Hello Everyone, I decided to update cos people have been asking me to update. I haven't been able to update cos of my exam and the wait for my result. To top it all off, the laptop i had been using flunked , so I am typing on my phone now. ( Which sucks btw😒 )
I know these are just excuses so, to apologize, I'll be doing a double update. Cos I know how frustrating it is to be left on a cliffhanger.
When the aareonakakanfo uttered his shocking words, everyone turned to Omololá as if they were waiting for her to deny it. But she only sputtered and stammered, shifting on one spot. Finally, she found her voice. The iyalode turned to the otun in surprise, "you must be a wizard" she said, causing the man to smile glumly at his correct prediction.
"What rubbish are you spewing out of your mouth? Omo wo? " Which child?
The man laughed, bursting into a fit of coughs.
"Omololá, mo n bèrè ní tùbí nùbí." I am asking without force
"Shut up! You madman, which child did you give to me? Ehn?" She turned to Adeoba,
" This man is spewing trash about your queen and you are looking at him. You-"
"-shut up woman!" Adéoba yelled, shoving his palm in Omololá's face. He gestured towards the fuming chief. "You! Do you have proof of what you say? If you do not, leave, before your head takes leave of your body."
The aareonakakanfo nodded and turned to the crowd behind him, full of gawking villagers. The name he called stole the breath out of Omololá's lungs,sending pure ice down her spine.
"Bódúndé! Get out here!" The man sauntered out of the crowd and smirked at the queen. He bowed mockingly while winking at the Queen's terrified gaze. " My king, I am a witness to the aare's claims. I know of the dealings between the queen and the aareonakakanfo." He cleared his throat and spoke louder, in order to be heard over the murmurs of the crowd. Omololá grasped Adéoba's arm.
"Please, let us go in and discuss this. Má jékí ojú tìmí ní gbàgede. Let us settle this matter quietly." Do not let me be shamed in public
Adéoba glared at her and hissed, yanking his arm out of her hold.
"A whore does not deserve respect. You will pay publicly for what you have done."
To Bódúndé, he said, " speak. What do you know?"
Bódúndé began " I am just a hunter my king, but I love to drink, one fateful day, I caught a huge antelope, so to celebrate, I decided to treat myself and my friends to emu ògùrò. Iya àpèké makes the best palm wine, as you all know. It's always blissfully chilled and it slides down the throat like honey. Sometimes i-"
"Do you want to die? Hm? Do you want to be beheaded? Get. To. The. Point you fool!" Adéoba had been grinding his teeth during Bódúndé's rigmarole around the story. But he could stand it no longer.
Bódúndé decided that his head was far more important than Iya àpèké's palm wine, so he continued his story. "I saw them while i was coming back from the palm wine shop, they were too far gone to find a room, so they......did it outside."
"Did what?" The iyalode asked, eager for every single detail about the happening. Bódúndé turned her way and hissed. " What happens between a man and a woman to cause conception? àbí kí n fi gbogbo enu so Ni?" Or do you want me to say it explicitly?
Adéoba huffed " continue"
"So I went over when they were done, and I told them what I saw. To keep me quiet, they decided to pay me a handsome amount."
The Otun asked what he had been thinking all along. " Wait, you 'went over when they were done' does that mean that you watched them before you made yourself known?" Everyone ignored him and turned back to Adéoba, who asked, " so why have you decided to speak out now?"
"Because I am a man, and I know that a man is nothing without an heir, and when aareonakakanfo lost his family, he came to me and asked me to help him. Moreover, I can only lie so much before my conscience begins to haunt me."
"Wait! Wait!" Omololá who had been silent began to yell" why are you all listening to these evil people? I swear on the gods! I did no such thing! Adéoba, Adémola is your son!"
Adéoba scoffed, " of course he is, now, where is his son?"
The aareonakakanfo gaped at the king, " ye gods! Have you always been this oblivious? Adémola is my son! You know how I know? Because she was already pregnant before you laid with her to conceive him. I was the one who told her to get you to lie with her, I was the one who comforted her when you began to treat her like trash. I am Adémólá's father! Give me my son!"
There was chaos everywhere at this point, but in the midst of all this, Adéoba stood rooted to a spot. His mind was racing. How could he have missed this? Missed Omololá's desperation in getting him in bed. Missed Adémola not having any of his features. His body began to shake from anger, turning to the guard beside him, he snatched the gun out of the distracted man's hand and shot Omololá's lover in the chest. The women, and some men, actually, screamed and began to run out of the palace as fast as they could. The situation had become something more than they'd expected. The aareonakakanfo had fallen in the middle of the palace grounds, his last breath leaving his lungs, but Adéoba was not satisfied. He roared in anger and turned to Omololá, but she wasn't there, she had fled in the midst of the chaos, along with Bódúndé. The cherry on top of this troubling event came when a search of the palace grounds showed that the bastard child was gone.
Omololá had disappeared, along with Adémóla.
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Hours later, Adéoba was still fuming in his room. Omololá, the worthless slut and her bastard were gone. But they'd left him heirless, something his adversaries were sure to capitalize on. A knock on his door disrupted his thoughts, " come in" , he gruffly ordered,
Adéronké entered her son's room cautiously. For now, he was like a wounded lion, that was easily angered. When he saw his mother, his facade of bravery cracked, and a tear slipped down his cheek. Adéronké hurried over to him and wrapped her arms around him. The king was sobbing by then.
" Maami, why? Why is ths happening to me? I thought he was my son! How could she do this to me?"
Adéronké was moved to tears, " only the gods know my son, everything will be alright, I promise"
"No! It won't! Maami, I do not have a heir, and the people do not want me anymore, what am I going to do now?"
" I don't know, my son." And she really didn't.
When Adéoba's cries had subsided, his mother thought he had fallen asleep, so she left him and decided to try all she could in restoring the people's faith in him. But Adéoba was not asleep. He had only been pretending so that he would be left alone. He had made up his mind on what he would do. So, rising from his bed, he strode over to the platform where his crowns lay. There were about ten of them, but the most important one was lying in the middle, it was only worn on the day of a king's coronation. Adéoba recalled vividly, what the chief priest had told him about the crown. To look into it was suicide for a king. With shaky hands, he raised the crown and looked into it, waiting for death. But nothing happened, he opened the eyes he wasn't aware that he close and peered into the crown intently.
Was it all a lie? He thought to himself, or have I already been dethroned by the gods.
A voice came from behind him, startling him into dropping the crown.
"A commoner cannot peer into a crown and die, Adéoba, you are no king, just an animal in the skin of a man."
Adéoba turned to yell at the intruder in his room, but his yells died in his throat when he saw who it was. It was the only girl he'd ever loved. The one who he thought he'd killed
It was Àwèlé.
Dun dun duuuuunnnnnn!!!!!!😏
Wow! I have a major headache rn, so Amma keep dis short.
Who saw this coming? If you did, vote and comment
Who didn't see this coming? If you didn't, also vote and comment😏
Ok, so the thing about looking into a crown and dying is actually true. By that, I mean it's really a myth. It hasn't been proven true or false yet, sooo
Luh you, luh you.
And may the good Lord save us and protect us in these trying times.
Amen
-kingh💋👑
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