah! I need to tell you something. Don’t get mad, just listen, okay?” Ken
pleaded, turning serious all of a sudden.
“I fgured you’re my best friend and I shouldn’t keep secrets from you. So
after our conversation last night, I fgured I should open up to you about
certain things, even if I know your sister is probably going to kill me if she
fnds out, but I’m praying you won’t make the mistake of telling her I told you
anything,” Ken said making Pete raise a questioning brow.
Pete listened keenly as Ken explained all that had happened between him
and Ella while he was abroad, and how he had fnally summoned the courage
to ask Ella out, and how Ella had accepted him with conditions attached,
“That explains it then. I fgured something happened between the both of you
for her to be giving you such cold treatment when you both met at my house,”
Pete said with a sigh.
“You’re not mad?” Ken asked curiously.
“Come on! Yes, she is my sister, and you’re my best friend, but you both are
adults. I know she has always loved you and I was worried about it before,
but knowing you feel the same way about her is cool. Just don’t hurt her,
that’s all,” Pete said, and Ken smiled at Pete.
“God! I feel so relieved now! But you have to keep acting like you don’t know,
okay?” Ken pleaded.
“Sure. I will try,” Pete said with a chuckle as he looked at his best friend.
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“What?” They asked in unison.
“You heard me. Let them go. I appreciate your help, but things would become
messy if the police should probe in further and fnd out my stepmother was
involved in this. It could cause serious problems for my father’s political
ambition. He loves her and this could really hurt him too. I’m not sure I want
him to know about any of this. So just let them go. I will resolve my issues
with Amaka myself,” Kimberly said and walked away before either Eric or
Wumi could say anything else.
Eric sighed, and without saying another word he returned inside the station,
“I want to speak with him in private,” Eric said to the policemen while looking
at Kingsley.
The policemen looked at him skeptically before glancing at Kingsley who
quickly nodded his head in agreement. He knew his freedom was no longer
dependent on his father’s position, but rather on Eric. The policemen led
them to a private room at the left hand of the hall and soon they were both
seated.
“I’m sorry. I didn’t know who you are,” Kingsley said apologetically. He knew
this time around he had outdone himself, and he had no right to be proud. If
he didn’t handle this properly this could be the end of him, and no one would
be able to save him.
“You need to know who a person is before you can respect them?” Eric asked
with a slightly raised brow. He really wanted to deal with this idiot and the
other guys involved, but unfortunately, he had to handle things as Kimberly
wanted.
“I didn’t mean that. I’m sorry,” he quickly corrected.
“I don’t care about your apology. If it was up to me, I’ll make sure you’re
thrown in jail, but my wife doesn’t want that. I just want to know how you
managed to come up with this plan, and how you were able to execute it,”
Eric said, wanting to see if Amaka’s name would come up in the
conversation.
“I know you won’t believe me, but I didn’t just come up with this whole idea by
myself. A lady approached me.
Your wife’s friend, I don’t know if they’re
friends or sisters, but according to her, your wife snatched her frst love. She
wanted us to get back at your wife, so she came up with the idea. I’m sorry,”
Kingsley said with a pleading look. Eric could tell he wasn’t exactly remorseful for what he had done, and the only reason he was feeling sorry
was because he knew that he had stepped on the wrong foot this time.
“What is this person’s name and how did she approach you?”
“Her name is Joy. She called me and set up a meeting at a fast-food
restaurant.”
Joy? Amaka lied about her identity? “What does this Joy look like?” Eric
asked, leaning forward in his seat to take a closer look at Kingsley.
Kingsley narrowed his eyes as he tried to remember her features, “She is tall,
light in complexion, she isn’t fat or slim, just normal. She is busty, and she is
gap-toothed,” Kingsley fnished.
“You’re both in a relationship?” Eric asked, taking him by surprise since he
hadn’t expected Eric to ask him that.
“No. We had sx, but that was just it,” Kingsley explained.
“Can you call her?” Eric asked, and Kingsley shook his head.
“She does the calling. Her line is always unreachable, so I can’t hear from her
until she calls me,” Kingsley said apologetically.
“And you didn’t think that was weird?”
“She said there is no MTN network in her place, so she can only call when
she leaves her house. So I didn’t think it was a big deal,” Kingsley explained,
and Eric nodded. That made sense.
Eric heard his Aunty’s voice outside, so he stood up, “That is fne. You should
stay locked up in the cell until we make up our mind whether or not we want
to take the case to court. That should teach you,” Eric said as he stood up to
leave. It was good enough that none of them knew the identity of the lady
who had approached him since the Kingsley guy was stupid. That way he
could punish them without affecting Kimberly and her family.
“But I thought…”
“You thought what? Did you really think I would let you go without punishing
you simply because I asked you a couple of questions? I asked you to stay away from my wife yet you pulled that stupid stunt. You’re lucky I’m still
being nice,” Eric said with a scoff before walking out of the offce.
“Good morning aunty,” Eric greeted immediately he got to where his aunty
was standing with the Deputy Police offcer and Wumi.
His aunty excused herself from the D.P.O and moved to the side with Eric and
Wumi, “I hear you want to let them go?” His aunty asked curiously.
“No. I have no intention of letting any of them go,” Eric said, making Wumi
give him a questioning glance, while his aunty nodded in agreement.
“Good,” She said before returning to where the D.P.O was standing, “They
should remain in your custody until we decide whether or not we want to
charge them to court. If I fnd out you released any one of them, the case will
be charged to court immediately. Pass this message to the commissioner
and let him know that if he so much as tries to go against this, the case will
be charged to court immediately, and I will make sure his son gets nothing
less than fve years. Am I clear?” Eric’s aunty asked the D.P.O, and he nodded
in understanding.
