Ayanna called Ijey are you free please make sure you get here before 6 pm it's important.
Ayanna applied some of her face treatment oil on her face and some essential body treatment she decided to make that call to her father and find out what he wanted her to do and also to know how her mother was settling in.
After the greetings, she asked her father how was mother settling in?
Your mother is a natural dear, seems she had been reading up on our culture and traditions while she was in solitude, can you guess where your mother is right now?
Enh! no father, where is she? Ayanna asked her father with a little frown but relaxed when her father let out a chuckle.
Your mother went with the Queen's mother and both of them are presently supervising the servants as they prepared the meal, It turns out your mom wants to learn how to cook our local dishes he said with a hint of pride in his voice.
Father that's a good thing right? mother wants to blend in as soon as possible, she doesn't want to lose out at all. I will like to speak with her later.
You wanted me to handle something right father?
Yes, I am not so sure how to help a childhood friend of mine and for her to come to me I know she must have considered it a lot and must not have been able to get a solution her self.
You won't know a Mrs. Irene Edet, Irene was my childhood friend and we happen to attend the same pry and secondary school but parted way when her family moved to Ibadan, where she went on to the University of Ibadan and all, she later got married and had an only son Edet Paul Edet.
Mr. Edet himself was just an accountant with a local bank here and though Mrs. Irene had a supermarket where she sells provision they were not super-rich they were happy or so she taught anyway.
She came to see me a week ago after years that we lost contact all the way from Ibadan, to tell me a very sad story, it turns out that her husband Mr. Edet had lost his job and they were solely depending on the income from the supper market which was not huge, but that wasn't the problem.
The problem was their son who was a graduate of also University of Ibadan, but since after his service year is yet to get a job, however, not long ago Edet Paul Edet suddenly took his things and left it took his mother and father time to know he was very okay and had become filthy rich his parent we're happy everything changed when they noticed that he spent money like water on his friends and other people but refused to lend them a helping hand of any sort, they even went and begged him if they offended him but he asked them to leave. Before they knew it he has married a beautiful girl in a lavish wedding of which his parents were not invited.
People started pointing at his parents saying that their son is rich but wants nothing to do with them, maybe they were never nice to their only son, see them suffering but even the servants in their son's house is better than them.
This led to Mr. Edet falling very sick and finally losing his life.
Through all his ailment till his death and burial, the son never came, only the family members buried his father.
Irene taught something was definitely not right and a friend took her to see a powerful man who told her her son did money ritual, she was shocked but it explains a lot of things like the sudden wealth.
The man, made her understand that the condition given for the wealth was that he couldn't help his parents or siblings, however, that wasn't the worst part.
What is? Ayanna asked, she had been listening attentively to her father and she knew something was up with this family.
This her son also choose to be rich by all means even when he was told that the other condition was that he could not live more than 45 years on earth and he was already a twenty nine year old man.
The mother Irene couldn't take it her husband just died and her son will also leave her soon?
You know Ayanna I can understand her pain we have children so that they can outlive us, and give us a befitting burial but this son had chosen to possibly die before his parents.
Irene tried to find out how she can reverse the ritual and was told there is nothing the young man can do but if she wanted she can do something.
Typical of a mother she chose to help her son to rectify the bad decision he had made.
The powerful man told her that she can choose to live the sixteen years instead while her son will be taken care of by her for he will become wretched.
She was to take care of him as she will become extremely wealthy then once she died her son can then inherit the wealth without issues.
Did she agree?
Yes, she agreed and the did was done.
Now she came to Benin, according to her because am the only real friend she has that has the power to find her son.
Sorry, father her son is missing again? Ayanna asked.
Yes! it turns out that she became rich and her son gradually lost his wealth and he had no one to turn seeing that he has a wife and a kid on the way he came to his mother for assistance which she gladly told him to come back home she will provide all he needed. The boy was shocked to find out that his mother was now very wealthy and was mixing with the right affluent in society.
He actually came to stay with his mother with the pregnant wife, the woman gave them all that they needed and put him In charge of one of the company.
Her only rule to him was to make use of only the money she approves for him, and he agreed.
I don't know but I think she didn't tell him the importance of that rule as it was strictly given by the powerful man she saw, turns out her son withdrew large sums of money that he could lay his hands on running into millions of dollars and disappeared to God knows where with his pregnant wife.
She has searched everywhere using the police and mercenaries but it's like they disappeared like smoke. I told her I would look for them but my men have not been able to find them either Prince Martinz finished.
Father, you searched and you didn't find him?
Yes! that why I am soliciting your help.
I think the spirits that want to kill him are covering their footsteps father Ayanna answered. I have a date in about three hours once I come back I will personally track him for you Dad.
That will be good Princess, I will be counting on you, take care.
Thanks, Dad be rested assured.
Hold on! Prince Martinz suddenly called out.
Yes, father?
This your date is it with the one that your mother has been telling me about?
Yes, Dad, we will soon come home to see you.
Okay then enjoy your date. The call was dropped.