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📚 #Episode_31
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“Brother Kehinde, thank you very much. I appreciate your love and care for me and Toyin..” She said feeling overwhelmed with emotions.
“Can we pray plea-se?” He said in order to dispel her mood and immediately, he prayed briefly,then they shared in His grace and began to walk down.
“Brother Kehinde, can I come along and help in washing those dirty clothes?” She queried as they walked down side by side in the way.
“You never told me you also got a job in a drycleaning hub.” He tea-sed her.
“St©p joking, I’m serious.” She sounding serious.
“Sisters don’t wash my clothes my dear. Besides, I don’t welcome female visitors anymore and you are alre-ady aware of that.” He said looking away from her.
“Brother Kehinde am I still a stranger to you? I thought…” She was trying to talk but interrupted her with another t©pic which made her to forget what she wanted to say. On their way home, he switched on his phone and many voice SMS entered, followed by Toyosi’s call. He ended the call and concentrated on the steering but she kept calling while Sade told him about a man in her br@nch church who lost his wife five years ago that was ma-king advances at her.
“Brother Kehinde, pick your calls now.” She urged him when she saw how he repeatedly ended the calls.
“You advice me to answer calls while driving?” He said cunningly .
“But you used to answer my calls while driving.” She argued jokingly.
“That’s because it’s you. You are not every other persons.” He said, then continued.
“I beg continue with your story. So tell me, do you want requite the affections?” He asked feeling a little bit jealous.
“I’m just telling you about it, I didn’t say I would requite anything jor.” She said feeling shy.
“But let as-sume the man proposes to marry you, will you accept to marry him?” He asked trying to know her mind but she kept quiet.
“That man is in his fifties brother Kehinde, though it’s my de-sire to get married ,i don’t want to have anything to do with old men after my past ordeal with Olori.” She said feeling sad.
“I’ve been praying seriously and trusting God for a life p@rtner, at least a man who loves God and can also love me and Toyin unconditionally.” She added calmly without looking at him.
“It is well my dear, God will bring a man after his own heart for you. Just keep praying and trusting Him to perfect all that concerns you.” He replied then breathed down heavily and concentrated on the high way followed by a long silence. Within him, he was happy that at least she had begun to gain back her self-esteem but at the same time, he felt bad that he’s not been able to make his intention openly known to her because of his parents refusal to accept her . He began to regret telling them that Sade was a single mother in the first place.
Sade on her own p@rt was feeling bad about the turn of things in her life.
” If only i had kept my b©dy chaste, i wouldn’t be single by now, let alone being a single mother .” she thought in regrets.
“I hope you are not worried?” He broke the long silence as they were approaching the church bus st©p where he would drop her off before going back to his own house.
“I’m worried brother Kehinde, I will be clocking 30 next month but there’s still no serious man taking interest in me for marriage.” She lamented in a way that broke him down internally.
“Sister Sade, I thought you said you have been praying and trusting God? If you are then calm down and wait on him to answer your prayers. You don’t pray and worry at the same time!” He said loudly getting angry with himself for everything.
“Alright. Ese gan” she thanked him and wiped off the tears that dropped down her cheeks before climbing down from the car.
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Very early the next morning, kehindee put a call across to the church mummy who was out of the state for a program and informed her of his plan to make his intention openly known to Sade and the woman started teasing him.
“Oh! Mr secret lover boy, so you finally want to come out openly from your hiding abi?” She said laughing ha-rd over the phone.
” Mummy,plea-se leave me o. I want to win her to myself as fast as possible before all these sharp sharp brothers in your church will snatch her away from me Jaree . he said and joined her laughing.
“That’s a good step my brother. Sade is a nice girl, it’s just that she fell victim of one of those temptations that are common to young people.. Well, why am even telling you these as if you were not there all along.” She said in a hurry, then asked immediately.
“What about your parents, have they finally approved your marriage plans with her?” She asked with a concern in her voice.
“Mummy, they haven’t o. But first thing first, let me even get Sade to accept me first. Am so certain that one day they will have no option than to dance to my own tune.” He said and f0rç£d out a dry smile.
“It’s well brother Kehinde, we shall join you in prayers..” She replied coldly and they bade each other good bye.
He entered the bathtub and had a good bath allowing the showers to gush out water continuously over his head as he sat down on the inside. His phone rang and he stretched out his hand and collected to check the caller, it was an international number so he quic-kly cleaned his head and on pressing the receive bu-tton,he heard his elder sister’s voice.
“Hello Kenny, bawoni?” She said in a hurry.
” Ah! Sister mi, am fine o. You’ve forgotten your only brother na.” He said smiling.
“Kenny forget that thing first, I was told momma is very sick. What are you doing about that?” She announced and he was taken aback at the information.
“Sick? Nob©dy informed me about that. Who gave you that information?” He replied looking confused.
“You mean you are in Nigeria and I get information about what happens to our parents more than you? When last did you visit home ?” She queried sounding offensive and he suddenly felt guilty for having not visited nor called his parents for over six months.
