PART 47"ONCE UPON A TIME "
PART 47
"ONCE UPON A TIME "
©️Opeyemi Akintunde
Pastor Greg had been interceeding deeply in the room Kamal had kept him.
He had groaned in intercession.
" God! My Mother lion that came to rescue the baby lion will not die. I refuse to be the sacrifice for Nnamdi's Boss. Jesus! You have died for Him, therefore my death is not needed!" Pastor Greg prayed like he had never prayed in a long while. Death was staring him in the face.
" This man who you have given to me as my financial helper will return home with me. We are escaping in Jesus name!" He kept proclaiming to himself.
" Stop!" He heard the voice of Kamal from a distance...
" Stop What?" Pastor Greg asked himself...
Rogers' wailing voice suddenly dropped, and that gave Pastor Greg a hint as to what could have happened...
" God, why has the beating stopped? Has he changed his mind or is he about to kill him..." Pastor Greg asked himself..
Without minding the consequences, he stepped out of the room. He looked towards the centre of the village. Nnamdi's Boss had been beaten terribly and Kamal was heading towards the bush. He started running violently towards the bush. Pastor Greg was not comfortable with the way he ran off. He followed his instincts and ran off into the bush....
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" Abena! Abena!" Kamal screamed
He was screaming out so loud...
Abena jumped down from a tree behind him...
" Yes!"
" Abena! Your happiness is my happiness. You are the reason why I am alive so whatever you want I am ready to give, but I can not leave here. I can help you and the children leave here, while I stay behind."
" My people will kill you if I disappear while you are still here. Let us leave! Kamal, my father is dead and so should his bitterness. Father told you the truth about why we became what we are..."
" Yes... Humans betrayed him!"
" Yes, we are not trying to run away for civilisation like we lie to the villagers, we are feeding father's bitterness...Is
Agreed that, Father's family wanted to kill him over his Grandpa's property and for that reason, he ran away from home and found refuge in the forest. Hunger dealt with him so badly, he ate a man lost in the forest. That was the beginning of him eating other humans... Kamal, in all these years, have you ever asked if eating humans was right?"
" No, but hunger coupled with pain of betrayal made your father become that beast! Abena, I know this whole story..." Kamal said trying to pacify Abena, but she was far from being pacified, she wanted to say so much!
" And three months after he left home, he came back for my mother and I. He told us he was taking us to a better place. My mother got here and couldn't believe what her husband had become. He had captured a lot of lost people. He had chained them down and Feasting on them. My mother ran away, but my father didn't let go of me. After a while, Father saw that he had captured so many people and couldn't eat them all at once. He started feeding the humans with other humans and before long , he decided to free some of those captives who were enjoying the flesh eating...Althou
" I was not sent to you, I found myself here because of my misfortune!" Kamal said
" Your misfortune, my miracle. Your Misfortune was meant to birth my freedom" Abena said trying to convince Kamal
From where Pastor Greg stayed in the dark, he was amazed at the wonders of God...
" A voice was crying for help in the forest, and as a way of God answering that cry , He allowed a man in the city to be pushed to the forest in not so good a situation.." Pastor Greg reasoned
" God, Could Kamal be the Mother Lion that came to rescue the Baby Lion; Abena?"
" Yes! If he doesn't secure his life in me, if he tries to make his wife escape by his own wisdom, the villagers will kill him." He got the reply to his question...
Pastor Greg stepped back and rested on a tree...
" God! How can I win this wild man over to you under this circumstance. At the moment, a lot of emotions are running through his veins; there is hatred, bitterness, anger, indecision and so on...So dear Lord! Help me. ."
******
Harry, Kemi and Janet sat handcuffed in an office. Kemi suspected it was the office of a top police officer.. .
" I must see the Cab driver involved in this case, I wonder why you let him off easily, he must be an accomplice, probably their agent in this country." Kemi heard the Top Police Officer say. Kemi didn't like the turn of events; she didn't want to implicate the poor man.
" Get him here immediately!"
" God protect this man!" Kemi prayed silently.
" Meanwhile, keep the three of them in detention!" The Officer said furiously
" And keep the body in the morgue!"
Harry couldn't believe Rachel was truly dead and soon to be forgotten.
" Just like that! There is really nothing to this life. All the struggle to make it will someday end in the grave. " Harry said to himself
" If only I didn't forcefully bring her here, she would still be alive!" Harry regretted his actions...
He looked towards Kemi and Janet...
" I also brought problems into the lives of these people..." He thought.
" God! How can you remedy this? Please I don't care how you do it, just get these women out of here, I don't mind taking the fall for this whole mess!"
******
Silas walked into the house with Redemption's hand in his. Evangelist Tobi sat on the chair in the living room. After Silas had left, sleep had eluded him. He guessed his body was used to getting up from the
bed at 5:30am that despite being tired, he couldn't go back to sleep after Silas woke him up.
On seeing Silas and a strange lady walk in, he was startled. Silas was a disciplined young man,
So what was he doing with a lady?
" Who is she?" Evangelist Tobi asked
Redemption raised her head up revealing her face...
" Jesus Christ of Nazareth!" Evangelist Tobi screamed...
To be continued
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INSPIRED BY THE HOLY ONE
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