” RECKLESS REKKY”
©️Opeyemi O.Akintunde
Osmond kept asking the barman to refill Rekky’s cup. Osmond had come up with a plan.
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45 minutes earlier
“ I am going to the bar down the street, I need to clear my head and relieve myself of my heart pain” Osmond said in a way that made Rekky feel guilty
“ So one of those bar girls will take you away from me for the night?” Rekky asked with a seductive voice laced with Jealousy.
“ Another stab at my heart, Rekky, so I am so loose a dog that I will sleep with a bar girl I will meet tonight?’ Osmond said picking up his jean jacket.
“ I don’t mean it that way, ok… I am sorry for not trusting you! You can have the underwear!’
“ Me? Take your underwear again? Never! After the name calling! Babe you called me a ritualist indirectly. Forget it. If I ever take your underwear again, May I never live to see the next day.” Osmond said
“ Osmond, I am sorry.. I didn’t know I hurt you that bad!”
“Yes you did and that’s why I am bent on going out to the bar to let off some steam”
“ I will go with you!”
“ It’s your choice” Osmond said in a rebuffing manner but deep down, it was his plan that was playing out. He wanted to get Rekky to the bar and get her dead drunk.
PRESENT TIME
“ My eyes are blurry… we should leave!” Rekky said
“ Sure! Same here, I am knocked out!’ Osmond said.
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It was 2am by the time they got home. Rekky was totally knocked out. She had fallen into a deep sleep. Osmond lifted her from the car to his flat. He had driven Rekky’s car into the compound. His Doctor Neighbor was out on his night Shift.
Osmond’s plan was clear, as he laid Rekky on the bed, he pulled out the underwear from her. As Quickly as he could, he packed all that he needed and left Rekky that morning. He knew before she woke up, it was going to be morning around 10am.
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“ If I knew I was marrying a monster, I would have fled!’ Mirabel said with a shaky voice as she sat tied up with Mayowa. She woke up few minutes after passing out.
“ I am sorry! I was just trying to give you a good life.”
“ Temporary good life you mean? Why didn’t you ask for my opinion in all these? You could have asked me from the onset, if what I wanted for myself was to have a temporary good life. No!, you didn’t, instead you plunged my innocent son and I into this dark chaotic world.”
“ I am sorry!”
“ So, we all are going to die?”
“ No, God will save us.”
“ And if He doesn’t?”
There was a brief moment of silence which meant a lot of things.
“What If God doesn’t save us, my son and I will die.” Mirabel said
Mirabel was grieving. She had been asking Mayowa of the whereabouts of her son. Mayowa had told her Moko took him inside.
“ But why is he not crying. He doesn’t like strangers you know! “
“ He is a child, he is probably exhausted, when you passed out he was crying before Moko took him in.”
“ What if he has ki||ed my son in his office?”
“ Moko doesn’t shed blood in his office, the place is sacred to Him”
“ Let me understand what is happening ? Why are they no longer your friends?”
“ Obviously, because I decided to opt out!”
“ Then opt back in!”
“ Opt in, what is that?’
“ Forget the grammar, what I mean is, you need to get back into this thing. You can’t get out and have us ki||ed. Guy, get back in, continue wh@ťěver you were doing with them. I cannot lose my life and that of my child because of your wickedness! Get back into the program!’ Mirabel said with tears flowing , Mayowa could only stare back In shock,
“ Typical of women! I would do the same too if I were her!” Joan said from a corner, She had not been sleeping either.
“ You know when we were taught in Church about Job’s wife who told him to curse God and die, No one understood her pain. She was seeing her once handsome , wealthy husband looking like a dead rat, to her the best thing to do was to make him die. Mayowa, your wife doesn’t mind you continuing with this job at least that way, you return her comfort. If I were you, I would listen! Either way, you would still die soon, but the good news is if you choose her option, your wife and son won’t have to die!”
This was a big choice he had to make!
Should he pretend to be back into the business and have his family released?
Or