Chapter 43

Three years later, on the fifth remembrance of his father’s death, he set his plan in motion, which he had been plotting with two other slaves for over a year. He had used his looks to woo one of the lender’s daughters and they had ventured into a secret relationship. She always sneaked food into his room, and always comforted him, saying she’d beg her father to let him be. He’d just smile, and kiss her on the cheeks.

Upon his request a few months later, she made duplicate keys and gave them to him. One night, when they were all asleep, he snuck into the room where she had told him her father keeps all his money, as he didn’t believe in going to the bank. Already, his friends who were in charge of making food for the thugs had added sleeping pills to the food and they were all fast asleep, with their snores filling the atmosphere.

They gathered the millions of naira in various bags and took them one after another to a big bus which belonged to the money lender, who had p