MY HEART DESIRE – Episode 2

MY HEART DESIRE – Episode 2

In the governor’s mansion.

Governor Tunde sighed with frustration for the umpteenth time as he paced around his sitting room. He had tried to switch on the television to see if it could distract him but he ended staring blankly at it a string of thoughts passing through his mind. He was one tough man that feared nothing but with this case he knew he had to be careful. He took out a cigarette to calm his nerves as focused on what had happened years back that had adverse effects on his first daughter or his beloved wife.

Years back.

He had been fresh from college and he had the full youth and young blood bubbling in him, he had always had the fantasy of him becoming rich and successful no matter the consequences. He had vowed to become one even through crook and nook.  Unfortunately for him and his peers the state at that time was at a hard time, a time where the economy only favoured the strong and wealthy. It held the famous notion of “the fittest and strong to survive”. It was a major blow especially to graduates who had worked hard for the well being of the country like Tunde as he nowhere near that social class, in simple words he had less or nothing to offer to the corrupt government. He had to follow his peers wallowing in pain and suffering and living from hand to mouth, many were the days he could not remember a day he had a decent meal. Being from the background of his humble parents it was only fair enough for them to be staunch christians and he was brought up as the same faith as their parents. Christianity at that time was associated with poverty and ill luck.

Tunde lived that pitiful way not until Fredrick came into the picture fredrick was once his best friend and classmate. Fred had done so well for himself that he was the talk of the village and the envy among his peers. Rumour had it that he was into ritual killings but anyway no one has ever been successful without such allegations against them. Tunde was compelled to seek advice from his friend and fred being the cunning friend he was led him to the underworld famously known as the “dark world”. “Do you want to be successful Tunde?” “Why not Fred?, am desperate and i can do anything to be one,” Tunde replied hastily without a second thought. “Then on Monday night come dressed in a long black robe,” Fred replied him. A cold shiver ran through his spine because he knew so well that black was associated with evil but was to blinded to heed to the voice in his head that was against this.

Frustration had pushed him this far and there was no turning back. On the said night he was taken to a dark room with eerie silence that it scared the sh*t out of him, he had heard stories of people visiting the dark shrine but he never in his wildest imaginations thought that unemployment and poverty would push him this far. On that fateful night Tunde’s happiness was exchanged with wealth, fame and power. He was to give back his first daughter to the angel of the dark many years after he got married, his first daughter was to be named “the daughter of darkness.” In no circumstance whatsoever was this daughter to be married or have sex with any man until she became of age to be given back to the land of darkness.

PRESENT

He sighed with frustration as he remembered how he had exchanged his daughter’s happiness many years before she was born to an agent of satan. “Did she have to be my Lucy, the girl that brings so much joy to my heart, this sweet girl that i love with all my heart?” He asked loudly to no one in particular. He had once thought of disobeying or going back on the pact but he knew the consequences of his actions, he could loose his wealth and status in the society and as well as his daughter.

A frown formed on his soft round and handsome face as he suddenly remembered the disturbing dream he had the previous night, this dream and the angel of darkness had been haunting him for the past weeks demanding that it was due time for him to keep his end of the bargain. A thought of eliminating Dan and take him out of the picture had crossed his mind but he dismissed it as soon as it popped up. He did not want to cause his daughter further pain as he saw how his daughter loved and adored the young man.  But all in all something had to be done and it had to be done real quick.

Another problem arising was that his wife had started being suspicious from the fact of how he had savagely handled and frustrated young men that came to see Lucy despite her being of age for suitors to start flocking in. He stared at the ceiling and decided it was time his wife knew the dark secret.

To be continued.