THE BLACKMAIL EPISODE 4

The Blackmail Episode 4

Mr Peter and his son were done eating and were walking down to the furniture shop.

 Daddy I think is better if we sell off the business, the house and move out of Lagos to another city rather than taking over it forcefully. We may endanger our lives and risk being caught by the police so easily.

That is a good idea, his father; Mr Peter nodded his head in acceptance.

When I get to there, I will behave nice and then try to gain access to all needed documents of the house and business.

Wow! Mr Peterson exclaimed. My son, your head is really at work, great idea!

Ha daddy, are you trying to say my head has not been working ever since you gave birth to me?

He tapped him and said that’s not what I mean Son, I meant to say that the ideas coming from you are really great ones and will really assist to execute the peacefully without any trace.

Mr Peter called James the following day on phone to inform him about the concluded plans with his Son Dave and that he will inform Mr Jackson’s wife about Dave coming to stay with them and helping in the business.

At Mrs Jackson’s resident

Her phone rang once and she picked it up

Good morning my in-law Mrs Jackson greeted.

How are you doing my wife and your two daughters?

We are fine just missing my late husband and the business he left behind I can’t handle it alone as a woman….. Sobbing

Stop crying, you just have to be strong. Your daughters will need your strength for them to be strong too.

You still have his brothers around and for the business; you don’t really need to worry much.

I have discussed with my Son Dave and my brother Mr James, for my Son to come over to assist in the business since he is my only child.

But, how will you cope in the shop since he has been assisting you for three years now? Mrs Jackson asked with much concern in her tune

That should not bother you, I have made plans for a boy that will come to assist me and besides it will not be proper bringing in a stranger to stay with you and your daughters, that’s why I thought my son is the best person to fit in the assistance.

Thank you so much, my in-law, I am so grateful for the concern you have shown me since the death of my husband. God bless you.

It's nothing my wife, you are my younger’s wife and I will do anything and everything to make you happy.

Am grateful sir, so when is he coming over to assist in the business because ever since returned from the burial I have been at home always.

By next week, he will come over Mr Peter responded.

Thank you so much, sir, greet your wife for me. She will definitely receive your greetings Mr Peter replied as they bade each other goodbye and ended the call.

Hahaha! Mr Peter laughed, “The calmness of a Scorpion when it is resting does not mean it’s harmless”

She will feel the scorpion sting very soon; he said to himself and laughed mischievously again.

THE BLACKMAIL EPISODE 5

WHO ARE YOU?

Who are you, friend?

The above question is very common to you and I. Every one of us must have come across it at one point in time or the other ever since we grew up and started having the sense of reasoning.
Am so sure you must have come across two people in a serious quarrel section advancing to the next stage of a fight and you get to hear “Who are you” at intervals. In addition, if you have ever gotten to a police or military checkpoint at odd hours you get to hear the same question. We can then firmly come to a point of unison that the above question is a means of identifying who a person is or what a person is stuffed of.
I now ask you, who are you?
I am not trying to ask for your name but for your personality. Answering the son or daughter of a governor or a highly placed person is nice but far better if you really understand whom you are beyond the name recognition.
However, in case you do not know who you are or what God deposited in you right from creation that you should be, then hear me and hear me clearly. God did not waste his time during creation to create a fool or a nobody. Yes, I understand that the situations around you and the people you associate with have given you a tag “NO-BODY” due to how hopeless you may appear to them.  Your situation might have given you a new name and covered your real identity. That does not stop what God has made you be from creation.
Yes, everything in the now might be moving in the opposite direction and you are beginning to come to terms with the accolade “Good-For-Nothing”. No sir! No ma! you are not a good for nothing person. You are good for something. Go ahead, discover the greatness in you, and do a harnessing of your strength.

THE BLACKMAIL EPISODE 3

The Blackmail Episode 3

Dave is the son and only child of Mr. Peter, he had no opportunity of furthering his education after his WAEC three years back because of the high cost of going to the university. He had to join his father in the furniture work he was doing so as not to idle away at home.

Dave! Dave! Mr. Peter called out to his son who was outside the shop chatting with some friends who work in the same area his father’s shop was located.

Yes daddy, Dave answered from outside. Start bringing in the furniture into the shop because it’s getting late already and there is an important discussion I need to have with you when we get home.

Ok, daddy let me start immediately.

An hour later, they were back at home and were done eating.

Dave lets go outside and talk about what I earlier informed you of at the shop.

Ok daddy, Dave responded as he went in, to bring out two seats.

Now Dave, as I earlier told you at the shop this evening, there is something I  need to tell you about and it involves you in a great way as my only child.

What is it daddy, Dave asked with a surprised look and a mixed feeling.

If you remember, my late brother had plans to start up a business for you before his death.

Yes dad, I remember, Dave responded in the affirmative.

But since he is late now, that dream may be dashed in pieces. So there is a new plan we need to take so we don’t remain in suffering. Although my younger brother was helpful to us while he was alive.

What is the plan daddy? Dave asked.

The plan now is to take over the business of my late brother and take over his wealth forcefully from that his so-called wife

STEP UP AND MOVE ON

JUST MOVE ON

A man's most loved donkey fell into a deep pit early hours of a faithful Tuesday. He tried everything within his capability to bring out the donkey but regardless of how hard he tried, his effort yielded no positive result.

The best he could do was to bury the donkey in the pit and move on: but little did he know that it was a way of getting the donkey out of the pit.

The more soil he poured onto the donkey from above the pit, the donkey feels the heap on its body, shakes it off, and climbs higher. As the man continued in his effort to cover up the donkey by pouring more soil into the pit, the donkey keeps coming out.

The more the heap of soil was poured, the higher it rose. By two hours later, the donkey was touching the surface of the earth and the man was glad that his donkey was out of the pit.

Dear reader, your life might be likened to that donkey in the above story that life has so battered and kept in a pit of hopeless and pains. It’s as though there is no way out and you are almost been buried in life’s storm and rising tides. The pit could be very deep, dreary and dark, and no rays of light for a bright future. Your every day might have been coming up with dark moments of rejection and loneliness.