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Episode 30

Second to the last episode….

Anita sits skeptically as the doctor rummages through the files on his table looking for Adesewa’s paternity result. She had been discharged earlier in the day, she still hasn’t been able to see her daughter who’s still not granting her access. She has decided to clarify Paul’s allegation once and for all.

Convincing him to do the paternity test ‘in the dark’ without Micheal’s knowledge was a difficult task, but at last he agreed. They have been able to hoodwink and coerce the doctor to do the test for them although its against his work ethics. He has taken some of Sewa’s blood and tested it with Paul’s. Now here they are waiting for the result.

She’s becoming uneasy as the doctor keeps on searching, she looked at Paul sitting down beside her, eyes straight ahead and lacking emotions, how she hates this blackmailing bastard. She knows her life’s ruined already but it will be more ruined if Adesewa should be Paul’s daughter and most ruined if Micheal should here. But its a risk she should take to learn the truth and get this bastard off her back, but if Adesewa should be Paul’s, she’s think of a solution then.

The doctor has found it, taking his time to go through it as if he’s not the one who wrote it, he went through it again before pointing it at Anita who took it with shaking hands. She read through it but couldn’t understand the ambiguous medical terms written therein.

“From the two blood tested, we are able to discover that the Deoxyribonucleic acid from the two blood samples carries different genetic information” The doctor said.

“What’s that to mean?” she asked, hands on the table like someone who’ll jump or freeze the next second.

“The man sitting here is not her father” the doctor said.

She scream-jumped on the doctor, hugging and thanking him at the same time, now having cooled down, she faced Paul, but she was stunned by what he said. He’s face had a gloomy look

“I’m so sorry Anita, one of your friends called me some times ago that you got pregnant while we were together back then, and you gave birth to a baby girl which she’s sure’s mine. She said she has been trying to contact me since but couldn’t because I wasn’t in the country. I wouldn’t have stressed you so much for Adesewa because it’s a suspicion from your friends but I had a disease many years ago which has made me sterile. So the suspicion of me having a child alive drove me mad and make me want to fight for what I think is mine hence my actions. I am so sorry, please just forgive me” he said kneeling.

Adesewa looked at him with eyes full of spite, she wanted to ask the name of that friend but decided against it, ‘he fought for what he thinks is his’……she stumbled out of the doctor’s office and rushed towards Adesewa’s ward. If she can’t save her own mess, she ought to safe someone else.

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Niphemi would have been taken for one of the three statues at outskirt of Lagos state with the way he froze for minutes, hands on his heads in a way yorubas express as ‘mogbe’, his jaw’s dropped and saliva’s trickling out of it. He was oblivious to people glaring at him at a safe distance.

Now he’s really finished, he doesn’t need to be told that Micheal’s behind the bank’s message, that’s how influential he is. That shows that Adesewa has told her dad. He can’t go back to the hospital out of fear for Micheal, he has to go home. He recovered from his statue simulating posture, he waved down a taxi since he has been forced to relinquish he’s official car to take him home.

His ringing phone troubled his thoughts again, an unknown number, he picked it

“Niphemi, if I catch you, you’ll rot in jail, both you and Anita, police are on the look out for you” Micheal screamed from the other side.

Now’s not the time for him to go home, he redirected the taxi man to head for whizzy’s house.