Susan ekerete - Season 1 - Episode 12

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Susan ekerete - Season 1 - Episode 12

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The weeks before Cherish travelled to Ghana was a blur of days filled with lessons. Michael kept a civil distance fromSusan and kept their unavoidable interaction very limited.

Consumed with guilt about her behavior, Susan was only happy to avoid him. She busied herself planning her daughter’s trip and sooner than she had anticipated, she had to be ready to be away from her daughter for a week.

From the moment she had given birth to Cherish, the girl had never left her side for more than two days at a time. With her separation and eventual divorce, her daughter had become her closest confidant, after Eka, her best friend. She would miss the little girl dearly.“I wish you could come with me.” Cherish told her the night before she was to leave. She was lying in her favourite spot, watching the television.Susan looked up from the sheaf of work papers she had been poring over, a smile on her face. “Oh my baby, I wish I were coming along too.”Cherish turned to her mother, stuck out her tongue and grinned. “I wasn’t talking to you! I was talking to Pooh the bear here.”Susan threw a mock glare at the large teddy bear on which her daughter was sprawled. “Very funny. You may very well return to find your silly bear is gone forever.”Cherish shrieked in horror. “Mummy! Don’t you dare hurt Pooh!”“Well, only if he promises not to try and steal my baby’s affections.” Susan threatened, crossing her arms.Cherish laughed and ran over to her mum,jumping into her lap. “Of course not, mummy! No one could do that. Ever!”She hugged her daughter, smiling. After the incident with Michael, she had sufferedbouts of depression and found herself crying for no reason. Her daughter had been the lone point of her joy. When the girl left, what would keep her happy?“Will daddy ever come back?” Cherish asked suddenly, her voice muffled against her mother’s collarbone.

Susan stiffened, and then relaxed when she realized the girl would feel the instinctive reaction. She felt sad that Cherish had to go through the effects of a divorce, but she knew her daughter was better off not living in a home run by two people who had no respect for each other. She would only have to make sure Asuquoplayed his role as a father, without bringing too much of his bile into their future. She definitely could not give him full custody.“Of course he will, Cherish.” She kissed herdaughter on the forehead, “He will come tovisit you once in a while. Daddy and mummy are not friend s anymore, but we both love you.

I promise we will both always be there.”The scene stayed with her as she said her farewell at the airport the next day, bending to hug her daughter before the little girl went through to the departure lounge. She pulled the little girl close and inhaled the smell of the shampoo her daughter always used. The familiar smell brought tears to her eyes; she would be miserable with her daughter gone for just a week. Imagine how distraught she would be if Asuquo took her away forever.The thought fortified her as she watched the plane with her daughter in it take off into the skies, accompanied by Miss Jennifer Adesina and one other male and female teacher. She would give herself thelonely week to keep herself busy, so she would not think about Michael. She would also deal with the issue of Asuquo.

He wasdisrupting their new lives. For her daughter’s sake, she had to come to an amicable agreement with him.Or she had to get him out of their lives permanently.** **The day after Cherish left for Ghana, Susan tried to call Asuquo, but kept reaching his voicemail.

Like the average Nigerian, she had never overcome her distrust of the voicemail service, so she left none, instead sending him a couple of text messages to call her so they could seta time and place to meet and resolve their problems.Two days later, her text messages got her a response, but it was nothing like what she expected.She returned from a busy work day to finda dark blue jeep parked in front of her apartment. At first she had assumed it was Asuquo, but on reaching the vehicle, she saw it was a different model than that of her ex-husband’s.As she alighted from her car, the doors of the jeep opened and two men stepped down from the car.“Excuse me, madam, are you Miss Susan Ekerette?” one of the men asked without any formal greeting.Susan paused, her feet halfway out her car as two other men alighted from the back of the vehicle. Their faces looked unwelcoming and grim; her heart began torace as various panicked thoughts shuffled through her mind. Was she about to be kidnapped?