Love & Lies
Love & Lies Episode 38&39
LOVE AND LIES PART TWO (38, 39 and 40) THIRTY-EIGHT There was a strange cackle that night. Loud hooting and whirring rented the air followed by occasional loud bang. It was like a festival, something like a Muslim festival. Kola found himself quite excited. It wasn’t just any kind of festival. It was a festival […]
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LOVE AND LIES PART TWO (36 and 37) THIRTY-SIX It had been three months. Tony had really emaciated. He thought of another way out. He promised to pay Fred if they could go again for the last time. This time they were going to kidnap the boy. They got two Ak47 rifles and tranquilizer to […]
Read MoreLove & lies Episode 34&35
LOVE AND LIES PART TWO (34 and 35) THIRTY- FOUR Lara’s mum was getting dressed for the business of the day when her native doctor stepped into the house. The man still retained his fearful look. His bald head still glowed in the sun and his moustache was still grey and overgrown. He had an […]
Read MoreLove & Lies Episode 32&33
LOVE AND LIES (32 and 33) THIRTY-TWO Kola had begun to eat and talk. This wasn’t easy after many weeks of prayer and fasting. Nkiru was happy and was gradually pulling herself together for greater hope. She believed this would teach Kola a great lesson. Kola was now at home. The family believed it was […]
Read MoreLove & Lies Episode 30&31
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 over them. Both were n***d if not of the quilt. While Nkiru played with Kola’s hair. Kola played his hand over her large bum squeezing them at […]
Read MoreLove & Lies Episode 28&29
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 was getting married to Abu and Nkiru was really happy for her. She had given Nkiru the contract to sow the clothes for her bridal train. Nkiru […]
Read MoreLove & Lies Episode 26&27
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 had begun to change for good. She had found so much love in her teaching job. She would wake up early to make breakfast and before leaving […]
Read MoreLove & Lies Episode 25
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 been five months now.” Lara cried. She had been complaining of stomach pain since the previous night. Both her mother and her couldn’t sleep. “No, I wont […]
Read MoreLove & Lies Episode 24
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 bit by bit or like whacking a cow whip in the air ready to smack her really hard. Tears welled up in her eyes. They formed thick […]
Read MoreLove & Lies Episode 23
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 the evening sun had a daub warmth. Lara stepped into the compound, dragging a heavy box along. She wore a crimson shirt that gave out the size […]
Read MoreLove & Lies Episode 22
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 really be the outcome of my DNA? Have I indeed been fathering a son that isn’t mine?. Kola shook his head, trying to dispel all the thought […]
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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 a watermill was beating from a distance then cascading into a river that ran metres away into the cluster of bush. Nkiru found herself at a crossroad. […]
Read MoreLove & Lies Episode 20
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 bed. He stretched out, guiding his leg safely not to hurt it. He sighed down heavily after the process. His eyes had a glint of utter sadness. […]
Read MoreLove & Lies Episode 19
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 looked crestfallen as he laid in the hospital bed staring into the distance and thinking about his life. The emergency room of the hospital had been really […]
Read MoreLove & Lies Episode 18
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 wealth from his father, an oil merchant. Walter had made an arrangement to buy a house in Nigeria to facilitate his travel. How he got involved with […]
Read MoreLove & Lies Episode 17
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 through the open, whistling a distance off. A haze seemed to hang up in the sky blurring the clouds. Kola jarred off worriedly, speeding through a free […]
Read MoreLove & Lies Episode 16
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 of blue Chinos trousers ran down to his feet over some laced El Haye shoes. He had a gold-encrusted Invicta watch gleaming from his wrist. His face […]
Read MoreLove & Lies Episode 15
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 hair was packed into a polythene. Her b****t dangled under the roll of towel she strapped round her, clapping at each move of her footstep. She dropped […]
Read MoreLove & Lies Episode 14
FOURTEEN Nkiru hadn’t had s*x for weeks now. She had the urge but Kola had shown no interest. He would lay like a log every night. He was simply indifferent. Nkiru wriggled restlessly as she lay in bed before she pulled her quilt over herself for some warmth. It was six in the morning. She […]
Read MoreLove & Lies Episode 13
LOVE AND LIES THIRTEEN Kola was still sitting in his office when his friend, Barrister Nat walked in. Nat was his university friend and ever since they left university they had been two inseparable friends. Nat was a man in his late thirties. He had a large head he probably got when he was fat […]
Read MoreLove & Lies Episode 12
LOVE AND LIES TWELVE Kola sat in his office rocking his armchair. He would sigh and shake his head, hissing intermittently. He was worried. What Nkiru said about her job and marriage had really disturbed him. The last time he went through Nkiru’s mails, what he saw was disheartening. He had decided to keep it […]
Read MoreLove & Lies Episode 10
LOVE AND LIES TEN Weeks had passed and Nkiru was just happy with her job even though things had not been perfect between Kola and her. She would get to office on time, resume her daily duties and go back home feeling fulfilled and overjoyed. Nonso seemed to have stomached the fact that he could […]
Read MoreLove & Lies Episode 9
LOVE AND LIES NINE Nkiru walked into her bank with a sweaty face that had her make up a bit washed. Though her thick eye lids and red lipsticks were still visible and attractive. Judith watched her as she tried to gather herself impatiently that morning. Nkiru removed her jacket and swung it round her […]
Read MoreLove & lies Episode 8
LOVE AND LIES EIGHT Nkiru was in her black blazers over a white shirt and black skirt. Her face had a patch of powder that made her face glow while her lips also glowed with the red lipstick she added. She looked really pretty with the long strands of of Bob Marley that danced and […]
Read MoreLove & Lies Episode 7
LOVE AND LIES SEVEN Lara went back into the house after Kola was out of sight. She unwrapped the phone and brought it out from the pack. A smile was spreading through her face. It was an iPhone 4. She examined it happily and brought out her other phone and dialed Tony’s number. It rang […]
Read MoreLove & Lies Episode 6
SIX The morning was bright. A faint sun smiled out weakly from the clouds. Fresh morning breezes whistled and sway the trees, trashing the softness of the morning and sweeping everywhere. It was what people call the harmattan breeze.People began to rush out to their places of work. Loud hooting and whirring of vehicles had […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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
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 […]
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