MY HUSBAND AND I PART 13

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“Ehn!” Baba Lagbaja exclaimed
again.
“Yes o! Including the two jeeps
Tony’s Father gave her, and
the…”
“Wait!” he stoped her, turning to
Funke.
“Funke! N gbo? You collected all
that? Are you trying to sell your
daughter? You’ve sold her
already I rather say!” he yelled at
her.
Funke shifted uneasily on her
seat.
“My daughter, sorry to have
troubled you o. ” Baba Lagbaja
told the smiling Lara.
“Young men let’s go!” he said
angrily and they rose to leave.
“Wait wait! I’ll pay!” Funke was
desperate.
“I’l pay in installments, little by
little.”
“When you sold your daughter to
them, did you give her to them in
installments?” Baba Lagbara
shrieked at her.
“Don’t ever come to me again o!
If you do Sango would strike you
dead! ” he cursed before leaving
the house with his group.
Funke was confused! How could
her daughter become so mean.
“hey mum! You’ve got another
plan?” Lara laughed at her
dejected mother.
“Well, I’m afraid, you’ll have to die
without a grandchild o. As for
me, I can easily adopt as many
children as I want o!” she jeered.
Funke threw her handbag at her
in anger.
“Ouch!” Lara winced as the bag
hit her belly.
“Please o! Be careful, Tony’s
Babies are in there!” she laughed
some more.
“Lara, you’re doing this to me
your mother! What’s your gain?”
Funke asked tears staining her
eyes.
“My gain?” Lara looked sobber.
“My gain, is that, I can make you
feel bad after all you did to me!”
Tears welled up her eyes too.
“Omolara! I’m leaving you!
Continue to ruin your life!”
“Yea! I’ll continue from where
you stoped” Lara spat out.
“Don’t ever come to look for me!
I’m no longer your mother.”
Funke fumed heading towards
the exit.
“And I’m no longer your
daughter!” Lara shot back.
Funke turned round astonished.
“Lara?” she whispered.
Lara walked into her room,
leaving her to stand there like an
undecided ghost.
Funke tossed and turned on her
bed. She had suffered from
chronic fever ever since her last
encounter with Lara.
“What have I done to deserve
such treatment from my
daughter?” she asked herself.
“The child I bore for nine
months, brought up at my own
expense, decides to turn against
me.” she gazed at the ceiling.
She counted the ceiling for a long
time.
“Hmn!” she chuckled wickedly.
“So far I’m her biological mother,
she must leave that marriage!
Whether Tony gets well or not!”
she said firmly.
She brazed up a plan, she pulled
her cellphone towards her and
dialled a number.
“Hello, Deji ?” she said into the
phone.
“Hello, eka le ma! Good evening.”
Deji said in a sleepy voice.
“Deji please, come over to my
place tomorrow morning. We
have something to discuss.”
Funke told her softly.
“okay ma.” Deji said cautiously
before ending the call.
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“Deji eat and drink now, its your
home o.” Funke said as Deji
sipped her drink shyly.
“Deji there’s something I’ll want
us to discuss.” she said after Deji
finished her snacks.
“I heard of a girl back then…the
girl that used to be Tony’s
mistress…I mean Sophia…” she
continued.
“uhum!” Deji grunted giving her
suspicious look.
“Errm..Deji, I know you and your
exploits, you have this city under
your finger tips…” Funke
appraised her.
“So?” she grimaced.
“So I want you to tell me where
she is! I know you monitor her
movements! Please let me have
her address.” Funke explained.
“just like that? What do you want
with her?” she asked.
“I’ve got some business plans,
and I heard she’s good in such
business…”
“Of all the business women in
this city?” Deji interrupted her.
“Common Deji, just give it to me!
I’ll pay any amount you need.”
funke said this because she
knew Deji is a sucker for money.
“hmmn, I just hope this
‘business’ won’t affect Lara o!”
Deji cautioned.
“Nooo…not at all! You forget Lara
is my daughter!” Funke laughed.
“Okay!” Deji said scribbling
Sophia’s address on a note pad.
“Thank you, name your pay!”
Funke smiled satisfactorily.
“no need for that! Meanwhile, I
must go and see Lara now, I
promised her I’m going over.”
Deji made to go.
“Okay bye, and please don’t tell
her about this o.” Funke saw her
off.
She waved as Deji drove away, a
donkey smile playing on her face.
First mission accomplished, next
target on point!
Lara smiled absent mindedly at
herself, its been a month since
Tony left, he’l be back soon.
“Can’t wait!” she said aloud to
the empty room. She decided to
call him…
“Hello Baby?” Tony’s voice said
from the other end.
“Good morning to you.”
“morning how do you do? Hope
you slept well?” Tony asked.
“Not that well, and you?” she
made a face as she spoke.
“same here, missing ya loads.” he
laughed.
“So you’re coming back this
weekend?”
“Nooo, the doctor said I should
for two weeks more.” Tony
explained.
“Oooh” she groaned.
“hey hey hey! Two weeks is just
like two days, no need for that
okay? I’ll be back soon. There are
many thing I’d like to show you!”
he said soothingly.
“Many things? Like?” she laughed
and on and on, their
conversation went till the door
bell rang.
“Hey hold on! I’ll call ya later.”
Lara said before ending the call.
Deji was at the door.
“ah! Ore mi atata, my friend,
welcome!” she hugged Deji.
“This one you are looking fresh
ehn?” Deji teased.
“You can say that again.” Lara
giggled as she served her friend.
“When is the hubby coming back
now?” Deji asked gently.
Lara was taken aback, Deji never
referred to Tony as ‘the hubby’
before,
“Errrm, i just called him on
phone, he said next two weeks..”
she explained.
“Next two weeks!” Deji echoed
after her, she looked pleased by
the information.
“Yea!” lara felt a strange feeling,
she knew Deji very well, that look
on her face isn’t for nothing.
“Excuse me!” deji said as she
made a call.
“Hello, Lady?” she said.
“The client should be in town in
the next fourteen days, yea,
business should be cool!” she
smiled mischievously.
“Okay, bye, get all arrangements
ready please.” she ended the call.
“The client? Next fourteen days?”
Lara asked quitely.
“Yea, just some sort of business.”
Deji avoided her eyes.
“Business? What type?”
“Oooh, Lara please! I didn’t come
here for an interview na!” she
laughed.
“Okay” Lara sighed. Deji has been
acting strangely for some time
now. She hope there won’t be
troubles.
“So tell me girlie! How’s Tony? His
health?” Deji shoved her playfully.
Lara laughed, some how she felt
more relaxed
Stay tuned for Part 14