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expected the driver to be moving now. Otherwise if he sensed any attack, he would be the first to give him a daze punch in the face, push

inner light and looked back to behold a sweating face in the light and a black sack measuring up to his neck. "I said F

arm of the driver and his bearded porcine face. He could be the age of his father, one of those countrymen that so much

ing on our cars and regretting this business. Since morning," his stubby hand waved across his head severally. "You are my second passenger. You may

ht. When he peered at his watch it was 10:15PM. Impatience inspired his sweating palms and armpit. His usual brash tone gave way for humility. "Please, sir, I can add five h

ed to make it three K," he said and spittle spurted on Azuaka's nose with an accompanied peaky odour of rum. He knew the beardie was an alcoholic a

silence. Azuaka Jnr. quietened, unwilling to talk so as not to d

? That means we are going round Enugu and I can'

ered passenger in the front mirror,

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the beardi

What's

st fuck tonight, my son," he said 'my son' with the sense

am already late." He expected it but never knew it would come. Of course th

ll the craziest people in the world. Thi

e the money and his life. And if the beardie would

ght than losing this money to a fool. Why

– " he lost more words to describe his offender and then he shook his head instead and continued, "boy stabbed his father twice in the neck and made away with his gratuity. His father was a retiree at the ministry. Chukwu nna m, God my father!" he exclaimed in strong Enugu accent. "You know some batch of p

the right response, the response of a similar thief who

came back with the money, he met Azuaka Jnr. sipping at his cup of tea while the other drugged one lay on the table. Given the awareness of his father returning home with his gratuity, drugged tea was the only possible bait

e're at Agbani Road,

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t and he alighted, stretching his hand to pay the beardie. "So you can't add Five Hundred naira, this boy, at least to

patiently. The beardie collected it and he did not hear the rest of

nned woman who was breastfeeding her baby. He would arrive the next day in Lagos and unite with the rest of the boys; Agu who resided at Victoria Island and the only software guru among them, Nku, who would arr

I celebrate myself. So they must consider me and let me be a rea

software and launching it to render the world broke, and then he would surprise her with a mansion, a brand n

ade it, he int

e this tea and leave my breast alone." The nursing mother was scolding her baby in Igbo, squeezing her big breast into he