“Sister mi, that’s not necessary now. I will travel home first thing tomorrow morning to attend to her.”
“Tomorrow morning is too far, you have to get re-ady and go home today.” She said authoritatively and he started laughing.
“Soldier woman, you have not changed one bit. St©p commanding me o, am now a full grown up man.” He said still laughing.
“I’m not laughing with you yet,go and treat my mother first then call me so we can discuss about that your Sade of a girl you were talking about.” She said smiling at the other end.
“So it’s now you want to talk about her since over how many months? Go jor, you are not a good big sister.” He said and they both started laughing.
“You should know I don’t have problems with your choice of whom to marry, I just want you to be careful. You alre-ady have my half support till when you finish treating my mother.” She said jovially.
“Alright, let me see how it goes.” He said and they joked over other things then bade each other farewell.
Kehinde got to the office earlier than usual and attended to some pregnant women who were around, then put a call across to Sade and informed her about his mother’s condition and his plan to travel home to know the nature of the sickness and possibly start up a treatment on her if it’s within his ability.
“I will try and come back before 2pm so we can go to the studio.” He promised.
“No problems, just take your time. We can go to the studio next week” she said with concern, then continued.
“Greet her for me.” She said before ending the call.
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Kehinde arrived home to meet his parents abs£nce and was told that his mother had been rushed to the hospital in the same city he was coming back from.
“What’s happening?” He asked nob©dy but himself. Whatever will make the oba, his father to leave his throne must be a serious matter and their refusal to call him means that they must be seriously angry with him.
He quic-kly dialed his father’s number and he picked up immediately and gave him the name of the hospital they were. He knew his father does not have a strong heart and could easily be convinced but his mother had a soldier’s heart just like his elder sister who was based in the UK.
He drove on a high speed limit and arrived the general hospital where his mother was admitted and luckily, he knew the doctor in charge of her treatment.
He inquired and was told the nature of the sickness then he breathed down, relieved that it wasn’t really a serious issue. He drove the oba to his house to freshen up and when he was thinking of what next to do and how to combine Sade’s studio show with his mother in the hospital and the oba in his house, an idea dropped in his mind.
He smiled and called Sade to council the studio show for that day.
“My mother is admitted at the general hospital here in the city with no one to stay with her. plea-se can you to stay with her this weekend since there’s no school tomorrow and next.?” He said pleadingly over the phone and she agreed immediately without thinking about it the second time…
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“I think we nee-d to bring one of the maidens over to take care of your mother at the hospital because you may not have all the time to stay with her and duty demands that I return back to my seat ..” The oba explained carefully.
“Ah! There would be no nee-d to bring any of them over, I have nurses working un-der me and trusted female friends who can stay with her till the time she would be discharged.” He replied almost immediately.
“You know she is a queen of a kingdom and her life shouldn’t be left at the mercy of just anyb©dy. We are in dangerous times and…” The oba was still talking and he quic-kly cut in.
“My father, do not worry yourself about that. I know you don’t want to lose your sweetheart and I as-sure you that she would be left in safe hands.” He said convincingly and the oba believed him.
“Father,” Kehinde called him calmly with a sad face.
“I’m sorry I haven’t been calling nor visiting to know how you both are doing. I’m de-eply sorry…” He said remorsefully and was trying to prostate on the Indian rug in his sitting room but the oba st©pped him.
“Come’on my son, don’t do that.” He said in a hurry and asked him to sit down.
“You see, I’m equally guilty and my heart have not been at peace since the last time you left the palace in anger, and i have been longing to see you.” The oba began meekly and gently.
“I was studying my bible some few months ago and the Lord confronted me with a scripture, ‘ why do you call what God has blessed unclean?”. I also heard it loud and clear so I looked around thinking someone was re-ading it out for me but found no man.
While I was trying to un-derstand what the Lord was talking about, your thought c@m£ strongly to my heart and the last discussion we had in which I angrily told you that the woman you have chos£n to marry is no longer sacred enough to be the next queen c@m£ flashing in my mind.” The oba continued.
” Who am I to call God’s handmaid imperfect? I asked God for mercy and have been willing to give you my blessings but when I related the matter to your mother, she stubbornly insisted that her son would not marry a second hand woman.
You know how stubborn your mother can be most times, she threatened to kill herself if I approves your marriage and it’s a bad omen to my throne as a King of a kingdom. I have told the Lord who visited and confronted me to also visit her and convince her heart concerning His will for you in marriage. ” the oba explained and breathed down heavily.
“How is the young lady?” He asked this the surprise of Kehinde whose mouth was alre-ady opened in amazement of all that his father had said.
” She is fine.” He replied feeling elated.
“Don’t worry my son, your God whom you serve will settle you soon.
Don’t be discouraged, am solidly behind you but let’s give your mother time to get convinced about the young lady.” The oba dropped more surprising words which got Kehinde so excited so much that he did not know when he jumped up to his feet and hvgged his father so pas-sionately.
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To_be_Continued