Chapter 105 MAKING A HEADWAY

I went to see Talatu the next day.

I went in the Rav 4 I had bought for her and with the two-million-naira cash.

She came to the door as soon as I parked the car.

I walked to the door and stood in front of her. She did not make a way or invited me to come inside.

“What do you want?” she said.

“I came to see you,” I said. “Can we talk in the car?”

“I am not going to take your bribe; don’t waste your time.”

“I am not here to bribe you. But I want us to make peace. We have come a long way and there is no need for us to become enemies.”

She looked at me the way a rat would look at a cat.

“So, what are you proposing?”

I smiled. What is it with women anyway? That you can’t stay with them without hearing the word proposal?

“I want us to make peace,” I said. “Let’s forget the past and start afresh. No need for us to be enemies anymore.”

“And so that you can go back to your white girlfriend, right?” she asked.

“Well, on that there is nothing I can do about it. She is the only one I can ever ha