Darkness Season 1 E.11 (Final Episode)

[Previously on E.10]

"Are you sure you can drive? I don't mind driving you home and taking an Uber back to pick up my car."

They were approaching Mercy's car, so they slowed down and stopped a few feet away. She turned bleary eyes to meet Tunde's calm ones. She could see the uncertainty and care in them. He was obviously still worried about her and she tried to give him a reassuring smile but failed. 

"You know it will not be a problem," he continued; "besides it will be a great opportunity for me to get to know where your house is at. I still can't believe it took us forever to meet up after the last time. I just don't want you slipping away again. Infact, we must make out time to meet every weekend. What do you think?" He grinned down at her, eyes dancing.

Mercy nodded slowly with a tight smile. She shouldered her bag and sighed deeply; "that's something I wish I did often with Bola. I wish I had made out time to see or meet up with her no matter the obstacles. Even a brief visit would have sufficed..."

"Wait a minute." Tunde cut her off mid sentence; "I thought you ladies hooked up two or three days ago as agreed?"

"Hooked up as agreed? How do you mean?"

Tunde's brow creased together as he took a step closer; "when was the last time you saw Bola?"

"My point exactly. I can't even remember the last time I saw her. After she got the State house job seeing her became a problem. There was never a good time. She never even returned my calls so after awhile I stopped bothering to..."

"That's not possible." Tunde interjected.

"What's not possible?" Mercy suddenly felt worn out. The previous crying session was beginning to take its toll on her.

"I was with Bola the other night when she called you."

"What?"

"Two or three nights ago, I can't remember clearly but we bumped into eachother at an executive meeting. The meeting ended later than we anticipated but we stopped over at a lounge for drinks. I can remember she called you and offered to come pick you up..."

"What? That's not possible. I have no log of any call from Bola on my phone. You're mistaken. She NEVER called me."

"Ahn ahn what are you saying? I am telling you that Bola called you in my presence. I told her not to tell you i was with her because the plan was to surprise you the next day when we all meet up with you and you answered that call. Her phone was on speaker and I wasn't drunk or anything. Where's your phone?"

"And I'm telling you that it's not possible. I didn't receive any call from her." She dug inside her bag, pulled out her phone and they flipped through it.

"This is not possible." Tunde said after awhile. His face mirrored his confusion; "You have no record of any call from her or anyone on that day."

"Exactly. I never spoke to her, although yesterday I had this strange feeling I could not explain."

"Okay, wait. Can you remember agreeing to see her on Wednesday morning and she saying something about unseen eyes and..."

"What? Who told you that? How did you get to know about my dream?"

"Dream keh? What dream? Mercy its no dream. Bola was distraught that night. At a point I thought she sounded almost crazy. I felt it was probably stress from her job although thinking back now I'm not so sure anymore." He paused, thoughtful.

"Listen Tunde, I don't know what's going on but Bola never called me. Ben said its-- its all my imagination..."

"Ben? Who is Ben?"

"My fiance." She turned away from him and faced her car. 

"Your what? You are engaged?"

"Its a long story, let's not deviate. I have been having these weird feelings and to make things worse I woke up on Thursday afternoon feeling like I was involved in a fight. Infact like I was beat up. To make matters worse, I could not remember anything that could have caused this. It felt like I was involved in a crash. When I told Ben about it, he dismissed it and we even fought about ... Oh my God!"

She took a step back and ran her eyes over her car parked some feet away from them. Frowning, she walked round the car and came back to stand near Tunde.

"What's wrong Mercy? Are you okay?"

"My car. There's something different. Its as if..."

"Of course it should be different after carrying out body repairs. Whoever fixed it for you is a Pro tho. My mechanic would mess the whole thing up." He chuckled.

Mercy gasped and grabbed Tunde's hands; "Body repair? Why would I repair a new car?"

"Well its obvious you fixed the body. Trust me i know these things. But it was neatly and professionally done. Were you involved in an accident?"

"Accident? No! I've been home...!" Mercy trailed off and gasped out. Blinking rapidly she covered her mouth with both hands. Ben had lied to her. Why would he try to cover up that Bola called her and she was involved in an accident? Why was her call records wiped clean?

"Oh God! Oh God!" She recited like a litany.

'kitty are you okay? Talk to me, please."

"It wasn't my imagination. I was supposed to meet Bola. A sh- a shadow. It was all real. Ben lied to me!" She fisted Tunde's shirt as fresh tears trailed down her stricken face. Her legs suddenly felt weak and she wobbled slightly.

Tunde hurriedly put his arm around her; 

"Kitty calm down. You are getting me confused. What did your fiance do? What shadow? What's going on?"

"I...I think I know who murdered Bola..."

Tunde's grip around her slim waist tightened as their eyes met.

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That's the end of season 1 guys. Be on the look out for Season 2.

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