Aderonke hissed aloud when she walked into her room, bolting the door behind her. She removed her heels slowly and fell on the bed, making the bed sink. She thought that going to the botique might be a distraction but she snapped when she saw a mother buying a graduation dress for her teenage daughter. It was too much for her to handle, seeing a mother and a daughter so loved up while hers was dead.

She saw Wale's suits scattered on the bed and she made a smug look. Why couldn't he be a little bit neat, she thought. She picked it up and walked over to the large wardrobe they both shared. She brought out ten hangers and began to hang her husband's suits. She yawned when the sun struck a slant light across the wardrobe, making it to look golden brown. It was evening and she was exhausted.

When she was done placing his suits into different hangers, she began to carefully place them into his suit wardrobe. She hanged one, then another. When she was about to hang the third suit. Due to tiredness, the hanger fell out of the suit into the wardrobe and Aderonke groaned.

She dipped her head into the wardrobe, it was a little bit dark. She reached for the hanger but as she pulled it out, the hanger got stuck to something. She pulled it out slowly, thinking it was breakable. When she eventually pulled it out, she nearly screamed in fear and the content that came out of the wardrobe fell on the ground.

Aderonke's chest heaved and she crouched a bit to pick it up. She was staring at a purse, it wasn't an ordinary purse.

It was Bimbo's purse. The one she gave her for her 15th birthday. What was it doing in Wale's wardrobe?

Her fingers trembled as she opened the purse, Bimbo's phone was inside, seated lifeless in the purse.

Aderonke's heart began to race. On the day Bimbo died, the police said they didn't see anything that Bimbo owned that day. Aderonke tried to calm herself down, she didn't want to go down the drain of overthinking.

"Maybe the police found it and he forgot to tell me. " Aderonke muttered and decided to put the purse back into the wardrobe.

Halfway into dropping the purse, Aderonke paused. Maybe she should keep it and wait. She dug her hands into the purse and took out the phone. She threw the empty purse into the wardrobe and arranged Wale's suit into the wardrobe carefully. She then removed her clothes slowly, still a bit shaken by what she had seen. She placed the phone in her top dresser and she locked it.

"It's nothing, everything is alright." Aderonke tried to calm herself down as she ascended the stairs.

She walked to the living room and Sewa almost walked past her.

"Good evening ma." she greeted.

"Good evening." Aderonke replied.

"What should I cook for you, ma?" Sewa asked.

Aderonke sat at the edge of the couch, "Nothing, I'm not hungry. Just cook for my husband."

"Okay ma." But Sewa remained on that spot.

"What is it?" Aderonke asked, irritated.

"Ma, last week....,my uncle died and we haven't gotten the money...for the burial." Sewa began to tear up.

Aderonke placed a hand on her cheek and she faced Sewa,"Last week, your Aunty died. the previous month, your grandma died and three months ago, your grandpa died. Are you cursed in your generation ni?"

Sewa shook her head, "N-No ma."

"Then why is everyone dying in your family?" Aderonke asked.

"It's God's wish ma." Sewa bent her knees slightly.

"You are a very stupid person. You think I don't know you are exhorting money from me? Do I look like charity to you?" Aderonke fumed.

"B-But ma.." Sewa protested.

"Will you shut that hole you call a mouth? You will never come to say, naming ceremony or birthday celebration. You are always saying burial. I pray that you won't curse your unborn children." Aderonke told her.

"Y-Yes ma." Sewa cowered in fear.

"Abeg, leave my side and go to the kitchen." Aderonke screamed and Sewa ran off.

"She thinks I'm a fool. Yeye child." Aderonke commented while facing the blank television.

The front door opened and Aderonke turned her neck, it was her husband.

"Hello darling." Wale cooed, dropping his briefcase on the centre table.

"How was work?" Aderonke asked but the question about Bimbo's phone was bugging her but she decided to relax instead.

"It was great, let me go and shower before I eat." Wale replied, placing a kiss on his wife's cheek.

"Okay." Aderonke managed to reply. She wasn't listening to Wale's steps through the stairs. She was in a world of her own. She was dumb to her surroundings but her brain waves were actively working, trying to decipher on why her daughter's phone was in her husband's wardrobe in the first place.

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Later that night, Wale tossed back and forth on the bed. The heat radiating from his body was alarming just like fire itself. He couldn't sleep, not with the nightmares consuming him.

Daddy, please help me!

He took hold of the fluffy pillow under him and he used it to cover his ear. But it didn't stop the voice in his head.

Daddy, please save me!!!!!

He suddenly raised his head from the bed and began to breathe heavily. The darkness of the night that surrounded the room didn't help matters. Everything scared him.

He suddenly felt the need to check his wardrobe for Bimbo's phone. Maybe he should burn it. Throwing it into the trash can wasn't an option knowing that Uche was a scavenger. He dropped his legs onto the ground quietly, not wanting to wake up Aderonke, who was a deep sleeper anyways.

He walked to his wardrobe and opened it slowly, trying not to make a sound. He then dug his hands in the wardrobe, trying to look for it. His hands soon touched something and he sighed in relief. He drew his hands out and brought out the purse. But he squeezed the purse and noticed something odd.

There was no phone in it. It was merely air.

Wale rubbed his eye lids, thinking that he wasn't fully awake. He unzipped the purse and truly it was empty..

"B-But I put it...in here." Wale whispered to himself.

He then threw the purse into the wardrobe and he sank his knees on the floor. He looked under the bed. He saw darkness, he shot his head back up and his breathing was faster, again.

He feared darkness. He hated darkness.

He then thought deeply, could Aderonke have taken it? He shook his head, his wife had no idea so why would she have the phone in her possession. He then thought of Sewa, but he shook his head. He had banned Sewa from touching his wardrobe.

Wale was now confused. He then promised to check his wardrobe thoroughly in the morning when Aderonke had left the house. He walked slowly back to the king sized bed and he gently tugged on the duvet and got under it without a sound. He turned and looked at Aderonke's back, she was still asleep. He turned and shut his eyes trying to remember where the phone could be. He decided to sleep and ignore the turmoils in his head but what he did not know was that Aderonke was wide awake, watching him carefully while her body was facing the opposite side of the room and her heart was pounding rapidly as if a hammer was jamming it.

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