Chapter 23: Back in the Village

Flashing back to his old lifestyle reminded Felix of Mercy. He wondered what she was doing and how she was taking his absence. They were on the phone with each other but it was just not the same with seeing one on one. Even being on video call was not helping at all. Any way, he reasoned, he would soon be with her as soon as he got some things ready and travelled back. His plan was to stay with Lawrence's brother while he made haste to get his own place of residence. Who knows, one reason Mercy has refused to visit him may just be because he was yet to get a place of his own. His thoughts drifted to Gift. He wondered again at all he had heard about her. While in Lagos, he had had calls from people telling him about her excapades but he had been to occupied with a lot of things to give credence to them which surprised him considering his history with her.

Desmond was feeling really restless. He had actually enjoyed his friendship with Felix and now he was feeling awkward being with him because of the affair he was having with Gift. At that, he remembered how it had been between them. He was not in love with Gift but he had to admit that she knew how to turn a man on. Even now his body hardened in response to the thought of her. He wondered how Felix who had loved her was feeling if he who doesn't, finds her this hot and attractive.

' What a mess', he said aloud to himself. He was still desiring the girl while feeling guilty at having betrayed his friend. A betrayal such that he feared would destroy or rather had already destroyed his and Felix''s friendship. The great comradeship they had shared. He had noticed that the fun loving and fun filled Felix was now subdued. What a woman can do to a man. Yet the male folk will say women are the weaker sex. He had the evidence between his thghs- the hard evidence to prove them wrong.

But what to do? He had to find a way to speak with Felix and see how they both can re-establish their friendship irrespective of any issues they may have. After all they were men and not women who always bore grievances and held grudges.

Gift told herself that she could not postpone seeing Felix for long before it gets too awkward to see him or before he travelled. She had heard that he would soon go back to town and she wanted them to mend bridges before he left so that when he settles down there, he could send for her. She made herself very beautiful and looking at the mirror she had to agree that she looked breathtaking. What with her pointed nose, long shapely legs which her body hugging short gown showed off to perfection. Even her shapely buttocks just like Jennifer Lopez'. She was determined to go for the kill or raise any dead (sex) organ as the case may be. She was confident that Felix who could not resist her previously even when she looked her worst, which she never did by the way, she amended conceitedly, would be unable to resist her now when he sees her in all her glory. She was determined to use all the feminine weapons at her disposal to get him to accept her back into his life. After all he had been her first love and she his.