Chapter 37. Gauntlet Dropped

Author's Note

Dear reader, thank you for turning the pages.

This chapter is infused with Nigerian Pidgin English but it is written in a comprehensible way. 

You will enjoy and understand it even if you are not a speaker of the language.

Thank you. The story gets more and interesting and surprising as you go. I implore you to read to the end.

I appreciate you.

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"Erm, oga, are you sure you don't want me to stay back today to help you serve your guest? Ehn, oga let me stay na, there is kuku nothing I want to go and do at home now that my children have gone back to school, thanks to you"

Bernard shook his head indulgently " "Eehn eehn, so now you are blaming me for paying their school fees, is that so, Agnes?" 

"Noooo! '' she raised her hands like one about to make a solemn pledge "Mbah o, blame you ke? For what na? When I am not crazy. Ehn ehn o. Never can I forget what