Story: Daughters!!! - Season 1 - Episode 20

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Story: Daughters!!! - Season 1 - Episode 20

It’s okay. Tiara doesn’t bite”,Liza assured
Oh,Tiara bites deep—Fiona thought
“How did she know?”
“You know, I actually thought you loved me but you love and care for only one person, Joshua”,Liza uttered ignoring the question asked
“I see Tiara has brought you up to speed”
“She has”
“What are you doing here?”
“You want me to keep living on the street?”
“You choose that when you ran from home”
“It was mistake and I intend making up for it”
“How?”
“Is that really a question?”
Fiona knew the answer to the question she asked
“Where is Tiara?”
“In her room”
Fiona took the stairs. How would Tiara be so selfish as to let Liza go on a revenge spree with her? What was Tiara thinking? And she was sure Tiara had forced Liza into doing that. Tiara was so selfish. Her thoughts were disrupted when she saw the change on Tiara’s face,somewhere around Tiara’s eyes,she saw Tiara wasn’t as lonely as she was before but that wasn’t her concern nor was it her business. She wasn’t like Tiara that wants to know everything about someone’s personal life!

When Tiara saw Fiona in her room,she knew they were about to have a heated conversation but she doesn’t understand why Fiona was looking at her the way she was. Did she know what happened between Pedro and she the previous night?— She doesn’t think so
“How dare you?”,Fiona shouted
No answer
“How dare you!?”
No answer
“How would you be so eaten with revenge that you use your kid sister? How dare you!”
“Don’t make it sound like you care about her”
“Is that what you have been saying to her?,that I don’t care about her?”
No answer
“You are a devil!”
“If I were a devil,you’d be dead already”
“My God!”,Fiona sat on the bed because she felt her knees would fail her. What possessed Tiara?. Fiona stood up,angry,bloodshot eyes glaring at Tiara that said it all
“Joshua and I are getting married. Kill me if you wish to”,she opened the door and slammed it

Yes,before Tiara and Fiona began their conversation, Tiara knew it would be heated but what she didn’t know was the extent at which it was heated

As Tiara was wearing her animal-skin,knee length chiffon gown,she heard a knock. At first she thought it was Fiona coming to take back what had been earlier but as the door opened, her thoughts were wrong. Standing at the door was Pedro.
“Tiara,Robert wants to know the owner of the share before the next board meeting”
“That would spoil my plans”
“I know. We have to buy Mr Anthony’s shares before the next board meeting”
“When is the next board meeting?”
“A day after tomorrow”
“How did you know?”

Mr Anthony Madu had a disturbed childhood. When he was a child, he had watched his dad drink and beat up his mother and sometimes, him too.
He had watched his mother turn into an object in the hands of his father. Soon,he learnt to deal with his mother’s cries and wails.

When he began his primary school,he became somewhat happy. He would leave the house early for school. He loved the feeling he gets in the school, he enjoyed the freedom but when he gets to his house, he would feel trapped, it didn’t take long for him to notice that was the exact feeling his mum felt

Late in his primary school career, his father began to use him and his mum as punching bags and he would endure all the pains because he would think of school and the freedom it offered. His home became his battlefield only that his father was the only one winning and his school became his sanctuary where he sort peace.

It was half way through his secondary school career,thirteen years of age that he had come home from school early because of school fees drive. He had barely gotten to the sitting room when he had his mother’s cries, he had ignored it because he knew what would happen if he went in rescue of her and had gone ahead to the bedroom he shared with his mother and la!d on the bed,waiting for his mother’s cries to subside and he would make his way to the kitchen and set a kettle of water on fire for his mother’s bruises as he always did. It was not until twenty minutes later,he hears his mother’s cries stop instantly but he could still the whip of his father’s belt as it makes it’s mark on his mother’s delicate skin. Soon,he heard the sitting room’s door open and heard as it slammed shut and knew it was safe for him to come out.

His made his way through his father’s bedroom and found his mother’s clothes stained and wet with the red liquid. It didn’t take him long to notice his mother wasn’t breathing. He cleaned his mother’s lifeless body and la!d her on the bed waiting for the return of his father with only one thought in mind—his father had beaten his mother to death

He clocked fifteen quickly with his father hardly paying his schools and daily beating him. His school became trapped as his home.

One day at school, he listened as his teacher taught about alcohol and painkillers and how both were a catastrophe and how they lead to death of many alcoholics because they reduce the rate at which the heart beats thereby weakening the person leading to death because the heart would stop beating eventually. He had listened to every the teacher had said and paid deaf ears to the consequences the teacher had discussed with them.
He had spent one month planning to test the credibility of his teacher’s words.

The night came when his father, so drunk as usual, entered the sitting room, fast asleep. Anthony tip toed his way into the sitting room and forced twelve tablets of painkillers into his father’s mouth and downed it with alcohol and his dad swallowed. He waited for some minutes and pulled off his father’s clothes and took him to the bathtub which was already filled with water and deposited his father inside the water and stood and watched as his father fought to get down from the bathtub but to no avail. He had stood and watched his father drown. He had killed his father just as his father had killed his mother and he took pride in it.

One year after his father’s death and burial, he started gambling and didn’t take long for him to know he was so good at it. After some months, a friend introduced him to match-fixing business.
He would pay the goal keeper of a team to make a small mistake and concede a goal thereby making him win his bet.
He thought his tracks were covered but what he didn’t know was that someone had uncovered them.

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“Pedro,I ask again,How did you get all this info?”,Tiara asked
“Because Robert offered me a job”
“And you accepted”
“Because I wanted to get information from them”
“You have another information?”
“I do. I have information on the Article 17″
Tiara became anxious to hear it
“What does it say?”