Chronicles Of A Runs Girl - S01 E50

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Chronicles Of A Runs Girl - S01 E50

Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 50

“I didn’t tell her. I didn’t tell anyone. I don’t want anyone to know.”

“I understand. But you should still have gotten yourself checked out. My friend, doctor, is downstairs. I will tell him to take care of you and we will speak to the Commissioner of Police.”

“I don’t want any more trouble. The officer will deny what he did to me and then I won’t be safe again.”

“In this Lagos? You will be safe. And your friend that they kidnapped, what are they saying about him?”

“His people said they don’t want to involve the police.”

“Yes, you told me that already, but what are his people saying? Are they sure they will release the man after they pay the money?”

“I don’t know.”

“What about his friends, the Americans they kidnapped with him? How much are they asking for those ones?”

An alarm went off. I didn’t tell him about the Americans. He saw the look on my face.

“Your friend told me everything. I have already told the Commissioner and he is following the case. That is why he wants to see you. I also have people working on things.”

“The money is for all of them.”

“Do you think they have that kind of money?”

“They are still trying to raise it.”

“They have it. They are only playing tricks on the kidnappers. Kora people will not just throw money away like that. They will get their son back and they will deal with the hooligans. They have their own way of dealing with things like this.”

“I just hope they find him soon.”

“Don’t worry, they will. You are staying here tonight. You and my sister will sleep in my room. My friends are using the other rooms.”

He got up from the bed.

“I will not tell my sister what you told me, but you have to talk to doctor today. Come, I will introduce you to him.”

We left his room and we didn’t speak all the way till we got to the poolside. He exchanged greetings with people, all the time holding my arm as we negotiated the crowd.

Mama was dutifully at his table where he had told her to wait. The ashewo grinned and winked when she saw me. We had been gone a long while. Obviously, the same thought that had formed in her mind was in the minds of the other guests at the table. I avoided their eyes.

Someone got me a chair and some people shifted for me. I sat silently and dreaded being introduced. He did exactly that. He introduced me as his girlfriend! Then he told everyone – they were all men apart from Mama – that if he caught any of them looking at me too much or trying to take my number he would make them swim fully clothed in his swimming pool. It was an ice breaker.

Thankfully I’d not been placed next to Mama. She was trying to catch my eyes but I was pretending to survey the party. I felt my phone vibrating in my purse and I looked up to find her holding hers. I just knew it was her. I ignored the phone.

I wondered which of the men at our table was the Commissioner of Police, then a terrible thought occurred to me: What if his brother was here as well?

Someone called my name. I turned to see Uncle China standing with a tall young man in blue jeans and a black Polo shirt. One of his boy-boys, no doubt, and he was the one who had called out my name.