Her Christmas desire - Season 1 - Episode 8

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Her Christmas desire - Season 1 - Episode 8

Why can’t you move on? What if she is in love with someone else? She spent nineteen years in America, what if she has kids and is married?’ Tayo couldn’t understand why her brother was so fixated with Eno Benjamin.

Jealousy pierced his heart at the thought of Eno being with another man.

‘I wouldn’t let that happen, I’d rather kill her than let anyone have her.’ He swore under his breath. But Tayo knew better, she knew her brother would do no such thing.

‘No you won’t, you are many things but not a murderer. Now let us focus on the Vermillion we discovered.’ Without hesitation, she pulled out her phone from the little purse

While going through her email messages, Tayo had read of two attacks on the Geologists who worked with their company. The men were thoroughly beaten by some masked men who warned them to stay away from the vermillion that had been discovered in Lokoja.

‘I think someone else knows about our discovery and that could be dangerous…’ she handed over the message that one of the works had sent to her.

They both were working in secrecy and didn’t want the Federal Government to be a part of this discovery. Vermillion was important, and they wanted to hoard all the profits to themselves.

Yemi’s heart skipped when he heard that, ‘Who would dare attack my workers?’
Tayo could only think of one criminal whose names were whispered in the dark.

‘I have a feeling the “Mask,” is back in town. He is a very intelligent criminal.

Someone from the company must have leaked the information to him and lest we forget, his hometown is Lokoja.’ Tayo explained.

They all knew who the Mask was, Samuel Ojonugwa was the leader of a group of militants whose job was to terrorize the government.

‘This bad, this is very bad.’ Yemi’s eyes darkened at the thought of Sam’s return to Nigeria.

After his sister had discovered the mineral in the rocky plains of Lokoja, they had immediately hired a private investigator, whose job was to find out if anyone else knew about the existence of the Vermillion. From his findings, no one else knew about the mineral, not even the Federal Government and that meant enormous profit for their company.

Now that Sam was in picture, everything was going to change except they got rid of him.

‘Yes it is. This is why you must save your energy till we face that b-----d. Forget the girl, you’ll fall in love with another woman.’ Tayo advised.

Yemi knew hoarding the vermilion was important, but he swore under his breath to win Eno’s love whether his sister stood by him or not.

***

Sam had just finished a meeting with the young men and women who shared in the vision of a liberated Nigeria. They were tired of Government privatizing the common wealth of the Nation. As their leader, he had returned to share the latest information he had gotten.

‘It still baffles me how you knew what Yemi and his boys came for,’ Elvis Benjamin pulled a chair and joined his friend at the round table, after the others had dispersed.

Sam scoffed. He had eyes and ears in many places. One with an honest purpose never lacked good information.

‘I knew something was up when one of my eyes reported the activities of the mining company in my hometown. No one shows up out of the blue in Lokoja.’ Sam paused and pulled out his phone from his pocket. He needed to share some pictures with Elvis, so he could understand what this was about.

‘Have a look….’ Sam crossed his hands against his chest and leaned back on the throne-like designed chair.

Elvis’ hazel eyes flicked over the pictures of the dark skinned woman who was knee deep in dirt. She was digging into a pile of scattered rocks, and she had her hair pulled down. He found her quite attractive.

‘That is the King’s younger sister, Tayo. She is an archaeologist. This is not the first time of her going on an excavation. She just got lucky in Lokoja, and thought they could keep the discovery of Vermillion a secret.’ Sam explained as Elvis stared at more pictures.

He wasn’t really thinking about the Vermillion, all his thoughts were focused on the princess who fascinated him. He had slept with a lot of women who had royal blood, and they bored him easily.

Most of them had no ambition or dreams for their lives. They were content with their father’s money and getting married to rich men. They all came to him because of his unique looks.

‘Elvis?’ Sam shook his head and pulled the phone out of his hands, knowing his friend was awestruck by the ebony beauty.

‘I am sorry, I got distracted. But I get your drift. Now that we have sent a message across, they should back off soon enough.’ Elvis replied.

On Sam’s order, they had broken into the Mining Company and beaten some of the workers, while dropping the message for them to stay away from the rocky terrains of Lokoja.

‘Don’t be naïve my friend, Yemi is not going to back down, even if he wants to his sister from what I have learned is very ambitious.’ Sam shrugged.

Elvis was even more intrigued at this knowledge of the princess, ‘Then I guess we have to prepare for war.’

An impish smile played at the corners of Sam’s lips, ‘Of course. I think I have found the woman I want to spend the rest of my life with.’ He blurted out.

For a very long time, he hadn’t felt something for any woman, but the milky skinned creature he met smoking at the airport seemed right for him. And he couldn’t stop thinking about her.

Elvis’s smoky eyes brightened in surprise. It was common knowledge that Sam had built a high wall against his heart. Since the death of his lover and father, who were both murdered, he hadn’t spoken of any woman.
‘I am curious…’ Elvis couldn’t wait for more.

‘Your phone is buzzing, check that out first.’ Sam pointed at the android that buzzed annoyingly at Elvis’ side of the table.
Elvis shrugged and picked the phone up; it was a text message from an unknown number.

Come home Elvis.

We need you more than ever.

Merry Christmas bro. Elena.
‘What is it?’ Sam noticed the scowl on his face.

‘Nothing, just family.’ Elvis pushed the phone aside. His younger sister had somehow found a way to contact him which was startling. She was the only one that knew the truth about him. He had left his family for good, and he didn’t plan of going back home anytime.

‘You want to talk about it?’ Sam knew nothing about Elvis’ family, he had always felt Elvis wasn’t in good terms with them.
Elvis shook his head in declination, he was done with family. Sam and the other members of their freedom fighters association were his new family. He was more interested in this woman who had made his best friend feel something after so many years of mourning for lost love.

‘I met her at the airport but she snubbed me. I described her to one of the air hostesses who showed me her details including her name. I kissed her.’ Sam smiled as he remembered the golden moment that he had planted a kiss on Eno’s lips. He knew she hadn’t been expecting that, and that would leave her restless.
Elvis drummed his fingers excitedly on the table, ‘Does she feel the same for you?’
‘No, not yet but she will. I did a research on her, but I didn’t find much information online. She is very beautiful Elvis, and I have this feeling that I have seen her before…you know, it’s a different kind of déjà vu.’ Sam’s heart thumped with excitement as he remembered her beautiful face.

His mind told him that Eno was running away from love, maybe something tragic had happened to her and she didn’t want a repeat. He felt like the messiah that would fix the broken pieces of her.

‘Really? You got a picture?’ Elvis was eager to set eyes on this woman that had enchanted Sam.

‘Yea, I found just one on the internet. Apparently, she isn’t a social media person. She looks very responsible and private, and that is the definition of my dream woman.’ Sam turned on his phone and pushed it over to Elvis.

From his mini research, he learned that she was a cardiologist at the Iowa Specialist hospital and she was one of the best in the region.

‘Isn’t she cute?’ He waited for Elvis to say something remarkable about the woman dressed in a lab coat and nerdy glasses.
Elvis hands trembled as he stared at the screen of Sam’s phone. They light brown eyes, the golden skin and the mass of woolly hair were all too familiar.

No, he couldn’t let this happen. He had run away from his family because he had started a drug life that could get them all killed. Now he was clean, he had joined another organization that wasn’t in par with the Government. This was the reason he stayed far away from his family. He loved them too much to endanger their lives.