The Mistakes Of My Mother Episode 21
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๐คท The Mistakes Of My Mother Episode TWENTY ONE:
My sight was blurred so I could not understand why Derek was running towards the house all of a sudden when we had decided not to call his attention to our presence by staying as lowkey as we could. I mustered all the strength I had left and ran after him. I saw him grab Rose’s Dad by the neck and they both began to roll on the floor with each trying to gain the upper hand in the fight and I began to wonder when the backup he called would arrive. I drew Rose closer, she flinched when Derek rained blows on her dad while I flinched whenever her dad did.
Nevertheless, we had one purpose and that was to free her from the man.
Derek was a trained fighter and so he was able to subdue him at last and handcuffed himโฆ
Derek: โYou are under arrest Mr Olamide for child abuse and molestation.it will be in your best interest to remain silent since any word you utter can be used against you in the law courtโ he said breathlessly.
Olamide: โChild abuse really? And who is the child I molested?โ he asked defensively.
Derek: โYour daughter. You have been sexually molesting your daughter for the past three years now. Do not utter even one word againโ he threatened with eyes blazing in the moonlight.
Olamide: โYou are infringing on my right and I will sue you for this. I am innocent of these allegations and I will make sure I call the services of highly qualified lawyers in this country to fight this case. You will be done for Mr Heroโ
Derek: โWell I want to be done for.
I can’t wait to see how well your lawyers will argue your case and what lies they will use. I can’t wait to see your face when the judge pronounces judgment on you. It will be my life’s greatest achievementโ he pushed him to the back of the car and instructed me to drive while he climbed to the back with him. Rose sat at the front and remained as silent as the graveyard. I had to drive as slowly as possible because of my blurred sight.
Olamide: โOh you mean your downfall? This will be your downfall man. I will see to thatโ he taunted and laughed.
Anita: โI want to ask you a question please?โ
Olamide: โDo you have to be polite about it? Hasn’t my interrogation started? Ask awayโ
Anita: โIt is a personal question besides I am just a social worker and your daughter ran to me for help when you made her life into a living hell. So can you tell me the reason you treated Ahunli so bad even though you knew she loved you so much? She kept loving you even in deathโ
Olamide: โWell not everyone deserves to be loved, I am one of those and I made it quite clear to her even from the onset but she decided to stick around. People think that the most painful thing in this world is losing someone you value but no, the most painful thing is valuing someone so much and then in the process, forgetting that you are special too. She should have just lost me rather than losing herself loving meโ
Anita: โYou haven’t answered my questionโ I cast him a look from the rearview mirror. โWhy were you unable to love her despite knowing she is special and all?โ
Olamide: โWell, I am stone hearted. I don’t know how to love and what I love, I destroy. So I shied away from love all togetherโ
Anita: โThen you were afraid that your loving her or showing her love will make you do things that would hurt her?โ
Olamide: โYes. I was afraid like that. Do you have your answer now?โ
Derek: โWell you could have opened up to her about your fears. She could have helped you overcome it. You two could have worked it out but you pushed her into the lion’s den, didn’t she get destroyed at the end?โ
Olamide: โI have punished myself for that ever since her death. You think I felt happy she died? Of course notโ
Anita: โThen are you paying her back for all her love lost by hurting the daughter she left for you? Her only child?โ
Olamide: โI am not hurting her, Baby tell them how I did not hurt you. Or did I really? Maybe I love you too much, I should never have allowed myself to care so much about you.โ he became sober and downcast. In order not to start feeling sorry for him, I kept mute and so did Derek, we left him to his misery.
Rose
Hearing my dad say all that wrenched my heart. I wished my mum was alive to hear it. To hear that he actually pushed her away cos he loved her and was afraid of hurting her. I looked up at the stars through the car window and wondered if she was up there, probably watching over me?
Anita was taken to the hospital and the injury on her head treated after my dad had been locked up in a cell which had five other inmates. Derek took the two of us to his own place despite Anita’s protests.
Anita: โWe cannot stay at your place, just take us home please. Her dad has already been locked up so we are safeโ
Derek: โHow about Francis?โ
Anita: โHe does not know where I stay at so we are safer nowโ
Derek: โI can’t believe you just said that mehn. How did Olamide get to know where you lived? He even went as far as having a spare key and you think a man as dangerous as Francis will not do even more than that? He must be somewhere there as we talk right now, waiting for you to come back home so just stay hereโ
Anita: โSo how are you sure we’d be safe here?โ
I must give it to her, she was really stubborn, and how could a woman argue so much especially when it had to do with her own safety?
Derek: โAt least I’d be here to protect youโ
Anita: โOh I see! So you will be here to protect us? Its okayโ
So she concurred and that was how we found ourselves there. He was extremely neat, everything was where they were supposed to be, and nothing was littered around despite him being a busy guy. I saw the way they looked at each other, full of admiration and love. They cared deeply about each other even though they weren’t rushing things up. I found myself wishing my own parents had experienced the joy of being in love rather than the hide and seek they were doing.
He got a call at exactly 10:30 pm that the guys had found where Francis was at last and needed his attention there with them as soon as he could. He was more than elated but Anita had her reservations, call it a woman’s instinct.
Anita: โI don’t think you should go. They should handle that themselves, I’m sure they can, they are not kidsโ she folded her arms across her midsection stubbornly like an overprotective house wife.
Derek: โDon’t be stubborn baby girl. You know this is important to me. The guys need me thereโ he said wearing his jacket, I pretended to be asleep.
Anita: โBut you said you’d be here with us?โ
Derek: โNot to worry dear, you guys will be safe. I won’t be gone for too long so chillax okay? I know you will miss me but just hang on for me. I’d be right back for sureโ he said, gave her a kiss and bounded for the door.
Anita
I didn’t want him to leave but he did anyway. I am definitely going to tell him to resign from the Force too. I can’t have a husband who will be running off in the middle of the night leaving me vulnerable. I wouldn’t have that happen. I looked up the bar and saw a CCTV camera hanging right above it. I was more than impressed with his security measures. Rose walked up to me with a worried look on her faceโฆ
Anita: โWhat is wrong?โ I asked setting her on my laps as I sat down.
Rose: โI’m scaredโ she said placing her head on my chest.
Anita: โMe too but hey! It’s gonna be fine, we are safe here with God by our side. Okay? Do you know how to pray?โ
Rose: โNo! No one ever thought me how to, will you teach me?โ
Anita: โOf course I willโ I made her go on her knees and say after me as I told God how we wanted to be safe from thence onwards. We heard the keys click outside and the door opened, I went to the sitting room to check and there stood Francis with an axe in hand looking like he won mega lotteryโฆ
TO Be Continued