PART 21
” RECKLESS REKKY”
Opeyemi O.Akintunde
“ What right way? Doctor Mike! You don’t know what I am going through so please don’t give me an advice that is not relevant to my situation. Doctor Mike, I was in the future and by my action, a lot of people died. Although, the death was not entirely my fault, the victims lived careless lives. So I just reached out to two of those people who died to explain what was going to happen to them by Monday should they continue with their careless lives.”
“ And?” Doctor Mike asked
“ They think I am crazy!”
“ No one can be convicted without HolySpirit!”
“ The HolySpirit?”
“ Yes, God has to prepare their minds before you speak to them. The grounds of their hearts needs to be prepared, and afterwards God will water the seed you have planted.”
“ Ok?”
“ Yes, God should go ahead of you and after you!”
“ But God was the one who sent me on the errand. He therefore should go with me, why do I have to pray again?”
“God is a conversational friend, he expects you to ask. He does not like to intrude if not invited. Though he sends you on an errand, he expects you to ask him if you want HIM to go with you!”
“ How is that possible?”
“Thanks to the Bible for being a guide for us. When Moses wanted to lead his people to the promise land, he had to ask for the Presence of God and direction on how to move.”
“ Ok..thanks!” Mayowa said. He Shifted his attention from What Doctor Mike was saying. He had one more person to reach.
Moko!
He reached for his phone and instead of placing a call, he decided to send a text ..
“Hello Boss Mokolade! I am sorry for sending a message instead of giving you a call. I am sorry, I won’t be working with you anymore. I have been to the future and the future doesn’t look good for me if I continue with you! My advise for you is to end this ritual business so that you can live a good life!”
Mayowa dozed off after sending the message. He was exhausted and the deep sedation was not totally out of his system.
Doctor Mike knew it was time to return him home.
******
Moko was confused after reading the message.
“Who told him my name is Mokolade? This boy has started checking me out! Ah! Is he trying to bring me down? He wants to weaken me, so he can start his own business….Small boy! I will teach you not to bite the hands that feeds you!”
*******
It was past 8pm. Osmond struggled to reach his phone. After Mayowa left his place, he had drowned himself in alcohol. He wanted to believe it was a lie and wasn’t real.
” Rekky!”
Rekky was calling Osmond.
” Hey! Handsome…how are you?” Rekky said
” Fine! but my head aches!”
” Why?”
” Nothing serious! One of these prophet of dooms visited me!”
” Prophet of doom?” Rekky asked suspiciously
” Yes…he said I would die by Monday if I don’t change my ways…”
” He came to you too?” Rekky asked
” He came to you!”
” Yes…I knew it! I knew this was Martins’ plan. He hired that guy to scare us.” Rekky said laughing
” Really?”
” Yeah but You know what? For what he has done, I am coming over to your place tomorrow and I will stay over at your place. Let’s see the death that wants to kill us.” Rekky said…
To be continued
PART 22
” RECKLESS REKKY”
Mokolade rose up angrily, he kept pacing around his private apartment in the ritualist village; his abode for years. He only went home to his family once in three months. The lie everyone in his family and neighborhood bought was that he was a sailor. It was only his wife who knew the truth.
“ Mayor! That small boy! Has he forgotten what I did to those who rebelled against me in the past… No! He hasn’t! He is just trying to throw his small weight around to see if I will be a coward! Never! The Lion himself… that’s me!” He said before finally screaming out the name of the prophetess…
“Joannnnnnn….”
“ Yes Moko!”
“ Joan! Find Mayor and prepare him for auctioning!”
“ What? What did he do?”
“ Since when did you start questioning my instructions ?”
” I am sorry!” Joan said walking out very shocked.
She walked towards the Deposition unit. Discreetly, She brought out her phone. She sent a text to Mayowa’s phone and deleted it immediately.
The text read…
” You should leave your home NOW! Danger is coming towards you!”
*******
Mayowa had slept off like a baby. Doctor Mike had turned off his phone, placing the phone on the center table. He wanted him to have a very sound sleep.
Doctor Mike was on his way out when he heard the voice..
” Stay with him!”
” HolySpirit, please I need to attend to my patients at the hospital.” Doctor Mike said as he drove out of the compound.
******
” Tony, Moko said you should bring Mayor forcefully to the village immediately!” Joan said but Tony also had a few seconds of mental shutdown.
” You said what?” Tony asked
” You heard me correctly the first time!”
Tony could smell danger, so he obediently turned from Joan. He called two of the staff working at the village to go with him.
******
Doctor Mike had reached his hospital in time. Indeed there were over 20 new patients.
” God! You see why it was necessary for me to leave Mr Mayor!” Doctor Mike said as a way of reassuring himself that by leaving Mayor to attend his patients , he was right.
” And the shepherd left the 99 to search for the missing one!” The inner voice replied
Doctor Mike paused on the patient he was about talking to…
What did that mean? Was God saying Mayor’s life was more important than all the patients in the hospital?
Without waiting for a reply, he dropped the patient’s file in the hands of another doctor.
” Doctor Byran ….Please finish up…I need to attend to an emergency!”
Doctor Mike rushed out of the clinic.
“Please Lord, don’t let Mayor die on me. Forgive me for using my logic to determine what’s more important “
*****
Tony and the boys pushed the security guard from the entrance. One of the boys pressed a gun on the belly of the security guard.
” It doesn’t make too much noise. No one would know we have killed you. So be a good man and lead us to your boss!” One of the men said.
To be continued
PART 23
” RECKLESS REKKY”
Opeyemi O.Akintunde
Mayowa heard the approaching footsteps. He knew something was wrong. He wanted to get up in a rush and find an escape route but his body was not obeying the instruction his brain was giving out.
