I could tell she was up to something, she was sending all the ‘signals’ while I kept flashing my wedding ring. She talked about how she knew she was going to meet me again in this life and had looked forward to that day. She said she couldn’t even count the number of times she had talked about me and called me her elusive boyfriend.
I asked what she was going to do in Abuja and coincidentally, she was representing her dad's company at same conference and would also be staying at our hotel.
In my mind, I had hatched a plan of passing her on to Akin so that she wouldn’t get me in trouble. At a point she held my hand and somehow managed to rest it on her left thigh, I quickly moved it…I couldn’t wait to get off the plane so I could get it over with.
As soon as our plane landed, I introduced Toks to Akin but the snobbish response from her made Akin walk away. She told me she knew what I was trying to do and it wasn’t going to work.
“What’s your excuse now?
Given that I was still in Secondary School the first time I met you but I am no longer a kid.
Ain’t we two consensual adults?” She asked me.
I told her I was
married and she said she knew; as I almost stuck the wedding ring in her eyes during
the flight. She said it didn’t matter to her because the way she saw it, I was
an unfinished project and the deal was already on ground before marriage 'crept' in...therefore, marriage should not affect it.
I told her I
couldn’t, even if I wanted to…she scoffed as she turned in front of me and said
“You really don’t want a taste of this?
Seriously?
I dare you to say No”.
I wanted to say No but it was as if the word just disappeared from my list of known words...She was indeed very attractive.
We got in the shuttle that took us to the venue of the conference…I could see the faces of my guys from work and I knew they were dying to ask questions.
When we got to the hotel, Toks whispered in my ear that the offer was on the table and that she wouldn’t even take my contact just to prove to me that it was nothing but a fling and a wild girl fulfilling one of her lustful desires.
She walked away and said she would see me around…as soon as I settled in the room, my guys came over. They were asking questions after questions; they wanted to know who the girl was, where I met her and what I planned to do. I had to tell them the story of my youth service days and how the lady they saw, was a student at that school. How she swore that she would sleep with me, even if that was the last thing she did.
The guys started to encourage me to go for it…Akin gave a detailed sensual description of Toks and how he would damn the consequences if a girl like that wanted him. I reminded Akin of what he said when he met my wife at the airport in Lagos…he responded that this case was different because it was a chapter of my life that I needed to close once and for all.
He made an analogy of how certain people 'owe' themselves things in this life and MUST pay it…he said I owed the girl, otherwise we would not have met again. How fate had orchestrated this and I had to seize the moment.
“I can’t believe that the trainee is now the trainer…what would you have told me to do if I was in your shoes?” Akin asked.
I started to think about it but the thought of what I would lose if caught, scared me...
PART 10 PART 12
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental
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