Chapter 49

If I’d been initiated into 

Marine Brothers Society

 on my twenty-eighth birthday, or any age in the multiple of seven, I knew it would not take up to a second for her utmost mariners to finish me off. This was due to the ‘sacrilegious’ act I’d just committed, by meeting with a man who practiced a religion totally forbidden by the dictates of 

Marine Brothers Society

. 

Slowly, I carried my popcorn, walked out of the fast food j****, and made for the car park. Unknown to me, while I walked out of the fast food j****, a young lady, about twenty-nine years of age, sat two tables behind me and kept picking at a plate of fried rice and fried chicken. 

Her attention remained on Pastor Alozie and me throughout our meeting. She was dressed in a white suit and white camisole, with gold-rimmed sunglasses covering her eyes. Till this very moment, I never knew the name of the ‘strange lady.’ 

If there was anything she had