Why? 3 || Shackled to the Heart 9

EPISODE 9

Done trying

CONTINUATION FROM LAST EPISODE

INT. KINGS’S MANSION- NIGHT

Wemimo and Imade are having causal conversation before it turned intense. He scoffs and then stands up. he paces up and down before he faces her

WEMIMO

I can tell you want a fight and I have been trying to avoid it, hoping whatever this is will go away but it is not going away, so it best I face it. Out with it, what is bothering you?

IMADE

I want out

WEMIMO

You want out?

Imade stands up on her feet

IMADE

Yes, I do, I don’t want to be the CEO anymore, I want nothing to do with KING’s Corp, I want out, I am tired of this life

WEMIMO

(Perplexed) This life gives you the luxury you live in, the designer shoes and bags, I know we make them but still. Your driver, the exotic car he drives you in, this house, this room, look at this room. It is bigger than most people’s houses, people will kill to have what you have, you sure you want to let it go

IMADE

Have you ever stopped to think that maybe I don’t want it, you asked me how I feel about been a billionaire. I feel the same way as I felt when I was a knocked up student living under my mother’s wretched house with you. I feel the same fucking way, how is that for how I feel

WEMIMO

Where is this coming from all of a sudden?

IMADE

It is not all of a sudden, I have been feeling like for a long time. It was suppose to be for five years and ten year after, I am still stuck in KINGS’ Corp… I want out

WEMIMO

So, what do you want do?

IMADE

What I have always wanted to be, a guidance consellor

WEMIMO

We are a team, Imade, if you suddenly leave, what are people are going say?

IMADE

Since when do you care about what people say?

WEMIMO

Since we have a multibillionaire company, people look up to you, Imade

IMADE

Am I suppose to care about them, I never asked them to look up to me

WEMIMO

I need you, Imade

IMADE

No, you don’t. You are just trying to keep me shackled to KINGS, I want out

WEMIMO

IMADE

No, what?

WEMIMO

No, I can’t let you go

IMADE

Like you have a choice

WEMIMO

Actually I do, you leave KINGS, everything you own will be taken from you

IMADE

You can take the cars, I don’t care about them

WEMIMO

Not just the cars, your shoes, your bags, your clothes, everything you got with the help of KINGS Corp, including your shares

She looks at her husband with a blank expression for few seconds before the information he just passed sinks into her brain

IMADE

(With a wide mouth) What?

WEMIMO

The contract you signed when you came back from Paris, the clause was attached. You leave KINGS without my approval, everything you have will be taken away from you and you will be as penniless as you were when you were a knocked up student (Chuckles) but I am sure you don’t mind that, right

IMADE

That can’t be true

WEMIMO

(Perplexed) If you don’t believe me, call Ann. She drew up the contract, it is not my fault that you don’t read contracts too

IMADE

(Looking betrayed) I trusted you

WEMIMO

Well, I didn’t trust you, I knew that there will be a day, you will want to be selfish again. So what will it be? Are you leaving or not?

IMADE

Fuck you

WEMIMO

I thought as much (Scoff as he mimics her) Have you ever thought that maybe I don’t want the luxury, bullshit! You love the luxury, you crave it, you are just looking for new ways to piss me off

She takes a sharp breath in anger

IMADE

You can’t do this to me

WEMIMO

I can and I have, I don’t want to hear about this again

He moves to leave, then he suddenly turns back to her

WEMIMO

Ah, the doctor sent a list of surrogate, the list is on the drawer next to where you sleep, you should pick one

He turns to leave

IMADE

(In a loud voice) Are we not even trying again?

He turned back to her with a stoic expression

WEMIMO

We tried for 7 years, Imade with no luck until we tried surrogacy. I am not wasting any more time trying

IMADE

We have two kids, Wemimo. We can take our time and try again. I may have a toxic womb but I believe I can still carry our child. Our doctor believes it too, we just have to be patient

WEMIMO

Do I need to explain the urgency of this issue to you, we need heirs

IMADE

We have them already

WEMIMO

(Relaxes) What if they want nothing to do with the family business eh Imade? What if 15 years from now, Jowa decides that she want to make her own path and Tawa wants to become a guidance counsellor, what are we going to do then? I am not going to force my kids into things they don’t want to do and I don’t want to be stranded, so I am creating more options for us

IMADE

So, it is okay to trap me into something I don’t want to do but not your kids

WEMIMO

Pick a surrogate, Imade… I am done trying

He walks out of the closet, while Imade throws the things on her vanity away in anger

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IMADE

Didn’t you hear what I said?

HEAD BUTLER

I did but you are not supposed to leave the house today

IMADE

Am I under house arrest without my knowledge?