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Love & Lies Episode 5
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LOVE AND LIES FIVE Lara’s hostel was off campus. It was just a stone’s throw from the school. It had a row of trees that made it look like a boulevard. They often swayed and danced in the breezes. A few buildings dotting it everywhere. Lara sat on her bed thinking. She had suddenly run
Continue ReadingLove & Lies Episode 4
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FOUR Customers were trodding in and out of the bank premises. A rustle, chatter, banging on the table and humming of voices could be heard everywhere. Fresh fluorescent light beamed from the roofs and cascade down in bright rays, illuminating everywhere. An air-condition was humming and oozing out cold gusts of breaths. Nkiru was engulfed
Continue ReadingLove & Lies Episode 3
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LOVE AND LIES THREE A shadow lurked outside in the dark like a silhouette. Kola wondered what it was. He rose from the bed and walked to the window. An incoherent warbling drifted towards him mingled with a sound like a slurping of soup or a rasp of tools. He stood there for a while
Continue ReadingLove & Lies Episode 2
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TWO The bus conductor was reeking of alcohol. The number of years he had spent smoking could be read from his dark lips and skin. He wore a faded red- flowered shirt over a dirty folded black trousers that all lent him a shabby look. His fingernails buried under black musks of engine oil.He jumped
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Love & Lies (complete story
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LOVE AND LIES ONE The whole room was suddenly filled with a terrific silence that sent cold shudder down Kola’ spine. The light was out and he could only make out the positions of things in the room with the flakes of faint blue light from the banana moon that spilled in from a side
Continue ReadingMy Hubby’s Sugar Mummy episode 35
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π π¬ ππ¨πππ¬’π¦ π¦π¨πππ₯ π π¨π π π¬ π Ώπ °ππ ππ ·π Έπππ π ΅π Έπ π ΄ For three days, Dolapo sat at her mother’s bedside, intently gazing into her face, holding her limp hand and praying endlessly for her survival. There seem to be no improvement in her condition, and the medical people were almost giving up. The director had tactically told Dolapo that
Continue ReadingMy Hubby’s Sugar Mummy episode 34
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ππ πππππ’π πππππ πππππ π Ώπ °ππ ππ ·π Έπππ π ΅π Ύππ Dolapo arrived to Nigeria and headed straight for the hospital. She inquired for her mother at the reception. ” I just arrived from Canada. I learnt that my mum is on admission here. Please may I see her?” The nurse at the reception raised her head and looked
Continue ReadingMy Hubby’s Sugar Mummy episode 33
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π π¬ ππ¨πππ¬’π¦ π¦π¨πππ₯ π π¨π π π¬ π Ώπ °ππ ππ ·π Έπππ ππ ·ππ ΄π ΄ Jumoke and Bimpe sat in front of the doctor. Looking at them, the doctor smiled and extended her right hand to Jumoke. “Congratulations madam.” Jumoke looked puzzled and raised an eyebrow. She heard the doctor as if from a distance. ” You are 4 weeks pregnant.” ” Jesus!”
