“Thank you for your advice,” I said. “It really helped.”
“So wetin next? You don lock her down?”
“Actually,” I said, choosing my words carefully, “I think I am going to sack her.”
Silence on the other end.
“Sack her? After all this?”
“Kola, think about it. I cannot live under the same roof with a woman I have had those… fierce moments with. That is digging my own grave. What if my wife finds out? What if something else happens? No. It is better she goes.”
Kola was quiet for a moment.
“You know what? You are right. But my brother, don’t throw away the baby with the bathwater. Keep her as a side chick. That way, you can be visiting her from time to time. No risk of your wife finding out. No drama.”
I hesitated.
“That… might work,” I said, pretending to consider it.
“Of course it will work! Na me talk am!”
Then Kola’s voice changed. Became softer. Almost pleading.
“Emmanuel, my brother, I need one small favour from you.”
“What is it?”
“Abeg, pass Inemesit’s number to me. Since she won’t be living under your roof again, make I show her my own kind of hospitality.”
I smiled into the phone.
“Never,” I said.
“Ah! Emmanuel! No dey stingy with woman na! Just one number! I beg!”
“Goodbye, Kola.”
I ended the call.
Good riddance, I thought.
If not for a woman talk, wetin concern agbero concern overload?
I stood in the sitting room for a moment, staring at the dark screen of my phone.
Now I needed to concentrate on what really mattered. On how to take this new thing developing between me and Inemesit to the next level. Not the physical next level — the emotional next level. The kind where two people could look at each other and see past the masks, past the performances, past all the walls they had built to protect themselves.
I was about to go upstairs when I heard footsteps behind me.
I turned.
And my breath caught in my throat.
🔥💖OGA I WAN KNACK💖 – EPISODE TEN – A DIFFERENT KIND OF FIRE 💖🔥
