LOVE AND LIES (30 and 31) THIRTY Nkiru laid in Kola’s arm and played her hand through the spikes of hair on his chest. They had the quilt...

LOVE AND LIES (28 and 29) TWENTY- EIGHT Schools were on holiday and Nkiru had been sitting at home for few days. Judith had sent her invitation. She...

LOVE AND LIES ( 26 and 27) TWENTY-SIX Kola had been doing fine and he had resumed work at his office while Nkiru was also happy that things...

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE ” Mami please, I have had enough. Just leave me to die. Everywhere we went, they said there is no solution to my problem. It has...

TWENTY-FOUR Something tells her life is about to take its toll on her. It seems to brandish a cutlass in the air ready to cut out her flesh...

LOVE AND LIES TWENTY-THREE It was evening and the wind was already thrashing softly outside. Honks and gabble still whirring from a distance. The air was musky and...

TWENTY-TWO Kola nestled his head into his pillow, observing the stillness in the hospital ward. It was an early morning, probably six. Kola was in thought. What will...

TWENTY-ONE Nkiru wondered what kind of place this could be. A cluster of bushes here, then few baobab trees there which were led by a pathway. Something like...

TWENTY A male nurse pushed Kola out of the theatre in a wheel chair. The surgery had been done. He looked sullen. He was gently laid into the...

LOVE AND LIES NINETEEN Kola’s right leg was hung up at a side of the bed, bandaged. It reeked really bad. He couldn’t shake nor move it. He...

LOVE AND LIES EIGHTEEN Tony had been able to con a man of $120, 000. A man called Walter, a Lebanese business mogul who inherited most of his...

LOVE AND LIES SEVENTEEN Kola drove out into the mist of the morning. A faint sun was already peeping out from the clouds. Fresh breezes coursed and careened...

LOVE AND LIES SIXTEEN Kola stepped out of the room dressed in a Ralph Lauren Polo that structured his muscular chest and well-trimmed his broad shoulders. A pair...

LOVE AND LIES FIFTEEN Lara stepped out of the bathroom with just the towel swung round her. Bead of water-drops streaked and ran down through her face. Her...

FOURTEEN Nkiru hadn’t had sex for weeks now. She had the urge but Kola had shown no interest. He would lay like a log every night. He was...