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Double Promotion<br />
Shittu Fowora<br />
For the next forty-eight days that followed, she would realise Kpodo, her darling husband was<br />
frequenting Edinburgh. If she thought he hung all evening with Greg, whom she once feared<br />
could have been seeing Kpodo, she was wrong. For she had, by herself, in spite <strong>of</strong> how<br />
knackered she was, driven a few times to Greg’s apartment without notice, only to realise<br />
Kpodo was never really always with Greg. Her eyes welled up, her nose pinched.<br />
Another Wednesday she called Kpodo at lunch time to inquire if he’d had lunch. “Trust that<br />
my dear. Done a full plate and my lips still taste as sweet as your sauce.” He said. “Okay love,”<br />
she said, half-broken. Location: Golden Jubilee Hospital, Clydebank.<br />
Something spiked her guts even more. The Thursday she secretly obtained Eno’s mobile<br />
number from yet another junior staff back in Nigeria, she ran it through websites with the<br />
keenness <strong>of</strong> a fish-sniffing cat. She took leave from <strong>of</strong>fice to tend to an ‘emergency’. Her<br />
superiors at work bought it.<br />
She got a hamper and filled it up with perfumes and wines, should she discover Eno there –a<br />
surprise, innocent visit would have been it. Then with the details <strong>of</strong> her finds, she drove to the<br />
location where she suspected Eno stayed. While driving, a call came in and got dropped.<br />
She didn’t mind, her acceleration gave no hoots about who called or who didn’t.<br />
“Eno? In this Edinburgh?” she muttered in suppressed contempt.<br />
On getting to the street, she parked her car on a marked lot; picked her basket-load, engaged<br />
the locks and walked around searching for the house closest to her mark…She placed a call<br />
40<br />
Tales from the Other Side
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