Despised: Soon-To-Be-A-Billionaire's Dark Revenge

Chapter 26 A HOAX

We jumped into the ash-colored Prado jeep Tolu brought and he raced the car toward highway. Eric sat in front with him, and Maria and I sat in the back. Tolu followed sped out of Alpha Beach and took the roundabout, headed to Ikoyi.

'I thought we are taking the Ekpe road?' Eric asked. 'That's faster; there is no traffic on the way.'

'I don't know the road well,' Tolu said, his eyes fixed on the road. I saw the speedometer shooting toward the hundred kilometer mark before he finished speaking. 'The traffic is light from here to Ikoyi. Once we cross the Third Mainland, the road will be free.'

Eric nodded. 'I hope you are right. I don't want them to change their minds.'

'We will make it,' Tolu said.

We got to the Third Mainland Bridge within fifteen minutes. We followed the traffic on the bridge toward the mainland and in about half an hour we got out of Lagos and sped toward Ibadan. We reached the police check point and, without hesitation, they waved us through. Tolu stepped on the ac