Chapter Six
She was at the window looking at the gardener.
"Hehe-hey!" she laughed. "He doesn't even know how to handle scissors!" She ridiculed him.
"Is it handling scissors or handling you?" the other voice asked.
"Handle who? Please not me" She cast away the voice, and went back to her vanity table, making up and muttering: " King, if he wants to marry a thousand of them, fine, but he should follow due process or else, it will be 'you do me, l do you.'
"Who loses?" the voice following her, asked.
"I don't know." she retorted and said," There's a secret way to kill a man and before the news of his wife's deed flies into his ear, she has gone and left him dead.
She rushed to get her make-up done and went downstairs to answer the bell." Is he working well?" she asked Mama Sara who came in.
"Not all that, but since he is my friend's neighbour's child, we will give him time," said Mama Sara.
Queen Latifah's mum was her friend.
"I don't want King to say he's not doing well," said Queen Latifah and to stop him is not on the card."
"He will learn since he has come." Mama Sara said.
The next day, she rang the bell with fury, and she misstepped, running to see who." Mummy!," she exclaimed, " "Almost made me fall!"
"Your Highness!"
"Yes, mummy, any problem?"
" Barth drove in a woman again,"
"You mean, King brought another visitor?"
"Visitor?" asked Mama Sara.
"He calls them visitors but I heard he wanted to impregnate any before marrying,"
"Just imagine! That her sister dominating him has no husband much less a child!"
"Let's go and see!" Queen Latifah took Mama Sara by the hand. "Your Highness," Mama Sara, calling her, to wait for her to think of what to say.
She paused."How do you want it?" she was pumping herself, looking at her, akimbo.
"Let's wait, she will pass through here," said Mama Sara.
She listened to her and returned.
" Mr. Jay, come now!" she called the chief guard, a very dedicated officer.
"Come up to the balcony, call me if you see any car driving out," she instructed him and went up.
She flew down the steps in her combat trousers as Mr Jay called her and blocked the way, her arms and legs spread apart before the approaching vehicle.
Barth stopped and pulled over.
She banged on Barth's screen and fast, he unlocked the central key.
There was an average-aged lady in the rear of the vehicle, she called her " Old cargo!" and slapped her.
The lady, like she had been told to marry the king of Ile Ife, she must fight, she put one leg down fast with rage but because she was fat, she did not swiftly come off the jeep.
Queen Latifah collected the leg and dragged her out of the jeep and she flopped to the ground, not giving her a chance to stand up, she dragged and dragged her on the ground.
King was trudging, because of his fatness and position as a king, he could not run.
Seeing him, Barth and the chief guard ran in to carry up the old cargo –according to Queen Lati's taunt of her
"Start the car now and send her home!" King ordered." But you are sacked, two of you!" he said and marched to the five-bedroom apartment opposite the scene and stopped with indignation.
What next? To smoke her out?
He turned back.
Queen Latifah saw him through the window and rang her sister Ethel, telling her what happened again
"Sister, I have canceled my holiday plan with you. I'll send a shepherd," she said.
"Oh, my little Angel, I'm expecting. I will gift you something tomorrow, next holiday you will make it in Jesus' name."
"I trust, just believe in whatever the shepherd says. Ours is a spiritual church, we don't talk much but show the power"
"Amen, amen." Queen Latifah danced and swayed, "Solution on the way, thank you Jesus!" she said and opened the door for Mama Sara.
She was staring.
"Where did you go?" she asked and told her the war is over...you can go back.
"I fell asleep," she was explaining, "and they were waking me, she's gone?" she asked.
"Of course, is this her house?"
"And King, what did he say?" Mama Sara asked.
"I had vamoosed before he came, I saw him going."
A lean man came and introduced himself as the shepherd.
She called Ethel and passed the phone to him.
When they were through with their communication, he passed the phone back to her.
She offered him a soft drink
He smiled and said "Thank you, Your Highness. I have not broken my fasting."
Queen Latifah nodded with self-satisfaction. "This is a real shepherd."
He cast seen and unseen powers that are against the pregnancy and brought out a baby boy from his bag.
"He will open the way. He is a shadow of what is to come." he told her and surrendered it to her."Treat him well for the angels to bless you with your own," he instructed.
Queen Latifah carried the boy and danced in his presence.
They fixed next week for the spiritual bath.
It was 7 pm when they set out for a spiritual bath.
The shepherd humming a song in his throat, Queen Latifah led the way with a towel in her armpit to the swimming pool.
She fixed the bath for May 7th because King traveled.
She spread her arms showing the shepherd the large pool.
The shepherd blessed the swath of water.
" Baff everywhere, everywhere…see, see," he was showing her how to bathe out evil marks that are preventing her from conceiving.
He gave her a native and black soap.
"Baff everywhere, everywhere." his command was inciting Queen Latifah, as she took off her bra and her hand accessed all the areas both underneath.
She shoved her hand into her underwear and sponged and sponged, not leaving anything undone.
She took her towel to make use of it.
"Allow the water to dry on you." said the shepherd.
That was the hardest instruction for Queen Latifah.
Standing before him, not bathing, two of them looking at each other.
"Na my father's work I de do… ." he tried to explain that he was there but his mind was not thinking of mundane things.
"Now, put your clothes on," he said.
Back to the apartment, she laughed," Hehe-hey!…spiritual bath done and dusted." she asked jokingly and sincerely," Who's gonna fuck this girl to conceive?"
"But by whoever, Queen Lati will never, give King Shina the space he craves."
What will she do now that the spiritual angle to her quest is over?
King has abandoned her, who in her shoes will not be unfaithful?
Let's see what unfolds.
May she overcome, O Lord!