She hugged him from behind and Lanre asked why she stepped out quickly like a man. Did the water touch her body at all?
They both started laughing. He turned and saw her tying only a towel. “Do you have night wear here?” Lanre asked and Rosa said yes.
She pulled the strap around his robe and was removing his robe from his body when Lanre held her hand. He looked at her, he understood what she meant but doesn’t want it now.
“Not now please” he said and tried wearing the rope back. This is not the time to romance and have sex, he is emotional down and needs time to go over his life and the event so far.
“Not now for what? I haven’t said anything. What’s wrong with me admiring your robe” Rosa pretended.
She threw his hand off her and kept pulling the rope off him. Lanre shook his head. Rosa was pushing him.
“Let go of me” Lanre demanded. He turned away from her and pulled open his bedside drawer, took a pill out and threw it to his mouth and gulped it down with water.
” Lanre, aren’t you happy that I am here to spend the night with you?” Rosa asked, embracing him from behind. She placed her head on his back and her hands on his waist.
” Of course I am. Especially now that I am down. You have no idea what comfort your presence brings me” Lanre responded, placing the glass cup down.
“I want to pay my debt babe” Rosa said, running her hand from his waist to his torso. She doesn’t know why but felt they should intersect and start their relationship all over.
Lanre closed his eyes momentarily. He placed his hands on her lingering hands and asked ” what debt?” He asked, assuming he didn’t know what she meant.
Rosa doesn’t know how to put it across to him. She opened her mouth and shut it again. She kept caressing him “Let’s do it tonight. I stayed back because of it, ‘ Rosa declared.
“I’ve said it before Rosa, not now. I don’t have any slight interest in that right now” Lanre declared and moved away.
Rosa followed him and pushed him on the bed, “I want it now” Rosa declared, pushing his back to the bed.
Lanre’s feet were on the floor and his upper body on the bed. ” You can’t keep deciding what happens in this relationship.
When I wanted to have you, you said no. When I don’t have interest in it, you said now. Do you expect me to play along with you?
We will only have sex when I decide that. And don’t ask me tonight again. I need to rest,” he pushed her off him and climbed into the bed properly.
” Didn’t you say you don’t want to shift blame? Why are you talking about what happened in the past?” Rosa feigned unhappiness.
” I don’t want to shift blame. It is not the same thing as losing my memory of what happened in the past. Did you remember that you called me names and even insulted me?” Lanre responded.
Rosa was lost. He is still counting on that? She hurts him and he felt unhappy with her refusal back then.
Lanre doesn’t want to talk again. They were already quarrelling and he doesn’t want it to deteriorate into another phase of misunderstanding.
He wished his drugs would start working already. He pulled the quilt over him and turned his back to Rosa.
The latter saw how he laid on the bed and didn’t say anything else. She got her night wear and changed into it. Last time he left the bedroom, she would leave also.
She walked out and Lanre chuckled. Is she upset with him? He was also upset with her when she said no.
” I never would have believed that my supposed twin brother was still alive and even close to me”Theresa Mo said as soon as they stepped into the Mansion.
Junxie Li said he was happy for her. Lanre had been true to her especially when she was pregnant. Perhaps that attraction was working through them.
They both went to see the boys and saw them lying on the bed. It was time for them to have their night’s rest.
When they saw their parents, they jumped out of bed, one to Theresa and the other to Junxie. Their parents don’t come to their quarters often, especially their mum and whenever they see them together, it sends butterflies to their belly,
” Why haven’t you gone to sleep, mummy?” Tim asked, he was looking up at his mother and hugged her waist.
” Your daddy and I went to see Uncle Lanre,” Theresa replied. Just as the two boys are twins and always in each other’s company, that’s how she would have grown up with Lanre.
But evil people schemed and took him away from her. But glad he is still alive. She would live the rest of her life happy that she found her brother.
“When will uncle Lanre come over to see us?”Lee asked. Their Daddy doesn’t allow a lot of people to have access to them hence they longed for visitors and friends.
“Lanre is your real uncle like Julia. Henceforth I will let him have access to you anytime like Julia. Is that ok?” He asked and the boys said yes.
“Is Uncle Lanre your brother?” Tim asked again. Junxie said no. He is their mummy’s brother, her twin brother to be precise.
The boys were surprised. Their mummy has a twin brother? Anyways, they were happy and soon said goodnight to their parents.
” I’m thinking that after the birthday celebration for the boys, you and I should be making plans towards getting married..” Junxie Li suggested, as soon as they got into their bedroom.
” Isn’t it too early?, considering we just got engaged recently” Theresa Mo said, she wants to enjoy her life as Junxie’s fiance before being his wife.
“Who says?” Junxie Li replied, sitting on the sofa and pulling her to Join him. She sat down and started undoing the lachet of her high heeled sandals.
” I want to remain your Fiancee for a while darling. And after, we think of getting married”Theresa Mo answered.
” Being my wife is far better than being my fiance. I want to see you and address you as my wife. But if you choose to wait, perhaps, someday you and Lanre might decide to tie the knot on the same day as twins.
You and I and he with Rosa. I don’t want to hurry you to it, when you are ready, I will be waiting” Junxie declared, planting a featherlight kiss on her temple.
Lanre soon slept off. He had taken sleeping pills to enhance his sleep that night. If he doesn’t, he won’t be able to sleep. His mind will be filled with all he had heard that evening.
But at midnight, Lanre woke up…