Chapter 2

“Don’t worry about my friend here. He was just… excited and misunderstood. You boys would be getting three times your salary for the stress you all went through.” They cheered and applauded his last statement as a hefty, shaven-headed man, more than six feet tall, opened the door and led us to the car.

“When are we going to meet again?” Theo asked the former beauty queen.

“I don’t know, baby; we got to round up my charity programs in the West and also, the meeting with the first ladies from the Northern States.” 

He stopped abruptly and planted a kiss on her lips as I looked at a black limousine parked beside us. I entered first and sat on a side seat behind the driver’s seat while Theo and his girl entered the back seat and began to whisper to themselves. Before he shut the door, Theo instructed his bodyguard to drive to an expensive restaurant on Nnamdi Azikiwe road. Less than ten minutes later, the driver parked in front of a l