Must Read: Honorable Secretary (18+)

Episode 6 years ago

Must Read: Honorable Secretary (18+)

I called her phones repeatedly but none of the numbers went through. Nobody had seen Toyin; her resignation letter had been hand delivered to HR by courier. It was hard to accept that the girl that made love to me so passionately yesterday left without even giving any notice. At ten in the morning, I couldn’t take it any longer so i took permission to go to the clinic and sped over to her place. The house was empty and the shop keeper on the other side of the road said she’d packed out a week ago. Toyin had moved house and resigned without me having a clue. Even her close friends in her department had no idea of her plans or whereabouts.


I returned to the office an hour later and continued working, although my mind was still trying to make sense of the whole situation. The gist from Karishika’s husband yesterday was also on my mind. How exactly was I tied up in madam’s business? The only person who could provide the answer to that question didn’t put in an appearance in the office throughout the whole week and I was glad when Friday finally came.



Saturday was all chores and little else, very boring. A part of me actually wanted to buzz up Susan and invite her for an outing but then I remembered all the trouble I had waiting for me and decided otherwise, sat down and pretended to watch TV instead until I fell asleep.

Someone’s repeated knocking on my gate startled me awake. It took a minute to regain my orientation while I wondered who it could be, I rarely had visitors. Praying it wasn’t Madam Ayiri again looking for a quick Bleep; I tiptoed to the window and peeped out from beneath the curtains.

Jesus!!! My heart flipped a triple somersault at what I saw.

Karishika was standing outside my gate, in living color, her face looking like thunder.

How could this be? My gate? Who brought her here?

I wasn’t ready for drama and since I didn’t know what exactly she wanted, I decided not to answer, hoping she would believe I wasn’t home and leave me in peace. She continued knocking loudly for another five minutes and then suddenly stopped. There I was, heaving a huge sigh of relief where I stood with ears cocked, happy that my clever ruse had worked. Next thing I knew, my phone beeped as an sms came in.

‘YOU CAN OPEN THE DOOR OR STAY INSIDE UNTIL I RUN OUT OF PATIENCE AND COME IN ANYWAY. I HOPE YOU MAKE MY DAY AND CHOOSE THE LATTER.’

The tone of that message wasn’t friendly and knowing Karishika’s unpredictable and unstable nature, something told me testing her patience further or daring her could back fire big time, so I went to let her in.

“Smart choice”, she hissed as she breezed past me at the gate and made for my back door.

I met her already comfortable on the sitting room sofa when I came back in. She was looking around too.

“Good to finally see your den in person, although I’m still undecided whether it’s good to see you. Be that as it may, go in and get dressed. You have an outing and I assume you don’t want to go dressed as you are.”

“Outing? Where? When? Why?”

“You have ten more minutes till you exhaust my quickly evaporating pool of patience, all of ten minutes. I don’t care about what you do with that time but I can authoritatively tell you that when it’s gone you’re going out with me, dressed or not.”

Which kain wahala be this for Heaven’s sake? I was being ordered around right in my own house fa?

I went in and changed into black jeans, a white Polo tee shirt and black sneakers then came out again.

“Shall we?”

She didn’t reply, just sized me up and down with owlish eyes before she glanced at her watch and muttered.

“Not bad. Lucky number seven, not bad at all for seven minutes.”

Then she stood up, walked past me in a huff and flung the back door open, stepping outside into the hot afternoon sunshine.

Quickly, I threw the gates open for her and was about to come back to start the car when she barked at me again.

“Leave it and walk.”

She turned and started walking up the road. Now this was getting ridiculous, but still in the spirit of trying to avoid trouble, I followed her instruction, locked the gates and hurried after her.

Her car was parked at the junction. She got there first, entered and started the engine, waited long enough for me to catch up and get in and zoomed off immediately my bum touched the seat, while the door was still hanging open.
I hurriedly closed it and belted myself in, praying silently that she wouldn’t run into any of the kids who usually rode their bikes within the compound at weekends on our way out of the Estate.

We made it to her Lekki hideout in one piece less than her hour later thanks to her demonic driving. Charles and Ken saluted smartly as we drove into the compound and Ken rushed to open madam’s door while Charles locked the gate after us.