“What happened then? What happened? ” Tanya asked anxiously, standing up from the bed to face him.

Ayodele smiled at her eagerness then the smile waned as he remembered how he had almost died. He had practically brushed death’s door.

“I froze for a moment, stupidly thinking that they would probably not see me if I stayed silent where I was,” he shook his head as he remembered “What shock could do to a man. The next moment I realised the foolishness of that thought as the spot I was hiding was an open space so I quickly removed my palm slippers and started tiptoeing back. I had just rounded...