"NO! LET ME GO!" I screamed as hands surged forth to grab me from going further into the room to hinder the doctor's work. The heart rate was still a flatline even as the man had pumped up her heart for the second time with the defibrillator.
Despite the fact that I was in a frenzied and maddened state as my eyes bulged out at the sight of t
I dropped my weight onto the row of brown Windsor seats lined up outside the rooms with my head bent in agony. I wasn't physically weak but I had no strength left on the inside to go on.They had moved her body to the hospital mortuary but Tayo had refused to leave her room. Two sons' grief stricken by the loss of their mother, now I gu
NARRATOR'S POV:Somewhere in the busy streets of Ikeja, Lagos, an office story building, stood in the midst of the busy crowds and streets that never slept. The curtains of this story were opened and the top floor of the building with the large sign board written as 'THE ICS" was revealed.
LADE... The face cap shielded my eyes from the sight of the men and women hurtling around me in congested crowds. It was the morning hours in Surulere, the clouds pregnant with silent mischief and a warm wind enveloping us as we trailed. Laden with a mix of the sweet and spicy scents of confectionery and something similar t
"I've worked for Richard for 10 years, I idolized the man," I said trying to calm the swelling angst within me and set myself off the edge. "Ambition overrides ethics," he replied, his gaze falling to the dial of his watch. "I agree but I have no motive to kill." "He was stabbed, the Jama'atu had nothing to do with it," he countered and his revelation was shocking once more. "Then we should be looking for the real killers, not wasting precious time," I said with my tone insistent. "You've already been caught, so stop acting cowardly Agent. They found the murder weapon and your finger prints were on it." On instinct, I almost raked my hands through my hair in frustration, where was all this coming from! If I had been in Ikeja things wouldn't have resulted in this but where was Emeka? And why hadn't I heard from him? "General, you've been working with the law for decades now, surely you can differentiate between a murderer and someone who is clearly being framed
"You have to be wise when dealing with sly folks as such." "Are you certain of what you speak?" He asked with his hands folded behind his back.
They say it is needed to fear what is unknown than what is visible to the eye as it creeps in and destroys faster than a venomous snake. In the depths of the complexities of my mind, I hadn't known I was fast looming towards the end being led mindlessly by the hands of darkness and oblivion.The calm was over but I wasn't near ready for what
"You're taking too much time, let's take a trip down memory lane shall we and refresh yours," he said with a derisive laugh and I couldn't recognize who stood before me, it was a whole different Emeka, if at all that was actually his name."Davison Adedeji, sentenced to life imprisonment in the confines of a mental ward, charged with first de
"Absolutely ridiculous! It can't be," I voiced, still shell shocked at his words. "You ruined my brother's life and now you've created the perfect chance for me to do yours," he said. My eyes scanned his features again, willing the truth I had discovered to be unreal, a mistake but it wasn't and the intensity of the scorching sun hitting my dark skin, reminded me that it was all factual and nothing at all illusive. "Dave was never the crazy one, it was always you," he continued but my thoughts were racing with countless unanswered questions. "How then do you explain the Jama'atu's appearance on that day? I'm innocent of these crimes." "Mere coincidence, something that had to be done," he answered. "I'll prove to you all that I had nothing to do with this," I declared with a subtle nod as if trying to make a solemn promise concerning the task to myself. "When will that be? Is it while you're rotting in prison?" He questioned snidely and immediately I could fe