Chapter 280. Effective Dismissal

“You can ask the landlord, though. I believe he should have an answer to that. He couldn’t have forgotten them if they truly lived here, as you said. It is just that he is not at home now; you can check back on him,” the woman’s partner had informed him.

Mukhtar asked if they could give him the landlord’s number, but the man shook his head and said, “No. I don’t want Baba’s wahala. You can drop your own, though. If he wanted to talk to you, he would call you, or you could simply come back later. I will tell him you asked of him, Sha.”

Mukhtar had dropped his number, but just as he was leaving the compound, he saw the man getting back from his outing. He could still remember the man from when he used to visit Evelyn. He remembered that Evelyn had been fond of the man for being tolerant of her when she failed to pay on time, and the man knew him as well.

Mukhtar felt that the man might have forgotten him, so after greeting him, he was trying to explain how they had me