PART 23
” RECKLESS REKKY”
Opeyemi O.Akintunde
Mayowa heard the approaching footsteps. He knew something was wrong. He wanted to get up in a rush and find an escape route but his body was not obeying the instruction his brain was giving out.
“Who is there?’ he asked
“Tony!” Tony replied
Tony walked in with two of the guys from the Ritualist’s village…
“Tony, for the first time of working together, I need you to do me a favor.” Mayowa pleaded
“Which is?” Tony asked
“Don’t take me to the village!”
“And you expect me to Obey you?” Tony asked
“Tony, if you take me back to the village, by this time tomorrow, your son’s life will be in danger!” Mayowa said referring to what Moko was going to say to Tony about killing Austin as a way of saving his own son.
“Brother, what have you done that has made you gone insane?” Tony asked with genuine concern for Mayowa
“I am not insane please….” Mayowa insisted
Tony Signaled to the boys who immediately rounded him up, they lifted Mayor from where he laid and bundled him into the car.
******
Doctor Mike saw Tony’s car driving out of Mayor’s close. He wondered who the person driving was and why he was driving out of the close. His answer came staring him in the face. The moment he got to the gate of the house, he saw the gateman tied to his chair. Doctor Mike knew instantly he had lost his one sheep while going after the 99 sheep other doctors could have saved.
He hurriedly got back into his car, with the hope of catching up with them. On getting to the crossroad, he realized it was a failed search even before starting.
“God! Please help me. Help me, I hope I haven’t lost Mr Mayor… I am sorry.”
“I will require his blood from your hands!’ the Inner Voice Said
“I am sorry.”
“Too late!” The Voice replied
“God please don’t let it be too late for me to access your Mercy.”
The voice went silent.
*******
Moko stood waiting for Mayowa’s arrival. He wanted to pull out information from him.
As soon as Tony drove into the compound, Moko rushed to the vehicle and pulled Mayor out. Without saying a word, he pulled him into his private room.
” Who told you my name?”
” God!”
” Which one?”
” The One and Only God!”
” Mayowa, I will kill you… Who have you started working for?”
” No One.. Moko, please listen to me, I know it sounds Crazy, but by Monday, we are going to bring in an abominable girl to the village who will cause a lot of deaths and pull the police towards this place.”
” So how did you know about this info?’
“I was in the future…”
” Ok!” Moko said and thereafter he walked out of the room.
******
“God , please get me out of here, I have a lot of lives to save.” Mayowa kept muttering over and over again in the deposition unit.
Joan and Tony were watching him in pity.
“I suspect the ghost of one of the people he brought recently must be haunting him!” Joan said
“He has lost his mind!” Tony said
“Obviously!”
*****
Mayowa didn’t sleep all night. He kept thinking over Doctor Mike’s words about reaching out to the people in the right way.
“God, I hope I did not just lose my second chance?”
*****
Early on Sunday, Moko was having a heart to heart talk with Tony. He also did not have a good sleep as he was trying to ascertain what Mayowa was up to. Tony likewise had slept in the village instead of going home.
“Moko, what are we going to do with Mayor, seems his brain has been fried!”
“No, I think he is pretending, I believe he is working for one of my rivals, he was sent to instill fear in me, so I can be cowardly. I think it is Rubber who employed him.”
“Oh! I see. Rubber knows you listen to Mayor!’
“So, what next?”
“Bring me his wife and son! When he sees a knife on the neck of his wife or son, he will confess.”
“On it!”
To be continued
