Wairimu sat in Kitana's bungalow in Kikuyu. She had rented an apartment in Lavington green until their romance hit a crescendo and Kitana asked her to move in with him. She had mulled over it for some time and she had decided to take him up on the offer. At thirty-five Kitana was settled and mature than any man she had ever come across.
It was not a lesser lifestyle than she was used too. Just different. She loved the green and the silence and their one storied bungalow. She felt right at home straight away and it was in that way that they would mull over documents on how to save the company till late into the night.
She now sat on one of the couches in a simple leso, headgear and blouse morose at the prospect of having lost everything that they had worked so hard to build. 'Maybe I should go back to activism,' she thought even though she knew she was in too deep and it is something that would haunt her for the rest of her existence if it went unresolved.
"You should do something other than lie on that couch, let's go to work today?" Kitana said while tying the knot on his tie.
"Has he taken office already?"
"Yeah, they are there with your mother every day. They are always locked in the office with the Chief Financial Officer. I had instructed him not to let them in on anything but my words are wind as you can imagine."
"I can't stand to look at their faces, they are going to destroy in a day what it's taken us months to build."
"You know, Wairimu I have been thinking about this."
"About what?"
"About what happened that day, it felt planned. It seems to be much more than happenstance."
"What are you saying?"
"I'm saying your father's death might not have been out of natural causes."
"Let's just leave it alone," Wairimu said. Her eyes watery.
"Let's hire a detective and get to the bottom of this."
"Kitana no, they have already taken a father from me. Do you want them to take you too, or God forbid, Olivia? Just leave it alone."
"I can't leave it alone. All we have worked for is on the line. Do you want to see us with nothing?"
Wairimu crashed to the floor on both knees and held his hand. "Promise me you will leave it alone. Promise?" She said her face a cocktail of tears and mucus.
"I promise," Kitana said unconvincingly.
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