Securing The Bag (The Lagos Hustle)

Aftermath

FUOYO
By 1:22am, we arrived at my apartment. I put on my inverter and switched on the lights, I found one of my biggest shirts and folded it with the towel Jessy had asked for. She thanked me and retreated to the restroom. I heard the shower running soon after she locked the door.

"She shouldn't bathe with cold water, she's still shivering from the cold" I observed to Kanaku

He frowned at me, "can you stop behaving like a freaking midwife for a second? you and I both know what you're after, you dog! but at least give her time to get over what happened tonight, haba!"

"what do you....how can you even...for your information...I'm not...." I sighed, "fuck you I don't owe you any explanation"

"exactly and I don't care, just reduce your eye service before it goes from sweet and caring to annoying"

"I swear your thinking is just totally..."

"shh...shh...shh...I'm about to call my woman please shut up"

I kept quiet telling myself he was just a pig. I didn't have any agenda with Jessy, she was shaken up bad and I was just trying to make her feel better.

"Hello, Barakat baby.....oh! mtcheeew! Sukirat....where's she?.....no no let her sleep. I'll be home first thing tomorrow morning....of course, it was business... you better stop feeding her with your rubbish theories, I'm nothing like your husband....mtcheeew, o ba furo' e.....do you hear me? I said your daddy's left yansh, foolish bitch, please don't wake your sister.... reduce your voice...before you wake my daughter too!"

"Jeeez I don't even want to ask the backstory behind that" I stared at him in wonder when he was done with the call, I looked at his bare ring finger, "your woman is married? see how you're insulting her"

"Mister I too know! FYI that's my girlfriend's sister. She's a jealous witch and because of you I now owe her for looking after my family while you had me running after shadows!" His voice rose a little, making me uncomfortable. "you had the mind to have me drive around the whole Island for noth-"

I got to my feet, "let me make some hot tea, would you like a cup?"

He scowled at me and I hurried from his presence. The call had put him in such a nasty mood, he looked like he wanted to throw me around the room a little until he felt better.

I ran into Jessy in the corridor. She had changed shirts and removed her wet weave. Now she toweled her natural hair and dark nappy curls fell around her face and almost reached her shoulder. Earlier at the hotel, she had looked sexy but now wearing my XXL shirt and boxers she wasn't sexy. Sexy was too shallow a word to describe how her clear brown eyes glistened from all the expended tears and looked up at me with a kind of unforced naivete that had been missing earlier, Her lashes were naturally curly and full and added a sensual edge to her eyes, especially when she looked up slowly at me and I felt my throat go dry. Her cheekbones were sharp enough to make one wonder how breathtaking her smile would be, but not too prominent that it eclipsed the hint of dimples that appeared when she spoke.