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CHAPTER EIGHT
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The phone rang the second time before Tarami answered it drowsily with her eyes barely opened.“Who …who’s on the line?”“I’m sorry to wake you up at his time, it’s me…its Taribo.”She immediately sat up on the bed, rubbing her eyes and pushing away her blanket.“How was it, what happened…you’ve been on my mind since you left.”“Listen, I’m not ready to answer all your questions, but the freaky initiation went on well. ‘Stage one’ is complete, that’s all I can say.”“So where are you now?”“I’ll see you when the time’s right…”“What do you mean when the time’s right, can’t you come over to my office?”“Even if I came to your office, you won’t be able to see me.”The line went dead, while Tarami stared at the phone screen, which displayed the time duration of our conversation. The time on my wristwatch showed sixteen minutes past six in the morning. The initiation had taken the whole night and the entire morning. Strangely enough,I neither felt tired nor drowsy, while I kept walking f
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I walked confidently with every stride, before stopping at the end of the car park. Students were nowhere in sight, as some of the non-academic staff could be seen walking to their posts and offices to resume duty for the last working day of the week.Almost ten minutes later, a blue SUV slowly rolled into the last space in the car park. On closer observation, I realised it was a Ford product, big, stylish with tinted glasses and definitely expensive.I couldn’t say this was part of the initiation ceremony, since the initiation had been concluded with congratulations from the goddess of prosperity herself. I looked at the ring on my right hand as I brought the katana closer to my left side. Some moments later,I realised it was rather unnecessary as a lady came down from the driver’s seat in the SUV, came round and faced me after removing her sunglasses.“Good morning your…your Utmost Prosperity…”“Good morning Mr Tamunoonye. A wonderful day it is… or would I say, a perfect morning?”
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Sitting down on a couch in the living room, I fondled the Ebie ring which I couldn’t pull off, on the small finger on my right hand. I’d never thought in my wildest dreams that I’ll ever be a ‘murderer,’ now I had the blood of three people on my hands.I felt bad to my marrow, while I kept looking at my katana hanging on the wall. I picked up my mobile phone and tried to call Tarami, but soon thought better of it, as I stood up and begun to pace the sitting room.Moments later, images from the dream I’d had in which my late father was begging me began to race into my mind, while I pondered on the consequences of my actions the day before.There were so many families who had members in occult societies, and for some, it felt like a ‘usual’ thing to them. The man who was an initiate was sometimes known to be one by his wife, children and family members.Though not all occult societies might have devastating consequences upon the wealth of its dead members, the family members were eventu
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