Dark Neck

      Paulo finished the plate of yam and beans he ordered and he pushed it down with a bottle of chilled coke. He remembered the discussion the women in the Salon were having. He went to fix an electrical fault in the wiring of the salon and the duration of his work lasted long enough for him to hear their discussion and little gossips.   The fat woman, next in line started the discussion about men who cheat on their wives and children. Another skinny woman who just entered said “it is not a new thing that men now cheat with small boys’. The Igbo woman that was having her hair washed exclaimed “Eh! Chineke God! Boys!?”       “Yes now. Mama Ejiro, the woman that sells firewood at my junction caught her husband red handed with her son’s friend” the woman said “they said she scarred him and threw his things out. It was the vigilante in the area that saved him that day”       “Are you kidding me?” The hairdresser exclaimed ...

   Dinner was at a restaurant he chose himself. He booked  the whole restaurant that evening. Scented candles burnt lighting up the atmosphere. The table cloth was maroon and fresh flowers were at the centre of the table. It looked like something in the romance movies. I know we both glowed.   I remembered when I first met him, the way I disliked him because I felt he was showing off what he had and I think my dislike for him made him like me. He didn't allow anyone attend to him at the counter. No matter the length of the queue in front of me, he'll wait till I attended to him. , Sandra my colleague at work told me  he liked me and we would eventually fall in love. I disagreed and she said "you just wait and see"    And here I was at Embers smiling and dining with him. I was a simple girl hanging out with a rich boy. I didn't like to accept gifts from him and this made him upset. Well, he looked more handsome when he's upset. His large eye...