Must Read: Sinister Affections

Episode 7 years ago

Must Read: Sinister Affections

Henry was perplexed at the way the gunmen infiltrated the entourage. He still couldn’t Phatom how they were able to do this with little or no hinderance. How were they even able to come about overriding the computers in the car.



He could see numerous gun men pour out of the forest by the road engaging all other security agents in a battle. For one reason or the other, the man with the Bazooka didn’t shoot at them.
”Get out!” The driver ordered. Henry unbuckled his seatbelt that was now free slowly and so did the old president. Henry felt pity for the old man.




He was shivering so bad and was scared. No one would want to undergo such trauma at an old age.



The president was first to get out of the car and he was quickly held in the neck by the driver who was out too. Henry alighted from the car with his hands in the air since the driver was still pointing the gun straight at his forehead.



Henry could hear the soldiers behind him being pushed back by the gunmen who didn’t stop pouring out to replace the dead ones.



A ranger jeep obviously for the gunmen drove straight at them from a pathway in the forest and parked by the driver. Slowly, the driver retreated into the jeep with the president. He was grinning widely. Henry could sense that he wouldn’t be needed again and soon, they’d see to it that he was dead.



The driver said somethings into the jeeps drivers ears and then faced Henry. Henry could see the end now. He could see the president looking at him with eyes widened with pity and sadness.

The driver released a bullet into Henry.

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”Damburuba!” Shindara heard an Hausa man scream as he dodged the SUV before it drove into the wall.


Her aunt was gobsmacked and all she could do was gasp. No one was hurt. Probably the car and the wall though.



Shindara double-checked her aunt if she was okay then alighted from the car to see the magnitude of damage. Some people were already forming round the accident scene.
”Nna, sister, why you come destroy fine car like this na?” An Igbo man among the crowd querried obviously more concerned about the welfare of the car than the occupants.
”I’m fine everybody. Thank you!” Shindara tried to wave them off.
”What of me? I’m not fine!” The man who almost got hit sreamed hysterically ”I’m not fine! At all! What were you thinking?”
”I’m sorry sir.” Shindara apologised sincerely.
”Oga, we’re sorry. Please take this as a compesation” Shindara’s aunt stretched out some clean one thousand naira notes to the man.


The man looked at the money then at aunt Teni’s face then at the whole crowd. He scoffed unbelievebly and slapped the money away.
”walahitalai! You are mad!” The angry man bellowed. ”I almost died due to your carelessness and you are offering me money.



I’ll kill both of you”

The man pulled out a dagger from under his garment. Everybody screamed and shifted backwards away from him including Shindara’s aunt. He raised the dagger up to drill into Aunt Teni’s chest. Shindara was quick to run up to him. She jumped into him and both of them fell.



The man was still holding on to his dagger. He slashed furiously at Shindara’s neck but She was quick to evade the cuts. She sent four girly punches straight at his face and bounced off him.



He stood up almost immediately too and came at her harder. Shindara could find no opening to attack him. All she could so was dodge. She wasn’t licensed to use guns outside the camp yet so the pistol she had unlawfully carried out of the camp was just useless under her trouser.


The trainings she had goten as a recruit still beginning her training process was still very little.



Big reason why all she could do was evade the Hausa man at all cost.



The Man slashed at her head again but she stupidly raised her hand up to block the attacked.



She felt heat all over her arm and the presence of blood dripping down her elbow showed that she was deeply wounder. But the man wasn’t settling down.



Some men who were picking up sticks to fight the enraged Hausa man were stopped by more hausa men who were around. Since the area was largely populated by notherners, the men decided not to fight. Afterall, the girl was a soldier so, let her defend herself.



The hausa man drove his knife straight at Shindara’s tummy but a thunderclap punch from someone else slammed into the mans face and down he went. It was Danladi. Shindara was losing blood. Danladi ordered the men he came with to take Shindara and he Aunt to the military clicnic while he dealt with the man.



The dagger maniac was either brave or foolish to still attack Danladi. Danladi held his raised hand and sent shipwrecking punches into the mans chest. Danladi turned the mans hand in the opposite direction and the joints snapped. Danladi flagged a cab down, threw the hausa man into it and entered too.
”Take us to the NDA”