So our marriage is a sham
(Alex is seen looking into the air in his sitting room at Abuja)
FLASHBACK- 25 years old
(At Oluremi Agbaje’s funeral, rain is falling on this very day, ten year old Alex walks towards gloomy Rere)
Alex; hello Rere (he picks her hand) I am so sorry for your loss (Rere removes her hand from his and walks away)
BACK TO PRESENT
Alex: (sighs heavily) she must have hated me a lot (the door opens and Rere comes)
Rere; (smiling) oh my God, you are really here. You came back. Alex I am so sorry for what I did (Alex hugs her tight has tears flow down his eyes) are you okay?
Alex: I should be sorry
Rere: for what? I wronged you, you didn’t wrong me
Alex: I am sorry for what my dad did to you Lolu
Rere: what? (Pushes him away) what are you talking about?
Alex: I know everything Rere
Rere: what do you think you know?
Alex: I know your real name is Rereloluwa Agbaje, my childhood friend. I know my father killed your father and I also know that you watched it happened.
Rere: (walks few paces away from him and faces him) I am not going to deny it, so instead I am going to ask how you found out
Alex: your mother told me
Rere: my mother is died
Alex: am talking about your foster mom
Rere: why are you talking to Alice and how did you find out that I was adopted? I told you I grew up in an orphanage
Alex: I was building your father’s murder case
Rere: (in a loud voice) I told you to drop that case
Alex: well I did not, I thought it was the solution to our problem
Rere: (confuse) in what world does that solve our problem?
Alex: I don’t know but I was going insane Rere. I love you so much that being apart from you for just 2 month was like as if my heart was ripped out of my chest. I just….I just don’t understand why you are like this. So I thought maybe, just maybe if I solve your father’s murder case, if I bring the culprit to justice maybe you will get closure and go back to being the woman I love
Rere: well you are wrong to think that solving my father’s murder case will bring back the woman you fell in love with because she never existed, I have always been this woman
Alex: oh I know that now
Rere: (angry) so what are going to do now? Are you going to run to your daddy and rat me out
Alex: why are you getting angry with me? If anyone is to be angry, it should be me
Rere: really?
Alex; yes Rere, you used me, you used my love for you, you used my child to get back at my father but like I said earlier, I can’t live without you so am asking you to throw away whatever plans you have for my father and help me punish him the right way
Rere: and what is the right way? The corrupt justice system? And not to talk about the fact that he is the most powerful man in Nigeria
Alex: and that is all thanks to you, if you haven’t help him with his election, he will be planning to move out of Aso rock by now but he is human, he would made some mistakes
Rere: you think I haven’t looked for it, there is no evidence tying your father to my father’s murder
Alex: but you are a living witness
Rere: no one is going to believe me Alex
Alex: but I believe you, let combine our resources together and I promise you that my father will spent the rest of his life in jail and if you want him died, I will get him the death penalty
Rere: (holds his hands) Alex I love you very much just the way you love me but this is my mission, this is all I have lived for all my life. I won’t be satisfied with him been in jail or someone else killing him, I want to stand over your father’s body the way he stood over mine, so I think will pass on your offer (she walks towards the door)
Alex: so it was all a lie (Rere turns back to him) our life together, so our marriage was a sham. You never loved me (tears forms in his eyes)
Rere; (walks back to him hurriedly) of course I love you
Alex: then prove it to me, leave everything you are doing right now and come with me to Hawaii
Rere: what? (scoff) I am not doing that
Alex: (looking frustrated) I am going to leave this house right now Rere and if I walk out that door without you, we are done
Rere: don’t make this about us?
Alex: (in a loud angry voice as tears roll down his eyes) of course it is about us, I need to know if your past with my father is more important than your future with me
Rere: the both are important to me, don’t make me choose
Alex: I am so sorry for what my father did to you (he walks towards the door)
Rere: Alex, Alex (she follows him out of the house, it is dark outside. Alex enters his car and Rere starts knocking his window but Alex drives out of the house in tears. He drives as more tears pour from his eyes, he is so deep in his sorrow that he did not wait for traffic light and another car drive right into his car. Alex's car tumbles three times)
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