123 THE REQUES (1/2)

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.