“Good. I guess we are done. I have to be in court to preside over a case soon,
so I have to leave,” She said before turning to Eric, “I was hoping I would meet
your wife today, I hope you’ll bring her to see me soon,” She said with a small
smile and patted his arm fondly.
“Thank you ma. We will pay you a visit soon,” Eric promised.
“You had better. Wumi my darling, I hope to see you soon too. Your cousins
miss you,” She said with a smile as she embraced Wumi.
“I will visit you soon,” Wumi promised with a smile as their aunty led them to
where her car was parked and got inside.
Immediately she left Wumi turned to Eric, “Why did you do that after what
Kimberly said?” She asked with a frown.
“Don’t worry. He doesn’t know who Amaka is. She lied about her identity, so
we can punish them without implicating Kim or her family. I have to go and
see Kimberly’s father now. I’ll drop you off on the way,” Eric said as they both
headed for the car. All what was left now was for him to fnd a way to get
Kimberly to forgive him.
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Amaka was still feeling very anxious as she tried to fgure out what to do
about Eric’s instruction when a maid knocked on her door, “Madam, aunty
Kimberly is here to see you,” the maid announced, making Amaka’s heart skip
a beat. Kimberly was here? What was she going to do? What was she
supposed to say? Amaka wondered as she quickly picked up her phone and
opened her bedroom door. She was as thankful that her husband wasn’t
home at the moment and had gone out for a political meeting.
She pasted a smile on her face as she descended the stairs, “Kimberly…”
“Let’s talk outside unless you want them to hear us,” Kimberly said in a cold
tone, without returning her smile.
If Amaka had been harboring the hope that all was well, Kimberly’s tone just
shattered that hope, “Can we talk upstairs instead?” Amaka asked, still trying
to be cheerful. Talking outside could be risky since she never could tell what
Kimberly was going to say or who might be in a corner eavesdropping on
their conversation.
Without saying a word Kimberly took the stairs and led Amaka up the stairs
to her bedroom. The moment Amaka walked through the door Kimberly
slapped her hard across the face, “That is for cheating on my father,” and
before Amaka could recover from the shock she slapped her hard again,
“And this is for plotting against me.”
Amaka looked at Kimberly wide-eyed as she raised her hand to her cheek
which was smarting from the slap, “I…”
“What gave you the right to do that to me? How can you even call yourself my
father’s wife if you can do something like that to me?” Kimberly asked,
struggling to control her temper.
There was no point in denying anything. If Kimberly knew she had cheated
on her father, then she knew everything already, so denying it all would be
pointless. But how did they fnd out? She was very certain that Kingsley
didn’t know who she was, so what happened? “I’m sorry,” Amaka said in a
small voice as she lowered herself to the ground.
“Sorry? You are sorry? Do you have any idea what could have happened to
not just me, but my father’s political ambition had your plan worked? Do you
even love him at all? Did you stop to consider what that would do to him?”
Kimberly asked, struggling not to cry.
“It was just a one-time thing… I’ve never cheated on your father before…”
“And I’m supposed to believe that?” Kimberly asked incredulously, “How on
earth could you connive with people for them to drug me, rape me and make
videos? Don’t you have a conscience?” Kimberly half yelled at her.
“I swear on my life, that was the frst time. I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to…”
“To what? Hurt me? You have no idea how many times I’ve heard that
statement since yesterday, so save me the drama,” Kimberly said with a wry
smile, “I suppose you wanted to get rid of me so that you could reconnect
with my husband, right?” Kimberly asked, and almost kicked herself for still
referring to Eric as her husband.
“No. That is not true. I’m sorry. I…”
“You claim it was your frst time cheating on my father, but that wasn’t going
to be the last time, was it? I’m sure had Eric been willing to have you, you
would have thrown yourself into his bed, wouldn’t you?” Kimberly asked with
disgust.
“I don’t know what my father saw in you or why he chose to get married to
someone like you, but that is none of my business. Because of the love, I
have for my father and because I don’t want to see him get hurt or do
anything that might affect his political ambition, I’m going to let this slide. I’m
not going to make a big deal out of this… But stay away from me. If you so
much as get on my nerves again, I don’t know what I might be forced to do to
you. So keep your distance… And I don’t want to see you anywhere near my
husband either,” Kimberly warned before reaching for the doorknob.
Amaka couldn’t believe that Kimberly was going to let her off the hook. She
almost collapsed in tears as a feeling of relief washed over her, “Thank you.
I’m so sorry I tried to do that to you. Thank you for letting this slide I promise
I won’t…” She stopped when Kimberly suddenly gasped.
Kimberly’s eyes widened in surprise when she saw her father standing by the
door with a stricken look on his face, “Dad?” Kimberly asked, hoping her
father hadn’t heard them.
“What were you talking about?” Senator Abamba asked as he walked inside
the room. Amaka’s heart stopped for a second when she heard her husband’s
voice, and she realized she was in trouble now.
“Honey, I can explain,” Amaka pleaded as she looked to Kimberly for help.
“Dad I…”
“You cheated on me?” Senator Abamba asked as he looked at his wife who
was still kneeling on the foor.
“No honey. I didn’t. It was just a misunderstanding. Kim, please tell him,
please,” she pleaded with Kimberly desperately.
“Tell him yourself. I promised to keep your dirty secret, I didn’t promise to lie
to my father on your behalf,” Kimberly hissed at her before walking out of the
room, leaving both couples to resolve their differences themselves.
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