Continue ReadingMy Hubby’s Sugar Mummy episode 32
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ππ πππππ’π πππππ πππππ π Ώπ °ππ ππ ·π Έπππ πππ Ύ Egbami o,” Wura, Deaconess’ househelp shouted for someone to come to her aid. Meeting Deaconess Beatrice in that condition was a huge surprise. She was equally at a loss on what to do. Before shouting for help, she had bent and placed her ear close to Deaconess’ mouth
Continue ReadingMy Hubby’s Sugar Mummy episode 31
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π π¬ ππ¨πππ¬’π¦ π¦π¨πππ₯ π π¨π π π¬ π Ώπ °ππ ππ ·π Έπππ π Ύπ ½π ΄ A week after Jumoke left her house, Kola still had no hint on her whereabout. All he knew was that, a cab man took her away. At the time, he was confused and at a loss on what to do. Run after the cab? Call the security men
Continue ReadingMy Hubby’s Sugar Mummy episode 30
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π π¬ ππ¨πππ¬’π¦ π¦π¨πππ₯ π π¨π π π¬ π Ώπ °ππ ππ ·π Έπππ After the whole wahala of the day, it was time for Deaconess Beatrice to retire to bed. Reverend and his wife had left her house about an hour earlier. That was after they went to Kola’s house and returned to check back on her. The level of care they
Continue ReadingMy Hubby’s Sugar Mummy episode 29
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π π¬ ππ¨πππ¬’π¦ π¦π¨πππ₯ π π¨π π π¬ π Ώπ °ππ πππ ΄π ½ππ π ½π Έπ ½π ΄ Jumoke drove home like a mad woman. She was past caring. She wanted something to happen that would put an end to her miserable life. To her, nothing is worth living for again. She saw Kola’s betrayal as a pill that is too bitter to swallow. Tears clouded
Continue ReadingMy Hubby’s Sugar Mummy episode 28
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ππ πππππ’π πππππ πππππ π Ώπ °ππ πππ ΄π ½ππ π ΄π Έπ Άπ ·π Jumoke’s thoughts ran wild as she drove away from her house. She asked herself where she was headed and what she was going to do. Before leaving the house, her mind was set on finding out about Kola’s relationship to Deaconess, but now, she began to have some
Continue ReadingMy Hubby’s Sugar Mummy episode 27
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ππ πππππ’π πππππ πππππ π Ώπ °ππ πππ ΄π ½ππ ππ ΄π π ΄π ½ Exactly two weeks after Deaconess Beatrice returned to Kano, she was presented to the church to be disciplined. The process looked more like bringing an accused before a judge for sentencing. The church was packed full because the news of her misdemeanor had gone viral, courtesy of the
Continue ReadingMy Hubby’s Sugar Mummy episode 26
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π π¬ ππ¨πππ¬’π¦ π¦π¨πππ₯ π π¨π π π¬ π Ώπ °ππ πππ ΄π ½ππ ππ Έπ Kola was in the kitchen preparing dinner when his wife returned from the women fellowship. Jumoke sniffed at the aroma wafting out of the kitchen, tiptoed in and grabbed Kola’s waist from behind. He turned and smiled. “You almost gave me a fright. I didn’t hear when you
Continue ReadingMy Hubby’s Sugar Mummy episode 25
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ππ πππππ’π πππππ πππππ π Ώπ °ππ πππ ΄π ½ππ π ΅π Έπ π ΄ Deaconess Beatrice paced round her one room apartment. She picked this, picked that, dropped them and placed her head against the wall. She has gone to the toilet five times in the space of twenty minutes. That was a sure sign of anxiety. Deaconess turned what she would
Continue ReadingMy Hubby’s Sugar Mummy episode 24
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π π¬ ππ¨πππ¬’π¦ π¦π¨πππ₯ π π¨π π π¬ π Ώπ °ππ πππ ΄π ½ππ π ΅π Ύππ ” Don’t turn. Keep going.” Deaconess Beatrice instructed the Keke man. ” Madam, dis no be the road leading to your estate?” He pointed. “You talk say you dey go Gowon Estate.” ” I know! I know! Take me a little further! Enter the next street! Stop.” She
Continue ReadingMy Hubby’s Sugar Mummy episode 23
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ππ πππππ’π πππππ πππππ π Ώπ °ππ πππ ΄π ½ππ ππ ·ππ ΄π ΄ Three months after she lost her pregnancy, Jumoke was still recovering. Although she had healed physically and had returned to her normal way of life, she was yet to reach a balance psychologically. Her wound would take time to heal. She was always moved to tears, whenever she
Continue ReadingMy Hubby’s Sugar Mummy episode 22
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ππ πππππ’π πππππ πππππ π Ώπ °ππ πππ ΄π ½ππ πππ Ύ Deaconess Beatrice and Jerry had a lengthy discussion. The result was that Deaconess moved from the hotel into a single room self contained apartment that belonged to Jerry’s younger sister. She was studying abroad and had left her house in Jerry’s care. They’d agreed that Deaconess would stay
Continue ReadingMy Hubby’s Sugar Mummy episode 21
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ππ πππππ’π πππππ πππππ π Ώπ °ππ πππ ΄π ½ππ π Ύπ ½π ΄ Jumoke looked small and vulnerable on the hospital bed. She couldn’t lay still as bouts of pain continually hit her from time to time. She’d shift from one end of the bed to the other, raise a leg, raise an arm or just do anything to curtail the
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