“But what?” Tina asked
“ Her lips touched mine…” I said like a scared defeated baby as I touched my lips with my shaky fingers. Never had a female lip on my lip felt like poison until that day…
“ Was there any form of tongue locking and exchanging of saliva?” Tina asked
“ No” I shook my head in the negative
Tina heaved a sigh of relief…
“ Thank God! Because that would have been your end… Linda was the boss of the SLAYERS under me when I was boss over there… I am sure you remember who the SLAYERS are…” Tina said ….
I nodded in the positive… I remembered the SLAYERS at the SCA. They had sex with men and women to kill them. They were the assasins.
“ A kiss with Linda would have terminated you Chuks, she didn’t need to sleep with you, you know how it is, all she had to do was to pour her venom into you…” Tina said tapping me on my shoulder as she walked away from a shocked me…
“ Thank God… but why would she use my image…?” Favour said to herself loudly
“ The SCA knows who Chuks has a soft spot for…The devil doesn’t tempt you with what you don’t like…” Tina said
Favour and I exchanged looks . There was silence afterwards which was filled with deep unspoken words…I quietly walked away towards my office in shock with the full realization that I would have died few minutes earlier.
I heard Favour calling my name but she was the last person I wanted near me… I heard her shout…
“ Chuks, that wasn’t me and I can never do that to you!”
That meant nothing to me. I knew I was walking but how I got to the office was the most Herculean task ever…
Gambo ran up to me just as I was about to open the door to my office….
“ Daddy Daddy!” Gambo cheered heartily. I couldn’t turn to look at her as I felt a sharp pain in my heart…
“ If I had kissed the girl, I would have disappointed Gambo, I would have left her fatherless… and she might have doubted her new faith… She would have said God was wicked without knowing I was the careless one!” Hot tears dropped down my face at the thought of what would have happened to Gambo turned Grace.
Gambo had hugged me from behind as her playful self, but she noticed I stiffened at that, she moved forward looking at me…
“ What’s wrong! why the tears? Are you sick?” She asked as she pulled me inside the office…
“ Daddy, what is wrong!” I couldn’t find my voice… I wish I could get a knife and cut off my manhood… I wanted to slap myself for the “almost attempt “.
Favour walked in and Gambo knew it was time to leave, so she stood up to leave but I was scared if she was the real Favour, so I held Gambo’s hand indicating she stayed…
“ I am the real Favour…” Favour said and I faced Gambo instead…
“ I almost messed up today, I almost lost you today and right now I feel like beating myself up for that!”
I took my time to explain in details what had happened to Gambo. I had my reason for doing that. I wanted to be responsible to someone, should in case my emotions wanted to land me in trouble in future, I wanted someone who would always remind me of the truth…
“ The devil knew my weak point, he knew I had feelings for your Aunty Favour and…”
“ and he knew I had been nursing this inner crush for your father coupled with my state of loneliness, so I was the perfect bait for him…” Favour cut in
“ But Chuks” She said facing me as guilt was evident in her eyes. I could see she felt bad she was the bait used…
“ Chuks…the love I have for you will never let me make you sin against God. I can’t love you and want you Spiritually dead… We are humans and we have feelings but what proves our Christianity is the ability to say No to Lust, because once Lust is conceived, Sin follows and when we fall into sin, we die…That is what the scripture says…”
There was a moment of Silence, before Gambo broke it..
“ Why then can’t you both get married and stop the temptation…?” Gambo asked
“ Marriage cannot stop temptation, as you grow in life Gambo, and find yourself in different places, you will always find someone who you will be attracted to, so will you marry every one of them?” Favour said
Gambo shook her in the negative…
“ Exactly, there are people you will meet along the way who no matter how attracted you are to them, you will have to turn your face away, because it’s either they are unavailable or you are unavailable… in this case your father is unavailable because he is still married to his wife…” Favour said
Gambo nodded in Silence, Favour was a good teacher who after she lectured anyone, you definitely had no other ideas to share…
Favour walked out and Gambo knew she had to leave me likewise, but before Favour left , She said…
“ Although I find it very insulting that an agent of darkness will transform into an angel of light using my image, shows my spiritual Fire has really gone down… I Hope to get back on track…. I am sorry once again…”
I wasn’t angry at Favour , instead I was angry at the SCA.
The SCA knew I was out of their captivity and it was obvious I was soon going to pull them down, so they thought of a better way to pull me down first.
They were able to put cancer into me and they were just about to end my life… I knew it was time to get serious with them…
They brought the battle to me all this while ,now it was time to take the battle to them !
To be continued
