MY HUSBAND AND I (Part 13)

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"Ehn!" Baba Lagbaja exclaimed again.

"Yes o! Including the two jeeps Tony's Father

gave her, and the…"

"Wait!" he stoped her, turning to Funke.

"Funke! N gbo? You collected all that? Are you

trying to sell your daughter? You've sold her

already I rather say!" he yelled at her.

Funke shifted uneasily on her seat.

"My daughter, sorry to have troubled you o. "

Baba Lagbaja told the smiling Lara.

"Young men let's go!" he said angrily and they

rose to leave.

"Wait wait! I'll pay!" Funke was desperate.

"I'l pay in installments, little by little."

"When you sold your daughter to them, did you

give her to them in installments?" Baba Lagbara

shrieked at her.

"Don't ever come to me again o! If you do Sango

would strike you dead! " he cursed before leaving

the house with his group.

Funke was confused! How could her daughter

become so mean.

"hey mum! You've got another plan?" Lara

laughed at her dejected mother.

"Well, I'm afraid, you'll have to die without a

grandchild o. As for me, I can easily adopt as

many children as I want o!" she jeered.

Funke threw her handbag at her in anger.

"Ouch!" Lara winced as the bag hit her belly.

"Please o! Be careful, Tony's Babies are in

there!" she laughed some more.

"Lara, you're doing this to me your mother!

What's your gain?" Funke asked tears staining

her eyes.

"My gain?" Lara looked sobber.

"My gain, is that, I can make you feel bad after

all you did to me!" Tears welled up her eyes too.

"Omolara! I'm leaving you! Continue to ruin your

life!"

"Yea! I'll continue from where you stoped" Lara

spat out.

"Don't ever come to look for me! I'm no longer

your mother." Funke fumed heading towards the

exit.

"And I'm no longer your daughter!" Lara shot

back.

Funke turned round astonished.

"Lara?" she whispered.

Lara walked into her room, leaving her to stand

there like an undecided ghost.

Funke tossed and turned on her bed. She had

suffered from chronic fever ever since her last

encounter with Lara.

"What have I done to deserve such treatment

from my daughter?" she asked herself.

"The child I bore for nine months, brought up at

my own expense, decides to turn against me."

she gazed at the ceiling.

She counted the ceiling for a long time.

"Hmn!" she chuckled wickedly.

"So far I'm her biological mother, she must leave

that marriage! Whether Tony gets well or not!"

she said firmly.

She brazed up a plan, she pulled her cellphone

towards her and dialled a number.

"Hello, Deji ?" she said into the phone.

"Hello, eka le ma! Good evening." Deji said in a

sleepy voice.

"Deji please, come over to my place tomorrow

morning. We have something to discuss." Funke

told her softly.

"okay ma." Deji said cautiously before ending the

call.

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"Deji eat and drink now, its your home o." Funke

said as Deji sipped her drink shyly.

"Deji there's something I'll want us to discuss."

she said after Deji finished her snacks.

"I heard of a girl back then…the girl that used to

be Tony's mistress…I mean Sophia…" she

continued.

"uhum!" Deji grunted giving her suspicious look.

"Errm..Deji, I know you and your exploits, you

have this city under your finger tips…" Funke

appraised her.

"So?" she grimaced.

"So I want you to tell me where she is! I know

you monitor her movements! Please let me have

her address." Funke explained.

"just like that? What do you want with her?" she

asked.

"I've got some business plans, and I heard she's

good in such business…"

"Of all the business women in this city?" Deji

interrupted her.

"Common Deji, just give it to me! I'll pay any

amount you need." funke said this because she

knew Deji is a sucker for money.

"hmmn, I just hope this 'business' won't affect

Lara o!" Deji cautioned.

"Nooo…not at all! You forget Lara is my

daughter!" Funke laughed.

"Okay!" Deji said scribbling Sophia's address on

a note pad.

"Thank you, name your pay!" Funke smiled

satisfactorily.

"no need for that! Meanwhile, I must go and see

Lara now, I promised her I'm going over." Deji

made to go.

"Okay bye, and please don't tell her about this

o." Funke saw her off.

She waved as Deji drove away, a donkey smile

playing on her face.

First mission accomplished, next target on point!

Lara smiled absent mindedly at herself, its been

a month since Tony left, he'l be back soon.

"Can't wait!" she said aloud to the empty room.

She decided to call him…

"Hello Baby?" Tony's voice said from the other

end.

"Good morning to you."

"morning how do you do? Hope you slept well?"

Tony asked.

"Not that well, and you?" she made a face as she

spoke.

"same here, missing ya loads." he laughed.

"So you're coming back this weekend?"

"Nooo, the doctor said I should for two weeks

more." Tony explained.

"Oooh" she groaned.

"hey hey hey! Two weeks is just like two days, no

need for that okay? I'll be back soon. There are

many thing I'd like to show you!" he said

soothingly.

"Many things? Like?" she laughed

and on and on, their conversation went till the

door bell rang.

"Hey hold on! I'll call ya later." Lara said before

ending the call.

Deji was at the door.

"ah! Ore mi atata, my friend, welcome!" she

hugged Deji.

"This one you are looking fresh ehn?" Deji

teased.

"You can say that again." Lara giggled as she

served her friend.

"When is the hubby coming back now?" Deji

asked gently.

Lara was taken aback, Deji never referred to

Tony as 'the hubby' before,

"Errrm, i just called him on phone, he said next

two weeks.." she explained.

"Next two weeks!" Deji echoed after her, she

looked pleased by the information.

"Yea!" lara felt a strange feeling, she knew Deji

very well, that look on her face isn't for nothing.

"Excuse me!" deji said as she made a call.

"Hello, Lady?" she said.

"The client should be in town in the next

fourteen days, yea, business should be cool!" she

smiled mischievously.

"Okay, bye, get all arrangements ready please."

she ended the call.

"The client? Next fourteen days?" Lara asked

quitely.

"Yea, just some sort of business." Deji avoided

her eyes.

"Business? What type?"

"Oooh, Lara please! I didn't come here for an

interview na!" she laughed.

"Okay" Lara sighed. Deji has been acting

strangely for some time now. She hope there

won't be troubles.

"So tell me girlie! How's Tony? His health?" Deji

shoved her playfully.

Lara laughed, some how she felt more relaxed

Stay tuned for Part 14