Freeman noticed the door to Mrs Winter's Apartment was partly opened. Something in him screamed " CAUTION"...
" Hello...Hello Mrs Winter" Freeman stood at the door calling out to her...
" Mr Freeman ...please come in..You can wait for me in the living room" Winter said.
She knew that was the trick to make men comfortable. Tell them to wait in the living room... That would erase fear from them. If you told them to come into the bedroom, they would immediately know what you are up to...
" Ok.." Freeman said as he walked into the living room. His initial fear was taken away.
Freeman walked into the living room. The view was beautiful...It felt like he was on top of Lagos. The view gave a proud feeling to whoever was looking.
" You like the view?" Winter said
Freeman turned and the view that met his eyes was more beautiful that the view he had been staring at.
"Cloth doesn't do justice to Mrs Winter" A voice said within him.
Winter's half naked outfit complimented her stature. Her female curves were emphasized in the outfit.
" Do you like the view?" Winter said again with a voice that implied something else.
" Sure...I mean yes..." Freeman looked away from Winter back to the city view...
" I am sorry the way I am dressed...it is a bad habit I have. I walk around naked in the house. I had to wear this because you were coming.. I hope you are not uncomfortable?" Winter said
Freeman wanted to scream and beg her to wear something decent as her body was not a body you could look at and still maintain sexual sanity..
" Please take a seat" Winter said
Freeman sat on the seat opposite to her, which few minutes later, he discovered was a wrong move because Winter showed no shame. She had her legs parted in front of Freeman. Freeman was not a child so he knew what was happening...
" You are not sick, you just wanted me in here?" Freeman asked
" You are smart!"
" I am married"
" I am married"
" Now widowed, we don't have the same life if you are comparing us"
" I am not trying to destroy your home, I am only trying to protect myself "
" From ?"
" Betrayal...If I have nothing on you, and someday you decide not to give me my returns on the 500 million investment, won't that be a huge loss... I am not stupid like that.."
" So you think we sleeping with each other will give you assurance ?"
" Every business person likes a form of assurance"
" Sex isn't a form of assurance" Freeman replied
" I am not asking for Sex, I want marriage" Winter said bluntly...
Freeman couldn't believe his ears...
" It doesn't have to be public, I just want to know that you won't stab me in the back. My late husband left me assets worth Seventy Million dollars. I am ready to let us trade with it, if I am sure you are not going to walk out on me someday. Marriage is what binds a man and woman together..."
" I am legally married ..Marrying you will be a criminal offence, i will be committing bigamy "
" I have my way around... if you are in for this, you don't need to worry your head, I will have it sorted out. This is Nigeria and some people can break laws and still escape it."
*******
Pamilerin sat in the cab staring at the complimentary card the doctor gave her...
" God forbid I go to a Native doctor...I'd rather die than bow to another god..If this is my mother's way of making me go diabolical, she has failed."
She needed to talk and share what she was going through with some one, especially since Freeman had been unavailable in the past two weeks. He had been going to one meeting to the other...
Dearest Mom!
Pamilerin knew that was the only person she could turn to...
Pamilerin dialed Dearest Mom and the call was dropping by itself...
" No...no...no" Pamilerin shouted all of a sudden. The Cab driver looked back in fear..
" I am sorry..."
Pamilerin knew the meaning of that call ending on it's own. Dearest Mom was not in town. Maybe she had gone on holiday to one of her children living outside the country.
" Maami?" Pamilerin thought of her birth mother instead...
" No...What if she has a hand in my leg problem... No way..."
*******
Beauty sat in her room waiting for it to be dark. She still had the fear of going out under the sun like the herbalist said. She had begged her pregnant roommate to tell her when it was dark... Her plan was to go out and she knew in her BLIND state, she would find help...
Her pregnant roommate had brought her food, which she refused.
" Where is she?" Beauty could here Baba Shagba's voice.
She moved close to wall...
" I heard you refuse eating my food... You want to die here out of starvation... Never... I see that you are stubborn. I know how to bring you into submission."
Beauty heard the familiar locking of door. She had been abused too many times, she knew when the demon of rape entered men into raping her....
" You better don't injure yourself..." Beauty heard him say as she groped in darkness looking for safety that was absent...
To be continued
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