EPISODE 7
Mr. Bernard saved me from the hands of the Grim Reaper.
Then, he asked me who put me in such a horrendous condition.
I immediately pointed fingers at Madam Iron and she was seized. I knew the location of her eatery and even her house.
She was locked away in a dungeon instantly waiting to be sued in court.
She was asked to call out the names and locations of her fellow plotters before she was locked.
"Please, Mezuo I don't know what came over me" she was pleading when the able-bodied policemen shackled her wrists and dragged her into the van.
That day, Mr. Bernard couldn't accompany me because he was busy as a beaver.
He mobilized the policemen to go with me that Madam Iron would be culpable in her heart if she sees us.
And what he said was what happened.
Madam Iron didn't abnegate when she was told what she committed. Already, she knew her crime that was why she was pleading.
Tears dribbled down my cheeks as she was begging. Though I overheard Ifeoma and her conversing surreptitiously about making a sex slave, I didn't bother because I trusted Madam Iron.
And even if I wanted to run, I had nowhere to run to.
Truly, I was a greenhorn in that city.
When I returned from the hospital, I met Bernard's wife in the house.
She got jitters when she saw me.
"Who are you?" She asked me inquisitively.
"I'm the girl saved on the street by Uncle Ben" I replied with butterflies in my stomach.
"Which girl? Bernard didn't tell me of any girl" she verbalized.
Luckily, Mr. Bernard entered and explained everything to his wife.
His wife was fit to be tied.
"Don't narrate again" she cut it out and left straight away.
Mr. Bernard ordered me to sit down on the sofa as he followed his wife to ice-cool the situation.
A few minutes later, his wife came out wearing a perfect smile on her visage.
"You're welcome, dear," she said, "sorry for the way I reacted".
"There's no problem" I returned thoughtfully though my heart was pounding so hard.
"I'm deeply sorry for everything," she said holding my shoulder.
"I'm well now, thank you!" I returned.
"Honey, give her something to eat," Ben said while he was coming downstairs.
His wife gave me a plate of fried rice with chicken drumsticks.
I ate and licked my fingers.
The next day, we had gotten an invitation from the DPO previous day to come to their station today because Chief Olewe and Ifeoma had been arrested.
At 9:00 am, Bernard, his wife, and I left for the police station.
We got there and requested to see those villains which the DPO granted because Mr. Bernard was unaware of the personalities that committed such crimes.
"Ben is that you?" Madam Iron grunted "you got me pregnant and ran away"
Ben's visage was buried on the ground, he couldn't look at Madam Iron directly in the eyes.
"You thought I aborted the child right?
Well, I birthed and sold her to one Mr Ojukwu and his wife Ego" she roared.
Instantly, my face was shadowed in deep misery.
"So Madam Iron and Mr. Bernard are my parents," I said in my mind.
Tears welled up my eyes and I knew Madam Iron was not aware that I am her child whom she sold out.
To be continued...
