Her Christmas desire - Season 1 - Episode 7

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Her Christmas desire - Season 1 - Episode 7

My Queen you are welcome, we should head back to the palace to celebrate your return…’ he smiled for the first time since he walked into the house.

First, she didn’t know this man. Why did he refer to her as his queen? Her heart raced as she noticed her mother’s abnormal silence. In a normal situation, the woman would have been all over her, asking for her Christmas gifts, bug she was very quiet.

‘Who are you?’ Eno turned to the King, since her mother wouldn’t say anything.

‘Excuse me?’ Yemi scoffed and pinned Tamar with an angry stare. She was supposed to tell her daughter everything by now.

‘Didn’t you tell her that we are engaged after all these years?’ Yemi couldn’t believe it.

Tamar felt the earth should open up and swallow her, she was greatly ashamed for what she had done, but that was the only way to help Eno achieve her dreams.

‘I…I am sorry my king but she is here now…’ she stammered.

Yemi felt embarrassed and humiliated. How could he just walk into the house of the woman he was supposed to marry and be treated like a total stranger?

‘Mum? What is going on here?’ Eno swallowed.

‘I give you two days to tell her everything and when I return, I am taking her back to the palace as my wife.’ Yemi fired, and turned his back on the woman before his anger got the best out of him.

Eno stared at the back of the King till he vanished along with his guards, before dropping her box.

‘Can you talk to me now? What just happened?’ She stood hands akimbo and faced her mother whose eyes were already wet with tears.

Tamar licked her lips nervously, ‘Look, you cannot blame me for doing this. It is for the good of everyone and our entire family. You always wanted to be a doctor and I loved that dream. I cherished it. I don’t like the education system here, so I asked people for help…’

Eno wasn’t following, she had gone abroad through scholarship, so her mother’s talk didn’t make sense to her.

‘What people are you talking about?’
Tamar s----d in some air to stabilize her for what was to follow. She needed to prepare Eno’s mind for the marriage. She knew the consequences that would follow should she fail to tell her daughter the truth.

‘There was no scholarship Eno. I had a friend who introduced me to the King and Queen of Lagos. When I showed them your picture while asking for sponsorship, Yemi walked in and saw it. He liked you instantly…’

Eno chuckled on hearing this, ‘Well mother, I am just coming back from a twelve hour flight and I deserve some rest. Your attempt at a Christmas prank is not working. I have to go…’ she stretched her arm and kicked the air, ready to ascend the stairs when her sisters appeared.

Their countenance was dull and it made her wonder if they weren’t happy to see her.
‘It is true Eno, mum is not lying. You were betrothed to the king many years back unknown to you. The price you are to pay for enjoying their sponsorship is to marry Yemi.’ Cassie’s voice trembled as she imagined a lifetime with such an arrogant personality.

Eno scoffed, ‘You guys are joking right?’ she swallowed and prayed she was having a bad dream.

‘I wish we were. This is the reason mother persuaded you to return to Nigeria after many years.’ Elena added.

She could see that her sister’s weren’t lying to her. This was real! Her mother had made her feel she had deserved a scholarship. The woman had been lying to her all these years.

‘I will never forgive you…’ her legs threatened to give way as she stared into her mother’s eyes one last time.

She suddenly wished she hadn’t returned to Nigeria. Unknown to her, she had walked into a trap which would be very difficult to escape.
Angrily, he plucked the pictures on the wall and smashed them into brittleness. Pieces of glasses tumbled upon each other, and the shattering was accompanied by a cracking sound that shook the whole palace.

Yemi was enraged by what had taken place at the commoner’s house. The woman he had carried in his heart all these years didn’t recognize him, she wasn’t in awe of him and that hurt very much.

‘Filthy commoners!’ He yelled and moved on to the next picture.

He was living in another palace which he built for himself. The walls were etched with jasper and onyx. The floors were designed with the costliest of marbles and were fitting for a king that he was.

Yemi decided not to involve his parents in whatever was happening between him and Eno. He would handle everything by himself. He would fight for the woman he loved even till his death.

‘Brother?’
Though Yemi lived alone, his younger sister came to his palace occasionally to spend time with him. She had been on the room working on their latest plan when she’d heard him screaming and breaking things.

Whenever he was in this mood, all the servants and guards would flee to hidden corners, in fear of the king’s rage.

‘Yemi, what is going on?!’ The princess asked, she was the only one who could stand up to the king even in his worst state.

The sound of his sister’s footsteps calmed him a bit, he noticed his fingers were bleeding from too much contact with the glassy picture frames.

‘Look at what you have done! Do you know how much these pictures cost me? When will you get a grip over your anger?’ Tayo shrieked at the bloody mess on the marble floor.

‘Watch your tongue,’ Yemi greeted his teeth and wiped away the blood against the white robe he still wore. She knew better than to get her brother more upset than he already was.

Tayo sighed, ‘You shouldn’t be angry at this time brother, we have a lot to achieve and nothing is greater than spreading your fame across the continent and the world.’ She moved closer to where he stood and grabbed his bruised hands.

Unlike her brother, she wasn’t a tall person. The Princess was small bodied, but very shapely. She had a nice set of teeth and beautiful brown eyes which were streams of loveliness. Her chocolate complexion matched the red colored dresses which she loved to wear.

The only thing she shared in common with her older brother was the spirit of ambition. When they worked together, they were formidable and unstoppable. Her brother was a professional geologist who was schooled in one of the best institutions in the world, while she studied archaeology in Asia.

She had been the one to discover a bright colored stone at one of her work sites in Lokoja. She had immediately sent it to the company they co-owned and the geologists had confirmed it to be vermillion, which was very hard to come by these days.

If they could find more of the mineral, they would fulfill their dreams of being one of the most powerful ruling families of the whole world.

‘She doesn’t know me! Her mother failed to tell her all about me!’ Yemi withdrew his hands from his sister and rushed towards another picture when he remembered the look of confusion in Eno’s eyes.

He would be a great king, and he desired such a striking beauty at his side.

Tayo now understood why her brother was so angry.

‘You belittled yourself by paying that greedy woman a visit. I warned you brother. I told you to forget all about that family. She is simply a fraud and was only using our money to fund her daughter’s education.’ Tayo hissed.

She had learned of the arrangement between her parents and Eno’s mother, but when the lady in question had failed to show up in Nigeria after many years, she had a feeling her brother had been played.

‘Never! I love her, you don’t understand what love is.’ Yemi rustled his thick black hair.

Though he was seeing her for the first time, he had always carried her face in his mind. Even though he had been with other women while waiting for her, he was still tied to her spirit.

‘You are the King of Lagos and soon Nigeria. You are not a fool Yemi. If this woman really wanted you for her daughter, she would have told the lady about you since.