Then came you

Chapter 29

"Ouch." She rubbed her temple with
three of her fingers.  "I am sorry, my bad I didn't watch where I was going was going." He bent down and helped pick her phone. "Oh my, hopefully, the phone  isn't broken, cause I can't afford to fix it."  She muttered in annoyance. "Wait where are you going? Let me see if the screen is broken, you can't just say sorry and expect I'll let you go." She rolled her eyes skywards, pressing the power button and the phone came alive. When he saw her screen saver he was speechless.
"How do you know this guy, what is your connection with him?"

Her eyes widened further, "You know him?"  She said in utter disbelief. "I will tell you about him."

"Tell me what you know about him."
"Why would I, I don't even know you, and yay!! the screen is not broken, so can I go now?" He said blandly and walked away.
She huffed in annoyance and blew out an exhausting sigh. She couldn't let him go, it was because of him she came back, She needed to see him, and she was not letting the one person that knew him go away like that. She hadn't stepped foot in Nigeria for a very long time, but here she was now, and chasing after a super annoying freak was certainly not the first thing she planned to do in Nigeria. She had tried calling him over these past few months when she had zilch but every effort proved futile and here she was, Looking for him, and the first person she bumped into knew him well, she wasn't wasting this opportunity.

So she ran after as fast as her legs could take her. "Please wait, wait..." She gasped for air. He Halted in his steps. "You again?"
"Yes, it's me again hi, I want you to tell me everything you know about him."

"For how much."
"Look, everything doesn't have to be about money, I just need to know some few things about him." She said restlessly. He looked at her sceptically.
"Okay then, follow me!!" She followed after him.

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"Dr Nasreen." Irfan teased. "Yes, doctor Irfan." She shifted her gaze from her Mac Book and kept her eyeglass aside.  "Yes doctor IR, If people hear us, sai su zaci wasu manyan likitoci ne. They would think we are some big doctors, but I feel good am happy, Kaji dadin da na keji In students dina suka zo office dina, suna cewa Dr Nasreen. Do you know how good I feel when students come to my office, and they say, Dr Nasreen?"  

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She sat opposite him, on the chair in the restaurant waiting for him to talk he had not uttered any word he kept pressing his phone.

"Look, dude, I did not leave Canada to come and stare at you, we have been sitting here for almost fifteen minutes and yet you haven't said anything."

"Do you want to know how I know him, you don't know what he did to me."
"And what has that got to do with me, just tell me where to find him Please."

"He took something that is mine, she was never his.."
"Ohhh I see, scorned lover yeah!  he is with the love of your life?" "Yes he is, and what do you want from him?" "Money!! I want the money that is all I want."

"I thought you said not everything had to do with the money?" "Damn it, I knew it would come back and bite me in the butt."  She rolled her eyes.

"Then I think we both want the same thing, so this makes us on the same page huh?"  He raised his brows inquisitively.

"Yeah, we want the two people that have made us helpless, we can help each other get what we want, so partners!!"  She said and stretched her hands forward. He shook her hands.

"We are all going to get what we want from them. But you still haven't told me where to find him."
"Oh yeah,  about that, I  don't know." He said gulping down his drink.

"Wait hold up, you mean the one hour of my life I have spent here was all useless,  seriously dude, you need to be hanged."

"Yeah, I am supposed to be hanged to death, but I ran away from prison. Not like run, run, I ran away from the hospital, where I was admitted from the prison, I just had to leave, I had to complete my mission. So I ate my wrist, I continued eating it until I pulled out an artery,  they had no choice but  to take me to the hospital I almost died, I used it as a cue  to escape when I was alone with the doctor, I injected him with the injection meant for me, and ran away, I don't know what became of the doctor, but here I am."