stared at the screen. She
jumped up when the
realization of what had
just happened hit her.
They had murdered the wrong person. It ought to be Ronke and not this
Adejoke girl being displayed on TV. She became slightly dizzy.
It had taken a whole lot of will-power to attempt
murder and now to
complicate issues, they just murdered the wrong
person, meaning Ronke
was still free. She hadn't
called for the past three
days but that made her even more dangerous, not to mention the fact
that they just killed her
favorite step-sister.
She remembered Ronke talking about her extensively countless number of times.
Oyinade grabbed her
head, roaming the sitting room. She called Tikes but his number was
not going through. She threw her phone on the chair.
Ronke just got more dangerous.
She had known that Ronke was too clever to be
eliminated so easily but
she
also knew that Ronke
would not have expected
her do anything so stupid. What would Ronke do
when she find out? She
could not begin to
imagine.
**********
********** Ronke got tired of
shedding
tears. She could not
imagine
that she had lost her step-
sister, the only family she had left. She still saw her
yesterday looking so alive
and happy. Why had she
asked her to go over to
the
house? If she hadn't done that, she would be alive
now. She wiped her eyes
after hours of wailing and
crying. There was no one
to
comfort her in the hotel she
was lodged in and she had
to comfort herself.
She engaged her thoughts
now. Who could have
wanted Joke dead? She is the liveliest person she
knew and could not think
of anyone trying to harm
her. 'Wait. What if I was
the
target?' the thought slammed into her, making
her dizzy. It could have
been her obituary on the
screen. She shook her
head
vigorously, dismissing such
evil thought. Silently, she
thanked God for her life.
She poured herself
another
shot of whiskey and downed it at once. 'who
could have wanted me
dead' she wondered. The
old man crossed her mind.
It was a possibility but
she felt the man could not be
as
stupid as to do that; killing
her would mean he would
not get his money back.
That dismissed, only one person could have done it
–
Oyinade. She remembered
that the deadline she gave
would have ended
yesterday, meaning, the truth would have been out
today. 'So that useless pig
wanted to kill me ehn?
She
killed my Joke, my own
Adejoke.' She shook her head. She couldn't come
out
of hiding because she was
still wanted for theft,
making her quest for
revenge harder. She still couldn't kill her. Even
though it hurt so much,
she
could not imagine herself
murdering a human being
and not a fetus. "Ok. Let me
give her exactly what she
was preventing." She said
out loud.
**********
********** Oyinade's phone rang and
she ran to pick it. It was a
hidden number and only
one person call with a
hidden number.
"Hey you…. What rubbish did you do" she yelled.
"Would you shut up?" she
heard over the receiver.
She
froze. She never expected
to hear that voice again. She
should be dead but by
sheer luck and braveness,
she was still alive. She
shivered.
"Hey R…Ronke… I… I heard about your ehmm… your"
"Would you shut your dirty
mouth you murderer. You
think I am so dumb as to
not know who did this?
Just listen; you just stepped
the lion's tail, get ready to
go down. After you go to
jail for the fraud you
committed, you would
then hang for murdering my
only
family. They should be at
your doorstep now. See
you
in hell" The phone dropped from
Oyinade's hand and
scattered all over the
floor.
Ronke had reported her.
She was almost peeing on her body and her body
shook so violently that
you
would assume she just
had
an encounter with Titanic's
iceberg. She picked her
purse on the chair,
gathered the ruins of her
phone, took her car keys
and dashed out. She drove out of the house without closing the gate
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