KAFTAN

Chapter 9

Ebere had been requested by her boss to welcome some visitors and direct them to his office. Ebere never knew it would be Muhammad, a young man and a lady.

The lady looked really beautiful like a model who had stepped out from the front pages of a magazine, her makeup was top notch, her light skin so flawless like she bathed in milk every day.

"Ebere, how are you doing?" Muhammad asked. He looked good in a suit, Ebere sighed internally, he looked good in anything. A smile was plastered on his face and Ebere tried hard not to smile back too much.

"I'm good" She replied.

"Your health?"

So he remembered?

"Also good"

" Kassim remember the lady. I told you about that saved me from those guys, she's the one"Muhammad told the young man he came with.

" Oh, nice meeting you"Kassim had a consending look, like he was judging if her shoes were the latest or why a girl who worked in a bank was talking with his brother. He was handsome, really handsome but his looks were more of boyish cuteness and his eyes dark like ember. Ebere was used to such annoying looks. The lady suddenly held Muhammad's arm.

"Hadiza meet Ebere Monalisa Kalu"

"Hi, please can you lead us to the office now"Hadiza requested, her accent was not hard to decipher, she sounded like an hausa-fulani.

As Ebere led them to the office, she could barely make out their hushed conversations, of course she was not affected by it one bit. She ushered them into the office and even though she could feel his gaze on her, she didn't share him a glance before walking out of the office.

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"Going somewhere?"

Ebere turned to the direction of the voice and saw the blue eyed human leaning casually against his black Audi, he had a smile plastered on his face as he twirled the car keys on his fourth finger. Ebere's breath hitched, why wasn't he a model yet?

"Yeah, am going home and what are you doing here? "She asked him

The bank was closed for the day since it was already 4:30pm

" Would you mind having ice cream with me, like going on the date we were supposed to go?" He didn't look nervous one bit though his eyes seemed to be pleading for a positive response.

Ebere scanned through her dress and Muhammad noticed it at once.

"You look just beautiful"He told her.

Ebere stared into his eyes, was he just joking or saying all those things, but she read his face and noticed that he was quite sincere.

"Okay, but what about my car?" She asked him and pointed at her car which was not parked far away from them.

"I promise I'll not take much of your time and I'll bring you back"

Ebere nodded in agreement and followed him into his car, the car smelt like a certain male colonge and the interior was black and classy.

Muhammad played See you again by Charlie Puth and Wiz Khalifa while navigating along the way.

"This song is emotional but Memories by maroon 5 kinda beats it"

" I know but I love the rap part in this song endears it to me"

The song switched to High way by DJ Kaywise and Phyno and Ebere was surprised to see him bobbling his head to the song trying hard to say some words in igbo