“Who is there?’ he asked
“Tony!” Tony replied
Tony walked in with two of the guys from the Ritualist’s village…
“Tony, for the first time of working together, I need you to do me a favor.” Mayowa pleaded
“Which is?” Tony asked
“Don’t take me to the village!”
“And you expect me to Obey you?” Tony asked
“Tony, if you take me back to the village, by this time tomorrow, your son’s life will be in danger!” Mayowa said referring to what Moko was going to say to Tony about killing Austin as a way of saving his own son.
“Brother, what have you done that has made you gone insane?” Tony asked with genuine concern for Mayowa
“I am not insane please….” Mayowa insisted
Tony Signaled to the boys who immediately rounded him up, they lifted Mayor from where he laid and bundled him into the car.
******
Doctor Mike saw Tony’s car driving out of Mayor’s close. He wondered who the person driving was and why he was driving out of the close. His answer came staring him in the face. The moment he got to the gate of the house, he saw the gateman tied to his chair. Doctor Mike knew instantly he had lost his one sheep while going after the 99 sheep other doctors could have saved.
He hurriedly got back into his car, with the hope of catching up with them. On getting to the crossroad, he realized it was a failed search even before starting.
“God! Please help me. Help me, I hope I haven’t lost Mr Mayor… I am sorry.”
“I will require his blood from your hands!’ the Inner Voice Said
“I am sorry.”
“Too late!” The Voice replied
“God please don’t let it be too late for me to access your Mercy.”
The voice went silent.
*******
Moko stood waiting for Mayowa’s arrival. He wanted to pull out information from him.
As soon as Tony drove into the compound, Moko rushed to the vehicle and pulled Mayor out. Without saying a word, he pulled him into his private room.
” Who told you my name?”
” God!”
” Which one?”
” The One and Only God!”
” Mayowa, I will kill you… Who have you started working for?”
” No One.. Moko, please listen to me, I know it sounds Crazy, but by Monday, we are going to bring in an abominable girl to the village who will cause a lot of deaths and pull the police towards this place.”
” So how did you know about this info?’
“I was in the future…”
” Ok!” Moko said and thereafter he walked out of the room.
******
“God , please get me out of here, I have a lot of lives to save.” Mayowa kept muttering over and over again in the deposition unit.
Joan and Tony were watching him in pity.
“I suspect the ghost of one of the people he brought recently must be haunting him!” Joan said
“He has lost his mind!” Tony said
“Obviously!”
*****
Mayowa didn’t sleep all night. He kept thinking over Doctor Mike’s words about reaching out to the people in the right way.
“God, I hope I did not just lose my second chance?”
*****
Early on Sunday, Moko was having a heart to heart talk with Tony. He also did not have a good sleep as he was trying to ascertain what Mayowa was up to. Tony likewise had slept in the village instead of going home.
“Moko, what are we going to do with Mayor, seems his brain has been fried!”
“No, I think he is pretending, I believe he is working for one of my rivals, he was sent to instill fear in me, so I can be cowardly. I think it is Rubber who employed him.”
“Oh! I see. Rubber knows you listen to Mayor!’
“So, what next?”
“Bring me his wife and son! When he sees a knife on the neck of his wife or son, he will confess.”
“On it!”
To be continued
PART 24
” RECKLESS REKKY”
Opeyemi O.Akintunde
Martins had found it hard to sleeping.
“What if the man was right? What if he is not a prophet of doom afterall?’
He looked sideways at Rekky who slept like a saint.
“God, can’t you change her?” Martins thought.
“That is too late, you have already concluded to have a divorce, you deserve all the happiness in the world” Another inner voice challenged him
“Yes, I deserve all the happiness in the world and Chioma will give me that happiness.” Martins concluded within himself.
Martins was tempted to wake Rekky up and have a heart to heart to talk, but the thought of spending forever with Chioma was more heartwarming.
*****
Rekky knew Martins was awake and she suspected he wanted to have a word with her. She was ready for a conversation, especially after the crazy prophet of doom came the previous night.
She kept asking herself the strange and fearful question.
“What if I die by Monday? What would I say is my profit in this life? Would I say my existence was worth it or a waste?’ Rekky thought within as she hoped Martins would tap her for a conversation.
To her disappointment, Martins laid back on the bed.
*****
“Honey, why the continuous hissing. You were disturbing my sleep” Doctor Mike’s wife complained as she stood up from the bed in preparation for Church.
“ I am sorry… I am really mad at myself!”
“Non-responsive patient?” His wife asked as she walked towards the bathroom
“No! I disobeyed God and now I don’t know the state of my patient!”
“Oh! Then instead of the complaining, pray.” His wife replied before turning on the shower.
“Are you coming to church?” She added
“Not sure! I have a life to save” he replied
Doctor Mike got down on bended knees.
“Lord forgive me for determining what or who is more important. Please let your scanning device search out where Mr. Mayor is. You are the God who can sweep an entire room clean in search of a lost coin, Father Give me insight on where to find him. God, make a way for him where he is, because you are the God who can make a way where there seem to be no way.”
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Mirabel sat in her hotel room with her friend. Austin was fast asleep on the bed.
“I am sorry you had to leave your honeymoon to meet me here!”
“Dare was the one who asked me to come see you! He knows something terrible must have happened for you not to make it to my wedding yesterday”
“What has Happened is beyond terrible!”
“Give me the full gist!”
“Mayor is a human kidnapper, he kills people for a living….”
*****
“We need to leave here immediately! He may know you moved here. Babe, come over to our honeymoon hotel. There is good security there.”
“Hotel 23?”
“ Yeah!”
“ Fine”
To be continued
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