📖 Chapter Eleven:
[Shadows🪙 and Sparks⚡️]
The hospital lights hummed softly. Kite stirred. His fingers twitched. Monitors beeped in rhythm with a heartbeat that refused to quit.
Nkemdilim leaned in.
Nkemdilim:
"He's waking up."
Ejiro (in pidgin):
"Finally! I don dey pray like say I be pastor. Kite, abeg wake up before I baptize you with cold water!"
Kite's eyes fluttered open. Blurry. Confused.
Kite (hoarse):
"Ejiro… you stabbed someone?"
Ejiro (grinning):
"Na small stabbing. I dey practice for action movie."
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They laughed. But the moment was short-lived.
🛒 Supermarket Ambush
Meanwhile, Dimeji and Amaka had stopped at a supermarket in Ikeja to grab supplies. The mood was light. Amaka teased him over his choice of toothpaste.
Amaka:
"Mint blast? You trying to impress someone?"
Dimeji (smirking):
"Maybe I already did."
She blushed. Their fingers brushed. A moment hung in the air.
Then—gunfire.
An Eraser agent burst through the aisle, masked, armed, precise.
Eraser:
"Dimeji. You talk too much."
A shot rang out. Dimeji spun, taking a bullet to the shoulder. He dropped behind a shelf, bleeding, but focused.
Amaka (shouting):
"Dimeji!"
He gritted his teeth, pulled his sidearm, and waited.
The agent moved in.
Dimeji (whispering):
"Wrong aisle."
He fired. One clean shot. The agent dropped.
Amaka rushed to him, tears in her eyes.
Amaka:
"You idiot. You could've died."
Dimeji (smiling through pain):
"But then I wouldn't get to see you cry over me."
She kissed his forehead. Just once. Just enough.then huge him tightly.
📞 The Call from Brussels
Back at the hospital, Amaka's phone buzzed. Genevieve.
Genevieve (voice trembling):
"Adrien came by. He knows everything about you."
Amaka:
"Is he threatening you?"
Genevieve:
"No. He's… different. Cold. Calculated. Unreadable. He told me the date of my wedding with Liam."
Amaka (shocked):
"You're marrying Liam?"
Genevieve:
"Yes. But there's more. Chuka's sick.he reached out to me.told me everything. He has cancer. Stage three. He's fading."
Amaka's heart sank.
Genevieve:
"He says the veil is shifting. That Adrien and luc may be up to something big. A rewrite protocol.
Amaka:
"Then we're out of time."
(Back in the Room)
Kite sat up slowly, sipping water.
Kite:
"I heard everything. We need to move. Adrien's not just rewriting history. He's erasing futures.if He kills Chuka we're in trouble."
Ejiro (in pidgin):
"Na why we go scatter his plan. Rewrite ke? I go re-slap am!"
Nkemdilim:
"Then we need to deal with this Adrien next."
Dimeji (entering, arm bandaged):
"And we go together. No more solo missions."
He looked at Amaka. She nodded.
Amaka:
"Together."