“I will teach you. You don't need to worry.”
“I'm interested too. I am eager to learn,” the Vice Chairman indicated.
"You need it. I will put you through.”
“I appreciate, Mr. Morris. I will be on my way.”
Ken said, and stood up, but Jeff’s question halted him.
“Can I come with you, dad?”
Ken looked at Mr. Morris to get his consent, and his response surprised them. He could not imagine driving back alone. As a matter of fact, he had never thought of the day he would do that.
“I'm coming too. We are using the helicopter.”
At that instance, Ken was emotional. He looked at Mr. Morris, who was already on his toes and walking out of his swivel chair to meet him. He noticed his emotions and tapped him on the shoulder and said, "It is okay. We are family.”
“I got it. Thank you, Mr. Morris.”
They left the office together, but Ken stopped at his office and picked some of his personal effects. He informed Ahmed, who had been waiting for him at the car port, of the change of plans.
“Okay Boss. I will meet you at the helicopter stand.”
Then, Ahmed, who envisaged danger, dressed up quickly in his military uniform, and he went along with his orderly. By the time he got there, the team was ready to move.
At the Graceland Academy
Now, it was 3:30 pm. The gate was securely locked, and the school was over for the day. The parents for school run were done for the day and all the students were gone, but the teachers stayed behind as usual to tidy up.
At 2 pm, before the school closed for the day, the security men had a visitor with a questionable identity. He was a middle-aged man with long legs and a protruding stomach. His height was intimidating, and he wished to see Dora. Then, the gatekeeper greeted, “Welcome to the Graceland Academy. How may I help you, Sir?”
“Thank you. I wish to see Dora,” the guest declared. However, that was all he knew about her, and he got to know that through the pictures of the cake on the internet.
“Who is Dora, Sir?” The security guard inquired, and he was right. He only knew Mrs. Israel or Madam. Then, he inquired from his colleagues if they knew any staff with such a name, but they were not aware. Now, the man felt they were playing pranks on him. He decided to wait for her in his Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) along with his escorts, who waited in their two cars outside the gate, hoping that she would definitely drive out.
Having waited for almost two hours, he walked back to the security post, and was ready to have access to the school by all means even if it meant being brutal. He walked in the company of his escorts, armed with his phone, to show the security men the picture of the woman he was referring to.
Meanwhile, at the security post, one could only talk to the security men through the window which was barricaded with iron, and made it difficult for one to have direct contact with the officers
“Sir, we don't know the person you are referring to,” they attempted to explain.
“Shut up. Do you know who you are talking to?” the long-legged man flared up. Now, the security men were puzzled, and they spoke in a low tone, “What has who he is got to do with us? We do not know whom he is looking for.”
“You're just being rude. Look at the person I'm looking for. She was supposed to be my wife. We lost contact some years ago.”
Suddenly, he angrily swiped the screen of his phone to get to the pictures of Dora, but to his embarrassment, the pictures were gone. He swiped again and again and got the same result. Now, the bodyguards, who were waiting anxiously, got irritated. Then the visitor began to explain, “But the pictures were here. How did they disappear?”
Nevertheless, the security men gave him a dirty look.
“Can you give the woman a call?” they advised.
Now, they heard the sound of a helicopter, and before they could look up, they saw an Airbus H225 SUPA PUMA helicopter land immediately, and they were startled. Then, the man with the long legs stopped in his track. As soon as it finally packed, Ahmed and his orderly got down. The presence of the helicopter was intimidating, but the military men's appearance was scary.
'Who would want to pick a child with a helicopter? This is just a show-off,' the man with long legs condemned. Just as he was thinking, the military men walked up to them at the gate and greeted. Without waiting for a response, Ahmed made his request known to the security men.
“I want to see Madam Dora, Mrs. Dora Israel.”
“Welcome, Sir. You can come in, Sir," the security guard responded, and got up at once to open the gate while Ahmed gave the Chairman and the Vice Chairman a sign, and they alighted from the helicopter. They were looking stunning with their corporate wears. Afterward, the three walked majestically to the gate, and the long-legged man and his men gave way to enable them to pass.
At that stage, the security men opened the pedestrian gate to grant them access. Right off, the long-legged man was able to recognize Ken as the man who Dora sat with in the back seat of the Sienna that they boarded from Abuja to Anambra State over twenty years ago. He thought that Ken would stop at Enugu while he continued the journey with Dora, but to his surprise, when the driver stopped at the Enugu Park for the Enugu passengers to disembark, Ken stayed put.
'So he finally married her?' he mumbled.
“What do we do, boss?” His guards asked.
The question gave him some courage. He could as well stop him now. Although, he could not stop him many years ago, but he could stop him now. He convinced himself.
“Stop them,” he yelled.
Now, Ken also recognized him. When their eyes met, and they stared daggers at each other.
'You again?' Ken thought, and moved on. When the long-legged man gave orders to his men, they got out of the cars and rushed towards the gate to stop the security guard who was opening the pedestrian gate. Unfortunately for them, Ahmed's orderly was swift. He spread his two hands to form a barricade because he felt that they needed to be civil and respect his military uniform, but they chose to prove that they were thugs, and he gave them a thuggery treatment.
Now, Ahmed concentrated on the Chairman and his team, who were approaching the gate. They walked into the school, and the security guard tried to push the gate close, but the bodyguards defiled the orderly hands barricade and attempted to rush towards the gate.
Now, the Orderly grabbed one of the bodyguards by his wrist and pulled him back. Pulling him back was tantamount to cutting off his hand because the hand got paralyzed instantly before he fell to the ground. The other guards were not left out, as their excessive confidence deceived them, and they rushed towards him. To their disappointment, in one swoop, he knocked their heads together, and they were on the floor. Now, the only man standing was the long-legged man.
“Just remain there if you wish to leave here with your lives,” the Orderly warned when he noticed that they were trying to get up. Then, they remained motionless. At that point, Ahmed had ensured that the Chairman, the Vice Chairman and Jeff had successfully gotten into the school and the gate closed. He walked back to the Orderly and looked at the scene. When he noticed that the long-legged man was still standing, he inquired from his Orderly, “Why is he not on the floor yet?”
Then, the bodyguards, who were baffled, thought, 'How can he ask our boss to be on the floor? He must be joking.'